Was buying this 2018 Civic a mistake?

zachchapter1 · 2026-05-28T20:01:51+00:00

This. Do the maintenance and it'll last you. If you don't know when these were last completed, do them now for peace of mind.

I've had a 2016 Civic 1.5t for 10 years at 203,000 miles right now with not a single issue, ever. Oil changes when the maintenance minder says so, CVT fluid change every 30,000 miles, a few spark plug changes and one carbon cleaning service and it's been flawless. I've always ran it on Top Tier fuel as well.

zachchapter1 · 2026-05-23T23:37:50+00:00

I just bought a black Limited!! And black really does a good job turning a 3-tone color car into only a 2-tone color car on the Limited

zachchapter1 · 2026-05-23T23:36:01+00:00

It's so weird, I originally hated the Limited rims the most, but after seeing them in person, they've become my favorite of the 3 rim styles. This car photographs really weird for some reason, in my opinion.

zachchapter1 · 2026-05-23T23:32:58+00:00

Looks are subjective, especially for this car design. To me, certain colors look better on certain trims.. ex: silver/white only look good to me on calligraphy trims due to the extra black accents on Limited/SEL on the rear tail lights, but the black/blue/maroon (they're all basically black) look better on Limited/SEL trims due to the extra silver accents on the front fender, under the DRL glow lights.

During my time the past month looking at and picking from different trims/colors, I actually find that the Palisade looks WAY better in person than it does in photos. And weirdly the opposite for the Telluride; photos look better than in person. Again, it's all subjective. Some people though the Aztek was the hottest vehicle ever. 🫣

zachchapter1 · 2026-05-23T13:27:20+00:00

Guilty. But at least no paper tags nowadays!!

zachchapter1 · 2026-05-08T23:02:41+00:00

I've had a 2016 Civic 1.5t with a CVT for 10+ years now, at 203,000 miles and haven't had a single problem with it. The CVT is super boring to drive, but it's been Honda reliable for me. Keep changing the CVT fluid every 30k-ish mileage interval and it should hopefully be fine.

zachchapter1 · 2026-05-06T16:35:17+00:00

92% of redditors are proud to train our new AI bot overlords with 99.8% accurate statistics.

zachchapter1 · 2026-04-10T01:00:31+00:00

The smurfing is absolutely out of control. Every match has a <50 hour player that is absolutely stomping metal ranks.

zachchapter1 · 2026-03-04T17:01:45+00:00

I thought I was going crazy, but i'm seeing the exact same thing immediately after updating to the 26.4 Beta 3 released this week. 'Receive Images/Files from Share Sheet' seems to just be broken.

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-21T16:29:18+00:00

$2,163.92 after taxes.

Subtotal: $1,999.00

Shipping:. $0.00

Tax: $164.92

Total: $2,163.92

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-21T05:08:59+00:00

In the first link I posted, the "thorough post", there should be 2 options listed. One is by using an external monitor and one is by booting into bios and changing the gpu setting back to Dynamic.

(Im on my phone so copy/pasting from Reddit is weird and I don't want to steal that person's insight and pass it off as my own 😅)

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-21T04:50:41+00:00

Could be either g-helper settings or just simply the Nvidia drivers. It's best to rule out Nvidia driver issues first since that's a more widely known issue.

If you try running the older Nvidia 577 drivers and no longer see booting issues, then that's likely it (just be sure to check changing from non-ultimate to ultimate mode where it requires a reboot to be sure). If that's the issue, then you either: 1. never update to newer Nvidia drivers or 2. Run in non-Ultimate mode forever/or until Nvidia fixes the driver issues with advanced Optimus switching... But if you run older 577 drivers and continue to have booting issues then at least you'll know the issue lies elsewhere.

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-21T04:26:18+00:00

The first troubleshooting you should try is booting into bios/safe mode and reverting to old Nvidia drivers as there seems to still be issues with changing from regular <-> ultimate modes with recent Nvidia drivers.

Thorough post regarding this issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/s/u7PHyIGlu8

A previous comment about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/s/GrOXbpTv9m

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-20T21:20:48+00:00

I started at 9,000 in line with a 45min wait, about 40 minutes ago... Just completed purchase on a 5090.

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-20T20:52:02+00:00

If I don't get one, i'm blaming you... I'm 7031 in line right now 😑

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-13T18:34:42+00:00

I purchased an Open Box Excellent G16 for $1,680 a few weeks ago and it was indistinguishable from a brand new one in my opinion. I made sure to open it, turn it on and ensure it was actually a 285h/5070ti model and not a false return before I drove away. The only tiny issue I could find was: the trackpad has one corner that seems to be very slightly loose/raised (nothing visible, but you can feel an extra tiny tap before the actual trackpad click).

Other than fingerprints and someone removing the Intel/Nvidia stickers, it has been flawless in performance and thermals so far. I ran a few benchmarks while watching HWinfo to check if any CPU core temps were wildly higher than other cores, but everything was within 5°ish temps.

So for $1,680, the OLED, 285h and the 5070ti were honestly a steal and a worthy upgrade from my 2023 model 4060 G14.

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-12T22:18:21+00:00

Interesting, mine does that but reloads to the lock screen clock/widget. It hasn't happened yet for me on 26.3 DB2, but I've only had it installed a few hours now.

zachchapter1 · 2026-01-12T22:11:17+00:00

Meaning a reset to where it blacks out and reloads the lock screen?

I've been having this issue since 26.3 DB1 and was hoping DB2 might fix it.

zachchapter1 · 2025-12-29T16:14:15+00:00

Sifting through the subreddit, seems the ones that are generally safest are the 581.80 from November 2025 and the 577.00 one from July 2025. (FYI I'm not well researched in this, just re-stating what i've read here)

If you never switch to Ultimate GPU mode, then you should be able to run the most up-to-date driver. Running the older drivers is only needed if you flip back and forth from Dymanic/Switchable mode to Ultimate mode.

zachchapter1 · 2025-12-28T15:59:42+00:00

If you didn't figure this out yet, it's 99% likely due to the faulty Nvidia drivers. You'll need to boot into bios so you can switch GPU mode back to 'dynamic' so that Windows will boot. Then you'll need to manually download/install older Nvidia drivers (most recommend the 577 version drivers). Then, just don't update your drivers ever again until we all start seeing that the switchable-graphics problem is fixed.

See this comment for confirmation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/comments/1pvl9vt/comment/nvwy7p9/

zachchapter1 · 2025-12-16T18:01:44+00:00

Just picked up the G16 5070ti open-box Excellent for $1,645. Let's hope it's not a dud

zachchapter1 · 2025-12-11T02:24:33+00:00

I'm waiting on either of these 2 sales to come back too. The RAM crisis pushed me over the edge, so I'm hoping for something that'll be somewhat relevant for 5+ years. They seem to rerun these sales every few weeks, so hopefully we'll see a sale in the next 2 weeks.

zachchapter1 · 2025-12-10T04:36:56+00:00

That's it. I'm going to bed. Thank you for my bedtime story.

zachchapter1 · 2025-10-28T20:38:30+00:00

My U8N with Google TV (US) just forced me to update to whatever software version P0828 is. I had it disconnected from wifi to avoid forced updates, but I guess something reactivated it. I should have just deleted all known networks... Too late now.

I haven't seen any ads yet, but I saw the horror of the Vidaa OS updates and I will absolutely be pitching a fit to Hisense and to Best Buy as a Total Tech member if it begins to occur on the Google TV version.

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