Whats up azine? Been ghost reading this forum for ~6 months or so and finally decided to make an account and say hey. Proud owner of a NBP UA7 6MT and have plans for it but mostly wanting to keep it as clean as possible. Looking forward to getting advice/ giving advice and doing my part to contribute to the community.

 

It's curious you call your car by it's internal factory code. Kind of non-American, that.

 

I find that car enthusiast know the chassis code to their car...i dont think it has to do with euro, jdm, or american people... it's just basic knowledge for car enthusiast to know.

EVERYONE knows the Egg shaped Civic Si as the EP3. No one calls it the Egg thing that preceeded the Fit.

 

or how about various BMW's? car enthusiast know each generation and each chassis code, regardless of american, euro or jdm kind of people.

 

Everything's cool, man, I'm just saying any car enthusiast would obviously be aware of their chassis code, my point is that in the USA for example people tend to call cars by their generation. 3rd gen TL, for example, 5th gen Prelude. Britain often prefers "marks", "Mark II" or just MKII. In my country we tend to call cars by their chassis code, the generation designation is kinda rare. Nobody says "fifth gen Prelude", it's usually BB6 (BB5, BB7, BB8, BB9, you didn't get most of them - they're the ones with the shite engines). Although it's a different story with Accords and Civics for some reason, people commonly refer to them as "seventh gen Accord" or "fifth gen Civic".

 

It's just a bit curious, that's all

 

right, I dont think it's uncommon for enthusiast to know chassis codes.

 

It's not uncommon indeed, and that's not what I said. It's just that I haven't really seen people referring to TL's on this forum by their chassis code - 2nd gen TL is usually exactly that, not UA5.

 

^there's a whole UA7 club thread...

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-p...thread-816210/

Dedicated to those who just have the UA7

 

Yes there is and it's called "Third Generation TL (2004-2008)"

 

^ only the type-s' are UA7's...that would ONLY be 2007-2008, sir.

again, its not uncommon for us enthusiast to call our cars by the chassis code.

 

U.A.7 owner?

 

^type-s Owner.

 

You can keep saying that, but from what I've seen people are more inclined to go with "3rd gen" than UA6 or UA7. Or maybe I said that people don't use the chassis code period?

And you're switching the point of your message for I don't really know what reason. First it was about knowing the chassic code, now all of a sudden we're talking about people using it. Your point being what exactly?

 

we call them both
the third generation TL encapsulates both the UA6 and UA7..

the 2nd generation encapsulates both the UA4 and UA5

the 4th gen TL encapsulates both UA8 and UA9

 

Sure thing, I'm not telling people what they should and shouldn't call their cars, just making an observation. For some reason you seem to be trying to drive a point across, relentlessly and slightly aggressively, hopefully I'm just misunderstanding you.

 

it's even in the VIN number...these are the things enthusiasts like to know...

 

Or in the frame number, as is the case with my car))

 

not trying to be aggressive...
the chassis code is in the VIN number...
ALL you have to do is look at the vin number to figure out the chassis code.. and for an enthusiast, that's something COOL to know...
it's not neccessarily a Euro thing.. it's an enthusiast thing. to KNOW your car.

 

In any case, from what I can see it's less common in the States compared to where I'm from

 

Although I definitely see what you're saying. It's certainly an enthusiast thing, knowledge of one's car beyond what dealership salesmen tell you.

 

Nope no misunderstanding on our part, it's just you that's misunderstood

 

How so? My point seemed to be pretty coherent, though unfortunately I can't say the same for the way my words were interpreted.