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Hi all,
I have been a member for a while so thought it would be best I start a thread to document the works (more than expected! More on that later).
Some background first, I was heavily into cars in my younger days before moving into further education, owning various warm hatches but nothing special and never a Honda! After university I settled down, Wife, house and kids etc and like many others anything other than a daily barge with isofix wasn’t really considered.
Rolling on a few years (Quickly approaching mid 30’s) and it was time to finally get a weekend car to run along side the day to day German barge. After pondering on what type of car to purchase for what seemed like months my cousin turned up at my doorstep in a JDM EP3 and suggested I take it for a spin. I was hooked straight away by how raw it was, the sound and the gearbox so the hunt was on!
So now it is May/June 2018 and the hunt was on for a EP3 Type R- Initially the budget was low but after viewing a few I decided to push the budget and try and get a standard premier edition- Mileage didn’t really bother me. I viewed a few in the Birmingham area and was surprised how what seemed to be good in the advert/pictures didn’t transpire to a solid car in person I stumbled across a Premier Edition while browsing auto trader on a shopping trip to the Trafford centre (It was getting desperate), I nipped across leaving the wife and kids, went for a test drive and immediately put down the money. I always try to plan properly and do the correct checks when purchasing a second hand car but I always seem to forget all of that as soon as I start looking around it!
So the car? Well it is 2006 EP3 premier edition in Nighthawk Black with 106k miles, Full Honda history and 1 owner. I did call Honda Southport who confirmed it had been looked after and had everything it needed but could not tell me more due to data protection. The car was solid enough, a few battle scars but nothing major. The plan was to get it mechanically sorted with a few select modifications then sort the body in the long term- Black cars seem to be really good at showing scratches/swirls etc
Here is a few pictures from the collection day-
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
The day after I gave the car a good going over, decontamination, clay bar etc followed by a quick machine polish and wax. Fitted a new battery as it was slow at starting and purchased some new OEM mats. It then started to look almost presentable
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
Hope the photos uploaded properly,To be continued....
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I have been a member for a while so thought it would be best I start a thread to document the works (more than expected! More on that later).
Some background first, I was heavily into cars in my younger days before moving into further education, owning various warm hatches but nothing special and never a Honda! After university I settled down, Wife, house and kids etc and like many others anything other than a daily barge with isofix wasn’t really considered.
Rolling on a few years (Quickly approaching mid 30’s) and it was time to finally get a weekend car to run along side the day to day German barge. After pondering on what type of car to purchase for what seemed like months my cousin turned up at my doorstep in a JDM EP3 and suggested I take it for a spin. I was hooked straight away by how raw it was, the sound and the gearbox so the hunt was on!
So now it is May/June 2018 and the hunt was on for a EP3 Type R- Initially the budget was low but after viewing a few I decided to push the budget and try and get a standard premier edition- Mileage didn’t really bother me. I viewed a few in the Birmingham area and was surprised how what seemed to be good in the advert/pictures didn’t transpire to a solid car in person I stumbled across a Premier Edition while browsing auto trader on a shopping trip to the Trafford centre (It was getting desperate), I nipped across leaving the wife and kids, went for a test drive and immediately put down the money. I always try to plan properly and do the correct checks when purchasing a second hand car but I always seem to forget all of that as soon as I start looking around it!
So the car? Well it is 2006 EP3 premier edition in Nighthawk Black with 106k miles, Full Honda history and 1 owner. I did call Honda Southport who confirmed it had been looked after and had everything it needed but could not tell me more due to data protection. The car was solid enough, a few battle scars but nothing major. The plan was to get it mechanically sorted with a few select modifications then sort the body in the long term- Black cars seem to be really good at showing scratches/swirls etc
Here is a few pictures from the collection day-
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
The day after I gave the car a good going over, decontamination, clay bar etc followed by a quick machine polish and wax. Fitted a new battery as it was slow at starting and purchased some new OEM mats. It then started to look almost presentable
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
Civic Type R EP3
Hope the photos uploaded properly,To be continued....
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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