Just over 29 months since taking delivery my 2014 Coupe V6 6MT Agreement and I'm already out of warranty. This is not entirely true; there is still the cover powertrain until the mark of 50,000 miles. Some items, such as seatbelts and airbags and catalytic converters, will be replaced on Honda's time for the rest of this decade, if not more. But this time to be able to take the car to the dealer for noise and little broken pieces and clunks 3 / 36,000 bumper honeymoon bumper? As my future third wife, Este, say -. Those days are gone
The odometer ticked over into danger (not-quite-as) (e) area during the ride transit return stroke AER at New Jersey Motorsports Park. My Current wife, the infamous Danger Girl, took the car in New Jersey for her to learn the track in a street car before making his way in endurance race Saturday
This is true :. Mrs . Baruth now has more experience wheel to wheel competition that all full-time staff Motor Trend . (Cue the video Reese Witherspoon, saying: "As it is difficult")
This was the conduct of the Agreement angry the first time, but it was the fifth different track of the big Honda circled in the last two years. in truth, my warranty was probably compromised the minute I showed TTAC readers a picture of the car with numbers on the door. Regardless, the party is definitely over now, so I decided that there was no harm in driving the car until the South Carolina for the golf camp with my son this week and see what kind of fuel economy that I would wring now completely broken in 3 5 liter V6.
All right. Let's reduce the cutesy stuff and go right to that when the time comes Festivus, is known as "the distribution of grievances."
It has recently been alleged by one of our most caustic players that I personally was afraid to criticize the brakes of the Agreement. This is not entirely true. I'm not ready to mark them as unfit for normal daily use. If you are "warping the rotors' in your Agreement on the street, then you are almost certainly driving the car well outside the limits of what is legal or even sensible to do. My car has front disc of 11.5 inches. It's a little less of a diameter inch you got with an E36 M3, just to put things in perspective. We are not talking of a Fox-body 5.0 with rear drum brakes.
However, Honda has taken steps to address these complaints for 2016, upgrading of the sport and the four-cylinder Touring car only six cylinders a disk before 12.3 inches. Notice that the EX- L V6 coupe has not get new caps. If you really want bigger brakes of your cut, however, it will only cost you about $ 400 to exchange the stirrups. it is almost certainly a loss time and money on your part if you do not regularly go to the track.
If you he Track your agreement, but ... well, it continues to be a waste of time and money on your part because nobody, and I mean person performance pads made either for a set of calipers. The purchase tampons share and rotors are strictly a matter of three laps, immediately reaching temperatures high enough to boil 0 Motul fluid. Like a car track, each Agreement is never seriously under-constrained and this one is no different. The friendly people at Carbotech can make performance chips for you, but it takes a few months, from now on, I'm still waiting for them to come back to me with an exact delivery date. Another alternative: spend $ 3500 on a set of calipers and rotors Brembo GT. The best way to handle it: learning to bleed your brakes between sessions and manage the temperature of your brake. This will also save you the cost of upgrading to the 19-inch wheels, you will need to clear Brembo calipers
Speaking of wheels :. The B & B were absolutely ruthless when it came to winter tires "Sport Edition" that I put on last year's agreement. So this summer, I thought I would try something a little more upscale. I bought the O.Z. Racing Omnia, an entry level, made in Italy wheel that gives some style (and about a pound of weight gain) and its ULTRALEGGERA Superleggera brothers in exchange for a significant break in prices. Tires are the Cooper Zeon RS-G1 3 all seasons, which are loaned by Cooper. Expect a review on these tires, and how they survived a few sessions at the "bowl" last round of NJMP in the near future.
After a few years working in and around the town of Honda company Marysville, Ohio, I have concluded that there are two things that American Honda is absolutely unable to do:
- Provide a meal decent employees in the executive building / office worker;
- painting a car.
pure sown havoc on my nose of the Agreement by the last 37,000 miles did nothing to change my opinion. I had once a Mercedes-Benz with 247,000 miles and no history of painting which had less chips to the primer. If you are wondering how much Honda provides car for the same price that a prime Malibu, run your fingers along the edge of my car hood will help you come up with at least a partial answer to this question.
also less remarkable: the perforated leather front seats plasticky. No amount of cleaning consciousness or constant conditioning can prevent surfaces creasing and fading. I guess it's all part of the plan to buy a four-cylinder Acura TLX instead. I am proud of my ability to keep a car looking new interior, having returned lease all of a Range Rover 4.0S B5 Volkswagen Passat without so much as a bright spot on the armrests, but innate good market of the Agreement has already triumphed my best efforts.
So, these are my complaints, in no particular order. Weighed against indisputable merits of the Honda, they do not amount to much. Over 700 miles between Ohio and South Carolina, the Accord returned 32.3 miles per gallon running at 80 miles per hour on highways dishes north of Charlotte, and even managed to show 28.2 mpg on average nearly 0 hours on the hills and curves of the West Virginia Turnpike. The engine remains a standard by which all plants short drive from passengers of a Coyote 5.0 can be measured. The interior is extremely comfortable, even on long journeys. Ergonomics is impeccable. Most importantly - or perhaps less above all, depending on your temperament - the big coupe is not quick enough effort to overcome all but the most outrageous SUVs and luxury sedans, giving the Accord V6 driver full control of its own traffic situation.
There is a car I would buy without hesitation. As the B & B know, I played with the idea of trading it in a brand new, especially since Honda is about to end the V6 and / or transmission manual, which leads me to perhaps the most impressive aspect of the Accord V6 resale value . When I bought the car in early February 2014, I do not put tax and title down, and I financed the more than 60 months remaining. Right now, I have $ 15,0 or so on that loan. Kelley Blue Book Private Party think the value is $ 19,346, but I think I could do a little better than that; Hondas manual will always look good money if you are patient. Needless to say, I've never had that kind of equity in any new German or British car at that point in the buying cycle. It's enough to make you slowly, reluctantly understand why people will not consider anything other than a Honda.
Far from perfect, the ninth-generation Accord nevertheless represents a significant improvement over its bloated, analgesic predecessor. It also represents a return, however brief, the core values that have made Honda 35 years ago the darling of the smart set. The warranty sucks the paint is thin, leather is embarrassingly bad. So what. It's a great car, and I continue to recommend it to all.
[Images: © 2016 Jack Baruth/The Truth About Cars]
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