Type R or not?

[MTX BOY]

This afternoon i was following a white Ek hatch with a type R emblem below the civic badge, i coodnt see the interior when i passed him all i could see in my rear-vision was a red H emblem on the grille. How can you tell if ist a genuine type R from the outside?

[madgrk]

check for 5 stud rims Thats a dead give-away

[Mitch M]

check for 5 stud rims Thats a dead give-away

good luck whilst moving :lol:

[madgrk]

Well from what I believe the only REAL EK9's are in Melbourne anyway. But basically thats the only way I know that you can check.. Unless somebody goes all out on their conversion and changes to 5 stud rims/hubs etc

[Mitch M]

Well from what I believe the only REAL EK9's are in Melbourne anyway. But basically thats the only way I know that you can check.. Unless somebody goes all out on their conversion and changes to 5 stud rims/hubs etc

from what i heard there was 2 in sydney, 1 locked away and very rarely driven.

[A'PEXi]

check the bodywork, ie. type r stickers in the absolute perfect position, type r wing, unique type r bodykit front/rear lips, ctr grill, (i think there arn't many people around with copy kits, ek4's is really nice but he is in vic ).... type r wheels, recaro interior... if its a newer model should have the jdm headlights as well... and if its a older model, the frontbar and rear bar should have no plastic mouldings as seen on all 96-98 honda civic hatches.

[gelo]

theres a silver ek9 in sydney
saw it in chatty with a red plate B16B

it had full type R interior and 5 stud bolts
took a pic of it with my fone~
pity it wasnt white

[mo]

There is plenty of 5 stud conversions around boys.

Basically it is really hard to check if it is a EK9 or not imho.

[SIKCVC]

rego? :P or better yet. ask? I'm sure they wont bight your head off.

[tofu R]

hmm i dun think that that civic with plates b16b is a real ctr ..

[ATSE]

If it is moving.. check the back... CTR's have no rear wipers

[Mitch M]

If it is moving.. check the back... CTR's have no rear wipers

... easy to removed a replace window

if they are gone to enough effort to make you check things like that ... its more than likely that those little things haven't been over looked.

things like the 5 studs are better things to check as it isn't cheap to do the 5 stud conversion and for what it does for performance or looks [nothing], its unlikely they will fork out the money for it