Honda Car Forum

STSinNYC wrote:

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>Honda is a great manufacturer as we all know, and most of their factory recos are sound, but two aren't: tire pressue (too low)and oil change intervals (too long). For our 02 Accord V6, the manual says 30 psi. Cold psi max on the sidewall says 44 psi. A family member is manager of a tire shop, he told me to keep these tires (the Michelin MXV4+) at 40 psi. I am doing so and we're getting excellent highway MPG and good handling.
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Love those MXV4+'s - Typically used 30-35 psi and got 105k out of
the originals on my 2000 Accord EX (only rotated at 20, 40 , 60 & 80k).
They were still legal and probably had another 5-10k, but a pre-season
sale came up and with winter approaching, I went ahead and replaced them
(with the same MXV4+). Mileage over that 105k averaged 26.7 for us (V6).

Now if they would just add an inch headroom vs. decreasing it as they
did in 2001, I'd buy another.