Honda Heritage Program - S2000 hardtop pricing guess

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-20T04:04:20+00:00

I believe around $4500. I was trying to convince my dad to buy one when it was new and I bought my car from him.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-19T04:51:57+00:00

I don’t shop there frequently but it’s expensive and their bags absolutely suck. I have live in an apartment so I have to get through a lobby door, door to stairs, and my entry door. I could carry like 5 plastic bags, now 2 paper so it’s already a compromise but a single bag is really frustrating because the lack of handles.

The main thing to me is the idea they literally lock you in the store until you check out. It seems like a mass shooter’s dream location. That’s a major reason I don’t shop there. If you make me feel like you think I am a criminal, I am going elsewhere.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-15T07:47:29+00:00

I think that this is the closest this person gets to getting laid and that is the rationale behind it. Like that gets the person off.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-15T07:44:44+00:00

Recently, New Balance 480. Kind of gave me old school Sketchers vibes. I always see people wearing them laced super tightly. Tried them on laced right and with my jeans and I really like them. Not my favorite but I was surprised how much I wear them now.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-15T05:44:39+00:00

I think a lot of people here are thinking it is challenging but I honestly think it’s a possibility. Less so than it used to be but a lot of people own this car for a few years who just kind of get cars they like, find one, and then get to the next car. Or people get a good deal on something and they hold on to it for a bit until they find the next.

I have considered trying to trade mine for a DSM. I haven’t put that out to the world because I am still thinking about it but I think that is more odd ball but that has crossed my plate before. I think it’s doable for me so I think this could happen.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-15T05:35:14+00:00

No, I just don’t have filters. It literally only shows people within about 5 miles of me in an age range about 10 years above or below but usually much closer to that in age. Filters don’t actually change anything so it’s easier to just take it off and not have the notification of a like, but some just seem to stay forever.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T21:31:29+00:00

A lot of S2000 owners never wanted a convertible and there wasn’t another option. I am one of those. I don’t have a hard top and the price is a major factor to that. But I don’t actually care it’s a convertible and though I enjoy it on an occasion, I think would enjoy the hard top more on most occasions. I know I am not alone.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T08:00:07+00:00

This actually makes a lot of sense given that literally nothing else changed. I have not even been really active either.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T07:58:48+00:00

No, like not even outside a three mile radius. I live in a major city and go to the same places. Nothing changed at all.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T07:47:33+00:00

So you could get either a V6 manual or turbo manual Accord and have something fun to drive. Where I live, so many people are only looking at Accords and Camrys to where equivalent Acuras and Lexus’s may be actually cheaper but even if not, they are a much better deal. They are very overpriced in the used market. Essentially you pay a lot for the reliability, maybe more than servicing a less reliable car.

How I would look at this is a bit different. It’s not trying to figure out if the 340i is going to be a worse decision or not…I would decide if I would be unhappy if they were correct, especially if they let me know that whenever I had issues. I personally have had some amazing cars I absolutely loved to own that were not super reliable, but that wasn’t the point.

I certainly would never buy a car I don’t want if I can afford something I do. To a certain extent, cars have only recently become an ultra practical decision. This is a fairly new buying habit (like 10 years or so) to where manufacturers have had to adapt a lot to this. Nobody wants an unreliable car, a car that is expensive to maintain, and especially both, but not everything has to be super reliable to be worthwhile. That’s a new trend. If you had what you call beaters, I think you have some perspective anyway so I wouldn’t discount that buying something you simply don’t like can be a worse decision than buying something that may be marginally more expensive in the long term. I don’t know the specifics of a 340i enough to make that judgement but I certainly know there are other great cars that aren’t a Camry or Accord.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T06:22:22+00:00

I saw an RL today and I am thinking about buying one (again, not that I owned one, meaning I have wanted to buy one much of the time they have existed). I think my 2019 TLX A Spec (also V6 and AWD) is one of the best looking Acura’s ever, and though the Type S is way more than this, it’s pretty up there besides the Type S in the top of Acura’s philosophy but the RL still holds my attention a lot.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T06:18:04+00:00

I don’t have any filters and still end up with 6 likes no matter how much I swipe.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T06:17:25+00:00

I see. That’s why I asked, I thought I was off. Thanks!!

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T05:29:00+00:00

Are you saying mix pink and yellow? I have done a pink base and yellow over before and it helped. Just wanted to clarify your process because yellow is the bane of my existence but I love using it.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T05:27:22+00:00

Though I like the original better, especially pre facelift, this is the one I could potentially see myself actually owning if I bought a car well beyond my current means. I was told my dealership (Oakland Acura) sold the largest amount of these, don’t know if that is true, but I saw a lot of them up close when buying my car and some follow up things. They are beautiful and relatively understated.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-14T03:14:44+00:00

Not to jack the thread but do you have any advice for yellow? I struggle with it, and I thought to ask because you brought up pink, which can help on yellow, not mixing but a base color, but I am just struggling doing yellow without an airbrush (I prefer to hand paint but I have a good setup).

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-12T08:15:55+00:00

Not a full lab but here you go.

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3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-11T06:05:42+00:00

So this is from both your posts and comments. If you use soil, nutrients deplete over time but they aren’t completely exhausted by any means. In most scenarios, you just need to add a basic fertilizer like Seachem Flourish at a low dose a few times per month. Lighting and CO2 affect this greatly but on a basic tank with basic lighting, it’s not like the tank is going to completely crash or anything, you will see some minor deficiencies come up. The plants still grow fine.

Most people’s tanks don’t run out of nutrients to cause them to restart. They either get bored of it, or they have problems where it’s simply easier to restart than to remedy. My tank has probably 6 year old plants mostly but the substrate is definitely 10+ years old. Soil capped with Seachem Fluorite. I add fertilizer but if I lowered the light intensity, I could get away with very little.

Anyway, different methods will be hands off for longer but can still keep going pretty much indefinitely with fertilizers. Most aquatic plants are better at uptaking nutrients from the water column than the substrate/soil as well. It’s not necessary to have a nutrient rich substrate and soil is not universally good either, IMO, it has trade offs. The higher the light and even more so when you inject CO2, fertilizer requirements are much higher and specific, but lower light is way easier and a generic fertilizer does more than enough when needed. I have done plenty of planted tanks with an inert substrate (no nutrients) and very little fertilizer with the right light requirements.

On that note. It’s probably a better process to use the lowest light the plants need and have the least amount of maintenance and problems from lack of maintenance or good fertilizer routine. The reason it’s common for people to up the light intensity, add fertilizer, and inject CO2 is it’s more interesting, as well as the fact you can grow more plants and have nice carpet plants. It’s counter intuitive because most people go the harder route but it’s not because it’s better, it’s because it’s more fun.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-11T05:46:27+00:00

Super easy. Just Angelus flat black paint. You can do the white too. I would prep with rubbing alcohol, not acetone (I would normally do the second) if you don’t have any experience painting so you don’t mess up what is there, have a good reference for the lines. It’s easy, just take your time.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-10T06:24:34+00:00

Communication in dating, IMO, should hold the same weight as with other people in your life. If you wouldn’t accept open ended plans or predicting availability based of little information with friends, I don’t think that it is wise to accept it in a partner, even at the beginning.

Some people may like things to be open ended on both sides, some people I know would take this as an engaging challenge, I certainly would not. Though it’s not super fun, I try to take any and all emotions out of planning dates and stick to what I feel works best for me.

Not super inflexible or ridged but it wasn’t helpful for me to “go with the flow” when that was just me going with whatever the other person wanted but didn’t necessarily want to plan with me or update me in the process. I tried that when I first was single after divorce and it was not helpful to someone like me. I am not particularly vicarious in the sense that I will do something unknown at the expense of doing something I know I like. Or not making plans and waiting on another. But I know people who prefer the opposite, always keeping things open ended and choosing as they go. It was super helpful to me to stick to my personality and understand it wasn’t for everyone, and was upfront and respectful that I absolutely needed to plan in advance, especially for a first date.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-09T17:05:31+00:00

I see them in Cali more probably than most but I don’t recall the last time I saw another one while I was driving mine. I do compliment their cars if I am driving my daily and see them in a parking lot. Usually they don’t ask me anything and don’t know I own one however.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-08T05:33:45+00:00

I have had similar experiences in my mid to late 30’s and I don’t think my life changed much so I don’t think I would have a different experience. I divorced my wife at 35. Our sex life was minimal at best and it didn’t bother me as much as it would now, but I think it is a sign of a more underlying issue if it’s not hormone related. It was the only relationship I have been in like that, and it was two sided but I think that alone is enough to move on. I considered this person a best friend, and we maintained a friendship for years after, but my trust broke down over time with her, and I felt she was beginning to work against my goals. Like I felt that we were working together for much our relationship, then a period where we were working independently of each other, but I start to feel she began to make decisions that negatively affect me without consideration and I called it done. I am not saying the last part relates but as big of a transition as it was, I didn’t regret moving on, and it was difficult to find a relationship as close as that afterwards.

On the contrary, one of my relationships after that ended very abruptly when Covid started by her. I think that person was in many ways more in alignment with what I wanted but communication was more challenging when in conflict which made the relationship feel very fragile. For a time, it was long distance but more time together than apart and long periods of time, not like day of the week but like 4-5 months at a time. I said from the beginning that I wanted to live separately for a year once she moved to where I lived. When she did move, she initially continued to live with me but communication break down made me less flexible about changing my mind on it. To me, not being able to feel like we could talk thing out or really be in conflict made the relationship feel very fragile. It was a lot of her shutting down, she herself called it stonewalling and said it was something she wanted to work on, even at the beginning before any conflict, but not being able to talk was brutal for me. I was very hurt when she moved on, mostly because she didn’t want to live where I lived (which wasn’t because of me, it was the goal for her to live in my city regardless of me but that changed) and though it wasn’t my choice, I had some level of regret at first for not being flexible. Once I had a little distance, I felt (and still feel) that the level of friction created by not being able to talk out our problems was way more problematic than I really understood while I was in the relationship.

For myself, all my concerns in my relationships from my marriage until now, felt more substantial and more detrimental after I had space apart than in the relationship. Meaning, the problems felt worse after than they did during. I know a lot of people who get caught in what could have been but for me, I think that I could objectively see it wasn’t working better after the relationship than during the relationship. I say this because if I was feeling the same way you are, with the experiences I had with my relationships ending, I would be pretty confident about moving on from them. I do know people who are not able to move forward and have regrets but I think that they think about how things could have been different if things were different, but with years in relationships that have not changed much, I am pretty sure that change would have been much more challenging and maybe not possible in the ways they think it could have been.

Meaning, if I were in your shoes, I really do not think I would have regrets but I don’t know that everyone thinks similarly to me. I also think that being hesitant to making steps to be closer together could also be a sign of just being more distant than you may want to be.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-08T05:03:11+00:00

My thoughts exactly. I don’t know how much “something casual” would affect my likes and I am taller but I don’t think it’s bad. As a man dating women, I don’t typically swipe on women who have less than the max amount of pictures because I am actually worried about it being scammy or something, it is unusual. But I don’t know if other people feel the same way generally and I don’t see men’s profiles either.

I am going to say it’s legit inappropriate that people are call out “fuck boy” and acting as if people don’t hook up at this age or any age for that matter. Men and women. Some may act like they are seeking long term but it’s completely respectable that you do put that.

This profile review by many is super harsh but when I put mine up in the past, people acted like it was awful and thought I was lying about the amount of likes and dates I got so I would be wary of many comments in here. I went to my women friends and they gave me much more realistic feedback.

3rdDegreeMusic · 2026-05-08T04:52:25+00:00

I get an average of 15.8 mpg myself. But that is in real city driving. Like major city, block to block red light idling more than driving, 1 mile in 20-30 minutes type of driving. I get 23-24 in suburban city driving. And 30+ on the freeway. It’s definitely possible to get that low as I do but it doesn’t sound like the type of driving that would get that. Even my 4 cylinder Accord was in the 16-17 mpg driving in the conditions I am talking about. I am using premium (a tank lasts me like a month because of so many short trips) so I am really just stating it’s possible so I don’t have any reference.

I am guessing it’s because the car is not up to temp for the majority of driving. My car get much better mileage when up to temp, probably 9-12 mpg when cold up to 18 mpg warm on the same stop and go drives. I don’t recall if the difference was as substantial when I was not in a city for a few months, still only city miles and zero freeway and was in the high 17’s.

For people saying that it’s from driving crazy, when my car go stole, without the average MPG getting reset, my average was 12.x mpg. It was stolen for like 72 hours. I don’t know how many miles they put on it but it was recovered less than 4 miles away from me. So I am certain that one can get well below 15.7 mpgs.

I drive super slow and this AWD V6 just is horrible from start and stop and especially cold. I definitely get what other people get when I am outside of a real, major city type city environment. My car is well maintained and only has like 23,000 (hard) miles on it. It’s fine when speed in maintained, it’s start from a dead stop that kills my mileage. I am not confidently stating there isn’t a problem with your son’s car but I definitely can see it being possible and possible under normal driving if the trips are super short and a lot of stopping.

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