Today I got some rarely-seen goodies from Japan for my EK9 original goods collection: The first one is a copy of the Japanese Special price list for the Civic EK9 TypeRX from the Honda sales department, from the 25. November 1999: You will find this in my special TypeRX knowledge post soon with many details of the TypeRX. The second thing is something I didn’t know existed until I recently stumbled over it. IT’s a Civic TypeR “Dyanamic Safety Driving” Training video on VHS Cassette. The video was released by Honda Primo (the sales channel who sold the Civics, etc.) in Japan. According to the Print on the front, these…

Certain laws make sense, some don’t. Allegedly, it’s now illegal to have window visors installed on the car in Switzerland. Even if they are OEM H.O.P (Honda Optional Parts) that were sold here via dealerships, and were no problem for the last 15 years. Well, rules change, and if I want to keep the car on the road, I have to play by the rules and remove them. I waited as long as possible, but now I have my bi-annual MFK (= MOT / Shaken) check ahead and need to remove them. I wanted to be very careful, since they’re not available anymore, pretty rare and expensive collectors items these…

After i realized my EK9 is not a regular Ek9 Civic TypeR, but a special EK9 TypeRX edition, the hunt for the rare RX-spec documentation began, because I didn’t really have a lot in my collection. And while hunting documents online, I came across a few aftermarket documents that were cheap and missing in my collection, so I decided to put together a small lot and fill some gaps in my archives: First, the most important one. I’ve been looking for this TypeRX specific EK9 brochure for quite some months now, and finally it popped up recently for sale. I’m super excited about this one, as it is the correct…

So you might remember that recently i found out about my EK9 being a Type-Rx special edition? When i found out, i also realized that my Rx edition Pedals and the footrest were a bit dirty. So i thought it wace about time to give them a bit of a cleanup with some interieur cleaner: After soaking it a bit, i brushed it all off with a brush And, while not perfect, the pedals look much cleaner. While at it anyway, i decided to take photos of all the Rx special features to update my Rx-spec post. Rx Pedals: Electric folding morrors: “Keyless entry” Remote transmitter: Uprated Pioneer audio system…

After owning my EK9 for so many years now, I recently realized that my EK9 is actually not a standard TypeR, but a TypeRx special edition! I’m quite excited and shocked I didn’t know this all the time! I had heard about the lightweight / race-bace / N1 and other special editions and i’ve heard about the Rx version before, but I always thought the differences would be so obvious, that I never realized my Car is different from other EK9’s. Naturally, I had to research the topic, and I’d like to share my findings with you, also because it wasn’t too easy to find a lot of useful information.…

Recently a Friend of mine pointed me towards a facebook ad for an EK9 recaro seat in switzerland with a fair price. I was a bit sceptic and probably wouldn’t have checked out after a 3hour drive only. Luckily i was in that area anyway and thought i’d give it a look. and long story short. I have a Spare EK9 OEM recaro. As you would expect it has several wear and tear problems, the common problems with the OEM Recaros, but otherwise it’s in good shape: And aside from the seat rail and the missing bottom net (which i have NOS spare’s in stock) it’s complete: I’m not sure…