I am now an intergenerational Luder.

[Edson]

What story man !
I had to read it twice to make me understand the story haha.

Centre console turns out great !
And i'm kinda jealeous about your heated switches, want them too !

Keep up the good work man

[mercutio]

glad your missus and the cats are all ok buddy lucky with the damage as well

[jjmartin349571]

Glad your partner was ok from the accident mate, that's the most important thing!

@Edson, the heated seat switches are the same as the ones in my Civic SE Executive - I've also test fitted them in my BB4

[BlackShadow]

Thanks guys. Fortunately she wasn't physically hurt in the accident. She was doing around 90 km/h when the car spun out. It must have been a soft snowbank. Now its starting to sink in to her how lucky she was. She was lucky there weren't any other cars around or she would have been hit. She was also lucky that a family passing by a few minutes later, stopped to help, otherwise she could have been stuck there with no heat. The area is rural and there was no cell phone service. mentally, she is having a problem with the accident. She can't sleep, has no appetite, and when she does get a few minutes of shut eye, she is up and sleepwalking around. Bad business.

Quick update on my 4th gen:

This morning I pulled the VTEC rear sub enclosure out of the car and decided to get the speaker grille recovered. While I had it in the house I decided to smooth out some of the gouges that were on it.

Before:



The plastic looks as though it was hacked with a blade of some sort.

I set to work trimming away with a razor blade, the loose and overhanging flap of plastic so that I would have a flat and even surface to work with. Once all the clutter was removed I had a smooth area of plastic, which is a problem, considering it's supposed to be textured. Next came a small flat screwdriver, a rag and a Bic lighter. I heated up the tip of the screwdriver and gently inscribed a random pattern of lines similar to the surrounding area. The trick is not to press too hard and go to deep. If you do, the lines will look too dark. This part of the job is where your artistic side can come out to play.




It still needs to be buffed up to match the rest of the piece, but it is a lot better than it was before. Yes, that is a JDM digital climate control chillin on my counter top. To its left, and out of the frame is a valve cover.

[Donald]

Sorry to hear about your mrs, hopefully things will return to normal ASAP.

Nice attention to detail as usual.

I want to know more about that banana.

[BlackShadow]

^Haha, the dancing banana icon/smiley. I thought it would work if I typed it in.

This lil guy...

[Donald]

No the banana is your last picture.

[BlackShadow]

Oh! I got behind on my housekeeping. Those bananas have since been retired.

[bb1boy]

Interesting thread, looks like you got lucky with the Mrs and the Civic in that crash! I browsed the pics before I read the text and I thought the story was going to be one of stolen wheel centre-caps!

As for your rear fog, some of us who dont want a bolt on light have done this:

[BlackShadow]

^That is something along the lines of what I was going to do. A friend of mine modified the running light in one of the tail lights on his civic to be a rear fog. It looked really clean. I don't like any of the ones that bolt on, or the OEM ones that go through the bumper. To me they spoil the look of the car. I was thinking of using the centre high mount brake light n the rear window. I have a spoiler so I have four brake lights, which is one more than I legally need. I could spare that one and use it as a rear fog.

I wanted to got one of those green light up "PRELUDE"...lights but they're pretty hard to find.