Why I hate my Si...long

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You'd think when you buy a newer car than you previously had, you'd have less issues. Apprently this isn't correct.

For those of you who don't know me, I just got a 2000 back in late October. Previous to that I had a 98 EX. When I biught my car it came with the Hond Certified Warranty. Well needless to say the dealership failed to do ANY of the certification check points. Most of it is simple stuff. Change the oil, change the spark plugs, put floor mats in it, etc. Well I had to get the dealership to "throw" in the floor mats. The oil had not been changed, and you guessed it, neither had the spark plugs.

Well I changed the oil(since I was going synthetic anyhow) and the plugs. A little while later the tranny started acting up. Apparently the 99-00 Si's have a tranny problem and require some parts to be replaced in the tranny. THe dealership knew right away about this issue, but failed to replace the required parts. So I took it in. They told me they needed to order the parts. Ok no big deal. Then they tell me its going to take 2-2.5 days to complete. Alright. They have to rip the tranny apart. It can't be an easy task, so no big deal. I asked abotu a rental and they said the warranty doesn't cover it, but they can get me one for $35 a day. Needless to say, I "convinced" them to get me a rental(the rental was a 2001 LX. slow but it worked).

I got the car back about 2 days later as promised. Well about that time I got my brand new KONI adjustables in(2 days later than I was supposed to get them). So I decided that I would put them on this weekend. RacingRice offered to help out so I figure this will be cake. Wrong.

Well we removed the front bolts from the rod on the struts easily. We moved to the back to start. Well the driver's side one was not budging. It simply wouldn't move. So we move to the passenger's side. The allen bolt was stripped. Hell we hadn't even gotten to strip ourselves. Someone apparently had tried this once before. We used all the means we had to get this thing out. Let's just say I'm still on a stock suspension..

I also have a complete MSD ignition setup(6AL, Blaster 3 coil, MSD cap, NGK wires) sitting in my room. Can't put it in because I have absolutely no room. RacingRice can verify that one. This isn't a big deal since I was going turbo.

This kind of crap makes me not want to anything to my car. I mean hell if I can't install the struts, how the hell am I gonna install a turbo? Who knows what issues I could find then.

Sorry for the novel, but I had to vent.