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Last summer I bought a full set of cheap discs and mintex pads from a local motor factor for £170 (2.0 tourer, 280mm front disc). The mintex pads are superb - better cold bite/feel than the honda pads, and less dust than I've ever seen from a brake pad. The discs have been fine also. Make sure...

I've quickly read this thread and I noticed these units on ebay earlier this week. Something I've not noticed mentioned in this thread is the real kicker for non sat-nav cars in my opinion. This unit does NOT display the AC temp setting. It appears to rely on the dash-top display which is...

When I first got my car (second hand) the auto wipers seemed to have a complete mind of their own. They just did not work correctly. I looked up a few things about needing a new control unit and left it for a few months (it was summer). As autumn came on, I needed a new battery so I replaced...

Depends on whether you want to take the word of a garage who couldn't care less and don't want to admit that they made a mistake over honda's. That was a lesson I learned within a month of owning my first car when I had a tyre place order in the tyres I wanted. I went down, they took the wheels...

Correct, 16"s are a different matter. This thread has been in the context of 17"s, however.

The conclusive answer is that it's 94. This from my door jamb. Mine is a 2.0 manual, which is one of the lightest variants of the tourer, yet this still applies.

The danger is that should you be in an accident and the insurers find under-spec tyres they may refuse to pay out. The spec according to the door jamb sticker is 94W. Now, it's easy to say "The 91 load index is for 615kg, and you're never going to load up an accord to 2460kg", or "The saloon...

How did you get KH31s? Or did you mean KU31s? The KH31 isn't available for the tourer on 17"s (it only comes in 91 load rating, tourer requires 94).

My 7th gen 2.0 tourer gets 33mpg average over the last 25000 miles. Basically it seems to get 33mpg no matter what I do - I've had highs of 38 and lows of 29, but it's very steady around 33. My previous mitsubishis while giving similar averages were much more variable tank to tank (24mpg to...

The KU31 is a more sporting tyre - it was Kumho's equivalent to the eagle f1/toyo proxes market. It has been replaced with the KU39 now. However, it's not as much a comfort/touring tyre and not desperately quiet. Decent tyres though, I used to have KH15s on one of my old cars, and they were...

StuH - If you want quiet, I've just gone onto the new Pirelli P7 Cinturato, which has been getting outstanding reviews in the german tyre tests (note this is a new tyre, and not the same as the previous rather so-so P7). They are extremely quiet, soft-riding and roll far more easily than my...

I wouldn't bother. I had a mitsubishi Galant 2.0 with 4G63. When I had the cambelt changed, I asked them to replace the balancer belt while they were at it. They found that the previous balancer belt was broken, and by the looks of it had broken shortly after it was fitted - before I got the...

An update, given the snowy conditions we've had. The tyres are not good in cold/wet conditions as I previously described. They're not good in ice either, but no summer tyre is. Snow, however, has been a surprise to me. They're actually surprisingly capable in the snow - rather better than the...

So, snow then.... Given my last review berating the performance of my Goodyear Eagles in cold weather, and their tread design being mostly longitudinal grooves (no bloody use in snow), I ordered a pair of snowsocks on wednesday, as this winter is kicking in early and appears to be kicking in...

The magazine tests are done in warm conditions, in which they really are superb tyres. Perhaps I didn't emphasise that enough... They are outstandingly grippy in warmer conditions, and superb in the wet too. It's been very noticeable this week - monday and tuesday had temperatures between 2...