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2006 to 2011 Honda Civic
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Rubber rots and steel rusts. What else do you need to know?
>why don't cars work forever
I thought Hondas were supposed to last forever?
6 million accidents a year.
276 million cars on the road
So replacement rate just with accidents is every 46 years. So 11-16 years, you're looking at about a third off the road just due to accidents.
people like my coworker take an Si and don't care of it. Just forcing it into gear when the slave broke and limping it to the mechanic + driving with a busted ass trans mount and now it pops out of every gear except 2nd.
Oh well.
Most of these had shitty auto trannies among other issues. It's not worth putting a new $3k troony into a miled out Civic that's rotting away
The A/C system is the biggest fault, more so than the trannies.
Mine is shit. Glad I’m not alone.
reaching that perfect age where they're cheap and not worth fixing to most owners when wrecked or broken
Every gay who played Need For Speed ProStreet and Shift ruined these. They also were not well-built and had a multitude of problems.
They are at 150 - 250k miles at this point and everything is starting to fall apart. The paint is shit and the clear coat peels off. Need repaint. Repainting what used to be a 3k car at pre-pandemic prices at 5k is shit. Maaco lasts 2 years.
I don't know about "multiple problems" other than the peeling clearcoat and then infamous 2nd gear issue. They also have no room in the bay.
What happens to the AC?
This is true.
> Go to Passat/A4/S4 forum
> Get detailed guide with all the needed parts, things to watch out for, etc
> Go to Civic forum
> Bro my shit is slammmmmed, fr fr
I am just going to get on a soapbox and rant while I am here. Since working on the brakes 2 weeks ago and realizing that one of the front calipers is probably going again (they go about every ~3 years in Rustistan), the hood holder plastic shattered. The part is like $12 or something, but that's more shit. Had to replace the window trim that keeps water out of the bottom of the window. $30-something each, to $100 with shipping and taxes.
The car is going to need:
> shocks
> clutch
> new exhaust
> at least some suspension/bushing work
> at least some engine work, but probably timing chain and tensioner
2nd gear is getting iffy when driving it hard, so ideally new transmission.
Basically I am triggered by people here who post that you can have a "fast" old car that you push without spending your entire weekends maintaining it.
Oh, and this kind of explains why no one keeps these things. The juice is not really worth the squeeze.
AND the fricking brakes still feel spongier than a new Prius.
i bought my fa5 for $4,000 last year and since then ive done
>bc racing coilovers
>front lower control arms, rear traililng arm(?) bushings
>all 4 sway bar links
>all 4 rotors pads and calipers (powerstop track pads and rotors, oem calipers)
>new tires
>SS braided brake lines plus fluid flush
>new clutch disk plus 9lb chromoly exedy flywheel
>vtc gear
>alternator/idlers and belt
>starter
>I/H/E plus flashpro
>88 durometer hasport engine mounts
>fuel rail and injectors
>thick core aluminum radiator and upgraded fan shroud (mishimoto)
and honestly its turned what was a complete shitbox into a full on daily/weekend circuit ripper, i wont pretend like thats not a lot of work but once it was done i was blown away at how great the car was and has been
How much did you spend restoring it?
Spent $7200 on mods and repairs, worth it imo
Did the clutch in my apartment parking lot over a weekend, was a bit of a pain in the ass because i literally only have hand tools and a single jack to support things, had to man handle the trans out and in by hand
I think we talked in another thread. Awesome job imo. Did you do the clutch yourself? How was it?
Hasn't happened to mine but the a/c clutch wears out I've been told. When it happens it'll slip so bad it glows red. Actually might be happening to mine now I think about it the a/c is weak sauce ill do the right thing and keep telling myself it just needs a charge though.
I also don't have that clearcoat issue though I've seen others definitely do.
The beauty molding I'll call em cause I don't know the proper name alongside the windshield rotted so I tore them off cause they made noise on the highway and my headliner is falling. I replaced the starter once. Other than that batteries brakes and I change the oil when the light comes on which turned out to be over a year and a half once due to getting a job around the block from home.
Also a tree fell on it which I fixed and now a Nissan kicked its ass so I've gotta fix that body work and a taillight but that doesn't count imo
>suddenly
The worst thing about Honda civics are their owners.
/thread
>The worst thing about Honda civics are their owners.
>posts a picture of a buick
What did he mean by this?
Every mom from 2016-2021 bought their moronic zoomer kids a 10 year old civic on their 16th birthday and they crashed it within a year.
morons don't know what they have so they trade them in for some nu-honda oil diluting earth dreams garbage and they get sent to Mexico where they'll keep running 30 more years.
Honda is asiatic trash lol
10 years old?
lol, no spare parts for that m8.
trade it in tho and we'll fix it up & send it to some third world shithole like India
or Australia.
>no spare parts for that
>we'll fix it up
Without spare parts?
The block cracks and leaks coolant.
>2006 to 2011 Honda
Replacing the unprotected catalytic converter costs more than the replacement value of the car. In states with enforced emissions laws, these cars get rare.
This was futuristic as frick when it first came out back in 2005. But with each new Honda generation, they are not like what they were in the 1990s. I would still rather have this generation over the 2016 to current, that has gaps bigger, panels more uneven than a 1980 Chevy Citation, more interior rattles than a Tata Nano, and an engine that dilutes gas and oil, which damages the shitty engine.
https://www.civicx.com/forum/threads/uneven-body-panels.3066/
Mine has 330k miles. They're just getting old
Early R18s blowing, clearcoat failing, they're shitboxes now. Good looking shitboxes, but shitboxes nonetheless.
Why can't stupid honda make paint jobs better than the dollar store for once?!
Mitsubishi and Nissan have even worse paint quality.
Blacks get them second hand and then wreck them
In euoroland these shits seem to be holding up better than the sedans for some reason.
Obama wiped out the used car inventory with cash for clunkers. The used car market never recovered and Biden hasn't helped.
Consumers' fault for falling for an obvious scam.
Dude you have to protect normal people from israeli schemes. It may be obvious as the nose on their face to you and me, but they're too docile and trusting.
I quit caring about protecting people from obvious scams, you can point out with obvious proof without a doubt it's a scam and they brush it off like you're the moronic one. Honestly, they get what they fricking deserve. They're part of the reason the system is the way it is.
These were the cars people were buying with cash for clunkers rebates though
those were new then.
To be fair, a lot of the cars traded in were by the idiots who owned the cars to begin with. They did not have to trade them in, they were idiots for trading in good cars for a new "better" shitbox.
How do busriders view honda?
I love mine. They're probably getting crashed and the owners decide they're not worth the money to fix.
I like to call these civics the silent generation
1. they are the ugliest civics 2.everone drove them to the ground 3. they are just fricking gay
>ugliest
That's debatable
>ep3
>bad looking
yeah it was fatter than the 90s civics but the modern blobified fake vented garbage looks infinitely worse than what 20 years ago looks like
>fake vents
that became an issue in the 2010s. Yeah I hate that too
I didn't like them at first, but they grew on me over time. The FD2 looks decent imo, one example where the four door looks the best.
Most importantly they were the last civics to have a real VTEC engine so the Si's and the type R's will always be desirable.
My buddy has a 2009
330k km, hit a deer, lifted truck partially ran over it too
Still driving lol, all the clear coat is almost gone
Sedan version is still everywhere
I had an 06 EX for 4 years, put around 30k miles on it in that time. Only problems I ever had was the clear coat, the roof trim molding, and sometimes going into 3rd was pretty clunky. Great econobox, did exactly what it needed to.
I just remembered - I had a red 08 EX too. It was fricking great until a 50 year old fat woman rear-ended it. Got the Si right after. The problem was that at the time money was a serious issue and I got an amazing deal on the non-Si. It was in genuinely perfect condition. Not so much on the Si.
> 666
> changes clutch in parking lot
> in a weekend
> with no tools
What a chad. The funny thing is that I actually believe you too.
15 years is pretty old and these are driven by some of the biggest morons on the roads.
Would you get one of these or a 7th gen?
8th gen is 21st century car while 7th gen uses the d-series and 4-speed autos from the 80s
And what does that mean for the end user? Newer isn't necessarily better.
d17a2 is anemic but the manual trans feels good. I also have no clear coat issues at 251k miles.
t. 7th gen owner
So slow car fast?
pretty much.
Thanks for convincing me to never buy a civic in my life. This thread has enlightened me
holy frick the newer civics are ugly
They are all at the stage in their life where people who don't take care of their cars buy them and run them into the ground, then use their tax return + scrap money to buy their next shitbox they will never change the oil in for 5 years until it dies too.