Recent content by johnd

Do you know anyone else with a similar spec Accord? If so, you could borrow their DVD just to see if your drive is faulty. Or maybe if your dealer is friendly he might let you try one from his secondhand stock?

Yeah, like my first car - a 1932 Austin 7. 0 - 30 mph in 5 minutes....... :blink:

Now I wonder, would the airflow/temperature be directly proportional to the amount of fuel injected? Answers on the back of a postcard......

Agreed!

Interesting explanation CJ. Presumably based on fact and not inspired guesswork? Now a question: if you are sitting at traffic lights with your foot off the throttle, you are in principle doing zero mpg. Whereas going downhill with your foot off the throttle gives infinite mpg. So the...

Many modern pressure sensors are piezo electric i.e. solid state: pressure in = volts out. But is pressure measurement a suitable technique for monitoring fuel flow?

Hope I'm not duplicating another thread here but this video is fascinating: My link But you do need a fast broadband connection to get a continuous presentation, if not it goes in fits and starts. I believe it is based on the Civic installation but the principles are the same. Enjoy!

Rob, I think you are the closest! My bet is on some kind of sensor in the common rail area but I really would like to know how it works since fuel flow (as a precise measure of consumption) is notoriously difficult to monitor.

Anyone out there know how the computer senses fuel flow? It needs this to calculate average mpg, along with distance travelled. So I guess there is a sensor fitted somewhere in the fuel delivery system?

In general, as I expect you know, diesels take a lot longer to warm up than petrol. It's because they are more efficient. Having said that my Civic (now gone) and my Accord both took/take between 3 and 5 miles to reach running temperature depending on the ambient conditions. The Accord is...

An important factor is how the car is driven after a remap. If you maintain broadly the same driving style then the engine (and other components) should not suffer increased stress and reliability should not be compromised. On the other hand, if you take advantage of increased power by driving...

This forum is a goldmine of information!! :)

Yes Ezhik, I appreciate that. Which means that if I want to go to, say, Norway, I'll have to buy disk 2: Eastern Europe. But at another £39.99 it's still a lot cheaper than going to my dealer! If only Honda/Alpine made these updates available at a sensible price then we wouldn't have to...

Having purchased my 2007 Accord just a month ago I found it had a V3.02 (2005/2006) DVD in place. I wasn't prepared to pay the Honda dealer circa £150 for an update so did a bit of research on 'you know where' and was able to locate a V3.40 (2010) disk for £39.99. This works fine with the one...

Thanks to all of you. Now I have to think of ways of increasing my post count so I can see the sub-forums! johnd