a lil history on your Civic

[SiPoweredHB]

just curious on how long you all have owned your civics, what kinda shape was when you bought it and how much you paid for it when bought it. here is mine:

i bought my Civic in March 2001 at a the local Toyota dealership for $1,500 cash. the car had 163,000 miles on it and was terrible looking. it had the stock 13" steal rims on it, the little 1.5L SOHC motor BARELY and i mean BARELY ran on 3 cylinders. the interior was just as nasty. the previous owner must have used the car for some kinda place that housed cats or something because the interior had cat hair all in it AND had cat urine stains and the horrible stench of cats. talk about nasty, i spent a WHOLE week cleaning that mess up after i bought the car to get the cat urine out (it was bitch to get that out..talk about GROSS) and the smell too. i dont know how many of those damn scented trees i used just so it would smell "clean" every time i opened the door (had to let it sit for a month before i could drive it because i didnt have a license-thats another story). now that cat hair is different story, to this day i am still getting that shit out the carpets. its that bad. i think the best thing for me to do is just to completely take the carpet out....anyways what about you alls Civics??

[EightOhOne]

funny shit about those cats
i got my civic in may of 99, with 74k on the clock and it was in pretty good shape, other than the 3 stars :o It has 125k on it now, and is getting a new engine/tranny in the next month or so(if i can find the parts i need)
holy sheet, i drove it 50k in 3 years :o :o :o
oh yeah...i payed 5000 for it, and its a 91 si

[Moppie]

Well I got my little shopping cart in November of I think 99.
It was yet another used import from Japan, and after looking at mostly Toyotas I took it for a drive for the hell of it, and decieded that I simply had to have it. NZ$7,500 later and it was mine. (thats about US$3,000 )

It had 90,000kms on it when I got it, and has over 155,000ks on it now.
At about 110,000ks it had the cam belt done. and at about 140,000ks the orginal clutch went.
And just recently (I got it going agian yesterday) I replaced the Synchro on 3rd and 4th. The selector was badly worn, and the 3rd gear itself also had to be replaced. (I got the last one in the country, possibly the world, gotta love Honda NZ buying all the parts Honda Japan was throwing away).

The car is totaly stock, Im more than happy with the way Honda set it up to begin with. About the only similarity it has with any other EF model is the Basic body shell. :finger:

[sarujin]

I got my Civic back in April 2001, I had been looking for some kinda hatch for months, and i got it from Ellersile Car Fair.

The only reason he was selling it was his wife couldn't drive manual (He'd only had it 2 months, before that some Old Man owned it). My civic in NZ New, and it has 54,000 kms on it. So $4200 later I purchased it.


sarujin

[mellowboy]

I got my crx si back in November ' 99 from a mechanic. He was asking 3800 obo. I got him down to 3600. I know i know its still kinda high but he wouldn't go any lower. The body was in almost good condition with just a lil bit rust. It had 94,000 miles on it. The body is still an "ok" condition ...the rust is getting worse and i have to get it fixed soon! To tell you the truth i hated crx's back then. My friend had an auto rex dx. We passed by this one shop and all my friends was like "HOLY SHIT ITS AN SI!!" I was like "big whoa!" . Then i tried it out and it was pretty damn quick for that lil honda and so i got it like 3 weeks later. I was so into nissans back then and vr4's Oh sorry about the long post.:finger:




P.S.
The car was lady driven!

[mycivicisonair]

i bought mine in june of 2002 after some drunk asshole totaled my blue one. but n e way.....i got it for 2000 dollars off of some old guy. it had 63,000 miles on it.. it now has 74,800 miles on it. the body and interior were excellent....since i had it painted last june it got hit like 3 times but its all good now

[FourthGenHatch]

Finally decided on getting a Civic Hatchback. So I looked in the paper for a while and magically a white Hatch pops up and I thought it was this one I had seen around but it wasn't. But I went to look at it and it was kind of a piece but I liked it so I decided to buy it. Then it was uninspected and was a nightmare. It got a new bushing in the back before I bought it. Then for some reason the car wouldn't start one day. So then we got it started finally and I drove it to the inspection place. Well there it wouldn't start again. Then went I was on the edge of not getting it because the mechanic said it needed a new $350 fuel pump, which it did not because after some fuel cleaner it started right up and ran fine for a while after that. So the day came and I bought it and drove this pos home to show all my friends and my girlfriend who hated it and said it was ugly (I dumped her later on, but not because of that, I am not that shallow, but my woman must at least tolerate my car). So I drove it for 6 days before my dumbass hit something and fucked up my bumper, crossmember, and front filler panel (all of which I have replaced myself so I think that makes up for my mistake, CF Hood $440, Cross Member $40, Front Filler $55). Then a week later the alternator died, that was $350. This car was beginning to seem like the devil. So then I eventually installed a new Battery, new Wires, new Plugs, new Starter, and have had no problems with my car since except it died one last time Feb because the Dist Rotor came off, but that was probably my fault since for some reason at 9:30 at night I got the idea to install one in pitch dark, so I take the blame for that. So my car is solid now and I love it. The only thing I hate is it has rust on the 1/4s which bothers me a lot but it looks like mostly or all surface which can be fixed and then repainted.

[Setanta]

Like moppie, I bought the SiR already imported. It had 180,000kms on it and is well over the 210,000km mark now with no major issues other than the idle running too high. No smoke or oil loss, gearbox is fine despite me doing 1600km interstate trips as well as running it to 8000rpm redline a lot of the time.

Only mods are a re-usable air filter for the factory filter box and Jamex suspension to raise the ride height as it was too bumpy with the JDM lowered springs and shocks.

Other than that, it's fitted with central locking, climate control, power steering, power windows, power mirrors and the factory SiR interior/B16A/Y1 etc

[CWBETB]

Cool Post!

I bought my Civic in 96 from a guy who was selling it to get a BMW. His wife drove it to work and parked it in the garage. Mint shape just 1 small ping on the door. The Civic had 30,000 miles on it, and was a Auto DX, now it is a manual Trans, Turbo ZC. I bought the car in 96 for 7,000. :flash:

[Kunundrum]

well I bought the CRX in december 2000 for 1000$ cash from a buddie of mine who just lost his job and needed money for Christmas presents for his girlfriend. it looked like this

I finaly towed it home in january and started collecting parts it needed to get fixed.

I started with Slotted power slot Rotors, H&R Springs, Pacesetter exaust, 4 Brake Calipers, Ball Joint, Hood releace cable, Windshield, Alternator, moonroof panel...

once done it looked like this and that was mid march 2001.

That summer I saved my money up to have her painted and desided to paint her Electron Blue Pearl. found a Guy at a shop who was ready to fix her up, six weeks later she was EPB and sweet looking.

A cracked exaust manifold got me to replace it with a nice 4-2-1 and free flow cat in mid summer. Poli bushings were also added.

In september The blue smoke that was comming out of the car was gettin real bad and desided to get it looked at... it turned out to be a bad cylinder (bad ring scratched the cylinder wall to shit) and needed to be rebuilt... I got on the phone and ordred me in a ZC DOHC and had it droped in.

now since then not alot has changed I have added some strut towers, clear bumper lights, Walbro Fuel Pump, B&M short shifter, 5Zigen Exaust... My rims Should be in next week and i'll have picture up of those... this is how the car look right now.

[Setanta]

nice, and the EBP looks a treat

[bracer]

I bought my first hatch somewhere in 1999. It was my first car and it was a 1.3L single carb. with only 120000km, slow as shit but a great car.
That car got stolen in front of my house so I bought no.2 a '90 1.5i GL (DX) had a great time with that car but It was getting serious rust issues and I wanted some more power so I started looking at another hatch. An (EDM) SiR wasn't really an option for me untill I saw one at a dealership all alone put away in a little corner, from the moment I saw it I knew it was waiting for me and I had to have it
I have had it for 4 months now, and gonna keep this car for life!

[crxlvr]

I bought my CRX in 1996 at the local toyota dealership too. It had just under 50,000 miles on it and was rust free. there was no interior damage, motor ran perfect and the paint was immaculate, the only problem i noticed was the rear hatch hydro's were shot, but toyota replaced them free of charge. I paid $5000 for it, and i thought that was a lot for the car, but i went to www.KBB.com and it was listed on there for over $9000, so i got a good deal.

[nemo_wolf]

I just bought mine last december, 2001, and ive had a blast. Although its a auto i want to save some money this summer and see if i can find a ZC to swap in their and really see what my car can do.

I bought it from a classified ad, went to see it and was in love at first sight. Only 192k miles, first owner so he said, and it was really taken care of. It ran damn good before i bought it. I get it home and 4 days later my battery mysteriously died on me, replaced that, and watched that one die on me. My alternator had decieded to crap out on me just after i bought the thing. 400 dollars later i have a new factory cert alternator. I then take it in cause my brakes felt funny, and low and behold i need new brakes, more money spent and new brakes installed. Just this week my engine check light went on, after doing checking myself, i couldnt figure out what was causeing the damn light to come on. Visiting my mechanic again, testing the hell outa my engine, 80 bucks for that, my oxygen sensor needs replacing cause the wiring was butchered to peices for some aftermarket sensor that seems to be failing me now. The car has 195 almost 196k miles on it, and granted the stock engine is a bit weak for the hills i commute in, i really enjoy driving my car. Maybe i might make enough this summer to do some serious work on her.

Sorry for the long post ... hehe ... i tend to rattle on ...

Nemo the black wolf

[TwoLaneBlackTop]

I got mine with just over 100K miles about a year ago for 1800. It was in good shape considering the miles and was a one owner car. After my Impala SS got totaled I needed somthing to get me around. Well, my fater told me about a red 1989 Civic Si he saw for sell, at a yard sell lol. Any ways he said it was nice and the next day I was there with the cash to buy it. The plan was to sell it once I bought somthing else. Well after buying my Porsche 911 I decided to keep the Si as the dailty driver. It's been a great car.