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    Hi, I'm Dave, the founder and owner of Civic5.com. I have been into cars my whole life, spending time restoring classic 70's fords then moving into the Honda scene. Have now been a fan of Honda's for years.

    So, bit more about me. I'm an old git, and was with Dawn (aka Civic5 Moderator crazzzydawn in the forum) for 21 years, married to her for 17 of those years. She helped me set up and run the club and site from the start, and it was Dawn that got me into Honda's! Sadly, she passed away after a very brave fight with cancer (Jan 2013) and is very much missed by myself and a lot of the members here. Her spirit in the club lives on in her car, her beloved Civic Aerodeck ES known as "DD" in the forum (Dawns Deck). It's a car that's been tastefully modded, and one I will keep for ever.

    Recently, I met my new partner Gayle (aka Gayle in the forum) and she has been amazing! She's totally turned my life around, and makes me happy. Luckily, she's a petrol head too! She's also become a big part of Civic5, and loves the Honda scene now too! We got married in June 2017.
     
    Anyways, enough about me! Thanks for taking the time to read my profile, and welcome to Civic5

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    Dave
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    41-45...Midlife crisis!
  • Location
    Scottish Borders

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    CIVIC ES AERODECK
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    MC1

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  1. Nice Civic MA! Also loving the wee mk1 mx5, used to have one a few years ago.
  2. Yeah, I'm the same, usually drive with the headlights on as fed up of not being seen. Seem worse when driving through the day along our country roads that have a canopy of trees over them, so a dark bit. Will save money on headlight bulbs.😄 Must admit, they do look pretty good. Will do a guide on this I think.
  3. Not sure on the carbon wrap, seen a few done on here but you can always tell its wrap close up. What about hydro dipping? Might be worth a look?
  4. Superb mate. Thank you for going through them, didn't realise there were so many! I'll have a look at the mail side when I get a chance and see if I can see whats causing the emails not to be sent out to newly registered members. Again, apologies to any members caught up in the fault, we'll do our best to get this sorted. Kind regards Dave
  5. I want to replace DDs handbrake cables at some point too, let me know how you get on with those Rover/MGZS ones mate.
  6. First update for a long time! Now she's staying I decided she's getting returned to her former show car standard so have lots of work planned. Some paintwork (bonnet and zvTiS front spoiler due to stone chips, new bumper to be painted and fitted due to hitting a deer a year and a half ago😄). Want the wheels refurbed and the polished rims reinstated, then going to get all her bushes replaced with new, front to back. Meanwhile, have noticed with her being a dark colour a lot of drivers don't see her on some of our country roads around here. Have had a few pull out on her, so thought less make her safer. Bought and fitted LED DRLs (daytime running lights). Wanted them to be visible when on, but invisible when off so maintaining the oem look at classic shows. Also wanted them to work properly (and legally) so bought a relay etc and wired them so they are on with the ignition, but go off when you turn on the sidelights/headlights. Took a bit of doing, but it's all nicely wired in now and have to admit I really like them! Updates her a little bit for modern living and makes her that little bit safer. Also decided I wanted the touch screen head unit gone! Have really gone off touch screens in cars, find them too distracting and fiddly to operate. Had a top brand Android unit fitted (Atoto) with the motorised 7inch screen. A good looking unit, but didn't really suit the car to be honest. I prefer oem+. So back in with my trusty old Pioneer DAB/CD/USB BT head unit. This has the nice LCD display so is a nice bit of kit. Being Pioneer, the sound puts the Android unit to shame (Chinesium pish imo! Lmao). What I do wish DD had is steering wheel controls. So did a bit of research and turns out that head unit can also be used with the Pioneer IR steering wheel remote control! Had it years and never bloody knew this! 🤣 Got one duly bought and fitted to the steering wheel. What a difference! Again, a discreet modern touch but blends in beautifully. I'll get some photos and videos of all of the above uploaded shortly. If anyone fancies the Atoto Android head unit let me know. Still have the box etc. Just loving driving DD at the moment, she's so smooth and quiet compared to Lexy the TypeS GT. Can't match Lexys fuel economy though but not fussed!😉 All is good in DDs world.
  7. So, as most will probably know I rather foolishly put DD up for sale recently. Decided I wanted a change, into an old Triumph Dolomite or something similar. DD has been sat for around a year and a half in the garage, so took her for her MOT so she'd be ready should she sell. Was fully prepared for a fail, just hoped it wouldn't be too much. Low and behold, she sailed through! Driving her back from the MOT, had a change of heart! Was never sure if I'd even be able to sell her tbh, and did have a couple of buyers wanting to come see her. But she tugged at my heart strings once again and provered herself worthy of staying in the family. Both Gayle and our daughter Faith knew I wouldn't sell her, but apparently I needed to go through the process before coming to my senses!😄
  8. I've had a look at the account and it all looks fine. Are you able to login to the forum at all? What areas of the forum can't you access and are you getting any error messages? If you can let us know we'll do our best to get this sorted for you. Dave
  9. Absolutely mate! Although the old girl is deffo staying now. Gayle was just saying we need to get civic5 meets started again. When you free? We've got time off in June (think it's the 2nd week but need to check).
  10. Yes mate, she's running a treat! Sadly, our story together may be coming to a close. She's in the for sale section.😥
  11. Hi mate, sorry I've not been around. Health has been crap since end of last year and we moved house (deffo the last time this time!) so not had time to get on here. I posted up seeing if there was any interest in a club stand at one of the classic car shows, but only two cars up for it. Bit of a downer but hey ho! Lol Would love to get a meet organised for the summer, still a lot of original members here but also a lot of new faces with new civic Ms that we haven't seen before. Might put a wee post up on here and the FB group (don't worry, I hate social media as much as you! Forums FTW!) see if we get any interest. Glad to see you're still in the forum and club mate, just wish we could get the forum busier but everyone seems to be over on Social media now.
  12. Hi mate. There is some mystery over the actual numbers of each VTiS model made. The logbook should have made it easy to identify a genuine one, but unfortunately even that is a minefield as Honda dealerships made mistakes with them when registering the car with the UK DVLA. Some have VTiS on the logbook, some just state model as VTi. The only parts that were unique to the VTiS were drivers side floor mat which had the VTiS logo on it (the other 3 mats were just standard) the gear knob (alloy and engraved in the early VTiS, silver plastic/black leather with "VTiS" in black on it for the post 1997 ones) and the alloys (again, these differed so early ones got 15" Speedline Chronos wheels, later ones got the same as the ones in your photos which are 15" Speedline "fans"). The body kit was available in the accessory catalogue, but was standard on the VTiS. The "mid spoiler" on the aerodeck was also an accessory option. The other thing that marked out the VTiS was the pirates black paint. All VTiS came in pirates black only, so any you see that don't have pirates black are 100% not a genuine VTiS. The Aerodeck ones are a lot rarer as most were the mb6 5 door hatch. Hope this helps a little.
  13. Have tested uploading on your account @KiNK43 and seems to be working?
  14. Will need to look into it mate as jordanH is having the same issue. Not sure why as we haven't changed anything so should be able to upload them. @KiNK43 what's happening when you try to upload Jake? You getting any error messages?
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