Arseassin
01-10-2005, 08:02 PM
Hello everyone, I am new to these forums, so let me describe my car before I get to asking questions :)
I recently purchased an 89 Honda Accord LX 5-speed for 1000$, body is in great shape except for a dent near the driver side door, and a broken foglight in the front, and it only has 188k on it.
I bought the car as is, and when I first got it it looked pretty rough, the entire outside of the car was covered in black mildew spots (and since the car is white, they *really* stood out), and the interior had alot of dirt and grass n crap in it, and the car had obviously never been cleaned well.
The owner was just ready to get rid of it, because he never drove it anymore, and aside from a cracked distributor cap, it ran fine.
When I finally started it I got it home and threw some bleach on it, which cleaned all of the mildew spots off of it, then I washed it and waxxed it, it looks great now.
I got into the interior and vaccumed/shampoo'ed/armorall'ed everything, and the interior is now absolutely goregus, looks and smells brand spanking new.
As far as the engine goes, the car runs extremely well, I have replaced the distributor cap, and I've already driven it about 800 miles in the two weeks I've had it, it is extremely good on gas mileage.
I did run into some problems with it because I live in the city of Atlanta and have to have emissions, and it wouldnt pass emissions due to over-idling, so I took it to the shop, and they said it would cost more than the car was worth to fix it, so I managed to work something out where I got my tag at my fathers house who lives up in the mountains so I havent had to deal with emissions.
So far I have had no problems whatsoever with the engine giving me trouble, that little car will sh-t it and get it for having such a small engine :P
Anyways, I have come here to ask those of you who are already much further down the path than me, where do I start?
I am looking to get some new rims, custom tail and head lights, and perhaps a body kit.
I would also like to spruce up the interior some and give it a more modern look to it, but I'm not sure where to start.
Basically I would like to know what everyone reccomends as far as the best for the price parts, and where to get them, I personally dont know much about cars, I've worked on them on and off my whole life with family and friends, but nothing serious, and this car will hopefully be what teaches me how to do everything.
I would personally like to start with window tints, and I was wondering what everyones opinion is on this:
I have always been skeptical of the do-it-yourself tints, because I tried them on my old wrangler and it looked like crap, but I was in wal-mart the other night and they have some do-it-yourself tint kits that go down to I think 5%, which is extremely dark, and the instructions seem to be logically solid to me, what would yall reccomend? I figure its only 10 bucks for the all of the tinting, so I wouldnt lose much if it didnt work right.
Also does anyone know what the legal tint limit is in georgia? :P
I found a site tonight that someone had made a while ago about their steps in upgrading their 88 accord, and since the sight was so old, most of the faq's he had were not found, so I kept searching and found this place.
Hope I can learn something from everyone and be an asset to the site :)
BTW, I hopefully will have pictures up before too long.
I recently purchased an 89 Honda Accord LX 5-speed for 1000$, body is in great shape except for a dent near the driver side door, and a broken foglight in the front, and it only has 188k on it.
I bought the car as is, and when I first got it it looked pretty rough, the entire outside of the car was covered in black mildew spots (and since the car is white, they *really* stood out), and the interior had alot of dirt and grass n crap in it, and the car had obviously never been cleaned well.
The owner was just ready to get rid of it, because he never drove it anymore, and aside from a cracked distributor cap, it ran fine.
When I finally started it I got it home and threw some bleach on it, which cleaned all of the mildew spots off of it, then I washed it and waxxed it, it looks great now.
I got into the interior and vaccumed/shampoo'ed/armorall'ed everything, and the interior is now absolutely goregus, looks and smells brand spanking new.
As far as the engine goes, the car runs extremely well, I have replaced the distributor cap, and I've already driven it about 800 miles in the two weeks I've had it, it is extremely good on gas mileage.
I did run into some problems with it because I live in the city of Atlanta and have to have emissions, and it wouldnt pass emissions due to over-idling, so I took it to the shop, and they said it would cost more than the car was worth to fix it, so I managed to work something out where I got my tag at my fathers house who lives up in the mountains so I havent had to deal with emissions.
So far I have had no problems whatsoever with the engine giving me trouble, that little car will sh-t it and get it for having such a small engine :P
Anyways, I have come here to ask those of you who are already much further down the path than me, where do I start?
I am looking to get some new rims, custom tail and head lights, and perhaps a body kit.
I would also like to spruce up the interior some and give it a more modern look to it, but I'm not sure where to start.
Basically I would like to know what everyone reccomends as far as the best for the price parts, and where to get them, I personally dont know much about cars, I've worked on them on and off my whole life with family and friends, but nothing serious, and this car will hopefully be what teaches me how to do everything.
I would personally like to start with window tints, and I was wondering what everyones opinion is on this:
I have always been skeptical of the do-it-yourself tints, because I tried them on my old wrangler and it looked like crap, but I was in wal-mart the other night and they have some do-it-yourself tint kits that go down to I think 5%, which is extremely dark, and the instructions seem to be logically solid to me, what would yall reccomend? I figure its only 10 bucks for the all of the tinting, so I wouldnt lose much if it didnt work right.
Also does anyone know what the legal tint limit is in georgia? :P
I found a site tonight that someone had made a while ago about their steps in upgrading their 88 accord, and since the sight was so old, most of the faq's he had were not found, so I kept searching and found this place.
Hope I can learn something from everyone and be an asset to the site :)
BTW, I hopefully will have pictures up before too long.