130 km/h, if you reduce to 120 km/h should can do much better. Anything above 110 km/h you waste a lot power to overcome air drag.

i did consider civic before before head for accord 2.4, but most of the time fetching family and kids. only speed 200km/h in a while if drive alone..
by the way im 32 only...too uncle?

130 is nothing. Must be your tire pressure.
Always cruising around  140-150 in highway

anyone install the ultra racing bar? worth to install ?

Alcantara wrap to test water, adding slight touch for luxury or ugliness(subjective). Was told that the material is same as mercedes alcantara.
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Looking to change that yellow headlight bulb too. Any recommendation?

1.5 TC owners, what is average fuel consumption for city and highway driving ?
Is fc better for 1.8. Evaluating on which model to buy.

Hi, I'm planning to buy a 2nd hand civic.

I'm quite a frequent long distance travel person, may I know whether does 1.5TC or 1.8S is more suitable for me? In terms of fuel consumption & maintenance.

I think those opt for 0w-20 engine oil into their turbo civic is going to be disaster.
0w-20 meant for low rev and save fuel and it provide the least protection.
I don't think the engine will last long if you always use the turbo.

For those who always high rev and drive fast, better get 5w-30 or 10w-30 for better protection. 10w-30 also quite fuel economical also.

its ok, new engine should use thinner oil and shouldn't be a prob, just trust HM

Bro.. from this dyno chart .. torque max at 4500 - 5500.

I still remember the power for this Civic turbo is very linear and don't jump high suddenly.

1.5 turbo 0-100kmh 9.1 secs is too slow. test result depend on driver and conditions.

Performancedrive aus tested stock civic 0-100kmh in 7.54 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzV_zGVGrFw

Guys, wanna ask about my Civic 1.5 headlamp. Currently damn hard to see. So I plan to change it to HID. Where do you guys recommend to do?

I plan to use OSRAM. Some say use, NIGHT BREAKER LASER - H11 for high beam/low beam and H4 for the fog lamp. Any idea on the cost as well? Thanks.

Plug and play, easy installation. Hardest part will be installing the bulb into your headlamp. 0 modification on your stock wiring, just plug in existing wire into the ballast. Provide great visibility, will not glare oncoming passenger (provided you buy high quality kit, installed correctly and check your beam angle )

Yes it is illegal but if your car comes with a projector headlamp, you wont be having problems with the LAW.

There is a possibility that the halogen ones are designed for HID ( not too sure about this civic). I recall on the crv although it is a halogen, they have a slot for hid conversion kit at each light fixture where you would slot the ballast as well. Used Philip HID conversion kit and no issue.

<there may be a slot for ballast but the projectors need to add self leveling kit and the projector lens must be changed and aimed correctly. There are no more Philips HID conversion kits (at least non genuine ones anyway. No issue to you buy tons of glare to other road users)>

Honda offer HID for certain model, like the old version of crv for premium full spec. It also depends on contries as well as we all know civic malaysia don’t have many of the stuff compared to civic USA.

Anyway to dwell deeper into this, manufacturer sometimes will design a base car (let’s say civic) and put in certain features as base model (not necessarily Malaysia spec 1.8 base model). Depend on country, they will offer different spec, take out stuff and put in stuff for the car. So sometimes u will see stuff in the car which does not make sense (like empty slot for buttons). To cut cost however, the frame ( in this case the headlight set) will still be HID compliant but just downgraded to halogen. This way the supplier for Honda would only need to concentrate on 100 million headlight ( for example) rather than different specification for different model. Honda then only able to cut cost as the supplier don’t need different manufacturing line as well.

Obviously for other car models which does not have this hid version for the premium line ( like myvi or iriz) it means the halogen headlight would not need to be designed to accommodate HID conversion. Which brings us to the question, for civic, some countries would require cars to be fitted HID depending on weather conditions and some need the headlight to be HID compliant just in case. Would Honda have different specification for this?

<a full HID retrofit costs more than just swapping out the Halogen bulb and replacing it with a HID bulb. you need to change the design of the projectors, as HID bulbs are much brighter and has different hot spots vs a halogen bulb. Honda may need to add Fresnel to the projector lens to manage glare for other road users. HID conversion kits are outlawed in most countries and Malaysia is one of them>

Basically you are correct for hid is illegal due to glare. However if there is no glare then it is legal. Legality of the hid depends on whether the headlight is designed for hid or not, and not whether it is giving out too much glare( hard to dispute on ‘too much’ and level of glare)

If the headlight is designed for hid but instead of using hid, it was replaced with halogen due to several factor, upgrading it back to hid by having the conversion kit is not illegal. This is what my message is about.

As you also aware about, self levelling function is not an industry wide technology and requirement as not all car companies have them, even Honda previously who also sell cars with hid also do not have them, not to mention Chinese brands and Eastern European car brands.

All lights have to be properly adjusted to the specific level to have the furthest throw while not blinding oncoming traffic. This applies to halogen, hid, led, bright or less bright lights. Having a halogen headlight does not mean u can drive with a badly adjusted light( imagine driving with high beam all the time, those are also halogen).

However I do appreciate the link to the news from uk site. As mentioned, some countries (obviously not Malaysia ) do require cars to have hid, or the need to convert to them due to various factors, and meantime also have countries where hid is/ was illegal. But after the rich guys with the Benz and bmw start to use them, politicians then change the rules.

HID have further throw through the fog than LED or halogen, if anyone else is wondering. But it does not mean u start to use it as fog light as it is not designed for it. Rural area where there are no street lights but have high speed limits also will need those, especially dangerous if the road is tighter and have vegetation at sides, to warn others of your car.

Also obvious in this case are the fact that there is also small percentage of drivers have sensitive eyes especially to glare, as our driving license mostly are kopi style, no proper eye test for these, it could pose issue when driving, not least Hid lights but also the latest led street lights as well. This is actually a combination of few things, eyes, headlights/ street lights, and the windscreen. If the windscreen is not properly treated with the glass coating / sealant, time will degrade the glass and glare will increased. Now normally this does not pose any significant issue with people but the combination above will definitely cause some issue with a minor group or drivers.

My 20cents 😆....

just went for my 20k MM-B. SA mentioned need to follow month or mileage, whichever comes first...I was like WTF...couldn't i just follow the mileage but if follow mth, mine is over by 1+ month coz my car registered end june 2016. SA said takut warranty void.

Next service is 30k - free labour. I'm pretty sure I may not touch 10k km in the next 6 mths. SA advise me to go for earlier maintenance at end of Feb 2018 (5 mths) to ensure warranty still got cover.

what do you think..SA is reasonable or not?

btw bro ISR, thanks for continue v7. yay!     

Recently got interested in biking. Been researching bike rake for Civic. Intend to carry my bike to nature location.

Anyone ever own a bike rake or able to carry the bike in car / boot?

Oh is there a law for not allowing bike hang at the back? Something new for me