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Old 01-23-2015, 02:55 PM   #71 (permalink)
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My third response. Those new headlights are GREAT! I have done them on my cars. You may want to do the air filter in your Silverado too, if you have't already. Mine looked like your Honda one.

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My third response. Those new headlights are GREAT! I have done them on my cars. You may want to do the air filter in your Silverado too, if you have't already. Mine looked like your Honda one.
Silverado has been retired with my wife's Tahoe taking over towing duties. Oddly, the '05 Tahoe does not have a cabin filter.
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this is giving me some good ideas for my HX. one thing i've noticed. you mentioned a 5 wire O2 sensor in yours. i just replaced mine and it was a 4 wire. im not sure under what conditions honda switched but most references i found to HX models specified 5 wire sensors, yet mine was 4.
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Where you source your headlights? I need to replace them on our hch. I have read threads on honda forums about some of the aftermarket lights having poor light output. I sure like your coupe though. I wish they had made the hybrid in a coupe, but the sedan works well for us since we have 2 little ones to haul.
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this is giving me some good ideas for my HX. one thing i've noticed. you mentioned a 5 wire O2 sensor in yours. i just replaced mine and it was a 4 wire. im not sure under what conditions honda switched but most references i found to HX models specified 5 wire sensors, yet mine was 4.
I was incorrect in my earlier post. You need to make sure you have the appropriate wideband O2 Sensor for the HX, but it only has 4-wires.

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Where you source your headlights? I need to replace them on our hch. I have read threads on honda forums about some of the aftermarket lights having poor light output. I sure like your coupe though. I wish they had made the hybrid in a coupe, but the sedan works well for us since we have 2 little ones to haul.
The headlight housings are made by SPPC and I purchased them off Amazon. Eight months later, they still look exactly the same as when I put them in. My stock headlights have always been foggy, but I can't see any reason why these would have less output than new OEM headlight housings.
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I honestly don't know the reasoning behind the light output issues. I think it was something to do with low quality reflectors. I remember reading on a Civic forum that a guy had problems with light output from eBay light assembles, so he just pulled the new lenses and put them on the light assemblies.
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On the mirror subject...
Would be any benefit to a lower profile aftermarket mirror?
http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?n...568215&alt=web
I don't know if that would improve the aero or not.
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Time for a new mod!


I'm checking to see if an exhaust restriction will improve my economy.



Traveling down the freeway at speed, a steel bar (looked like a heavy duty pry bar, probably 2 feet long) was tumbling towards me and I couldn't avoid it. I decided to straddle it to hopefully leave the tires intact and it plowed into the exhaust making a hell of a racket. It hit the exhaust twice, a heat shield and the floor, and then put a notch in my right rear control arm.

It certainly could have been a lot worse.
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Yikes, sounds like you got off okay though. Glad to hear you weren't hurt.
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