1999ludesh

i was looking into buying a honda prelude with 4ws. i was just wondering how many of you who own one have problems with the 4ws? or is it pretty much trouble free as long as you maintain everything? I recentyly owned a 99 prelude type sh which had the ATTS, and i had problems with the ATTS and it was VERY expensive to fix, so i was also wondering if the 4th gen 4ws was expensive as well to fix if something goes wrong with it? I really want a prelude with 4ws but not if its a hassel and alot of money to maintain it, cause if thats the case i will just get a prelude w/out 4ws. thanks for any help.

slipknot95758

i added it to my 94 vtec model because they didnt offer that with the h22and i wanted a bb1.

i had one small problem when i installed it my main steering angel sensor went bad i had a spare but if i didnt it would have been 190 for a new one. but the nice thing is that i f the 4ws fails it just becomes a 2ws car the rear rack always re-centers when there is a failure

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rayslude

never had problems when i had mine. The only problem I know of is some of the solders start cracking but it's as easy as opening the box and resoldering. pretty easy to maintain.

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1999ludesh

hey thanks alot guys for all of your input it sounds to me like to 4ws is the way to go. i did a little more research and ya all of the problems people are having seem to be able to be fixed pretty easy. i just had one more question, when i had my 99 prelude sh, because of the ATTS i had to buy specail parts and they were expensive and all parts had to be specifically for the type sh alot of parts off the base model prelude i could not use. is this the same for the 4th gen with 4ws? like when i order stuff do i have to buy parts specifically for the prelude 4ws or i can use parts off the si or base model? thanks again for all the input

preludatic

nah, unless it's directly related to the steering, you should be fine.

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slipknot95758

things to know, you can not use any rear strut bars, no lower rear tiebars, also no after market sway bars. other than that your fine

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paomatic

I have a 92 4ws and its been working perfect. I had that 4ws light up a year ago and opening up the 4ws and re soldering the pins made it work again no problem. That's the only thing I can think of. Other than that it's very convenient for parking.