Honda City Fan Club

[fahadsoulsnatcher911]

^^MashAllah you have really nice ride so clean and the rims really look cool
after seeing it i also want to paint my cars silver panels

[waleed80]

update
went to the Honda guys in pindi yesterday for that khrrr khrrrr sound coming from the Engine bay when i push the car real hard as explained twp pages back...well, we went on a test ride and i drove the hell out of the car. the sound starting coming, but he ha NO idea what it was he said i have never heard this sort of thing before. so, i ust got the car its second inspection. he told me to keep driving the car with this sound and report to them later if the sound subsides OR if it increases. so basically they are just wishing for the sound to go off itself i was in a hurry so i came back, but yeah, the next time if teh sound comes, which offcourse it will, i would leave the car with them and walk away and would tell them to call me when its ok

[fawadakbarkhan]

^^MashAllah you have really nice ride so clean and the rims really look cool
after seeing it i also want to paint my cars silver panels

hey thanks little buddy. Whats the mileage on your car's odo? and oh, there is a FULL thread on the panels repaint yaar, come on, show us a good DIY.

[fawadakbarkhan]

update
went to the Honda guys in pindi yesterday for that khrrr khrrrr sound coming from the Engine bay when i push the car real hard as explained twp pages back...well, we went on a test ride and i drove the hell out of the car. the sound starting coming, but he ha NO idea what it was he said i have never heard this sort of thing before. so, i ust got the car its second inspection. he told me to keep driving the car with this sound and report to them later if the sound subsides OR if it increases. so basically they are just wishing for the sound to go off itself i was in a hurry so i came back, but yeah, the next time if teh sound comes, which offcourse it will, i would leave the car with them and walk away and would tell them to call me when its ok

Great. did u go to honda center on mall road or the honda classic center in I-10 isb?

u could've said one thing to them that if the car was alive, it would punch you back in the face on such a reply from u jackas$ mechanics. :S

and bro, u didn't get a "slightest" idea of what may be giving the sound? well, I m gonna be in isb after a few days, lets see if we can meet up and I can witness the sound as well.

[fawadakbarkhan]

ok open karne ka tu bata dia, how once is supposed to put it back water/dust tight fitting?

@fahad
bro simply remove lamps and make a tub full of surf water and fill the tail lights housing with surf water and dip the whole light in tub for like an hour and then shake well to clean inside just as cleaning a baby feeder and you are good to go, never ever try to open your head or tail lamps by removing face.

well sir g, I had to read ur username and the post many times to ensure that it was actually a suggestion from a person like YOU.

this method was actually used, and was useful for the cars having blurr type lights (don't know the technical term) :(. The lights on idsi and newer cars are crystal clear, they show the slightest dirt and grime inside the light. Putting them in surf is just like waxing the car with engine oil or washing up the TB with detergent.

My car's left rear light has caught a small amount of dust after 9 years, and I hate it to death. It was a consequence of a bulb replacement, mechanic didn't fix the bulb properly after changing it. :mad: Rest, they are crystal clear, not a single particle of dust inside.

Opening them is a piece of cake, just get a heat gun and a tube to silicon, u can open and fix it back in less than an hour. No worries.

[margallar]

update
went to the Honda guys in pindi yesterday for that khrrr khrrrr sound coming from the Engine bay when i push the car real hard as explained twp pages back...well, we went on a test ride and i drove the hell out of the car. the sound starting coming, but he ha NO idea what it was he said i have never heard this sort of thing before. so, i ust got the car its second inspection. he told me to keep driving the car with this sound and report to them later if the sound subsides OR if it increases. so basically they are just wishing for the sound to go off itself i was in a hurry so i came back, but yeah, the next time if teh sound comes, which offcourse it will, i would leave the car with them and walk away and would tell them to call me when its ok

no they are delaying it on purpose so that you find out the actual problem once your warranty has ended

[fawadakbarkhan]

no they are delaying it on purpose so that you find out the actual problem once your warranty has ended

:o Oh :o Hell :o Yeah... Waleed bro I suggest you visit another honda 3S as well. and try a little bad citizen with them as well.

[mahmood]

well sir g, I had to read ur username and the post many times to ensure that it was actually a suggestion from a person like YOU.

this method was actually used, and was useful for the cars having blurr type lights (don't know the technical term) :(. The lights on idsi and newer cars are crystal clear, they show the slightest dirt and grime inside the light. Putting them in surf is just like waxing the car with engine oil or washing up the TB with detergent.

My car's left rear light has caught a small amount of dust after 9 years, and I hate it to death. It was a consequence of a bulb replacement, mechanic didn't fix the bulb properly after changing it. :mad: Rest, they are crystal clear, not a single particle of dust inside.

Opening them is a piece of cake, just get a heat gun and a tube to silicon, u can open and fix it back in less than an hour. No worries.

sab kuch par mitti pao bro, taken not tension, my model was first in pakistan to have crystal lights both front and back and first one with MPFi technology locally assembled and about that piece of cake and an hour thing, well i have seen complete procedure once at Chah Sultan Pindi, and removal of faces of tail light, only one at Bilal Gunj Lahore and i have serious reservations on that part. after only watching it i swear i'll never recommend opening up of lamps, do get them washed and that good,

[margallar]

[margallar]

no swirls

[mahmood]

@margallar
kakh samajh nahi aaya what you wanna show, and dont tell me new city does not have fog light dips in bumper :o or i simply missed em?

[margallar]

while waxing i just noticed some discolouration, maybe when the car was parked at the show room some bird bombed this spot and nobody cleaned it till the car was to be handed over to us
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[margallar]

@margallar
kakh samajh nahi aaya what you wanna show, and dont tell me new city does not have fog light dips in bumper :o or i simply missed em?

there arent any, you have to cut the bumper to install fog lamps, i just waxed the car i wanted to show the results. the glitter in the paint seemed to really come alive after the wax treatment, but i could not really capture that in the pictures

[mahmood]

while waxing i just noticed some discolouration, maybe when the car was parked at the show room some bird bombed this spot and nobody cleaned it till the car was to be handed over to us

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa no, i dont see any dis colorization, only big shiny part where flash bounced back, and you detailed the new city

[margallar]

i did not use flash, i noticed this when i had not even taken the camera out of it's pouch, sadly a few areas need claying, they are rough hath phair k ajeeb lagta hai, maza ni ata

@Mahmood, kal mera blood pressure high tha, aj zara mood tha, yeh keera mujhay rehnay ni deta punga liye baghair

[mahmood]

janian plastic wrapping on seats :o

ok i am quitting this thread for couple of hours

[waleed80]

no they are delaying it on purpose so that you find out the actual problem once your warranty has ended

:o Oh :o Hell :o Yeah... Waleed bro I suggest you visit another honda 3S as well. and try a little bad citizen with them as well.

latest update
on the way back from my office, i took the car to my decade old family mechanic, who is simply SUPERB, in a hope that maybe he can find out the problem...and tadaaaaa...he did

now this is for all the new city owners (i am not saying its a common fault but IF something like this happens, u guys should know what to check first)

so here it is....when u push ur car REALLY REALLY hard, this khrrrrr khrrrr sound starts coming. i did exactly that and the sound was obvious. so i rushed back to the mechanic shop and made the car stand over a pit (the one on which they align the wheels)....my mechanic got down in the pit, told me to put the hand brake on and leave the clutch a little in the first gear...small lil jerks....offcourse, the sound was still coming. when i wud press the clutch, it would vanish. so finally, he told me to put the car in neutral and then he shook something under the engine, and YES...the sound was still coming. i went down eagerly to see the problem, and it was related to exhaust. the exhust, from where it originates from the manifold, is bolted on to the main assembly through two bolts which, which have a spring each over them. basically, what is happening is that when the exhaust gets extremely hot when u push the car really really hard, the springs soften up JUST a little more than normal, and the squeaking voice or the khrrr khrrrr comes from them. the moment u start driving like sane ppl again, or u stop by on a red light for a minute or so, the metal contracts back and the squeaking sound vanishes.when u put the car in neutral, as there is no pull, the exhaust remains stable even if u keep pressing the accelerator. hope i m making my point across. so...even if the car is neutral (and hot offcourse) and u push the exhaust center "dholki" here and there, the springs were squeaking, and here was the problem.

khair. now satisfied that the problem wasnt critical, i went straight to Honda guys and told the incompetent asses that wat was the problem. they lifted the car and sprayed those two springs with WD-40. now they have asked me to check the car again, and if the same sound still comes, they have asked me to drop the car with them in the morning so that they can rectify the problem. Either the springs would have to be changed, OR cleaned, OR adjusted...i dont know, but it is DEFINITELY the springs. i forgot to take the snap though, i am sorry.

hope tihs might help someone some day.

[waleed80]

congrats on the purchase. i have the same one in the same colour easy to keep it clean i have changed the headlight bulbs with Philis Xtreme vision H4, so they give a much whitish look. i would take a snap in the evening for u. wud highly recommend it for u as well

[waleed80]

but overall, i am highly disappointed with the car's finish quality. i have been driving my platz like CRAzy on the longest possible routes in the lowest possible gears but not even once it misbehaved with me. there is yet another sound coming from my engine bay which i have to address next, which is like a very very gentle gurr gurr sound, as if something , some box or some plastic casing is loose under the hood. to expect all such things from a car which is only 4700 kilometers driven, that too all inside pindi and islamabad except one trip to murree, that too with a driver who is a hpermiller, never took the car beyond 70 km/hr in its first 1000 kilometers, is shameful. i mean, really. i am highly highly inclined towards selling it now and going for a Khota Corolla...really. i am not hell scared of even taking this car on roads like abbotabad, even on GT road cause i fear some new crappy sounds would start coming from it

[arhum1994]

Well, after seeing fahad's city 04, my love for the car I have has multiplied several X instantly.

Recent pics of my car, taken on eid day, no fancy detailing stuff used, just simple wash n wax after 20 days I guess. She deserved it on eid. Mileage as of that day was as in the pics, as of today is precisely 208066 kms. Car is going great as usual, though a few problems did occur, will share em over here for the good of my fellows, they require a bit of explanation, therefore have been rendered passive due to my great masroofiyat these days in studies. But after they were eradicated, the car is simply perfect.

The only thing that touches me is the nearly dead suspension (its been 9 yrs and 2 lakh kms :o) on a bumpy road, not in the city at all, during a usual drive in isb or mianwali. Tappets adjustment is due as well.

so, the pictures, enjoy and say MashAllah.

Mashallah a very neat looking city.Love the Rims and how they go so well with car.there are not many rims that go well with this shape.
For a 9 year i must say it is quite well maintained especially the shine of the colour.I wonder how much more beautifull the colour would look if you did a wax treatment.

I am also a proud owner of this 04 city in Cyprus blue city and i must say its a pretty reliable car.Mashallah mine has been driven almost 4lac KM and still it runs beautifully.