Recent content by mikey77

My 2010 idtec auto saloon has now done 101,000 miles (70k with me) and as far as I can tell between fills is doing 45mpg and around 50mpg on a run as it always has in the past five years. However, I don't trust what the computer tells me any more. After a long motorway run it says I have...

Yup, sounds like a normal Honda fuel gauge to me. Just drive it a bit further...

The autobox in my 2010 iDTEC is the best I've ever had - and I've had many, including lots of Hondas. I get 46mpg knocking around and over 50 on a run. That is, of course, on mostly uncongested French roads.

I've just done a 1k mile round trip with our 2010 i-Dtec auto 4-door from home in the Limousin area of France to the Med coast at Sete with a lot of mountains both ways as well as some motorway miles, not to mention running around with 4 adults in between. Fuel consumption according to the...

Cheers for that

An acquaintance of mine with a Mercedes has discovered that his car has a setting that allows the choice of whether the door mirrors fold in automatically when the car is locked. Is there a setting for this buried somewhere in the Accord computer? I haven't found any mention of it in the...

I bought 4 Hankooks for my Prelude Vti not long before selling it (boohoo) and found them very good for the reasonable money they cost. My Accord is on Goodyear Efficient Grip tyres all round and they seem OK - good apparent grip level and not noisy except on very bad surfaces. €140 each too...

How embarrassing. Just tried it and, sure enough, it works when the switch is set to the right. Only works on the right though - it's a lhd drive car. In 16 months and 20k miles I'd never noticed. Oops...

Went to reverse into a space in a busy city street earlier and discovered my dipping nearside door mirror has stopped dipping. It's one of the most useful gizmos on the car! The mirrors fold and unfold and adjust electrically as normal, it's just the nearside dip in reverse that doesn't. Any...

Same thing happened here two days ago! She was fiddling about in the glovebox...

I wouldn't lose any sleep at this stage. When you've actually got the car you can amuse yourself hunting through all the symbols and codes in the 600-plus pages of the handbook... :)

Here's a reply from someone who actually owns a 2.2 iDtec auto. We've had ours (2010 French market model with ADAS) since early last year. It's a bit big on the outside for the room available inside, particularly in the back. It's comfortable and quiet (except when stone cold) and the...

Sorry to hear about that. Read the extensive coverage on this forum - it's all there. Good luck.

I've always (last time a couple of weeks ago) put new tyres on the front of a FWD car and no tyre firm has ever queried it. I just don't believe this stuff about the difference between provoking understeer and oversteer at extremes. Don't go to extremes is my advice. I reckon that sort of advice...

>>To any of you diesel guys, what is the car meant to feel like when idling?<< A Fordson Major. But it smooths out - ours is quiet over 2k. We get 40-48mpg and the autobox is the best bit of the car, IMHO.