Hey guys!
So I'm a 24 year old lass living between London and Leeds...
I've had my lovely car since March and really clocked up the miles in it... Really fallen in love with it!
I've become a bit fed up with looking at other 8th Gens and wondering why they look so much better than mine.
So it starts now, small cheap mods while I save for bigger bits
Anyone got any advice on where to start?
Thanks! Looking forward to all the CivInfo I cN soak up!!
hello and welcome
put a pic up and we can offer help where we can. I started off with the same view of my fat little 2.2 and have changed it a great deal - have a look at the thread in my sig - it might give you some ideas of what can be done.....
have fun with your car and enjoy it, that's the main thing
Ok I'm on my phone and I can't actually work out how to put pictures up... Any help please?
I've got xenon headlights , which I love but I was thinking about starting with changing the alloy caps, and the headlight cleaner covers, also the badge on the steering wheel and the internal lights..?
Then might move onto bumpers. But not got the omoney ATM
do you have an account on a site that you can upload photos to, such as photobucket? If you do, you can put them up there and then add the link to the posts you make on here...
looks really nice IMHO. if it were mine the first thing I'd do is replace the rear indicators for clear ones. Makes it look more modern (see my link for where I did it to mine). It looks a really nice dark blue, is that the case?
Yeah it's dark blue, kinda wish I had an orange one but the blue does always surprise me in certain light
I'm so excited about getting started, I think when I give it a clean and detail today I'll really think about which changes to make first!
My friend just mentioned about the nasty grey trim all around too....
Anyone any ideas what the best way is to get rid of this??
Thanks!
All services done first
Good tyres
Type sport grill
Xenon ultra slim 6000k
Kn air box filter
Eibach pro kit springs
lighter wheels sparco asseto
Dark windows film
Sound improvement (oem sucks)
Bluetooth kit Parrot
Clean and wax
please be aware that you can't just change the front and rear splitters to Typpe S/R ones - doing it properly involves changing front and rear arches and the side sills as well as the 'splay' outwards from the car and will not match up with non R parts..... hence my comment about it getting expensive....
First off, welcome and nice colour car you have! Hope you enjoy it for a long while!
The front and rear type s/r splitters will only fit onto types s/r arches (which flare at the bottom). The arches are much harder to come by second hand than the splitters, and again, you'd need the type s/r skirts, too.
I think some have bent the standard at he's to fit, but not looked into it, so you'd have to check that out.
I think a colour coded type s/r trim would make the car look much better. Gives it a much sportier look and a bit less egg shaped!
Grill is another good one! Have a look on cox motor parts. They sell everything new, so it'll give you a top end idea of price, and maybe a few ideas!
Hi there. New to the world of honda (cars) too ? I've just fitting the sport grill, £95 from balmerlawn honda on eBay. Looking at cheapish-average priced mods to my fn2. Enjoy the forum. First bit of advice would be learn your way around it, once you've nailed that it's so much easier ?
I think you can bend the standard arches to fit. I'm sure some on here may have done it, but they need the watching trim all the way round, really. Skirts and arches don't appear often second hand. Not sure if any modification of the skirt is needed to go on a 5-door. Have a look at some 5-door conversion threads on here. Some are very well done!
A spoiler will glue on easily and they are more common second hand (although not in your colour!) and are a nice cosmetic touch to the back end.
One of your photos looks like Cheddar Gorge. Bit of the beaten track for a trip between Leeds & London!
Personally I think it looks great. I like the idea of the facelift grill Civication mentioned, but I'd concentrate on the inside as that's stuff you'll appreciate whilst in the car.
I've just gettin the fog light covers off Wayne and what a big difference they make nice set of yellow would look nice on your blue baby also maybe get a new sport grill shouldn't be to much on interior I got a copy type r gear knob and leather gaiter.
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