Hey everyone, a friend of mine recently picked up a BBP M/T GD3. Feel free to give him a warm welcome to the forum. ^.^

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/texa...ml#post1197311

 

I might be joining Austin, Texas fit crew in a year or so

 

^^ Nice!...

 

is there any smog or inspections in texas? we dont have anything in FL

 

There is a yearly safety inspection and a smog check in the major metropolitan areas of Texas.
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New to FitFreaks, but I'm a long time Honda owner. I live near Parker, which is just east of Plano. This is my second Fit I've owned, it's a great little car.

~Steven

 

It depends on what county you get your car registered in which affects what inspection you're supposed to get. Some counties are Safety only (no emssision), OBDII/ASM (emission monitor check/sniffer in the exhaust on pre-95 models), and OBII/TSI(Two Speed Idle with sniffer in exhaust).

 

Austin will have Inspection sticker required for safety check and emissions with Two Speed Idle.

Austin is in Travis County. Rules are different for every county.

Texas Department of Public Safety - Inspection Criteria for the Annual SAFETY Inspection

 

I'm having a mini-meet with some local Fit owners on September 28th in Pearland. Thinking of either heading to Freebirds and/or maybe BJ's Brewhouse. Any Houston locals want to join let me know.

 

I will join for the mini-meet more than likely. Good food, good cars, and good pics... count me in.

 

I jus bought set of slips today.. and one rim has couple hair cracks..
Dose anyone know of a good rim repair place in the dfw area?

 

Good reviews on several forums and they seem to price their work reasonably fair.

Wheel Repair Solutions: Custom Wheels and On-Site Wheel Repair to Commercial and Retail Customers

 

Cool i actually googled after i posted last nite and they pop up.. thats cool they do insite wrk too..
Thanks katana

 

Great, post back afterward and let us know how they did repair wise brian_82.

 

ok I got a email back from that company.. they said it would be 125 bucks for the repair... shiii for that price ill buy me a new rim for that price.. think that's wat im goin to do after my bills clear out

 

What's up everyone?

Been kinda busier than usual and haven't been posting as much. Hope all is going well for you everyone.

I've been making a few changes to my GD recently and decided to make a thread to track it.

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/fit-...ml#post1200679

 

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anyone happen to have one lying around? I live in the 76131 area and I wanted to see if I can just buy it locally before I have to go online and get this sucker.

Both my old switch has intermittent problems and my just recently replaced crapped out. Talk about bad lucky. I have the whole assembly too since I just bought the whole damn thing a while back just to be safe.

inb4 o'reilly's and autozone hasdempartz.

 

^^ What is that part? For radiator fans?

 

guess my post didn't go through last night, was dead tired.

It's the VTEC oil pressure switch. Basically, switch turns on when the oil pressure hits it and VTEC goes WHEEEEE.

I slapped my old one in after a deep clean and its been working fine but i want to err on the side of caution and just switch out for safety sake. mine crapped out on the middle of acceleration when I tried to pass a pickup track coming from the on-ramp... So that was kind of frustrating when my car kicked on the CEL, lost power, and went into a 4k-rev limit limp-mode

5-10 minute job basically lol. 58 dollars off Ebay but i'd rather save some money at this point and see if anyone locally has it.

 

For anything relating to VTEC operation I would recommend finding a straw, suck it up and overpay for the honda OEM part.

Id have to say they are more reliable. Plus, myhondapartsstore.com has them for $52 plus shipping (list price is $70). Might wanna stock up ona few other parts, like oil filters, to make the shipping worthwhile

 

Oh I get that, my original replacement was a Honda Genuine replacement. that's why it's unfortunate it happened. I'll swap it back once I replace the switch though because the rest of the assembly has less than 10k miles on it.