What did you do to your Civic today? (II)

[kittyrichie]

Thanks everyone for the replies, the car still drives fine. I didn't notice it until I had my tires rotated. I'm pretty sure there's no way it was done when my tires were rotated at Honda. I only went there for my last free oil change, now I'll be doing my own oil change. They overfilled my tires with air. I'm pretty sure the bend is from Mr hitting a pothole a week ago. I'm personally going to keep riding on them until I find a good deal on another one. Then after I get another one, I'll get this one fixed I'll use it as a spare.

Be careful. I experienced a bent wheel (didn't notice at first) and it eventually rubbed the tire, resulting in a flat. Lucky I didn't have a blowout.

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[arbies]

A great philosopher once asked, "to mudflap, or not to mudflap... that is the question".

My car came with them, but my son convinced me that removing them would look better. I think I agree with him.

 

[gtman]

A great philosopher once asked, "to mudflap, or not to mudflap... that is the question".

My car came with them, but my son convinced me that removing them would look better. I think I agree with him.

All personal taste I guess but I think Civic's look sportier with the mud guards. Plus, they actually serve a function.

Either way though your car looks good.

 

[hfpdohc]

I’m just north of Cincy on eibach pro, ride isn’t much different from how I remember the stocks feeling, I like them. With the front lip and springs, have to be pretty careful of driveways & curbs to not scrape

nice!!!! do you have the link for theses rear splitters?

 

[disgraced.fk8]

All personal taste I guess but I think Civic's look sportier with the mud guards. Plus, they actually serve a function.

Either way though your car looks good.

I agree on both notes - However the OEM ones do look a bit odd. So definitely looks better to me without those ones. However, I do think the RallyArmour PU ones like I have are fantastic, and look great on every car I've seen. Especially if you can match your accent color like I did with the red. You'll regret not having them when rocks and debris start chipping out behind your wheel wells. Mine were pretty rough after the 1 month without guards when I first got this car. ONE MONTH! High quality paint we've got...

 

[hfpdohc]

A great philosopher once asked, "to mudflap, or not to mudflap... that is the question".

My car came with them, but my son convinced me that removing them would look better. I think I agree with him.

flows better with the flaps on

 

[hfpdohc]

in the meanwhile..........still winter..........

 

[brandonduley]

nice!!!! do you have the link for theses rear splitters?

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/192364653644

 

[Xando]

Painted lip, and installed it and new badges.

Link for black badge?

 

[Xando]

Or buy black ones or overlays lol

Where can I get black ones that won't change color after a year like my eBay red ones?

 

[DoctorC]

I did my first "overtake" on the freeway this morning and it felt amazing. I'm still not hammering on the car because it only has 200 miles on it but I didnt want to stay behind a rock truck so I put it into a lower "gear" (CVT) and let her eat until I got around it. It felt so damn good. Definitely a big difference in the torque feel when you're at speed compared to a dead stop when the turbo needs to spool.

 

[gtman]

I did my first "overtake" on the freeway this morning and it felt amazing. I'm still not hammering on the car because it only has 200 miles on it but I didnt want to stay behind a rock truck so I put it into a lower "gear" (CVT) and let her eat until I got around it. It felt so damn good. Definitely a big difference in the torque feel when you're at speed compared to a dead stop when the turbo needs to spool.

That 3,000-4000 rpm mid-range is surprisingly potent, even in stock form.

 

[DoctorC]

That 3,000-4000 rpm mid-range is surprisingly potent, even in stock form.

Totally, it is sort of night and day when you're in the power band compared to accelerating from a dig. Still pretty fun to go from a stop but I was not expecting it to pull the way it did today. Felt like I was driving my old Infiniti for a second lol.

 

[gtman]

Totally, it is sort of night and day when you're in the power band compared to accelerating from a dig. Still pretty fun to go from a stop but I was not expecting it to pull the way it did today. Felt like I was driving my old Infiniti for a second lol.

The 1.5T CVT is an awesome highway passing machine. Fun actually. My gripe stock was that the combination of CVT/ turbo lag takes away a bit from off the line fun. The nice thing for me is that tuning has mostly corrected this and it really has satisfying power in any situation.

 

[DoctorC]

The 1.5T CVT is an awesome highway passing machine. Fun actually. My gripe stock was that the combination of CVT/ turbo lag takes away a bit from off the line fun. The nice thing for me is that tuning has mostly corrected this and it really has satisfying power in any situation.

I would definitely like to see what the tune feels like. Perhaps one day I'll get the balls to try to do it myself lol.

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