I bought this Civic months ago and this is my first time back to revisit her. Instead of lavishing her with repair and maintenance, its getting random parts instead.
In my eagerness to get the car into a nicer outlook that I wanted it to be, I bought a number of mostly cosmetic parts instead of saving it for futureproofing the car.
One was a replacement chassis tag, otherwise bluetag. The car’s original tag is missing and unlikely will it ever show up again. I could buy the tags from donor Civics, but the exact one from this car is probably long gone. There is a company on Shopee (and eBay) that will allow you to custom order a replacement tag.
Its not exact, especially not with the custom text, but it soothes my brain knowing I have this.
I had a few shipments from Japan that held many brochures of different cars from Japan. One of them was this – a Civic Ferio brochure.
I’ve gotten into the world of Japanese imports a few months ago. This is the first import to Penang with several catalogs, including this Civic Ferio catalog. I hope to scan it in the later part of the year, which will be uploaded on the Archival website.
In the search for the standard-equipment leather-wrapped Honda Civic SiR steering wheel, I managed to buy over the optional MOMO Ghibli 4 steering wheel. I bought both for under market value (the leather wheel is maybe RM500 or more, the MOMO tends to be RM600-900)
In the top right of that photo is an OEM shift boot and elsewhere is a shift knob. I think I bought the wrong knob as it looks more for the generation after for the EK4 SiR.
The original one that came with the car… I’m not sure I want to keep it.
Amongst the imports too is a Honda Access ETC reader. I don’t know if it works in full, but why not. A friend of mine did provide his old ETC reader, but it feeds to the cigarette port, which I need for charging more essential things. The Civic does have a second cigarette port, but it looks unoriginal.
The last of it are just random spares – door handles, shifter bushings – and badges for the trunk.
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