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  1. No crank, no start after battery replacement

    Canadian 2018 Civic SE. Battery died one day. Hooked up booster cables to boost the battery and the alarm went off as soon the car was hooked up. Got the alarm to turn off eventually. The car would not even try to turn over, all it did was make clicking noises and give me all imaginable errors...
  2. Cold air intake 2.0L cvt

    I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't think that adding a cold air intake will be that much beneficial. It's nearly 300$ for not that much power gains. If you're looking for only improving the sound of the engine, maybe consider a short ram intake? Here's a link to a comparison...
  3. What's wrong with the Alfa Romeo 4C?

    So I was looking around autotrader and noticed that almost all 4C's for sale right now in Canada have less than 15000Km on them, with quite a few having even less than 5000Km. And they're all 4-5 year old cars. I understand that these cars are not meant to be practical and used as a daily...
  4. Brakes

    Update on my warped rear rotors. Changed my winter tires for summer tires today. I'm at 66 000 Km and 4 winters in. The rear brakes still work, but they're definitely need to be replaced along with the pads. The pictures were taken before i've driven the car. The only contact area is about...
  5. Rust?

    After 4 years of ownership living in the rust belt, the car holds up pretty well, no rust on the painted surfaces, but like all cars in Canada, the underside of the car has surface rust, but nothing major. My main concern with the 10th gen was the rear wheel wells being prone to start to rust...
  6. Spilled paint

    Maybe try paint thinner? It's a plastic fender liner and plastic splash guard. Worst case scenario you could either sand it lightly to scrape off the paint or just paint it over with something durable like truck bedliner to make it somewhat OEM-looking. As for the tires, there's next to nothing...
  7. Sliding

    Have a look at how to do a pendulum turn or a Scandinavian flick on Youtube. It's quite fun to get it right after a couple of attempts! Obviously it'll be somewhat harder to induce oversteer without a handbrake to help, but still fun nonetheless. Also, it's impossible to fully turn off the...
  8. Headunit acted up after putting the car in accessory mode (or what I thought was accessory mode)

    The head unit can freeze from time to time, it's essentially an Android tablet. Reboot it by holding the power button (audio button) until you get a message to rebot it. It should work fine after that. I've found that the best method to have the car in accessory mode after driving it is to put...
  9. I broke my driver side Headlight

    Regardless of what you'll choose to do, either repair or replace, the headlight will have to come out. You might be able to set the screw back in its original place by hand if you take out the headlight. Good luck!
  10. Wash Routine?

    You can save so much time by skipping step 2 and the rinse of part 6. After applying the wax spray, you can just buff off the residue/haze of the spray with a microfiber cloth.
  11. Toyota drivers suck!

    EXACTLY THIS. It's either a 09'-12' Corolla with paints swirls, parking lot battle scars and a missing hubcap or a 01'-14' Camry with the camry dent™ going slightly under the speed limit IN THE LEFT LANE RIGHT NEXT TO ANOTHER CAR IN THE RIGHT LANE. Finally I found that I'm not the only one with...
  12. Why does my neighbor backup their car like this?

    Here's my 2 cents. I picked up the habit to reverse into my driveway as well since my first car, a '97 Civic, had a weird transmission thing where it would be very hard to get it into reverse when the car, and all of its fluids, were cold. It was near impossible to reverse it and go to school in...
  13. Brakes

    Nope. Never been touched by anyone since new. It looks really bad, but I'd say it's still safe to drive it like that. I plan on swapping the rotors and pads in the rear after this winter.
  14. Wash Routine?

    Here's my method: 1)With a garden hose, rinse off loose dirt top to bottom, in the wheel wells, especially in the rear wheels. In spring, I spend a good 30 mins just spraying the underside to make sure there is no more salt and dirt on the car. The driveway becomes brown after I'm done :eek...
  15. How much for CVT fluid change? Also, better to DIY?

    Had my CVT fluid flushed at Spinelli Honda. They upsold me on doing a flush instead of a drain and fill which was 157$+tax. The flush came out to 370$. The person at the counter also told me that by doing this, i'd have a life-time warranty on this as long as keep up with regular tranny...
  16. Swapping a K20Z3 or a K20Z1 head on a K20C2

    So I've been thinking lately about how nice the 8th gen Si and the RSX type-S sounded when accelerating and crossing over into Vtec. Knowing that the 8th gen Si/RSX type-S and the 10th gen base engine a somewhat the same bottom-end, would it be possible to swap a head from the old Si/RSX type-S...
  17. Brakes

    This is what my rear brakes look like after 3 winters and 59 000 Km. The grooves started to get noticeable at around 50K, a pulsing feel under light braking started at around 55K. No noise and no vibration during normal driving though. This is mostly highway driving. Before this 2016 Civic, I...


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