Honda Civic Si Coupe (2004 year). Instruction - part 1

2004 Civic

3-Door Online Reference Owner's Manual

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Contents

Introduction .........................................................................................................................................

A Few Words About Safety.................................................................................................................

Your Vehicle at a Glance.....................................................................................................................

Driver and Passenger Safety ..............................................................................................................

Proper use and care of your vehicle's seat belts, and Supplemental Restraint System.
Instruments and Controls.................................................................................................................

Instrument panel indicator and gauge, and how to use dashboard and steering column controls.
Comfort and Convenience Features ................................................................................................

How to operate the climate control system, the audio system, and other convenience features.
Before Driving..................................................................................................................................

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What gasoline to use, how to break-in your new vehicle, and how to load luggage and other cargo.
Driving ..............................................................................................................................................

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The proper way to start the engine, shift the transmission, and park, plus towing a trailer.
Maintenance .....................................................................................................................................

129

The Maintenance Schedule shows you when you need to take your vehicle to the dealer.
Taking Care of the Unexpected ......................................................................................................

165

This section covers several problems motorists sometimes experience, and how to handle them.
Technical Information.....................................................................................................................

187

ID numbers, dimensions, capacities, and technical information.
Warranty and Customer Relations (U.S. and Canada) ................................................................

199

A summary of the warranties covering your new Acura, and how to contact us.
Authorized Manuals (U.S. only)......................................................................................................

203

How to order manuals and other technical literature.
Index.....................................................................................................................................................

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Service Information Summary

A summary of information you need when you pull up to the fuel pump.

This Owner’s Manual should be considered
a permanent part of the vehicle and should
remain with the vehicle when it is sold.

This Owner’s Manual covers all models of
the Civic Hatchback. You may find
descriptions of equipment and features that
are not on your particular model.

The information and specifications included
in this publication were in effect at the time
of approval for printing. Honda Motor Co.,
Ltd. reserves the right, however, to
discontinue or change specifications or
design at any time without notice and
without incurring any obligation whatsoever.

Owner’s Identification

OWNER

ADDRESS

V. I. N.

DELIVERY DATE

DEALER NAME

DEALER NO.

ADDRESS

OWNER’S SIGNATURE

DEALER’S SIGNATURE

STREET

CITY

STATE/PROVINCE

ZIP CODE/

POSTAL CODE

(Date sold to original retail purchaser)

STREET

CITY

STATE/PROVINCE

ZIP CODE/

POSTAL CODE

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One of the best ways to enhance the enjoyment of your new Honda is to
read this manual. In it, you will learn how to operate its driving controls and
convenience items. Afterwards, keep this owner’s manual in your vehicle so
you can refer to it at any time.

As you read this manual, you will
find information that is preceded by
a

symbol. This

information is intended to help you
avoid damage to your Honda, other
property, or the environment.

Congratulations! Your selection of a 2005 Honda Civic was a wise investment.
It will give you years of driving pleasure.

California Proposition 65 Warning

This product contains

or emits chemicals known to the
State of California to cause cancer
and birth defects or other
reproductive harm.

Event Data Recorders

This vehicle is equipped with one or
more recording devices commonly
referred to as event data recorders
or sensing and diagnostic modules.

Several warranties protect your new vehicle. Read the warranty booklet
thoroughly so you understand the coverages and are aware of your rights
and responsibilities.

Maintaining your vehicle according to the schedules given in this manual
helps to keep your driving trouble-free while it preserves your investment.
When your vehicle needs maintenance, keep in mind that your dealer’s staff
is specially trained in servicing the many systems unique to your vehicle.
Your dealer is dedicated to your satisfaction and will be pleased to answer
any questions and concerns.

Introduction

WARNING:

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Your safety, and the safety of others,
is very important. And operating this
vehicle safely is an important
responsibility.

To help you make informed
decisions about safety, we have
provided operating procedures and
other information on labels and in
this manual. This information alerts
you to potential hazards that could
hurt you or others.

Of course, it is not practical or
possible to warn you about all the
hazards associated with operating or
maintaining your vehicle. You must
use your own good judgement.

You will find this important safety information in a variety of forms,
including:

on the vehicle.

preceded by a safety alert symbol

and one of

three signal words:

, or

These signal words mean:

such as Important Safety Reminders or Important

Safety Precautions.

such as Driver and Passenger Safety.

how to use this vehicle correctly and safely.

This entire book is filled with important safety information

please read it

carefully.

A Few Words About Safety

Saf ety Labels
Saf ety Messages

Saf ety Headings

Saf ety Section
Instructions

DANGER WARNING

CAUTION

You WILL be KILLED or SERIOUSLY
HURT if you don’t follow instructions.

You CAN be KILLED or SERIOUSLY
HURT if you don’t follow instructions.

You CAN be HURT if you don’t follow
instructions.

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Your Vehicle at a Glance

POWER DOOR LOCK
SWITCH

AIRBAGS

POWER WINDOW
SWITCHES

HOOD RELEASE
HANDLE

FUEL FILL
DOOR RELEASE

HEATING/
COOLING CONTROLS

M/T

AUDIO SYSTEM

GAUGES

INSTRUMENT PANEL (P.

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To use the horn, press the center pad of the steering wheel.

Your Vehicle at a Glance

hicle

Glance

WINDSHIELD WIPERS/WASHERS

REAR WINDOW DEFOGGER

HORN

TILT ADJUSTMENT

HEADLIGHTS/
TURN SIGNALS

CRUISE CONTROL
MASTER SWITCH

MIRROR CONTROLS

CRUISE CONTROL BUTTONS

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HAZARD WARNING BUTTON

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This section gives you important
information about how to protect
yourself and your passengers. It
shows you how to use seat belts. It
explains how your airbags work. And
it tells you how to properly restrain
infants and children in your vehicle.

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Important Safety Precautions

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Your Vehicle’s Safety Features

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Seat Belts

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Airbags

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Protecting Adults and Teens

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1. Close and Lock the Doors

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2. Adjust the Front Seats

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3. Adjust the Seat-Backs

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4. Adjust the Head Restraints .

5. Fasten and Position the

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Seat Belts

6. Maintain a Proper Sitting

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Position

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Advice for Pregnant Women

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Additional Safety Precautions

Additional Information About Your

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Seat Belts

Seat Belt System Components .

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Lap/Shoulder Belt

Automatic Seat Belt

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Tensioners

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Seat Belt Maintenance

Additional Information About

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Your Airbags

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Airbag System Components

How Your Front Airbags

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Work

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How Your Side Airbags Work .

How the SRS Indicator Light

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Works

How the Side Airbag Off

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Indicator Works

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Airbag Service

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Additional Safety Precautions .

Protecting Children

General

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Guidelines

All Children Must Be

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Restrained

All Children Should Sit in the

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Back Seat

The Passenger’s Front Airbag

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Poses Serious Risks

If You Must Drive with Several

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Children

If a Child Requires Close

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Attention

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Additional Safety Precautions .

Protecting Infants and Small

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Children

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Protecting Infants

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Protecting Small Children

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Selecting a Child Seat

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Installing a Child Seat

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With LATCH

Installing a Child Seat With a

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Seat Belt

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With a Tether

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Protecting Larger Children

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Checking Seat Belt Fit

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Using a Booster Seat

When Can a Larger Child Sit

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in Front

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Additional Safety Precautions .

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Carbon Monoxide Hazard

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Safety Labels

Driver and Passenger Safety

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You’ll find many safety
recommendations throughout this
section, and throughout this manual.
The recommendations on this page
are the ones we consider to be the
most important.

Excessive speed is a major factor in
crash injuries and deaths. Generally,
the higher the speed, the greater the
risk, but serious injuries can also
occur at lower speeds. Never drive
faster than is safe for current
conditions, regardless of the
maximum speed posted.

Having a tire blowout or a
mechanical failure can be extremely
hazardous. To reduce the possibility
of such problems, check your tire
pressures and condition frequently,
and perform all regularly scheduled
maintenance (see page

A seat belt is your best protection in
all types of collisions. Airbags are
designed to supplement seat belts,
not replace them. So even though
your vehicle is equipped with airbags,
make sure you and your passengers
always wear your seat belts, and
wear them properly (see page

Children age 12 and under should
ride properly restrained in a back
seat. Infants and small children
should be restrained in a child seat.
Larger children should use a booster
and a lap/shoulder belt until they
can use the belt properly without a
booster (see page

While airbags can save lives, they
can cause serious or fatal injuries to
occupants who sit too close to them,
or are not properly restrained.
Infants, young children, and short
adults are at the greatest risk. Be
sure to follow all instructions and
warnings in this manual.

Alcohol and driving don’t mix. Even
one drink can reduce your ability to
respond to changing conditions, and
your reaction time gets worse with
every additional drink. So don’t drink
and drive, and don’t let your friends
drink and drive, either.

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Important Safety Precautions

Always Wear Your Seat Belt

Control Your Speed

Keep Your Vehicle in Saf e
Condition

Restrain All Children

Be Aware of Airbag Hazards

Don’t Drink and Drive

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Your vehicle is equipped with many
features that work together to
protect you and your passengers
during a crash.

Some features do not require any
action on your part. These include a
strong steel framework that forms a
safety cage around the passenger
compartment; front and rear crush
zones; a collapsible steering column;
and tensioners that tighten the front
seat belts in a crash.

However, you and your passengers
can’t take full advantage of these
features unless you remain sitting in
a proper position and

. In fact, some safety

features can contribute to injuries if
they are not used properly.

The following pages explain how you
can take an active role in protecting
yourself and your passengers.

Your Vehicle’s Safety Features

always wear

your seat belts

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(1) Safety Cage
(2) Crush Zones
(3) Seats and Seat-Backs
(4) Head Restraints
(5) Collapsible Steering Column
(6) Seat Belts
(7) Front Airbags
(8) Side Airbags (Optional)
(9) Seat Belt Tensioners
(10) Seat Belt Buckle Tensioners

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Your vehicle is equipped with seat
belts in all seating positions.

Your seat belt system also includes
an indicator on the instrument panel
to remind you and your passengers
to fasten your seat belts.

Seat belts are the single most
effective safety device for adults and
larger children. (Infants and smaller
children must be properly restrained
in child seats.)

Not wearing a seat belt properly
increases the chance of serious
injury or death in a crash, even
though your vehicle has airbags.

In addition, most states and all
Canadian provinces require you to
wear seat belts.

When properly worn, seat belts:

Keep you connected to the vehicle
so you can take advantage of the
vehicle’s built-in safety features.

Help protect you in almost every
type of crash, including frontal,
side, and rear impacts and
rollovers.

Help keep you from being thrown
against the inside of the vehicle
and against other occupants.

Keep you from being thrown out
of the vehicle.

Help keep you in a good position
should the airbags ever deploy. A
good position reduces the risk of
injury from an inflating airbag and
allows you to get the best
advantage from the airbag.

Of course, seat belts cannot
completely protect you in every
crash. But in most cases, seat belts
can reduce your risk of serious
injury.

Always wear your seat belt, and
make sure you wear it properly.

Your Vehicle’s Safety Features

Seat Belts

Why Wear Seat Belts

What You Should Do:

Not wearing a seat belt properly
increases the chance of serious
injury or death in a crash, even
though your vehicle has airbags.

Be sure you and your
passengers always wear seat
belts and wear them properly.

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Only on models equipped with side
airbags

Your vehicle also has side airbags to
help protect the upper torso of the
driver or a front seat passenger
during a moderate to severe side
impact (see page

for more

information on how your side airbags
work).

The most important things you need
to know about your airbags are:

They are designed to supplement
the seat belts.

To do

their job, airbags must inflate with
tremendous force. So while
airbags help save lives, they can
cause minor injuries or more
serious or even fatal injuries if
occupants are not properly
restrained or sitting properly.

Always wear

your seat belt properly, and sit
upright and as far back from the
steering wheel as possible while
allowing full control of the vehicle.
A front passenger should move
their seat as far back from the
dashboard as possible.

Your vehicle has a Supplemental
Restraint System (SRS) with front
airbags to help protect the heads and
chests of the driver and a front seat
passenger during a moderate to
severe frontal collision (see page

for more information on how

your front airbags work).

Airbags

Airbags do not replace seat belts.

Airbags can pose hazards.

Airbags of f er no protection in rear
impacts, or minor f rontal or side
collisions.

What you should do:

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The rest of this section gives more
detailed information about how you
can maximize your safety.

Remember however, that no safety
system can prevent all injures or
deaths that can occur in a severe
crash, even where seat belts are
properly worn and the airbags deploy.

After everyone has entered the
vehicle, be sure the doors are closed
and locked.

Locking the doors also helps prevent
an outsider from unexpectedly
opening a door when you come to a
stop.

See page

for how to lock the

doors.

If you sit too close to the steering
wheel or dashboard, you can be
seriously injured by an inflating front
airbag, or by striking the steering
wheel or dashboard.

Locking the doors reduces the
chance of someone being thrown out
of the vehicle during a crash and it
helps prevent passenger from
accidentally opening a door and
falling out.

Adjust the driver’s seat as far to the
rear as possible while allowing you to
maintain control of the vehicle. Have
a front passenger adjust their seat as
far to the rear as possible.

The following pages provide
instructions on how to properly
protect the driver, adult passengers
and teenage children who are large
enough and mature enough to ride in
the front seat.

See page

for important guidelines

on how to properly protect infants,
small children, and larger children
who ride in your vehicle.

Close and Lock the Doors

Adjust the Front Seats

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Protecting Adults and Teens

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The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration and Transport
Canada recommend that drivers
allow at least 10 inches (25 cm)
between the center of the steering
wheel and the chest.

If you cannot get far enough away
from the steering wheel and still
reach the controls, we recommend
that you investigate whether some
type of adaptive equipment may help.

Once your seat is adjusted correctly,
rock it back and forth to make sure
the seat is locked in position.

See page

for how to adjust the

front seats.

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Sitting too close to a front
airbag can result in serious
injury or death if the front
airbags inflate.

Always sit as far back from the
front airbags as possible.

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Adjust the driver’s seat-back to a
comfortable, upright position,
leaving ample space between your
chest and the airbag cover in the
center of the steering wheel.

Passengers with adjustable seat-
backs should also adjust their seat-
back to a comfortable, upright
position.

Reclining a seat-back so that the
shoulder part of the belt no longer
rests against the occupant’s chest
reduces the protective capability of
the belt. It also increases the chance
of sliding under the belt in a crash
and being seriously injured. The
farther a seat-back is reclined, the
greater the risk of injury.

See page

for how to adjust the

seat-backs.

Adjust the Seat-Backs

Protecting Adults and Teens

Reclining the seat-back too far
can result in serious injury or
death in a crash.

Adjust the seat-back to an
upright position, and sit well
back in the seat.

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Properly adjusted head restraints
will help protect occupants from
whiplash and other crash injuries.

See page

for how to adjust the

head restraints.

Have passengers with adjustable
head restraints adjust their restraint
so the back of their head rests
against the center of the restraint.
Taller persons should adjust their
restraint as high as possible.

Insert the latch plate into the buckle,
then tug on the belt to make sure the
belt is securely latched. Check that
the belt is not twisted, because a
twisted belt can cause serious
injuries in a crash.

Adjust the Head Restraints

Fasten and Position the Seat
Belts

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Improperly positioning head
restraints reduces their
effectiveness and you can be
seriously injured in a crash.

Make sure head restraints are
in place and positioned properly
before driving.

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The front seats have adjustable seat
belt anchors. To adjust the height of
an anchor, press and hold the release
buttons and slide the anchor up or
down as needed (it has four
positions).

If the seat belt touches or crosses
your neck, or if it crosses your arm
instead of your shoulder, you need to
adjust the seat belt anchor height.

This spreads the forces of a crash
over the strongest bones in your
upper body.

Position the lap part of the belt as
low as possible across your hips,
then pull up on the shoulder part of
the belt so the lap part fits snugly.
This lets your strong pelvic bones
take the force of a crash and reduces
the chance of internal injuries.

If necessary, pull up on the belt again
to remove any slack, then check that
the belt rests across the center of
your chest and over your shoulder.

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RELEASE
BUTTON

Improperly positioning the seat
belts can cause serious injury
or death in a crash.

Make sure all seat belts are
properly positioned before
driving.

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