1996 Honda Civic Ex
-Automatic
-Power windows, locks
-78,000 Miles


First off id like to let everyone know a few things about me:
1. Im not rich, i have a solid $200 in the bank every month!
2. I know next to nothing about cars, but im sure most of my classmates do.
3. I drive around 500 miles a week, so gas mileage is HUGE!

With that being said, i'd now like to share some pictures i snapped real quick, to show everyone what im working with.




Im already looking to take off the sideskirts and paint them white, to match the rest of the car. I could also rotate my tires, change oil, wash it, mostly the basics. Just wondered if anyone has suggestions or anything really? Thanks in advance!

 

sounds like the best thing for you is to leave it stock mang.

 

leave it stock... do the maitnance, but leave it till you got $2000 to blow, not $200...

then you can turbo it, and get your moneys worth...

 

Since your at almost 80k, I'd do a timing belt, water pump, valve adjustment, tranny flush, and coolant flush.

Thats about it. Leave it stock and enjoy the comfort and reliablilty.

 

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Thats about it. Leave it stock and enjoy the comfort and reliablilty. </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

Yeah and change the tranny

 

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Thats about it. Leave it stock and enjoy the comfort and reliablilty. </TD></TR></TABLE>

I would look at the color of the coolant and test it for it's freeze point before wasting the time and money to change it. My car has 135k on the clock and since I've had it (5+years and almost 100k miles) I've never changed the coolant because it is still green as hell and it has a freeze point of about -45F!

 

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If he's putting 500 miles on a day an automatic is fine.

If he's not trying to race with it everything'll be good.

See, regardless of what pple tell you about gas mileage, you will ALWAYS get better gas mileage with an automatic than a standard, b/c it's near impossible to shift at what an automatic has the ability to shift at...nobody can, everybody winds it out more...

For gas milleage - I say go w/ an automatic...

Don't beat on it though - it WILL fail if you do.

 

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For gas milleage - I say go w/ an automatic...

Don't beat on it though - it WILL fail if you do.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i had a slushbox in my civic for 2 1/2 years, it got neutral dropped in philly on a regular basis and at the track a couple times to, ive trown in into park a couple times and basicly beat it to what i thought would be death... the worst its ever done to me is switch from 1st to 2nd a lil slow in the cold...

 

thanks for all the help guys. Im just gonna leave it stock for now. I'll wait to do the timing belt, water pump, valves, and flushes until closer to 100K(hopefully). Which is really not that far away with the millage i put on it. Thanks again guys!