Hi Everyone, Just upgraded my ageing 18 year old MK1 CVT to a lovely low mileage MK3 1.3 i-VTEC EX CVT 2017, registered just before 31st March 2017 so it qualifies for the low £30 / year tax
A marked improvement coming from the MK1, love all the electronic safety gadgets and other standard options which comes with the EX model.
Throttle response is quite different from my old MK1 even my wife commented on this. It seems like the first 50% travel is tuned for economy, it all changes when you floor it pass the kick-down switch though. I find that using the paddles in S-mode gets the best of the engine. My old MK1 1.4 i-DSI had more mid-range punch whereas the MK3 1.3 i-VTEC has a lot more top end power.
I managed to bag myself a cheap full-sized 6Jx15" alloy plus a jack\wrench from a MK1 as a spare and spent the afternoon crafting a wooden support for the flimsy cardboard boot floor cover. The front section is fully supported by the wheel but the wheel slopes downwards towards the rear, the wooden support to the rear (not shown in pic) is able to slide under the gap of the rear seats which provides a perfect anchoring point of the whole wooden support, the wooden battens has to be no more than 10mm thick in order for it to slide under. It's not a pretty site but it does the job perfectly, I'd managed to put the jack\tools etc around the outside or inside of the wheel stuffed with bubble wrap to stop rattling around, the other option would be to spend over £100 from Honda for a piece of hard foam insert to suit a full-size spare wheel.