After GRR's recent adventures with the Ariel Nomad (video coming soon) the plucky Honda's front right Michelin Primacy 3 gave up the ghost. Fortunately, the HR-V was easily able to make its way back to our temporary office at the Goodwood Racecourse and GRR put a call into the masters of fitting rubber over at ATS Euromaster.
But how to get the HR-V from the Racecourse, which sits atop a hill just outside Chichester, to ATS in central Chichester without a spare? Here enters Honda's brilliant temporary puncture kit, found in the boot, just behind a removable panel. Many of these just feature a spray/or foam which you put into the tyre through the valve, but Honda's comes with a brilliantly small tyre pump, with which to insert the spray that will hopefully seal the leak temporarily.
And, it works! The Michelin is temporarily reinflated and sooner than you know ATS have fitted some new rubber and we're away, just in time for the Honda to make its way to Paris!
Pricetag of our car: £26,780.
MPG this week: 53.7.
Photography by Ben Miles.
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