r/Civic_Type_R

I had a civic in my younger years, car I learned to wrench on and had a lot of fun with recently I’ve been eyeing up the CTR.

I currently have a 2019 Mercedes E450 currently at 65,000 miles. Great car comfortable plenty of performance. Pricey upkeep and maintenance especially at higher mileages.

Though about the Acura ITS but much prefer the looks of the CTR. I’m conflicted because it would obviously be a step in the other direction from comfort and driving experience not better or worse just different. I can keep the Benz and add the CTR but idk how much sense that would really make.

My question is any of you guys former Audi/VW, BMW or MB owners and do you feel like you’re miss anything about owning those?

I have a 2020 Red CTR FK8. Driving on the highway I noticed a red Civic behind me, totally wondering if it's a type R or not... I think I see a red badge, then I tell myself no, because I can see the interior is gray through my mirror. Didn't think anything more of it until I saw all the stuff on it.,.. wheels, brakes, wing, skirts, and even the 3 pipes ... I see a gray interior still but I wasn't 100 percent certain. Then, I realize that he didn't have the vortex generators and that plus the interior I'm totally certain that it's a dupe. Now, I give many points to this guy, he obviously loves the look and he's really gone all out to copy it, and I really think if that's how you wanna spend your money I'm all for it.

But, thinking about the cost of ALL that stuff, it's the Vortex Generators that make me laugh, like... the wing, pipes, wheels, painted brakes, that's a good amount of money, I just still can't get over NOT putting on those. It's sadly been in my head all day just wondering... I could have 3D printed those things and glued them on... Seems like that wouldn't have been the step I'm stop on.

Here just for fun not to hate.

This has been going on for a while, but I slowly just gave up trying to pinpoint what exactly it is and thinking about it is just driving me nuts again. My car currently has just under 39k miles. Back when it had about 7k miles I had gotten a set of Rays CE28 CRII black edition wheels (18” 9.5J +38 offset) paired with a set of Yokohama Advan Sport A/S+ tires (265/35). Ever since I got those installed I noticed a very faint vibration on my steering wheel. I’ve tried a few things including running hub centric rings (still on), alignment and road force balancing. None of these really helped the issue or found the cause after all this time. I would switch it out with my stock wheels with the original PS4Ss for summer and I never noticed this vibration. At first I thought it was the wheel or tire that was out of round. When I got the tires, I had it stacked on top of each other for a 2-3 months until the wheels came in, so it led me to think maybe the tire is just deformed because of how I stored it, but the road balance never found anything on the wheels or tires. The strange thing is that it’s not a consistent vibration. I’d say 90-95% of the time I notice nothing, but when I’m on certain stretches of the highway, it vibrates. Another thing I realized recently is that it feels almost as if the vibration shifts from the front passenger side to the driver side. When the steering is not vibrating, i see minor vibrations on the passenger front seat. However, when the seat stops vibrating, the steering starts to do so. Also for context I live in St. Louis, MO, so the roads aren’t the smoothest. Additionally, I have installed a H&R springs, PRL rear motor mount and switched to an ITS damper module. All three of these were installed after the wheels and the issue was present before that.

At this point I’m thinking it’s one of these things:

Change in offset going from +60 to +38

Deformed tires

Bad tie rods

Sorry for the long read, but I would greatly appreciate any feedback on this issue. I really wanna get this fixed. Worst case I may just sell my wheels and get a different set with an offset closer to +60.