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New to the accord touring, helped and advice needed

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Danielduffy

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2.2ctdi tourer
Only have my Accord 7 weeks 2005 model tourer, beautiful car but few issues,

Steering jumping/hopping at round abouts and tight turns, waiting on new springs and hoping this will fix it, new drop links and track rod done so other than a steering issue i dont know im at a loss, have a great guy from this site trying to help but any extra advice always welcome.

Final issue is manifold, strong fums in cabin and honda ireland wont help, got a crazy price off them to replace so if anyone has any other advice on this or on a place in east of ireland to get it sorted i would be very thankful, change it or weld it??

Love my new motor but i want it right and willing to do what it takes to get it sorted to high standard.

All help id be delighted with

Cheers
 
I'd say front compliance bushes for the irratic behaviour under breaking and/or slow cornering. As for the manifold, it really is a warranty job. But if you're outside of the warranty timescale, your are going to have to pay I'm afraid. I'm not sure, but I wouldn't have thought welding would be good enough considering the heat stress etc that the manifold is exposed to. Safer to replace the thing. You might be able to get a bargain from a breakers though.
 
Stevearcade said:
I'd say front compliance bushes for the irratic behaviour under breaking and/or slow cornering. As for the manifold, it really is a warranty job. But if you're outside of the warranty timescale, your are going to have to pay I'm afraid. I'm not sure, but I wouldn't have thought welding would be good enough considering the heat stress etc that the manifold is exposed to. Safer to replace the thing. You might be able to get a bargain from a breakers though.
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Cheers, its fine under breaking its just on cornering, another guy that has same car in petrol checked the compliance bush and felt it was fine, he felt it was wrong springs it being a tourer so ordered them but they take 10 day as they are not in europe,

On manifold i was thinking same thing but another guy on the welcome page had said about welding.
 
The compliance can look and feel ok on inspection, but when removed it is clear they need replacing. How many miles has your car done? If it's over 60, I'd say get your compliance bushes done just to be safe. Did you order stock spring or lowering springs?

I've lowered my tourer on Apex. They're not that expensive and the car is much nicer to drive (***uming you want something a little more sporty feeling).
 
Stevearcade said:
The compliance can look and feel ok on inspection, but when removed it is clear they need replacing. How many miles has your car done? If it's over 60, I'd say get your compliance bushes done just to be safe. Did you order stock spring or lowering springs?

I've lowered my tourer on Apex. They're not that expensive and the car is much nicer to drive (***uming you want something a little more sporty feeling).
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Thats interesting, are they expensive to do?

I got the lowered ones , h&r so was hoping they would make a big difference, 134 k on the motor, really clean car but this has been doing my head in, is it big job to do the compliance? And again is it expensive?
 
The compliance bushes I got done I think for under £200, so it's not earth shattering. The lowering will make you grin from ear to ear when you get it done buddy, no going back, know what I mean ;) . 134K on your motor, yep, get the compliance bushes done. Might as well get it done while it's in having the suspension taken apart, could save time and therefore cost a little less on labour.

Also, it's worth getting them to check over the rest of the suspension bushes while it's on the ramp and being taken apart for fitment. Again, get some bits done while the car's in pieces, try and save on labour. These are great cars, but they're quite heavy and tend to want new drop links, ARB bushes, compliance bushes, steering column tie rods etc when they reach the higher mileage of 100K. It sounds worse than it is. These are all wear and tear parts, which considering the extra weight of the diesel block and the mileage, might want looking at. If it's mostly motorway mileage they might be fine. If like me, it's down lots more round-town driving, they've inevitably had more wear as there's much more cornering in the daily drive.

But with these looked at and the necessary parts replaced, it will feel like new, so well worth it.
 
Hope this dont come across as knowing nothing but what are the Arb bushes ?
Got tie rods done last week and drop-links
Springs coming this week so would you get compliance bush then too, the guy that looked at it taught they were fine but your saying they can need changing even while they may look at?
Someone said that it could be the power steering regarding the steering but this was a non honda person and im guessing from what im seen that these accords are way different to other motors
 
Not at all man, I asked the exact same question a while back. Anti-Roll Bar Bushes.
 
My 54 tourer has "standard" 16" wheels no problems, I have heard and seen others who have gone up to 17" and experience tramlining. Who knows. Get your tracking checked out a four wheel alinging tool first.
 
edgeoftime said:
My 54 tourer has "standard" 16" wheels no problems, I have heard and seen others who have gone up to 17" and experience tramlining. Who knows. Get your tracking checked out a four wheel alinging tool first.
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Tracking and everything done and perfect, was at garage today and we put a new power steering pump on it and it fixed it, only issue is a new pump is 500 euro plus fix, madness, im trying to get a second hand one now from breakers yard
 
Good to hear you have found the fault, and a rare one at that, good luck with search.

there's on here.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-ACCORD-2-2-POWER-STEERING-PUMP-03-08-NO-RESERVE-/111068906359?pt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Other_Vehicle_Parts_Accessories_ET&hash=item19dc390377
 
edgeoftime said:
Good to hear you have found the fault, and a rare one at that, good luck with search.

there's on here.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-ACCORD-2-2-POWER-STEERING-PUMP-03-08-NO-RESERVE-/111068906359?pt=UK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Other_Vehicle_Parts_Accessories_ET&hash=item19dc390377
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Cheers John, had picked one up in Dublin at a normal enough price so happy with that, hope to have it in tomorrow,
 
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