welcome!
i see you are also from south louisiana. if you are ever in need of a good honda mechanic for your car, just let me know. Im ASE and Honda/Acura certified (nissan/infiniti too, but who cares about them on here right?) and i also own a red 92 NSX.
i thought i was the youngest member (25) on here, but 16 is a LOT younger. i hope your kid knows the level of respect this car demands.
I don't make it a practice to attack anyone, particularly on Prime, so I hope I don't come off sounding that way.
I read your endorsement of yourself as an NSX tech in your above post and thought to myself that I would probably not ever have my NSX serviced by someone whose user name was "ef you." I decided to look past it and read through some of your previous posts and discovered that you are 25 and manage an oil change shop. I thought again, to myself, that anyone certified and competent enough to work on NSXs would probably not be in that line of work. And that anyone who is 25 cannot possibly have enough NSX experience for me to feel comfortable letting them work on my NSX.
I also noticed that, in a past post, you made the claim that the NSX oil filter is the same as the Legend filter. This is 100% false. While they are both compatible the NSX oil filter is a completely different filter. The NSX filter is a higher capacity filter and longer than the Legend's. The NSX specific filter is almost never carried in the quickie lube shops and the guide book that these shops use (the same books found in Autozone, etc. when purchasing Fram filters, for example) simply says to use the Legend filter instead or lists the same part for both cars as a substitute but it is in
no way a shared part. I then thought that someone who's business is exclusively oil and filters
and who is Acura/Honda certified should know exactly what's what and what's not.
On an even less important note I look for overall attention to detail when selecting a mechanic to work on my NSX. Your grammar in your past posts leaves quite a bit to be desired. Now, I understand this is the internet age and people type quickly but you might notice that most of the long-term Prime members take their time and, barring the occasional typo or language differences, use proper grammar and are very thoughtful in their posts here. I wonder to myself how thorough would someone like that be with my possibly $89,000 NSX? There are always exceptions to the rule but it just kinda makes me wonder, that's all.
So my question is: how many NSXs, excluding your own, have you serviced (directly taken a wrench to) excluding oil/fluid changes? You mention you are ASE/Honda certified but what is your overall experience in servicing NSXs? How many Hondas/Acuras have you serviced and where? What facilities do you have?
Before I get attacked I'm only concerned because you went on record endorsing yourself as a "good Honda mechanic" and suggested that NSX owners in the Southern Louisiana area should use you. I would have the same concerns and do the same amount of research if anyone had recommended anybody who the NSX community had not heard of or dealt with so please do not take this personally. This is business and it's our duty as a community to inform and educate--especially in the often intimidating area of servicing one's very expensive NSX.
From reading your posts you sound like a fairly sharp, decent kid and are probably very responsible and hard-working. You are also apparently an NSX owner and that demonstrates a great level of fiscal responsibility and maturity for your age. I am not out to bust anyone's chops. But in the spirit of professionalism, when someone, not just you, is endorsed by either another member or themselves we owe it to each other to ask these questions.
This is a very tight community and we feel that Prime is one of the most informative, helpful car forum of any kind on the internet. We pride ourselves on our helpfulness but also our thoroghness, experience and pursuit of only the facts. You're a newer member and while we don't hold that against you we simply don't know who you are. I can tell you, however, that I probably would not have even thought twice if not for your "ef you" username. You might want to consider a new one if you're going to be promoting yourself as an NSX tech or desire any amount of respect from this community. :wink:
Rant over.
