Well, I hope you read Japanese.
I found what I needed on page 2016: 220kpa, which matches the cold tire pressures on the 2008-12 Inspires sold here as Accords.
Honestly, I was hoping that the domestic(for Japan) and Asian rim version of my Accord would specifiy different front/rear tire pressures! You know, there's a joke going around about vehicles made in, or targeted for sale in, the U.S.:
You can tell if a vehicle is made for use in America when the tire/load sticker specifies the same cold pressures, front and rear!
Ba-dump-Bump!
Buuuuut seriously, folks.. If the eastern-Asia Inspire equivalent of 8Gen Accord recommends the same tire pressures all around, that confirms the car was probably engineered that way.
Aaaand… The Japanese market Accord from 2008-11 was sold in the U.S. as none other than the TSX, in Acura dealerships. So If you want to drive a true Accord from those years, just saddle up a 2008-11 TSX!
No wonder what was marketed in North America, from 2008-12, as an Accord, felt like it “didn’t fit” in the Accord family!
The 5th, 6th, and 7th Gen Accords, and the Japanese “8th” - what was sold in Japan at about the same time as the Inspire was marketed as Accord in America - all seemed to have a familial lineage.
The U.S. 9th Gen? I’m not sure what that is - an evolution of the Inspire, or a pure Japanese Accord.
No wonder, when I looked at images of the interiors of U.S. Accords from the late 1990s until 2008 - I was like, “WHAT?” when I got to the 2008 model year (what was marketed in America as!) Accord. Little if any commonality between it, and preceding model years of U.S. Accords.
It’s not ugly, it’s just that there’s no continuity from MY 2007 to MY 2008 in the U.S. Accords.
Again, kind of like Ford deciding, after thirty years of exporting Rangers(compact pickup trucks) to the rest of the world, suddenly rebadging a big honkin’ F-1(or 2!)50 as a Ranger for the European or Asian markets! As a loyal Ford customer in, IE, the Philippines, having owned several Ranger pickups, and then along comes this MONSTER of a truck, with ‘Ranger’ badging! I’d be like, ‘What the heck?’
lol Ya’ll feel me?
