Morning All,
Well, as you may or may not know from my Fiesta thread I've been given the inlaws old car as they have bought themselves a new one.
Its a 2004 Honda Civic 1.6 VTEC-e in Magnetic Blue.
I picked it up from Inverness on Saturday and drove it the 130 miles or so home.
It's an alright car, it's never going to win any races... ever!...but it is an honest car that's a decent place to sit and drive.
It's only got 57,000 miles on it and has been serviced as and when required having had the timing belt changed twice due to time rather than mileage. With the last one being done in December
It has a couple of scratches and one small dent which, although they have been touched up with a touch up stick, I want to rub back and spray to hide them fully.
It also has some rust on the boot where the chrome bit above the number plate meets the corner. Will strip this down and re-spray at the same time.
I took one of the wheels off to give it a clean and see what state they are in and they appear to be pretty near mint except for the yellow staining but I couldn't find any alloy wheel cleaner hence why I only did one!
Also adjusted the handbrake as it was up at around 10 clicks so its now down at around 4 which is a nicer number for it (still not the 1 or 2 clicks of the Fiesta but I'll cope
).Then gave under the bonnet a bit of a de-grease as it was clarted.
Followed by re-charging the air-con, don't know why other than cause I could
Took some pictures also, I know its not like me to have pictures so early in a thread but hey ho
VTEC-YO!!! Or not, its a backwards VTEC designed for economy not speed
But on that I did manage to get 47mpg out of it on the way home, which for a 1.6 petrol I thought was pretty damn good! So it does what its supposed to.I'm a bit confused as to whether or not its a facelift or pre-facelift model as the headlights look facelift but it has the indicators in the wings. Will need to stick some pics up on some Civic forums and find out! The changeover was 2004 so it wouldn't surprise me if it was a mid facelift model.
Got a few plans for it as follows:
Change oil and filer (father in law never got round to it over the winter)
Change cabin pollen filter as its manky!
Get a decent stereo in (still to decide if I go single DIN or Double-DIN Android)
Get a new clip for the bonnet stay as its broken
Try and get some cheap gas struts for the bonnet
Get a new Gear knob as this ones worn at the top
Possible plans that I'm not decided on yet:
Type-R Seats as the standard ones aren't great
EP2 White dials
Bigger brakes (Only has 15" wheels so not sure if I can go bigger than 262mm thats on it)
Type R Three spoke wheel
Cruise control
That's about it so far.
Will keep this up to date with what ever I do to it.
Paul
P.S. I'm desperately trying to still keep the Fez
but I've left eh car parked over it so the missus doesn't see it 