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Awesome! With many of the electronic failures, it is the capacitors failing and/or spilling acid onto the circuit boards, causing disconnects. [USER=30613]@Heineken[/USER] has some AMAZING repair threads. The capacitors have a lower life in hot and/or humid environments, but not as related to miles driven.Lots of the early boards had capacitors rated for only 30 year average life I believe, & we're past that for most NSX's out there. Some of the newer cars used longer life/higher temp caps, perhaps around 1999-2000 onward, depending on the specific component, but no-one knows exactly when each component was upgraded. [USER=7588]@Briank[/USER] said my 2001 ccu was good, but speaker amps had old caps.Frustrating that the cost to put in way better caps from the get-go would have been a couple of dollars/car, but I think Honda just didn't have experience building cars for collector timeframes. It'll go a million miles if you can do it in a decade or so. Even so, it's amazing how many of them are still on the road and functioning well considering their complexity, especially compared to other cars manufactured at that time.
Awesome! With many of the electronic failures, it is the capacitors failing and/or spilling acid onto the circuit boards, causing disconnects. [USER=30613]@Heineken[/USER] has some AMAZING repair threads. The capacitors have a lower life in hot and/or humid environments, but not as related to miles driven.
Lots of the early boards had capacitors rated for only 30 year average life I believe, & we're past that for most NSX's out there. Some of the newer cars used longer life/higher temp caps, perhaps around 1999-2000 onward, depending on the specific component, but no-one knows exactly when each component was upgraded. [USER=7588]@Briank[/USER] said my 2001 ccu was good, but speaker amps had old caps.
Frustrating that the cost to put in way better caps from the get-go would have been a couple of dollars/car, but I think Honda just didn't have experience building cars for collector timeframes. It'll go a million miles if you can do it in a decade or so. Even so, it's amazing how many of them are still on the road and functioning well considering their complexity, especially compared to other cars manufactured at that time.
