| | Accord EX-L V6, 2007 "7.5 Gen"
Forgot to turn on my GPS for about eight miles after gas stop....
Moving Time 4 hr 11 min
Stopped Time 3 min 49 s
Moving Average 61.9 mph
Max Speed: xx mph
Mpg: 29.3 (Combined) [determined from a mix of highway and duke driving]
Premium at 3.499 USD/gal
Conditions: Sunny, chill ~18C? Sunday afternoon traffic heavy but flowing after Richmond. Stop and go from Tysons on. Exited 495 early at Clara Barton. Crazy people not securing luggage on roof racks correctly. Crazy crashes. Stepped on the brakes two times due to other cars.
Earlier in my driving week, managed to fold my front left tire in during an aggressive turn and chipped the rim, causing the VSA and ABS lights to remain on indefinitely. Hope it is only the wheelspeed sensor... visiting Honda dealer tomorrow morning.
Need to revise my initial description of the engine note. Not quite NSX, which was a euphoric descriptor after being unleashed on a V6. The texture of the note is grainy and muted/deep upon VTEC.
Not used to drive-by-wire for crawling pace. Brakes and gas too sensitive.
Five speed auto transmission sucks. The addition of a gear makes it all shorter, causing the car to look for gears. "intelligent" downshifting to use engine braking or something intrudes on my "coasting" driving style for stop and go, making it more like "gas, coast, computer controlled downshift, gas, brake." Expect abysmal MPG...
EX I-4 1999 "6 Gen"
Back from service, which totaled 1,400. Apparently the front left rotor was seized... which added a good 500 to the bill... Have not driven it, Father says it is working better now. Update pending.
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| | Posted 4/13/2008 5:28 PM
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