r/CivicX

Hello all my name is Kat, I am really wanting to mod my car a lot more than just wheels and cosmetics but my income can only get me so far at the moment.

My question mainly is this; what lowering kit should I go with that won’t break the bank but also won’t make my ride horrible? I’ve never lowered a car before, only lifted. I don’t mind saving the money for a better kit but I don’t want to spend too much on this car honestly.

I believe my wheels are 18x9.5 +22. I have been told that is too aggressive for what I am trying to do. What would happen if I lowered it on these wheels? Any input is helpful.

As the title says I’m just got my hands on this beauty, 2.4k km made since I got it on 30th of April.
Any tips, things to watch for or any advice is welcomed and also requested.
2020 1.5

Hey everyone, I’m trying to identify this small 2‑pin connector on my 2016 Honda Civic (1.5T).
It sits right next to the condenser cooling fan connector, and it has a white wire and a red wire.

I see a few tint overlays online for them, but they’re more neon yellow than an orangey amber. I don’t want to replace anything on the car to keep it all factory. Does anyone have a link to a more amber tint overlay?

One thing I always felt with my Civic is that some of the most fun parts of driving completely disappear once the trip ends.

You drive a nice route, have a fun pull, discover a good road, or go on a long night drive… and later there’s almost no real memory/history of it besides maybe fuel usage and a map route.

So over the last couple of years, I started building my own app around that idea using my Civic as the main development/testing car.

It started as a simple GPS speedometer, but eventually evolved into more of a driving companion focused on:

• trip history
• route replay
• driving analytics
• memorable drives
• fuel & maintenance tracking
• driving comparisons over time
• CarPlay integration
• visual trip playback/sharing

One feature I personally enjoy a lot is replaying routes afterward and seeing exactly where peak speed moments, hard pulls, elevation changes, or interesting driving sections happened.

I recently also got the app approved for CarPlay in Apple’s Driving Task category, which apparently has very strict limitations regarding UI and interactions.

The whole idea became:
"What if Apple Health/Strava existed for your driving life?"

So instead of only live speed, it tries to preserve:

• your driving history
• patterns
• routes
• road trips
• driving memories

Curious if anyone else here enjoys tracking/logging their drives just for fun or history?

Privacy was a huge focus while building it: no ads, no tracking SDKs, no accounts/signups, and no data selling. Everything stays on-device or in your own iCloud.

I’m getting my car tuned and the most recent file my tuner sent me isn’t loading into the ktuner application, no errors or anything it just won’t load. Every other file will. My tuner able to help till Monday so I was wondering if yall have any ideas

2017 civic hatchback ex 1.5t 108k miles, does it sound normal? Is it the injectors making it sound so ticky. Any advice to prevent the head gasket failure issue these engines have?

Had My FK7 for around 3 weeks now, enjoying it ✌️

IG: fk7.mako

I got these 10th gen type r/touring model style headlights for my civic sport sedan back in March 2024 from VLAND.com and I have had them on the car ever since then. They’re amazing headlights, although, throughout this whole time of having them on my car, I’ve noticed that for one, whenever I turn the car on, it takes about 10 seconds for the daytime running lights to actually turn on, rather than them turning on/lighting up immediately upon turning the car on, and I’ve also noticed that the automatic high beam setting in my car no longer works. In other words, when I switch the headlights to the auto high beam setting, only the low beams work while the high beams never turn on even when there’s absolutely nothing in my cars way that would cause them to not turn on (since when using the auto high beams setting, the high beams will automatically turn off if a car is approaching or you’re approaching an intersection, but, when nothing is in the way, they will turn on automatically). I’m not sure as to why the auto high beam setting doesn’t work with these aftermarket headlights, given that the high beams themselves turn on and off just fine when I use them manually, and the low beams work fine too. The installation for these headlights is just plug and play and I had my dad install them for me so I’m not sure if he did something wrong to cause the delay in the DRL’s turning on, as well as to cause the auto high beam setting to not work. Although my dad installed these headlights for me, I know that the plugs are simple as there’s one plug for the daytime running light, one for the low beams, one for the turn signal, and one for the high beams. Besides the high beams not ever activating when the auto high beam setting is on, and the DRL’s taking roughly 10 seconds to turn on upon turning the car on, everything else with these headlights works great. Still though, does anyone know if the two issues that I mentioned are a result of just the aftermarket headlights themselves, or if it’s a result of poor installation

No issues with these front rotors while driving but the shop wanted me to replace them.

How do I tell when it's time

My car had a Type R bumper on it which I didn’t love, fit was awful and it was giving me errors for my radar cruise and all that. I found a stock bumper on eBay so I grabbed it and threw it on there. Paint isn’t as good as I had hoped, lot of pitting, but that’s why they invented black Sharpie markers.

Install was a lot of fun because my car is a rebuilt title for a front end accident and there were more random screws in there holding the bumper mounts on than you generally like to see, but nothing was bent anyway. I also broke one of the fog light connectors, so I’m gonna have to take it off again anyway at some point.

Overall though I’m happy, no more error messages and I like the look of the stock bumper. I’ll get a lip for it once the 9th gen LX I’m selling goes.

He selling them for 350$ but i don’t know much about coil overs and especially what to look for (in damages) when buying a used coil overs. Just want a second opinion on if these are worth or not