Thats really helpful, I will check all these things when collecting my replacement car and for the other things that I had wrong with my previous one
But everyone bear in mind intermittentt faults take longer to detect and my shocks didnt start to play up until I had done about 20 miles!
But at least by building a check list its a good starting point - the dealers are going to start to think the Civic buyers are really weird lol checking all these different things before driving off
