WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560 This is my 2005 Honda Accord, V6. 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:09.320 So how long have you had this car, Jonathan? Over five years now, that's crazy. 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:12.800 It was given to me. I had another Accord and it was old 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:15.840 and my family was like, please stop driving that. 00:00:15.840 --> 00:00:19.000 We'll give you a car. No, let me hit 400,000 with that one. 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.320 So this suffered a bit while I was reaching 400,000 and then I took it. 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:25.760 I was unemployed at the time and they were like, please just take it. 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:29.200 So that's what I did. And it's still driving really well. I still like it. 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:35.320 What are your favorite quirks and features about the car? Oh my God, Doug Demuro reference, how dare you? 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:39.520 Like I'm not the person that I introduced this whole video with. This, that's true. 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:44.000 That's true. One favorite feature in the summer is the one where you can hold the button 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.640 and it'll open all the Windows. Oh wow. 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:53.400 That's what you did that with your key? Just with the remote. The way you can tell 2005 is it has the red signal lights. 00:00:53.400 --> 00:00:56.720 They only did this light cluster in 2005. 00:00:56.720 --> 00:01:00.800 There's a quirk. This car doesn't have any quirks. Like the quirks are basically 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:05.960 cause like something's worn out. Like the like air mix motor ticks a lot 00:01:05.960 --> 00:01:09.760 and sometimes it'll blow hot air when it shouldn't be blowing hot air. 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:13.320 I guess that's a quirk. Would you call that a quirk? It's not a quirky car. 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:16.920 It's very sensible. But I think there's some things you might like. So come in here. 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:21.680 This is not infotainment. This is just a radio with climate controls mashed together 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:26.640 so you could never add an aftermarket radio in a nice way, right? What you can do is you can get something called 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:30.480 a grom audio interface and it'll give you 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.880 Bluetooth and USB into the factory radio. 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:38.320 So my friend and I, we installed this not too long ago. We put in a USB port here 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:42.640 so I can plug my iPhone in, it'll charge and play the music in full quality. 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.280 And then we're particularly proud of this. It has Bluetooth and we put the microphone in here 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.920 which is where the microphone would go if you had the factory navigation with like the terrible voice activation. 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.120 So the microphone's here for the Bluetooth. 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:57.320 You go in here and I can plug my phone in 00:01:58.160 --> 00:02:02.280 and listen to music. Copyright alert. This is going to be in full play anyway. 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.320 I mean we still got to be worried about that. Just kidding. 00:02:05.320 --> 00:02:09.880 Yeah, and like it's cool stuff too. Like I can activate Siri just by hitting this three times. 00:02:09.880 --> 00:02:14.520 Serious. Get it? Play a different song. 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:17.760 Yeah, I like it. You can like answer the phone just by like using this channel control. 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:21.320 This is very nice. I'm very mad I didn't get it sooner. I lived too long without it. 00:02:21.320 --> 00:02:25.200 When did you install all of this? It was less than a year ago. Okay, we've talked a lot about 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:29.000 what's good about the carpool. What isn't? Okay, I mentioned the air mix motor 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.960 so that's not working. What else? A lot of lights are out 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:37.480 like the heated seat back lights out. So I can't see when it's on. 00:02:37.480 --> 00:02:42.280 I don't know how you clean headliner. I don't like what's the stuff I need to do to mean 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:47.360 like I have to like, I need new summer tires and I need to do the timing belt. 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:51.080 And there's a leak that I'm, you know keeping my head in the sand about. 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.360 We don't know where it's from. Muah, muah. 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.160 I mean V6, VTEC? No, yeah. 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.040 It's got, it's single overhead cam, VTEC 00:03:04.040 --> 00:03:07.080 but not the IVTEC, it just has the old VTEC. 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:12.760 What's the difference between IVTEC and VTEC? Actually, for anybody that doesn't really know 00:03:12.760 --> 00:03:17.480 what is VTEC? That's a great question. There's two different cam profiles 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:20.680 that determine how far the valves go down. 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:24.320 And so if you have the valves, you know opening up more air goes to the engine 00:03:24.320 --> 00:03:28.640 so that changes how the combustion goes. And then if you restrict it and the valves don't go down 00:03:28.640 --> 00:03:33.520 as much that also can affect the combustion. So by having two different modes 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:37.480 you can have two sort of different profiles for what the engine's prioritizing 00:03:37.480 --> 00:03:42.520 in terms of how it's burning fuel. So you can prioritize power or you can prioritize efficiency. 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:47.560 So VTEC allows, allowed the engineers to kind of give two options. 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:50.800 And so for the early part of the rev range 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:54.360 it's in like efficiency mode. So it's not going to be developing that much power. 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:58.360 And then at a certain RPM it switches in an instant 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:03.080 to another profile and now it can give you more power. 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:07.880 So that's why they say that VTEC yo cause now it's switching to the power profile and it revs a bit faster. 00:04:07.880 --> 00:04:13.440 It's very high up. It's like 5,000 RPM or something crazy like that. These revs pretty high, but you have to work it. 00:04:13.440 --> 00:04:17.360 You have to work it to get the VTEC yo. You have to really push it. 00:04:17.400 --> 00:04:20.840 Especially since this is an automatic, right? That's true. That doesn't help either. 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:24.320 I actually had a situation a couple of years back 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:27.320 where the VTEC wasn't working. Really? Yeah, yeah. 00:04:27.320 --> 00:04:32.320 So there's like a switch down there. I learned a lot about it, how kind of the system's made. 00:04:32.320 --> 00:04:38.200 There's a switch down there, a solenoid. And I guess the cable going to the solenoid something, 00:04:38.200 --> 00:04:42.060 it just wasn't, it would just not work sometimes. So like the traction control light would come on 00:04:42.060 --> 00:04:45.880 and I couldn't rev past 4,000 cause that's when the VTEC switches. 00:04:45.880 --> 00:04:49.240 So I didn't get the whole engine. It just got the first bit of it. 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.360 And so the car still ran, so I just drove with it for a while. And so I finally was like, 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:57.240 I should just look in to figure out what's going on. And it could have been the solenoid. 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:02.720 So my friend and I were like looking in there, looking at the cables, like what's going on there? 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:07.920 I guess the solenoids there, we figured out how it all is. And it looked like at some point, 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:11.240 what was a connector, but it just became like a crimped cable together. 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:15.320 So we like jiggled it a bit and we're like, I don't know what to do. I guess we'd have to like figure out the cable. 00:05:15.320 --> 00:05:19.960 And we're like, okay, well, let's let into the night, let's just leave. Start the car, it's fine. 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:24.680 It's fixed, it hasn't, the light hasn't come on, the VTEC's working still. 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:31.960 So, you know, a repair by jiggling cables ran. So you mentioned that this car has 380,000 kilometers on it? 00:05:31.960 --> 00:05:35.440 Yes, so this is 384,000 kilometers. And this is the original engine, right? 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:39.280 This is the original engine. It did have one thing happen when my sister was driving it. 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:43.640 One of the spark plugs exploded out. Apparently it's a common problem on here. 00:05:43.640 --> 00:05:47.960 So that was a big fix. This engine isn't quite as reliable as the previous Accord, 00:05:47.960 --> 00:05:52.640 but it is still the right same engine. So you were given this car, so I guess this question doesn't really work. 00:05:52.640 --> 00:05:57.600 But if you were given a chance to get another car, when you purchased this one, would you do it? 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.600 Or sorry, when you were given it? If I was given something else? 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:04.840 Yeah. If it was like a Ford Focus, you know what I mean? 00:06:04.840 --> 00:06:09.520 Like you like it a bit less or something like that. No, Chevy Cavalier for sure. 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:13.720 But you can't, yeah, you can't look a gift towards the face when you're talking about cars 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:18.240 because they're so essential to moving around and it's kind of like, you kind of just take advantage of it 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.160 and then hopefully maybe it will lead to a dream car in the future. 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:26.360 The problem is this one's too good to motivate that, you know? 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:29.400 I mean, it does a lot of stuff, right? It's got a good amount of power. 00:06:29.400 --> 00:06:33.440 It's got good room in there. It's reliable, relatively, right? 00:06:33.440 --> 00:06:38.880 And then fuel consumption, you might be interested, you usually get around 10 liter sprinter kilometers. 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:42.560 When I was in Winnipeg though, it was like 17 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:49.320 because it's so cold and I didn't drive very far. Oh yeah, one fun story. Jamie and I from Logistics, we did a whole polish. 00:06:49.320 --> 00:06:54.520 The car is kind of dirty right now, so you can't fully see the results of his hard work. 00:06:54.520 --> 00:06:59.920 But he came over and helped polish the car, which was really nice. What's the next car that you would get? 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:03.880 I vacillate a lot between different things. And so I could tell you what I'm eyeing up. 00:07:03.880 --> 00:07:06.960 I love like a two seat roadster from maybe the late 90s. 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:13.440 So like a early 2000s, so like a Boxster. Or I love the R129 Mercedes SL class. 00:07:13.440 --> 00:07:17.520 That'd be fun. This is a part of me that just wants a big pickup truck. 00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:21.320 And I'm finding myself like really attracted to those like late 90s cars that I liked as a kid, 00:07:21.320 --> 00:07:27.160 so I don't know what that means. There's so many great cars out there that I kind of get so overwhelmed by the choice. 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:30.960 And then I'm like, well, but my car's fine. So you're definitely looking for something 00:07:30.960 --> 00:07:34.040 a little bit more sporty then? Yeah, yeah, like with personality. 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:37.040 Would you say that your car has personality? 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:41.040 Yes, but that's cause I drive it. 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.960 It's a reflection of the personality of the driver. Because there's a lot of people I feel like 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:50.400 who drive this car or own this car and don't know what they have. 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:54.360 They don't take advantage of it. They're just kind of bumbling around. 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:56.440 Hit the gas, give it the berries. 00:07:58.520 --> 00:08:00.000 Oh my gosh. 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:08.720 Okay. All right, so this thing has a little bit of pep in it. 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.760 Yeah, it's great. It's a danger. It's a great car to really, you know, 00:08:15.440 --> 00:08:19.920 rev it up. Slow car fast is way better than fast car slow. 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:26.160 Oh yeah. This is the thing about an Accord. It's a very boring looking kind of mainstream car, 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:29.640 but they just managed to give it that little bit of magic 00:08:29.640 --> 00:08:33.320 where you're like, I don't need anything else. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:37.720 It's really hard. 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:43.200 Cause I could imagine going into another car that might have more power or might have better handling 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.320 or might look better. Definitely easier for me to look better. 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:49.840 But there'll always be something missing. 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:56.280 What's your dream car? I like cars too much to really have like one Volvo V70R. 00:08:56.280 --> 00:09:01.040 Ooh. I feel like finding one of those in good shape now. Low-weight. Yeah, and they always have a high mileage. 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:04.280 I have been well worn with a stick. Needs a stick as well. 00:09:04.280 --> 00:09:08.840 Are you a little choked that this is an automatic? I'm choked that it's an automatic and a sedan. 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:13.400 There's a wagon with a manual. Oh, stop. 00:09:13.400 --> 00:09:16.680 That'd be amazing. But no, no one buys them. You're an idiot. 00:09:16.680 --> 00:09:17.520 The lot of you.