...or rather, the lack thereof. When out and about today, I dropped into the local Honda garage to see what they had. Not bad, especially the extraordinary little Jazz (how can a car that size have so much interior space?). The dealer proudly showed me the boot with the double floor level. Aha, I said, but where do you put the spare wheel? There isn't one, he said. My gast was completely flabbered - I've had hire cars with skinny space-saver spares (even had to use one once when I misjudged and whacked a kerb rather too hard), but never with none. He explained that the thing had some sort of pump and repair kit, and if that didn't work, a call would bring the local Honda folk a-running to the rescue. But I could see me stuck on a French autoroute in the middle of nowhere with an urgent appointment with a ferry and awaiting the attentions of Honda France. I don't feel right without a spare of some sort.
Now I haven't had a puncture since the aforementioned kerb whack (in Belfast about 6 years ago), so am I being an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy, and is the puncture business now so straightforward that spares are a waste of space?
Now I haven't had a puncture since the aforementioned kerb whack (in Belfast about 6 years ago), so am I being an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy, and is the puncture business now so straightforward that spares are a waste of space?