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Let's image that you are cruising down the highway at 65 miles per hour and suddenly you see an animal jump out in front of your car. Could be a 2 lb rabbit or a 100 lb plus deer, either way you want to avoid hitting it.

So you yank the wheel to turn the car away from the critter. Did you make it? Was it just a close call, or is there something behind the car lying in the road?

One of the determining factors that helped decide what just happened is the "contact patch" of your tires. So just what is a "contact patch"?

Let's use our imagination again. This time we will image driving our car up a ramp onto a platform made out of very thick glass. Don't worry, its strong enough to hold your car, you and your mother-in-law up in the air.

Now walk under the platform and look up. Do you see where the tires are touching the glass? Well that's the contact patch. The contact patch is that portion of your tire that is in contact with the road surface.

Not too much touching is there? If we looked at a 3,000 car with 30 lbs per square inch of tire pressure it would have about 100 sq-in of contact patch. Since there are four tires, each one would have about the area of a 4 x 6 inch index card. Or another way, about the size of one your hand prints.

This is all that is touching the road, and every maneuver you make with the car is transferred to these small patches of rubber.

The more you have, the better you apply the thrust the car has against the road surface to accelerate, brake or corner the vehicle. When you hear about racing terms such as "oversteer" and "understeer" they are referring to how well the rubber of the tire grips the road and what happens when that grip starts to slip loose from the road surface. Typically either the rear or the front end of the car breaks loose before the opposite end.

So I hope your tires were in good shape and properly inflated when you encountered the situation we started out with.

By the way, what happened in your mind? Did you miss that poor helpless animal or are you attending a funeral?

Dennis Dater has been involved with cars for over 50 years. His first love was sports cars when he drove a 1952 MG to high school.

He has produced over 50 articles for EzineArticles on cars, and almost a hundred on his web sites.

His two web sites are designed for Honda Accord aftermarket accessories.

For help with your contact patch:

http://www.accordmania.com/product/BG-S2K-Sport-Suspension-Lowering-Kits-for-Honda-Accord/Default.aspx

Or his blog at:

http://www.accordmania.blogspot.com

Honda Drops Honda Accord Hybrid

Hybrids are hot property these days, but not so with Honda’s hybrid version of the Accord.

On June 4 Honda officials announced that the company will discontinue the hybrid Accord at the end of the current model year. The new Honda Accord, which will go on sale in September, will not be available in a gasoline-electric hybrid version, according to a company spokesman.

Hybrid cars use electric motors to supplement power from the gasoline, resulting in improved fuel economy.

Since the model debut in the market in 2004, the Japanese automaker sold roughly 25,000 of the cars in North America. Slightly more than 6,000 were sold last year.

Auto industry analysts characterized the car's brief run as a cautionary tale, with the lesson being that only a small segment of the public will buy a vehicle that carries a high price for hybrid technology but delivers limited fuel economy compared with other gas-electric vehicles.

Federal fuel mileage estimates on the 2007 Honda Accord Hybrid came in at 28 m.p.g. in the city and 35 m.p.g. on the highway -- only marginally better than 26/34 m.p.g. ratings on an Accord sedan with a four-cylinder gas engine and a five-speed manual transmission.

The 2007 Accord Hybrid ranged from $31,000 to $33,000 in price however, compared with $18,500 to $29,500 for gas-fueled Accord sedans.

Honda has previously announced that it will introduce a new hybrid car in 2009. That car will be smaller in size and less expensive than the Honda Civic Hybrid. The Accord, a midsized car, is larger and more expensive than the Civic.

The competing Toyota Camry Hybrid uses a four-cylinder engine resulting in considerably better fuel economy than the Accord Hybrid.

Hybrids accounted for 14 percent of Camrys sold last month, but just 1.4 percent of Accords, according to data from Power Information Networks, an auto research firm. The Accord and Camry are the two best-selling passenger cars in the United States.

Honda – also maker of top of the line Honda axle assembly has not revealed whether the Accord would get the diesel engine. The European version of the Accord - a car sold in the United States as the Acura TSX - is available in Europe with a diesel engine.

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Can I put a 02 jetta front seat in a honda accord coupe 06 lx?

I bought a 06 Honda Accord Coupe LX and the seats are rock hard and there is no back ajustments.I have a really bad back and I can not sit in them for very long. I had a jetta and loved the seats is it possible to put jetta adjustable seats in a hond accord coupe? Would they fit?

you can put seats in anything. you might have to drill new bolt holes but they will fit.

1998 Honda Accord EX Sedan from North America - Comments
OEM tires replaced at 20,000 miles. Dealer stated that this was "normal wear". months. Dealership stated that this was "normal wear". No repair was needed.

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