WTF is the small vent in front of the key hole on ignition? I've noticed on other cars and never got an answer on what it is?

 

Maybe a temp sensor for the climate control?

 

lol.. that "vent" came in the middle of the 05 production run.. My guess is that it is for a JDM part, since none of the us evo's came w/ automatic climate control.
I have a very early 05 w/o that vent, and a friend of mine got a mid-05 that has the vent... both of us have GSR's, but mine w/ SSL.

 

Yeah, when I lived in Japan my civic SiR had it too and when I had the dash off I still couldn't figure it out either. That car didn't have auto climate control either.
??????

 

well when your keys are in the ignition and the door is open and that annoiying ding ding ding comes from behind that vent! maybe has something to do with that... a sound vent lol

 

I don't think the ding is coming from the vent? Maybe its to cool your fingers down if you are taking you keys out real fast! lol

 

I don't have that vent. And I have a 05 MR.

 

I've got it on my IX. Maybe its part of the flux capacitor.

 

There is nothing behind it. I mounted the microphone for my alpine voice nav/handsfree setup there though and that works well and is nice and hidden.

 

^Why is it there then, when I was in Japan my Civic had it and it had a small tube mounted to it but didn't really see where it went.

 

maybe its there for some reason you might get stuck in your car with all of the windows rolled up and that vent allows you to breathe??

 

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I see you are in Columbia, I used to live out in Scumter, stationed at Shaw.