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[saedwardsi]

 Hey, I just recently bought a 89' crx si in about perfect condition body wise but the interior needs a little work. The main thing I'm looking for is the climate control panel that controls the heat and defrost...I've found a 1 or 2 but they wanted way way too much  for em.  I know some of you crx heads out there has some things laying around you aren't using.  I'm willing to pay and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Need things like seats, inside door panal, the crx floor mats.  If anybody has anything you please shoot me a msg, or just post on this thread

Thanks

[PuddleSkipper]

Convert to the manual climate control that the hatchback uses. Silentdork818 did an excellent writeup on this which I followed but his website expired or something, you might wanna pm him. Takes a good day to do, I did it to mine. You need the fan box, the heater core box, the climate control and all the cables that manually operate the doors.

[staticchmbr]

Let me guess... the climate control has a big crack through the middle? This was very common, and also the very reason people are selling uncracked ones for a fortune.

Original crx unripped seats are also hard to find. Might want to keep your eyes peeled for other seat options.

Also people are selling the orginal crx floor mats for more than most people bought their cars for. You'll find a good deal somewhere

[saedwardsi]

Ok thanx for the info. I'm probly going to do the switch. Yeah that was my next question if any other civics would match up to it. Thanx allot

[anjin]

You can find an aluminium face plate that fixes that problem. I've used them sucessfully.

 

http://www.ebay.com....=item20dc18951b

 

http://www.ebay.com....=item1c318cb5f4

[saedwardsi]

Yeah mine. Didn't crack it was just never there and I need to do something. ASAP about it. Does anybody know the matching year and model Honda's I can use for the climate control?

[PuddleSkipper]

If you go the route I was telling you about, any 88-91 civic manually operated climate control will work. Doesn't matter if it's a sedan, wagon, or hatch. What does matter is that you pull the heater core unit and the blower fan from a hatchback. That is because A) they are interchangable with the crx, and they are manually operated or use cables to open and close the doors. The CRX uses motor operated doors so you have plugs dangling that were once for these motors. When you pull the civic climate control also make sure you pull the little light bulbs with it and a good long chunk of the connector it connects to with a pigtail. You have to splice this into the existing light bulb wires, red to red, black to black. This is the only wiring you have to do and the rest is plug and play. There are other options, I've heard of people using climate controls out of accords and other models. If you do that make sure to cut a pigtail so you know what pins are for what because you might have to repin your climate control plugs. I like the manually operated cable system better because anytime you introduce motors or other electrical components you invite failure down the road. If needed I might be able to take a pic of my wiring, but once you look at it it's pretty simple. LMK and good luck, Jeremiah

[saedwardsi]

Thanx allot for the info, this is very helpful. I'm going to give that a try and I'll let you know how it goes, Thanx again.