The Civic Type R Test Drive #shorts #testdrive #dashcam

I wouldn't expect the garage to test drive my car in this manner.

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[geoffos]

You can also hear the car reminding him to fasten the seatbelt.

[Real-Ruby-Red]

As a mechanic this is absolutely what you should do when you test drive a car, don’t granny it, give it some beans to see if you see any black or blue exhaust smoke, gearbox noises or engine rattling. If you drive it softly and don’t push it you may not hear a problem and you end up buying a car with an issue.

[Rob......]

Ashley, as a mechanic, you should know that this is testing the engine. How the engine behaves, what it sounds like, during revving says a lot and assures the dealer all is/isn't ok here. While it's not always done, what we see here is not malicious.

[adammcallister]

Didn’t seem particularly bad? Wasn’t absolutely screaming for dear life. Took it through the rev range, as you should, then pulled it back in. You can’t tell me a Civic Type R hasn’t been driven hard before. It’s literally the reason you buy one. The location wasn’t ideal, certainly, but it didn’t seem reckless or anything. No screaming tyres, no stomping on the brakes, no handbrake turns. Nothing to this.

[jamstaa]

Checking acceleration, checking for blue smoke, checking gear box changes ok at speed, braking hard checking for imbalances or wobble.. only had a short test drive on an industrial estate road. I wouldn’t bounce it off the limiter, but not the monster being portrayed here.

[analogsamurai]

how else are they going to check that the lift (vtec) is working? when you buy a car if you pootle about at 10mph without checking for splutters or missfires then you deserve a lemon. the limiter is negligible as it blipped it. you could sit it on that for a few mins and it wouldnt die. its obvs the viewer was going to try trade it in.

[simongranger]

He is taking it for a test drive, he knows what he is listening for

[bartbishop]

I was part exchanging once, I took the car I was buying for a test drive and did more or less what the garage did. Checked the brakes, engine revs up and down the gears and the steering. All normal to me.

[LARGE_COKE]

This is pretty normal, you want a car on it's limits to see if there are any problems (missing, burning oil, unhappy high in the revs, knocks, how it idles, how the gearbox behaves, put it in high gear and floor it to check for clutch slip and so on) . Just try to do it legally and with you're seatbelt on please. Sold my VXR last week and told the guy I'd warmed it up for him so he could thrash it if he wanted to make sure everything was all good. He was very pleased with the performance and took it for asking price no questions asked. This is not malicious.

[thepvporg]

FYI, all dealers do this, it shows up many problems and issue with the cars. A friend who worked for a major Renault garage back in the 1990's took a car out with a fellow sales guy and one of the tests where they reve the engine to check for knocking, witnessed the baffles blowing out the back of the engine, indicating that the owner thrashed his car as the exhaust was not old.

So if you base what happened to this guy as a standard, you won't be buying from any dealer.

[aaronjoyce]

Is that not how youre suppsoed to drive a Type R? He got up in revs for a second get over it, great way to check if theres underlying issues

[koop]

OMG!! Good job they didn't sell a car to this bloke. 🙄
Probably checking if the VTEC works, because the current owner won't rev it pass 4k. 😅

[bart]

Type R makes power @ the end of the Rev's V-TECH looks more like a quick drive test. nothing strange. just checking the engine is doing what it's suposed to do

[Bruno-xbmt]

Honestly nothing wrong with that, just a couple pulls to ensure a performance car…. is performing but they shouldn’t have claimed the video was fabricated and just stood their ground instead.

[s.g.engineeringltds.g.engineer]

Sensible salesman, checking its not a lemon. Mistake was not being honest in their response to the customer. They should have said we just checked your car wasn't a crap heap.

[jamesfrench]

As long as the engine wasn't cold, it can take it.

[andrewnorris]

I must admit I test drove a Prelude years ago and asked the owner if I could rev it to check the VTEC was working. You get an extra burst of power very high up in the revs if the VTEC is working. Google said - "A solenoid engages at around 5600rpm, which causes the second valve to lock onto the first valve's camshaft lobe." Seems legit but needed to ask permission and perhaps do it in safer place. Some have said no seatbelt.

[BenjaminEmm]

I don’t think Ash’s major complaint is that he tested the cars entire rev range and engine - more that he did it on a public road exceeding the speed limit and with no seat belt fastened. If it was done on a private road then fair play - but it wasn’t.

[vviiper]

To be fair, you've got to bang a type R off the limiter to get anything out of it

[jackhenderson]

Its hard to critique someone’s work when you have zero clue about the field. Stick to critiquing how people drive