RE: Shed Of The Week: Honda Civic VTI Aerodeck
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A chap I know has an immaculate dark blue example of this, adapted with hand controls because he's tetraplegic. The sad thing is, I don't think that car ever sees HALF of its maximum revs... it might seem boring, but I always thought these were handsome, and that engine is just the interesting side of humdrum...
Funny, I have one of these in Titan silver on a 2000YM X. Run it for the last 5 years and 60k miles + and its been almost bullet proof. Upgraded the brakes but other than that its standard. The engine just goes and goes and is on 135k miles now. It is a daily driver for work and carries all sorts that I need.
Looking at the pics it does look dull but it is actually a hoot and regularly exercised embarrasses many more modern and supposedly sporty cars. You do have to wind it up but thats the fun in it and handling is not that dire once you understand how it works. You need to 'plan ahead' and if on a road you know you can string corners together at a lick with a great deal of satisfaction. Generally bits are cheap but some bits are terrifyingly expensive.
Pattern or after market parts for exhausts, brakes etc are very reasonable, originals if you can get them are eye wateringly deer, centre cat... £800 anyone, pattern part, £58.
Had a starter motor give up the ghost not long back. Honda - over £700 on back order, in other words don't exist. 3 tries form breakers later, £25.00 fitted it myself. Leather seats from the 1.6 SE are a straight swap and the door cloth just peels of and the panel dyed black. Cr4ppy pub seat cloth taken care of. Toyed with fitting a type R Steering wheel but never got round to it. Insurance is £200 fully comp, no one even looks twice at it so you can leave it anywhere.
It is not good on fuel. Average 20 - 25 round town as I do ad worse if you 'stretch' it. My Boxster S is actually better for economy, and for long journeys it can be a bit raucous as mentioned somewhere else it sits high in the rev band even at 70. LSD is standard and does work well. It is funny when I unload all the tools I carry and drive it 'light', makes me giggle every time. It's probably going to be with me till it dies and if there was still a low miler out there to be had at that time I would replace it. Oh, and I think it weighs in at around 1200kgs so with 167hp its p/w is not too bad.
Looking at the pics it does look dull but it is actually a hoot and regularly exercised embarrasses many more modern and supposedly sporty cars. You do have to wind it up but thats the fun in it and handling is not that dire once you understand how it works. You need to 'plan ahead' and if on a road you know you can string corners together at a lick with a great deal of satisfaction. Generally bits are cheap but some bits are terrifyingly expensive.
Pattern or after market parts for exhausts, brakes etc are very reasonable, originals if you can get them are eye wateringly deer, centre cat... £800 anyone, pattern part, £58.
Had a starter motor give up the ghost not long back. Honda - over £700 on back order, in other words don't exist. 3 tries form breakers later, £25.00 fitted it myself. Leather seats from the 1.6 SE are a straight swap and the door cloth just peels of and the panel dyed black. Cr4ppy pub seat cloth taken care of. Toyed with fitting a type R Steering wheel but never got round to it. Insurance is £200 fully comp, no one even looks twice at it so you can leave it anywhere.
It is not good on fuel. Average 20 - 25 round town as I do ad worse if you 'stretch' it. My Boxster S is actually better for economy, and for long journeys it can be a bit raucous as mentioned somewhere else it sits high in the rev band even at 70. LSD is standard and does work well. It is funny when I unload all the tools I carry and drive it 'light', makes me giggle every time. It's probably going to be with me till it dies and if there was still a low miler out there to be had at that time I would replace it. Oh, and I think it weighs in at around 1200kgs so with 167hp its p/w is not too bad.
Edited by Adamski69 on Friday 6th November 10:59
Edited by Adamski69 on Friday 6th November 11:07
Edited by Adamski69 on Friday 6th November 11:13
I had one of these. Loved it . It was boring enough to meet my wife's approval (she never drove it above 3000rom as she was used to a diesel) but when I got out on my own it could shift. 7500rpm equated to about 130 mph (on the few occasions I had it on a fast private road) and once on song it just wanted to rev and go faster. It looked like a granny car but had hot hatch performance, lovely.
Ahhh, seems to be a following for doing just that...
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Adamski69 said:
Funny, I have one of these in Titan silver on a 2000YM X. Run it for the last 5 years and 60k miles + and its been almost bullet proof. Upgraded the brakes but other than that its standard. The engine just goes and goes and is on 135k miles now. It is a daily driver for work and carries all sorts that I need.
Looking at the pics it does look dull but it is actually a hoot and regularly exercised embarrasses many more modern and supposedly sporty cars. You do have to wind it up but thats the fun in it and handling is not that dire once you understand how it works. You need to 'plan ahead' and if on a road you know you can string corners together at a lick with a great deal of satisfaction. Generally bits are cheap but some bits are terrifyingly expensive.
Pattern or after market parts for exhausts, brakes etc are very reasonable, originals if you can get them are eye wateringly deer, centre cat... £800 anyone, pattern part, £58.
Had a starter motor give up the ghost not long back. Honda - over £700 on back order, in other words don't exist. tries form breakers later, £25.00 fitted it myself. Leather seats from the 1.6 SE are a straight swap and the door cloth just peels of and the panel dyed black. Cr4ppy pub seat cloth taken care of. Toyed with fitting a type R Steering wheel but never got round to it. Insurance is £200 fully comp, no one even looks twice at it so you can leave it anywhere.
It is not good on fuel. Average 20 - 25 round town as I do ad worse if you 'stretch' it. My Boxster S is actually better for economy, and for long journeys it can be a bit raucous as mentioned somewhere else it sits high in the rev band even at 70. LSD is standard and does work well. It is funny when I unload all the tools I carry and drive it 'light', makes me giggle every time. It's probably going to be with me till it dies and if there was still a low miler out there to be had at that time I would replace it. Oh, and I think it weighs in at around 1200kgs so with 167hp its p/w is not too bad.
Yep, Autocar test example weighed in at 1241kgLooking at the pics it does look dull but it is actually a hoot and regularly exercised embarrasses many more modern and supposedly sporty cars. You do have to wind it up but thats the fun in it and handling is not that dire once you understand how it works. You need to 'plan ahead' and if on a road you know you can string corners together at a lick with a great deal of satisfaction. Generally bits are cheap but some bits are terrifyingly expensive.
Pattern or after market parts for exhausts, brakes etc are very reasonable, originals if you can get them are eye wateringly deer, centre cat... £800 anyone, pattern part, £58.
Had a starter motor give up the ghost not long back. Honda - over £700 on back order, in other words don't exist. tries form breakers later, £25.00 fitted it myself. Leather seats from the 1.6 SE are a straight swap and the door cloth just peels of and the panel dyed black. Cr4ppy pub seat cloth taken care of. Toyed with fitting a type R Steering wheel but never got round to it. Insurance is £200 fully comp, no one even looks twice at it so you can leave it anywhere.
It is not good on fuel. Average 20 - 25 round town as I do ad worse if you 'stretch' it. My Boxster S is actually better for economy, and for long journeys it can be a bit raucous as mentioned somewhere else it sits high in the rev band even at 70. LSD is standard and does work well. It is funny when I unload all the tools I carry and drive it 'light', makes me giggle every time. It's probably going to be with me till it dies and if there was still a low miler out there to be had at that time I would replace it. Oh, and I think it weighs in at around 1200kgs so with 167hp its p/w is not too bad.
Edited by Adamski69 on Friday 6th November 10:59
Edited by Adamski69 on Friday 6th November 11:07
0-60 8.1
0-100 21.7
As said, hot hatch of the time ( Saxo VTS ) performance
Ha, funny to see the 0-100 in type, it feels faster than that but probably isn't. What that does make me wonder is how accurate some other cars figures are as it easily keeps tags on 'faster' machines (even when loaded up) in the mid range stakes...
Also some one noted that it dropped out of VTEC range on change up. Easy way round that, don't change up till 8500RPM then it just hangs on to it. Just enough t get to the next fuel station...
Also some one noted that it dropped out of VTEC range on change up. Easy way round that, don't change up till 8500RPM then it just hangs on to it. Just enough t get to the next fuel station...
The original car when new ran on Bridgestone Potenza RE080'S, Still got the original tyre on my spare wheel, unused. Very simila tyre to what they ran on the DC2 Integra TYPE R I think but may be corrected on that. Point is that they were sticky. Can't get them anymore so after a few false starts ended up with a compromise of all round performance and wear in Falken ZE912'S now ZE914'S. Just in case anyone was shopping for tyre's for one...;)
These are brilliant cars. A good mate had one for 2 years and I've had driven it a couple of times. Good fun to rev it over 8000 at every opportunity and it's a proper Q-car, no one expects it to keep up. Good few owners of quick cars had been left wondering what the hell this shed was. I think it looks good too, love the rear mid-level spoiler.
Adamski69 said:
Ha, funny to see the 0-100 in type, it feels faster than that but probably isn't. What that does make me wonder is how accurate some other cars figures are as it easily keeps tags on 'faster' machines (even when loaded up) in the mid range stakes...
It's the old 120d phenomenon 
- the road tests are always..."wrong"I'll dig out the article in a bit
Good value runaround - I looked at one of these a few years back but ended up in a Primera Gt as the Civic sold
Adamski69 said:
J4CKO said:
Seeing that doesn't make me want it, just makes me want a takeaway delivery.
Hey, at least it would get to you quick... 
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