What is brake assisted traction control?

You probably are referring to stability control which uses the abs and sensors such as yaw and steering input to compute whether or not the driver is in the process of departing from the authorised safely controlled trajectory and activate the braking system if it detects that the driver has exceeded the pre-programmed parameters.

Otherwise known as " electronic clamp down on having fun"

There are 74 nationally 2015 or 2016 Honda Civics on Autotrader.

If you are remotely concerned about this one, unless it is very cheap, leave it and look elsewhere. They are not scarce or specialist.

The other thing they remarked was the V5 says the colour is X, but they tell me the colour is Y.

It depends on the colour - I've had some strange colours over the years. I seem to remember a Ford red that was more purple and a Hilman red that looked yellow. I think it's set at the point the dealer first registers the car.

The other thing they remarked was the V5 says the colour is X, but they tell me the colour is Y. They told me the car is not crash repaired, as it is HPI clear. I asked him, if there are mistake like this on the V5.

Mistakes on a V5 are not uncommon. I had a Mazda MX5 which, according to the V5, had 3 seats!

Any doubts, just walk.

How can a car with factory fitted brake pads need replacing at 22,000 miles

Give it to my Mrs. 18k miles in a Nissan Note and new pads and disks needed.

Races right up to the junction then slams the brakes on.

I age a year every time I am a passenger with her!

:-)

Of course the "pads wearing thin" could just be the MoT tester trying to drum up some business.

My son's Fiesta had "pads wearing thin" in 2019, but they had apparently grown back by last year and still have at least 3mm when I checked last week. I could list a number of spurious advisories our cars have collected over recent years which have disappeared the following year.

Edited by Chris M on 16/05/2021 at 21:40

Interesting thread - not till the eighteenth post from Chris M that the first thing that came into my mind was mentioned.

Garages like to change pads with many thousands of miles wear left on them (won't last till next service, squire...). With normal driving you should get about 5000 miles per millimetre of pad thicknes (at least !0mm down to 2mm). Same goes for tyres - measure them yourself with a tread depth indicator.

Edited by John F on 17/05/2021 at 09:18

<< ... some pads do not last long and 5k per mm wear is not possible on some pads, but some do push the limits of pads to extremes -or- want their moneys worth! which can be false economy >>

It's many years since I changed any brake pads, but I remember that the ones I used had a central groove which served as an exit for dust, and also as a wear indicator. When that groove had gone it was time to change.

Of course one could get one's 'money's worth' by going further, but as with tyres, the indicators were there.

Some .... rely on garages to let them know when brakes and tyres are worn to limit, unless of course they are not believed, which some don`t. it seems

I don't think it's a matter of being 'clever'. I suspect that many drivers are too busy to do more than believe that as long as the car has not broken down, perhaps nothing needs doing until it does. And the MoT (if one remembers it) should pick up any problems. So we arrive at the position already discussed.

If it ain't broke ....