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#291 of 345 Re: hmm [ivtec1] by bearcrkrd Aug 11, 2008 (10:57 am)
Replying to: ivtec1 (Aug 09, 2008 9:46 am) I have the same vehicle. '08 LX Auto, Galaxy Gray. I bought mine May 28 or 29? Have 5,000 miles already. I am not sure I agree with your comments about the seat material. Maybe the arm rest. Maybe. Everything else I agree 100%. Funny thing for me is I call it a 'Chick's Car', and I believe it is. But, from the first day I bought it, it has felt like mine. I've had some cars that felt to me like I was driving someone else's new car the whole time I had them. If that makes sense.......
#292 of 345 Re: 2006 Honda Civic front bumper issues... [eercoline] by coskati Aug 13, 2008 (12:25 pm)
Replying to: eercoline (Nov 12, 2007 7:50 pm) Yes, I've been frustrated by that 2006 Civic couple front bumper...the last eyelet fastner rips and comes off on the driver's side of the car.........soon followed by more of the bumper. I had the bumper replaced last summer, and noticed about a month ago that the "RIP" had started again. I took the car back to the collision place, and the guy said that there was a tiny scrape on the other side of the car that could have caused the bumper to come off, that it wasn't the fault of his shop putting on a defective bumper, rather it was how the car was made.....I don't recall hitting anything as I've been super, super careful since the first bumper. Could have been a parking lot touch.......I'm frustrated. I think it's a defect in the car design. How could anything that is supposed to withstand a bit of a collision be so fragile without a collision? I think there is too much tension on the front bumper. coskati
#293 of 345 Civic on Long Trip by silver_sally Aug 13, 2008 (1:22 pm)
I bought my 08 Civic AT LX on June 30th and just got back from Gulf Shores. I live in Western Kentucky so it was over 500 miles one-way. I now have almost 3k on the car.   For everyone who was wanting how a long trip would be in the Civic, I have to say it was not that bad. The seats are comfy and I didn't have any back pain like people usually do from long trips. My boyfriend is 6'3 and he drove half the way and wasn't uncomfortable at all.   The car also got good gas mileage on the trip. We went from driving on the interstate to in town miles. The best mileage I got was 38mpg and the least was 34mpg.   So far I'm happy with my Silver Sally!!
#294 of 345 front bumper............. by nsteevo Aug 18, 2008 (7:50 am)
I have had the same problem with the front bumper...... I was on the freeway one night and ran over a large piece of truck tire with the right front wheel. I didn't go around that side of the car for 3 days....when I did I was shocked at what I saw. The front bumper had ripped where it connects to the fender and it was sticking out from the side of the car. It was torn so far that all the clips had broken and I could see the styrofoam (or whatever) behind the bumper all the way to the headlights. I pushed it back so that it now only sticks out a little unless it were to get bumped again or someone were to pull on it. I thought this was terribly cheap construction and/or materials for something like this to happen seeing all I did was run over a piece of rubber with the wheel. I am concerned that this might affect the airbag situation. I will have the dealer check it but I agree that it might be a defect in design that we may have to live with. I will be living in WI this winter and I know that with the low clearance and the hard frozen snow piles and drifts that I am going to have more issues in the near future. I don't think a bumper should tear and separate from a vehicle so easily. Replies to this message: thegraduate (Aug 18, 2008 7:53 am)
#295 of 345 Re: front bumper............. [nsteevo] by thegraduate Aug 18, 2008 (7:53 am)
Replying to: nsteevo (Aug 18, 2008 7:50 am) You'd be surprised at what a large piece of rubber can do when flung in your fenderwell at 60+ MPH, not just to this particular model of Civic.   I hit a piece of tire in my '96 Accord at about 70 MPH a couple of years ago; it pulled my black fenderwell liner out completely and disconnected my headlight/parking light on that side.
#296 of 345 Hello by ivtec1 Aug 19, 2008 (4:37 pm)
fellow civic owners. I want to clean the interior of my civic well. What spray should i use to clean the dash and other plastics? I want it to look good as new! Replies to this message: thegraduate (Aug 20, 2008 6:35 am)
#297 of 345 Re: Hello [ivtec1] by thegraduate Aug 20, 2008 (6:35 am)
Replying to: ivtec1 (Aug 19, 2008 4:37 pm) I'm a Honda owner (Accord though ). Might I suggest using Armor All Low Shine?   It avoids the shiny glare that comes from the normal Armor All.
#298 of 345 Thanks by ivtec1 Aug 20, 2008 (9:33 am)
Thanks.....i will give it a try!
#299 of 345 Seat fabric by targettuning Aug 20, 2008 (10:02 am)
Someone asked about the durability of the seat fabric material a few posts ago. I have had experience with premature failure of the fabric on our 2006 EX sedan (bought new in Oct. 2005). I started to notice the disappearance of the pattern on the cloth on the seat cushion bolster (driver side) when the car had less than 10K miles, far less, probably starting at about 6K miles. This wear pattern grew until it was about 3 in.X 4 in. I had the car to the dealer for other reasons and asked the service advisor to take a look at the wear and he readily agreed that it was both bad and premature. A new seat cushion cover was ordered in the early winter of 2007 and by the time I got the time to schedule its installation in the spring of this year it had been used on ANOTHER Civic (which lead me to believe mine wasn't the only car with fabric problems) so it was reordered and installed a week later. It should be noted the seat covering was changed at about 13,500 miles and the new cover looks OK so far at 16,500 miles.  So, yeah, unless we got a flawed seat cover (it looked perfectly normal) there may be a problem. It should also be noted the fabric didn't wear to the point of a hole but may eventually have, probably by now 16,500 miles currently on the car. Replies to this message: thegraduate (Aug 20, 2008 8:29 pm)
#300 of 345 Yikes by ivtec1 Aug 20, 2008 (1:21 pm)
i will keep an eye on that . Thanks for sharing the information. Is the 09civic gonna have the same seat material?

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