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It depends on the head unit. I know that some old Pioneer Head units are easy to hack. They have a 3.5mm jack input for audio controls and you only need a combination of resistance value for each button (vol up, down etc). Some others as JVC are more complicated as they need pulse modulation so you need to find or hack the code from remote control with reverse engineering. I dont know about new head units we have to do some search.. First of all you need to mount some switches on your wheel.and get or retrofit (if it's possible) the cable reel so that you can get 2 extra wires from it. That's what I am also searching for :)

Time flies doesnt it! So an update on the car since last time... Managed to get all the arms etc painted and polybushed. Thankfully id treated myself to a press last Christmas so that made life much easier! (plus who doesn't want a 20t press in the garage..). The supplied grease for the bushes is sticky AF and a right pain to remove when it inevitably goes everywhere though haha. So that's all been fitted, plus the coilovers & ARB's. Rolled the rear arch at the same time to try and sort any clearance issues with the ride height & wheels. Did plan on rolling the front wings at the same time buuuuut... far easier to yank it with my hands and do it that way. At the same time i fitted a new oil pan/gasket to sort an oil leak also. Got everything sorted, then on first drive there was a horrible squeak/squeal from the engine.. great, much sulking and swearing occurred! Happened regardless of clutch position and no chirping. Took the belts off to check and no difference. Initially thought might be a pressure build up internally (old oil pan gasket was leaking quite badly..). Changed the PCV valve (after much swearing and grazed knuckles), no change. On that test drive i realised it was now only happening when oil got above 80c and only when clutch pedal was pressed in, So, gearbox off, clutch + flywheel bearing changed and fingers crossed that is that sorted. Just need to finish bolting everything up and we'll see (if not im going to cry). Still need to sort the rust patches. A section is on the otherside of the sound deadening on the floor so that will need to be removed first, luckily i may be able to get some dry ice so that should help! While sorting that I've busied myself with stripping/ sorting the interior, basic run down is: - Chopped down the centre console so it doesn't go down to the floor and more El/EK-esque, Also removed the part which goes around the gearstick/handbrake. - Removed the cigarette lighter from centre console and moved down the heater controls, this gives me a place to fit some temp gauges under the radio. - Wrapped the interior loom with braided sleeve. - Swapped electric window motors to manual on the fronts (1 kg saving) - Removed window motors from the rear and now the glass is bolted in place. - Made some new seat brackets for the bucket seats to fit to the stock runners, all from 6mm ali so exceeds Motorsport UK guidelines (safety first!). Still to do - Fake suede wrap the pillar trims & centre console. - Make some door cards for front doors. - Wire in gauges/make centre console plate for this. - Remove that thick rubber mat on the firewall behind the pedals. - Still sort the rust! Cheers Dan. PS. Sorry for the ramble!

All looking good mate, those wheels should look great! The arb should defo help stiffen things up aswell. Doing stuff without a press is a right pita. I treated myself to one last christmas and it defo paid for itself when I did my polybushes haha

Bought a set of (very) budget semi-slick tyres "Accelera 651 Sport Xtra" from a company called Tire Streets that i'd seen advertised on various youtube channels. I don't have particularly high expectations as they were extremely cheap (£280 for a set of 4) but according to various internet comments/reviews they seem to be reasonable. I can always upgrade them in the future if needs be. The rubber seems soft which is a good start for a track tyre. Normally I don't like to order tyres separately to fitting (as usually the fitting cost removes any savings) but I couldnt find anything suitable supplied and fitted so I paid the local tyre place £15 a tyre for fitting and balancing which seemed reasonable. Look forward to getting them on the car soon... Finally got around to finishing restoring an MG ZS 180 rear anti roll bar I picked up from a friend a few months back. It was in pretty sorry condition but it seems like they are not sold new any more. Fortunately, you can still buy drop links, poly bushes, and all the bolts so it was just a case of stripping it down, removing the rust, painting it and replacing as much of the hardware as possible. The bushes were a real pain to install without a press but after a lot of farting around in the vice I got there eventually... For reference here's how it looked before (!)

Great, that means I am okay with the dash trims already. Hoping to find a badge and some mats in the meantime 🤞Just ping me if you want to get rid of that badge.

That's awesome! Would love to fit something similar to my aerodeck. I've fitted the 3 spoke DC2 integra wheel to it but would love the audio controls on the wheel. Is it difficult to add it?

That looks cool. Could do with that on my stepwagon as the radio is miles away!

I only want the CCswitch that match with the steering wheel if there is one and the cable reel with CC plug . All the other work is easy. Here is the audio controls that I have made in my last EK on s2000 ap1 steering wheel. All working for 10+years with no problem https://youtu.be/SSzox1OZ3PA?si=Zfc2L2NkCiWYsWUU

thanks dr, I'll try to find part numbers

Sounds like a good one then bud. Cheers mate. I'm on my second shell though unfortunately... Rust got the better of my first one. I got my resto done at classic and retro near Langley Park, but that was mostly chassis work. There's aldo a fella up near Throckley that I was wanting to get some work done on my wife's old accord, but he was dead busy at the time - GBR body repair. Looks like he does good work. If you're Newcastle way might be worth checking him out

Welcome to the club mate! Your deck looks mint in the photos, nice to see another local one! You'll get all the info you need on these right here in the forum. 1st thing to do is check out our downloads section and get the official service manual for them. It's great for identifying parts etc and how they come appart. You'll be in good company here with your Civic as we all love these cars here, especially the Aerodecks. We also have a member called Paul who was a biker (bladerider929) so you'll see him on his bike in a lot of our civic5 meet/run videos. He's been off the forum for a bit but I'll let him know there's a fellow biker joined, sure he'll want a chat! Lol Start a wee project thread in the members cars section bud and get some more photos of the aerodeck up. Be nice to follow what you're doing with it. And big thanks to Karen (Mrs broon) for pointing you to the club. We also have a civic5 Facebook group for those who don't do forums, but the forum is where all the data on these cars is kept. We've still got the largest database on these cars there is, built up since 2009. Enjoy the club mate and hope to see your civic in the metal soon.

Another thing to check is what type the buttons are. Some use voltage signals to operate lathing think that is probably for newer cars. Thinking you'll probably need the complete harness from the clock spring/spool to whereever it goes behind the dash. If you're just planning on fitting the ones for volume, then just terminating the other ones should in theory be fine as they won't be used. You'll also need the harness from the wheel to the radio as it will have some form of connector on it for the radio. Without seeing it, im guessing it will have a female 2.5mm or 3.5mm jack plug socket. Or possibly a male jack plug of the size mentioned above. Have a look in the integra forums (not the FB groups as the info in them is limited and sometimes incorrect!) for folk who are doing radio upgrades/double din conversions on their integra's. I think you'll be looking at getting these from America though as never seen any UK spec ones with those buttons fitted.

Anything up to 1998 model have the black marble effect dash inserts and the Chronos alloys, so those are the early models. Anything post 98 are the later vti/vtis models. 🙂

One lady owner from new , has every single mileage stamp from the same Honda dealerships from new 86k on clock, its pretty clean i did replace Headliner as it was sagging, just a little runs on rear arch's that i would love to sort out but not a clue who to go too this is my first car coming from motorcycles , yours looks so mint dude!

So are you looking to replace the steering wheel with one that has cruise control switches? Assuming that the steering wheel fitment on the ma9 is the same as the MB/MC one, then you're looking at wheels with the same fitment as eg/dc2. I'm fairly sure that ek and accord shared the same wheel, but it's a different fitting to ours. EDIT... Just realised that it looks like the cruise control buttons are an add on to the steering wheel. It might be worth exploring parts diagrams like on Honda parts uk to see what optional extras might have been available and get some parts numbers to help your search. If, as the first post suggests, the US integra had it as an option, then the cable fell from that could be compatible - in which case have a spy at acura parts websites in the US for parts diagrams

Hi mate, that was my wife 😊 She messaged me to say that she'd seen an aerodeck there, glad that you joined 👍 Looks like a proper tidy example, been ages since I've seen another deck round here. Welcome to the club matey.

Met a lovely lady at the phycopath horror amusement park tonight in newcastle, told me to post in here as she loved the car

Hello Dave, thanks for your reply. I don't want to add CC on my civic. I want to use the CC steering wheel switch and through the cable reel to add radio controls. I did it on my last EK civic with success, but I have to know if there is a CC switch that matches on ma9 steering wheel, and of course if there is a cable reel with CC. If not, is it possible to retrofit the cable reel and terminate 2 extra wires?

Hi Dave, thank you so much for your help. It was really helpful 😀 I don't know what you mean about "R reg" but those photos were just examples of the parts I am looking for, not the actual car. What should be considered as "the later ones"? 🙂 The dash trims from the previous photo are the correct for a VTiS already? If that's the case, I would probably leave them as they are, I don't have any special preference for the fake carbon. From the remaining additions you listed, I will try to find the badge, the mats and the rear mid spoiler. The wheels and the gear knob I'll want something different, but it will already be close to an original VTiS with the remaining parts. As for the VTiS boot badge, I would be appreciated if you can let it got. Just ping me again if we are interested, please 👍

Not sure mate as original poster never updated this to say whether its possible. I'm thinking that it might be possible to retrofit it using parts from an accord of similar age, but not 100% sure on that. Know that I looked into trying to retro fit it to my 1st gen mini Cooper S, as some had it, some didn't, but it was a major job. That might be partly due to them running canbus though, which is a pain in the backside! Might be easier on our civics.

Only just saw this! Not sure how they managed to post without tags as it doesn't allow posting without them. I'll need to have a look at this and check the settings.

Yes, separate fan for aircon mate. Check the fuse gor the aircon hasn't blown, and I think there might be a relay for it too so worth a check. The aircon in these was decent, so should be nice and cold.

Hi mate. Yours being an R reg it has the correct dash trims for a VTiS already. The later ones had the fake carbon. List of additions the VTiS had are VTiS mats VTiS alloy gear knobhead with VTiS logo engraved onto it. (later ones had leather/silver plastic one with VTiS logo on it.) VTiS full lip kit and side skirts. VTiS rear mid spoiler (Aerodecks only, was also available in the accessories catalogue for standard Aerodecks) 15 inch VTiS alloys (Speedline Chrono for the early ones, fan blades for the later ones) All had pirates black mica paintwork, no other colour available. Think that's all the stuff they had. I've got the VTiS boot badge jn my garage, will need to have a think before deciding if I can let it go as they are rare as hens teeth now. Will get back to you on that one 😉

Wow, this is coming along nicely! Looks like that engine has been in there from the factory, really nice install that mate! Loving the wheels, think they'll look superb on it. What a cracking build to follow!

Nice one. I bet it's raucous without the exhaust 😂