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On another note, as I had stated earlier, me and my cousins came back after a short three-day trip to Masinagudi (and Bandipur & Mudumalai) in the first week of October. The drive was great overall. The car behaved superbly as always and made me fall in love with it yet again. Rather than going at break-neck speeds, I chose to maintain a steady 100-120 kph through out the trip, given the roads permitted doing such speeds. A separate post with more details and photos from the trip is coming shortly. Until then, here are a few snaps of the car taken enroute and in and around Masinagudi, Bandipur and Mudumalai. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() P.S: Even after 5 long years after its launch, I just can't stop ogling at the Civic, not just mine, but any damn Civic I see on the road. It is this obsession that's making me take so much snaps of the car every time I go on a drive. I do not know when this obsession is going to come down. Until then, I don't have an option but to let you all suffer. | |
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| ![]() Thanks for the pics! Its same here. I keep ogling at other Civics all the time. The obsession goes to the limit where whenever I see a Civic I slow down and ask my girlfriend 'it looks good no' and she always has only one answer 'I guess I am sitting in one'. And I keep playing with the Auto folding mirror button to leave an impression on the bikers on stop lights....n they drool too!!!! Its an awesome ride, take good care of it! |
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On a different note, both me and the Civic just came home after a terrible day. The day started in a bad way when an early morning pick-up from the railway station ended with me hitting my Pulsar in the garage when trying to park the car. The Civic had a fairly significant cut in the lower left corner of the front bumper and a few scratches too. The bike was not spared too, as the Pulsar had suffered some damage in the fairing and in the headlight casing. If that was not enough, while returning home after a function an hour back, the Civic scraped its bottom no less than 4 times. Two of them were pretty bad hits too and I suspect some damage to the rocker panel as the impact seemed to be pretty heavy. They came as a total surprise too as we were driving through stagnant water and couldn't spot the crater sized pothole right in the middle of the road. The recent monsoon spells had ravaged the Chennai city roads and they are nothing but a nightmare now. Need proof? Check out this video that was taken this Monday on my way to work. I was driving the car and my friend shot the video. Just an hour's rain and this is how an arterial road in Chennai is. When I see this, I get a doubt whether the Civic is a car or actually a boat made by Honda! All in all, it's not only the Civic that has suffered quite a few damages this week but my heart too as it breaks every time something like this happen to the car. But, all we in India can do is to live with whatever damn infrastructure that is provided to us. Honda, can you please increase the ground clearance of the next-gen Civic without any second thoughts? | |
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Senior - BHPian | ![]() Hmm, there was yet another example today of how quickly life moves on. As I was busy working this morning, I get a call and a lady at the other end says "Hello, Good Morning Sir! We are calling from _____ Honda. Your car, Civic, is due for its next service. Can I fix up an appointment?" I was like, "What, It was not very long ago that I gave the car for a service". The lady replies "Sir, you gave it on 1st week of September and it is three months since". And the conversation went on like this: Me: The Owner's Manual states 5000 km or 6 months whichever is earlier. Her: Sir, this is just a simple service, not the regular service, just a check-up kind of thing. Me: What? Simple service? Not a regular service? I don't understand. Her: Ok sir. You can bring your car whenever it is needed. Me: Thanks, will call and fix up an appointment before I come with the car. Her: Than You Sir! I just did not realize that it has been 6 months now since I bought the car. If the lady hadn't called, I would not have realized that at all. Since I took ownership, I gave the car for its 30K service in the 1st week of June and for its next service in the 1st week of September. It just feels like yesterday when I gingerly drove the car home. Time literally is flying! Meanwhile, I just wanted to check up with all the Civic owners out here in the forum. How frequently do you give the car for service? I really do not mind giving the car and getting it checked every 3 months, but the question is, "Is it really essential"? Aren't Hondas reliable enough to run without visitng a dealership for 6 months? With Volkswagen having a 1 year service interval for their cars, I find this 3 months interval of Honda dealerships pretty amusing. Please suggest folks.. |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: May 2004 Location: mumbai
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| ![]() For the civic on regular engine oil - get the oil change done independently outside @ 5000 km or 6 months whichever earlier - car check-up and service at dealership once a year For the civic on Mobil 1 or fully synthetic engine oil - get the oil change done independently outside @ 10000 km or 1 year whichever earlier - car check-up and service at dealership once a year |
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| ![]() I agree with dipen. 3 months service is too frequent and redundant. |
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Thanks dot. Though Honda dealerships across the country are insisting on this 3 months service frequency, I wonder why Honda has not come out strongly against them? Doesn't this damage the reputation and image of Honda? | |
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Senior - BHPian | ![]() I have heard many people saying that the month of December is usually a lean period as far as official commitments are concerned. I say "To Hell with it". When most others were breaking away from work planning their holidays in the festive season, there I was sitting at my work-place and trying to understand the nuances of a new and challenging assignment. This has been one of the busiest months for me, both on and off work, throwing my other activities in jeopardy. Availability of time had become such a constraint that I have lost track of quite a few Team-BHP threads that I had been following regularly. When such is the status of one of my most favorite past-times, you can just imagine how the other lesser-preferred things would have been. Meanwhile, I am glad that I could pull some time out of this extra-ordinarily busy month and meet a like-minded friend who was even-more-hard-working-in-December. He is a BHPian and his ride has been a self-confessed inspiration for me to go for my Civic. Still guessing? Here are a couple of snaps of his ride that were very influential in my decision. ![]() ![]() No prizes for guessing now. It is none other than Rohit, owner of the Grey Shark and more popularly known as Ace_F355. Everything, I mean everything in the world were conspiring against us to not let this meeting happen. My official commitments, Rohit's meetings and a sudden business trip out of Chennai, the confusing Chennai roads, his driver who couldn't understand Tamil and finally, the rush-hour Chennai city traffic. Against all these odds, when I finally reached our designated place (Nungambakkam) that we spoke and agreed, I get a call from Rohit telling me that he is stranded at the other corner of the city (Kathipara Junction) trying to reach the place where I am waiting. Then, I ask him to wait right there in the road and I start driving to the place. Finally we met at 08:45 PM, far from our scheduled time of 07:00 PM. Since I was rushing to the airport to pick up my cousins, we could only manage to sit and share our thoughts for 20-odd minutes. Thanks Rohit, for taking time off and braving all odds. You are such a nice guy and it was great talking to you about cars, cars and more cars. When I was driving home after meeting Rohit, I was thinking about you dot and mdsaab. It's been 4 times I have visited Pune after I bought the Civic but unfortunately, I haven't met you guys yet. Apart from the wonderful car that it is, it is friends like these that the Civic has brought into my life that makes me happy and content. PS: Here is a quick snap of Rohit posing with my Civic (I know this isn't as beautiful as your Shark, Rohit). Apologies for the horrible quality of the snap though. ![]() |
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Just yesterday I was driving on the same intersection where you had once spotted Scorponok. I was thinking of you and wondering whether you have stopped coming to Pune or what. It was good to hear that Ace and you met. | |
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For other friends who do not know what happened, I was just casually telling Ace that I have red-lined my car just once when he showed me a video in which he had red-lined the Shark in each gear touching speeds in excess of 200 km/h. I was so charged up on seeing that, on the way back home when I found an empty stretch of road, I stood on the gas pedal in second gear. And boy oh boy, it was surreal doing it after a long time and I realized how much fun I was missing all these days. By the way, to all Civic owners in the forum, what is the mileage that you folks get inside the city? Mine is a manual and I regularly get something between 8 to 9 km/l. I have seen many owners in this forum getting more than that even with automatics. As far as my driving style goes, I am soft on the throttle and I do not rev the engine much. The only thing that I think is wrong in my driving style is I drive with half-clutch when in stop-start traffic. I am just curious to find out whether my driving style should be changed to increase the fuel efficiency of my car. Any suggestions/feedback from you would help. | |||||
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1-I try not to use the civic during evening on weekends and prefer my oldie 800. 2-Most of my driving lies on the western express highway. 3-I do not push the car beyond 3k rpm as anyways traffic does not allow to do me so.Most of the time it is 2k-2.5k Once a while i would revv the car max till 5K rpm but i find myself reaching insane speeds at those revs and so ease off.Frankly i don't find the need to push the car at high revs as it overtakes most other vehicles at < 3k rpm mark ![]() | |
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I have to do something about this alarmingly low mileage. 8 to 9 km/l is a very low figure for Honda i-VTEC standards. | ||
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I drove the shark after getting back to Delhi on Monday, munching another 450 kms. 8-9 kpl is rather low, do you do a lot of short runs? They tend to return this sort of FE. Put that awesome i-vtec to good use whenever you can. Afterall, you are entitled to have your share of fun with the car, don't you? ![]() | |
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