Will an intake be ok?

 

If you plan on keeping the car or taking the intake off.

 

Like if I have an intake on it when it goes in for service will they void the warranty even though I don't own the car. I would take it off before the lease is up.

 

Yes, you can modify it as long as you return it to stock when the lease is up or if they buy it back from you with the modded parts. Every dealer has a different policy, obviously your best bet is to call the dealership. The only way a modified part can void warranty is if it is the direct cause of a malfunction, IE hydrolocking when you have a CAI. But if your wheel bearings go, they cannot refuse to cover it under warranty because you have headers. Get it?

 

We have an RSX TypeS that we leased, and are keeping the mods to bolt-ons, and now that the Hondata ECU is out maybe that as well. Keeping the stock tires to put back on at the end of the lease, even with wear they will be acceptable for the amount of miles the car will have on it. Chances are pretty good that we will lease another RSXtypeS again.

 

what are the advantages of leasing? is it less per month? what about contract..how long are the terms?

Dave

 

It all depends. We put nothing down, the dealer took our 99 SSB GSR almost a year early from it's lease, made our first payment (400.00) and we got an extra 400.00 from Honda Finance. We have a 39 month lease. We only pay taxes on the monthly lease payment (377.36+22.64) not the purchase price of the car, which would be 1419.00+23650=25069.00-down payment + interest since I put nothing down on the lease let's put nothing down on the purchase and assume 7.5% interest over 60 months that gives me a payment of 502.40 for 5 years, not 3 years and 3 months. We haven't kept a car for more than 3 years in a long time. If you don't plan on keeping your car longer I think a lease is the way to go.