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  1. Hello, My 2019 Civic 1.0T is due service on 12th Feb. It was last serviced an year ago and now service reminder asks me to service it due to 1yr is up. For last year the car was used about 3500km and I used mobil 1 fully synthetic 0w30 oil. Mostly used for short trips (<3km, considered severe driving conditions I think) and few hard accelerations per week was included as well in driving pattern. I serviced at stafford and like to go there this time too. However due to current covid situation and looking at covid forecasts ( https://covid19.healthdata.org/sri-lanka?view=infections-testing&tab=trend&test=infections ), https://covid19.healthdata.org/sri-lanka?view=infections-testing&tab=trend&test=infectionsI like to delay service trip about 6 to 7 weeks to be safe. During this time I would probably drive at most 300km. I like to get your opinions on is it ok to delay service or whether I must attend to service on schedule. Thanks in advance.
  2. Never ever pumped super diesel. Did tappet adjustments, injector pump repair and timing belt replacement. But if i remember correctly, most of these must be 2013. Car still starts with no complaints, any time and runs. Odo 225k km now. (started around 75k if i remember right. That was tampered reading when I got the car. )
  3. Hello, Im using civic 10th ex 1.0 for 1.5 years now without any issue (bought ~0km unreg) and ODO is near 13000km mark. Did first service one year ago (around 6500km mark) at Stafford and used Mobil 1 advanced fuel economy 0W30 oil as they didn't had C2 rated 5W30 fully synthetic oil. Car is near 2 year mark now since date of production. The battery is not up to auto engine start and stop now. I plan to do 2nd service this week at Stafford. The maintenance minder requests regular service and CVT oil change and pollen filter change (AB23). However, when I called Stafford, they advised me not to change CVT oil as it's only 13000km yet. I didn't found anyone did CVT fluid change this soon too. I decided to go with CVT oil change any way as I consider my driving conditions are severe (short distances in Sri Lankan climate and roads) but keep pollen filter after cleaning as it seems ok. I like your recommendations about, 1. If I found 5W30 C2 fully synthetic, it it ok to change to that this time or should I keep using 0W30? 2. I have about 300ml oil from last year service. Is it OK to use it (if I'm using same oil this time) or should I use new oil only? Next service probably will be after an another year. 3. Stafford told me they have genuine oil for CVT, but was not specific. If they don't have HCF2 as recommended by the manual, are there any alternatives available locally? 4. Manual says to replace air filter in 30000km intervals and no time interval mentioned. It seems cleanable too. Should I change air filter (and pollen filter) now as they are 2 years old now? They will be 3 years old by next service. There is a very good chance that I will sell this car by Dec 2022 for our next permit upgrade. So I'm thinking that if there are services I must do in 3 years, I should do them in this service now (2yrs), as it is better use of my money. So air and pollen filter change is kind of under consideration now. I like you recommendations on this too. Thanks in advance.
  4. Thanks for answers and suggestions. Actually I was looking for a good excuse not to paste parking sticker on my windshield. I prefer to leave my job title at the workplace gate.
  5. Hello, How about front windshield? Stickers like doctor signs, school signs, lawyer signs pasted (usually on top left of windshield), is it legal? If not legal, can someone point me to a document saying that. Thanks
  6. Thanks for information. Im not automotive guy so dont know about that. The secondary ignition waveforms I know requires sampling rate beyond 10kHz to see damped oscillations at the end of burn cycle. But I dont think even at that rate The HV spike is observable. 1ms sample rate probably mess up burn line observation too. Possible sampling rate of Arduino doesnt matter. It should run other code to work with each sample. (send to computer? ). What matters is sample rate we can achieve with all other processing. (which is far better in platforms I suggested) Anyway I thought Nyquist can explain all these easily. But it seems like I was wrong.
  7. Noisy or otherwise, you must sample faster than Nyquist, dont you think? If ur sampling rate is low, you will probably wont see ignition HV and what comes out will be noise. So to see whether he only got noise or he missed real HV signal, first he must make sure he sampled fast enough (i.e.considering Nyquist) , isnt it?
  8. I think Arduino cannot sample fast enough. Probably ur sampling frequency is bellow Nyquist frequency and that is why u get noisy signal. Why dont u try to use oscilloscope fist, to find out required sampling rate and evaluate whether ur arduino can meet it? For effective signal reproduction, I usually use 20x nyquist sample rate. You can try STM32F4 or C2000 for faster sampling, processing and required robustness in a car.
  9. Thanks. Will try that
  10. I saw rat problem here and now I have CAT problem. Only one visible here. But there are 4 of them. Any suggestion to keep them away? Did anyone had cat damage to cars?
  11. Curfew and work at home showed that the honda maintenance minder counts not only down, but also up. Mine went from 170 to 200 days.
  12. I used K&N air filter for my CE110 for last 7~8 years without any problem. Used it for more than 130k km. Cleaned when it seems dirty. Didn't notice any performance change, however the car is of year 1997, hence no real performance too. Filter is now showing degradation signs with rubber molded parts. Im now looking to replace that with similar filter. Also I had to pay close attention during services as service guys wants to clean it the same way they do for paper filter, or just throw it away and replace with paper filter.
  13. Already did that (many times but about a month ago) and thats how I decided/wanted to go with 5w30.
  14. Hello all, I have an Update: The service minder counted down to 17days and A and B services requested. So I went to service today 02/14 at stafford as now odo is 6500km and worries me. The car manual and oil cap requests ACEA C2 grade oil. However stafford doesn't offer it. Further I wanted Mobil 1 5W-30 ESP, (which is C2) which they dont have. Also Strafford didnt let me bring oil from outside too. They got mobil 1 advanced fuel economy which is ACEA A1/B1. So for now I decided to go with that. How bad this will be particulate filter? As I see many civics here with same 1.0T engine, they must be using non C2 graded oil too. I have to decide wether to go there again with A1/B1 oil based on advice from here. And the service advisor told me the particulate filter is inside fuel tank too ??
  15. Hi, It is 6070km on odo now and maintenance minder says 19 more days remaining. My original estimate was wrong about when I will hit 0 days. I almost thought the counter was stuck when it was not dropping days (from 21days remaining) for last ~500km. But it dropped 2 days today after 235km ride yesterday (175km on E01) Im worried now as I keep less than 5000km service for my ce110 using mobil mx 15w-40. Do you guys think to change your advice with current condition? Thanks
  16. Thanks. I was following that already.
  17. Hello, My car (Civic 2019/feb manufactured 1.0T sedan, brought brand new in oct2019, imported from uk, made in turkey) now got 4800km on the clock after using for past 3 months. The maintenance minder says I have 26 more days to service and according to how maintenance minder counts, I think it can clock over 6000km before reaching 0 days. 60% of 4800km was in express ways. Didn't use it much in traffic (less than 50km, normal traffic, less than 10km reasonable traffic) so far and probably will not have to. However used it for short distance rides (~2 to 3 km, about 200 times) 1. Should I go for 1st service now or should I wait for maintenance minder to reach 0, which will happen by early February. 2. After 1st service should i wait for next service minder to reach 0 or better to do it early, when about 30 days remaining? Im asking this because Im not sure whether the maintenance minder can account for higher temperature and driving conditions of sri lanka. Thanks
  18. I sold our permit to buy this. No lux tax 2 months ago. I saw indian version too. I was planning to lift suspension ? if GC was too bad. Not sure this is acceptable with hatch bcs it has adaptive suspension and sedan does not. However adaptive suspension system in civic seems to be pretty basic. Talk to stafford too. They told me they are going to import civics from feb 2020. That will be 1.5T version according to them at the time. However it will be missing lot related to Honda sensing package and for me that was unacceptable. since you are considering corolla, are u looking for stick shift?
  19. I bought Civic sedan 2 months ago. It has Ground clearance of 124mm with driver and so far had no issue. Hatch and sedan has only 1mm difference of wheelbase. However UK brochure says ground clearance of hatch is 129mm with driver. I used it in concrete roads and poor roads. But I was careful. I was also looking at 3 sedan. But agent wanted 3 months to import.
  20. Thanks. But this was years ago. Still got the car though. I did 150000 km in this car without even with a single flat tire and without police fines. Still starts every morning with no fuss. However very noisy from day 1 till now. Did repair gear box and injector pump, but engine was not touched.
  21. Did any of you tried http://www.autohack.org/ I recently bought Civic 10th Sedan 2019 and fuel figures are mostly similar except in E01 I got 4.3l/100km. But I was only doing ~75km/hr as still I have only done 750km.
  22. What are the chances of agents warranty is applicable in a trouble of new vehicle? When I asked about Civic 1.0T, stafford {their subsidiary} told me it is engine, gearbox and suspention only for 2 year, 40k km. Do you know any place to look at statistics of different manufacturers, vehicles, markets etc?
  23. No budget this year according to cabinet decisions.
  24. Civic 1.0T UK version is around 7.3M price. Both hatch and Sedan available. Cheaper to sell permit as tax for this is only about 2m. Mazda 3 is 1850000JPY + 500000LKR + tax (approx tax is 1950000 for permit) from agent
  25. Toyota CE110 (diesel) current market is around 2m. For me for last 9 years average cost per km was about Rs15 including everything (fuel, full insurance, license, all repairs, tyre, services etc) (over 50% express way driving) Never once stranded for 140000 km I used. Not even flat tyre. Did repair gearbox, fuel injectors and fair share of running repairs. Not touched engine. But probably must do in next 30000km
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