Well the nice folks at my insurance company told me that they are going to total out my little Civic because the damages were to much. The car wasnt that bad, and my breaks were still on it.

Also my gauges were still there

But the damnages outweigh the good.

Please note the loving care that the wheel was tilted down to drive all low rider style

Hatchback with new breeze way for better airflow to the people in the back!

ok so maybe not. Maybe it will just be the last civic I will get, for a while at least

So Thursday the 18th I want to get in the happy little Honda to go to work, I walk outside to where I parked, and it wasn’t there. So I thought I parked on the other street, walk over there, and it is not there either. So I walk back to where it was, and stand there for a few minutes and looked. Now I view myself as a semi intelligent person, but I still took a moment to register. I also walked over to where I had parked, hoping that the car had turned invisible or something. I looked down to my hand, yup keeps still in my hand, one labeled HONDA waiting to be used. I stood there a moment, and even though the key was in my hand, and it is the only key to the car, I called Tiki, to ask if she took the car. She didn’t. I thought for a moment, what would the next step be? Call in late to work, then call the police to report it. This might seem like an odd way to do it, but I knew calling work would only take about two minutes, and no idea how long it would take to call the police or when they would get there. So called in late to work and then called the police to file the report. So went to work with a range of emotions and things going on through my mind, and I ran a couple of errands and then went to work. Nothing to do so might as well try to do something else. Got a call at about 8:15 that night from North Hollywood Police saying that they found my car. Friday I took off work to go try to get it handled, the list of items missing from the car are:
Zune
Tom-Tom
Alpine Stereo
Rockford Fosgate Amp
Kenwood 10" Subs (x2)
speaker box
spare tire
steering column messed up.

Rear Hatch

yes, they took the entire rear hatch, including the wing, license plate, bolts but not the struts for it.
Yes it makes me giggle a little that they took the rear hatch.  I will post pictures once i get my stuff together, along with some information on what I will do to make it harder to steal the car. I was going to get an alarm and door poppers on Saturday but now those plans are canceled. I am thinking of removing the locks from the external doors since it will have power locks.

Living in Southern California there are a lot of roads that are twisty and windy and fun to drive, if you have the right car. The Civic is not the right car, yet. But it can be a better car. Now we used to go driving through the canyon roads in the lexus, and that was a fun car to do it in. It handled really well and could take the turns without issue. For the first time tonight I went on Mulholland Drive, but just a small part of it, scene in purple tonight.

The road has a lot of turns and has a speed limit of 30MPH, but most of the turns are 15-20 miles an hour. So it was a warm up to see if the car would do ok if i took it to Angeles Crest. Overall it was a fun little juant that showed me that the car needs atleast a sway bar, and possiblily new suspension. The nice part is that the parts are cheep.

So this post is about swapping gauges for a civic. I bought some from someone on ebay for a really good price.

They are really well lit, and have a tac ... More...