I was just wondering what things I could do to the interior of my 98 civic coupe to make it look better/nicer.

 

No one knows what you mean by "nicer".

 

I'd do leather n black out the interior if ur still stock. Post pics so we can see what u are wanting to do

 

well based on how you answered the question. i would have to say.....

imitation racing seats, ebay steering wheel, mad JDM shift **** with type R boot, TypeR Red carpet, gathers speaker grills with stocks behind it, painted gauge bezel, hell fiberglass and paint the dash, and put a racing tach in the corner and a roll cage made out of pvc pipe.


seriously tho.....

i would leave it alone, give it a good shampooing, wash everythign down nice. if anything throw a LX or higher gauge cluster in it (providing you don't have a factory tachometer) and some factory leather seats from maybe a GsR

 

I will post pictures tomorrow. Yeah I just wasn't sure if there were a few small things I could do so the inside of the car wasn't 100% stock.

 

I'd say fix anyhting that is broken or doesn't work. for example broken dash accents, switches or torn seats.

 

i'll give you some ACTUAL input


so far with my 98 hatch i have done the following

-install an armrest if you don't already have one


^installed a clock (not my personal picture), could cost around $60, easy to install


^these can be hard to find, but they are pretty nifty. sunglass holder

you can always reupholster any fabric in the car you'd like to see look different, here's a thread to get an idea
https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-civic-del-sol-1992-2000-1/diy-door-panel-fabric-upholstery-17-pics-graphic-how-11-one-1182294/

a nice vacuum and shampooing would do a lot for an interior.

swapping front seats can be the easiest way to make your interior look nice and be more comfortable. eg/dc/del sol seats are pretty easy to swap into your ek, just swap the rails.

you could also change the bulbs in your interior to LED so they are brighter or even different color if that's your cup of tea.

 

alright thanks guys! yeah Dan I wasnt quite sure if everyone on this website was like that or what was going on....I just made my account a few days ago.

 

most of us here are into stock, oem swap, or JDM

most of the ricers have been weeded out haha

 

haha well i was just asking for ideas and then i got a bunch of sarcastic or mean responses!

 

lol welcome to honda-tech :D we all like to joke around, but we all mean well.

pssss. marc can be a bit of a grump 150% of the time. best to just stay on his good side

 

hahaha alrighty thanks

 

it depends on what you know how to do,or if you have the cash to have some of it done, I never cared for the materials used in the cloth in these cars, if you know how, some higher quality material in the door cloth inserts would go a long way, I had one of these and the arm rest materials were shrinking and cracking, a good shop can wrap the armrests and it would look really good,it's just up to you depending on what you want. You can go stock or all out custom. I have to agree on the clock, I never found one and I hated the stupid hole beside the radio. Overall the interior on mine just seemed cheap compared to older Hondas, more like a ford taurus then a Honda,

 

Would black seat covers be a good idea?

 

thats up to you, why not look for the higher quality seats mentioned earlier and do the swap. I don't know if you've done a long trip in the car yet, but the seats suck really bad, You'll appreciate the better ones on every road trip, I was going to keep mine and redo the interior but the stupid automatic it came with tore up, all the window regulators failed, something that will eventually happen to yours, really bad design, and a bunch of other crap was failing so I sold it

 

I suppose new seats would probably be the better idea, but in the meantime, maybe $30 seat covers can look kinda nice until my budget allows for new seats. I'm planning on lowering my car and possibly adding a spoiler soon. After I get done with the exterior, I will move my attention to the interior and save up for some things in there.

 

the seat swap can be done from the yard, a number of seats bolt into the car, you aren't talking a high dollar conversion here but junkyard cost

 

Oh really? Do you have any seats that you would recommend?

 

what exactly are you looking for in seats?

i have del sol seats in my car because i love how low they sit.
integra seats are the most popular of the easy swaps, and they sit kinda like bucket seats.


^ there's a good comparison.

EDIT:also, swapping the steering wheel would be some nice eye candy. if you want to keep the airbags in your car, you can swap over a rsx/s2000 or even a honda prelude steering wheel. NOTE that an EG/DC steering wheel wont fit

 

that would be a search item on here, but all the info on what swaps is all on this site somewhere, I haven't messed with the civic stuff for a while, what about a thread on what seats swap in?

 

Im not sure exactly what Im looking for. I just wanna change up the interior a little bit so that not everything is stock and it doesn't look like everyone else's.

 

yeah that might be a good idea to start a new thread. I could try that

 

Yes they are and a good idea is to look at other cars. People will pull the originality bullshit but if we were original we wouldn't buy Hondas

 

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-acura-28/post-your-interior-thread-1864665/

^ you could check in that thread for what people have done to their interior

 

yeah that was a lot of help. Thanks.