► Living with a Cupra Leon Estate
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More tyre woes, but thankfully nothing as irksome as Mark Walton’s two punctures in one month. I’ve had that thing where the tyre-pressure warning light comes on and you get a message saying you need to check the pressures.
In the past, with other cars, that’s been a red herring. So I drove on, keeping an ear open for any extra juddering or other signs that one of the tyres might actually be losing air. Nothing.
Next day, though, I checked the tyres. And, to my surprise, both the lefts were 5psi down on the rights.
I can’t in all honesty say I’d noticed anything asymmetrical about the handling, nor that I could discern any difference after I pumped them up.
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Logbook: Cupra Leon Estate 2.0 TSI 4Drive VZ3
Price: £44,845 (£46,825 as tested)
Performance: 1984cc turbocharged four-cylinder, 306bhp, 4.9sec 0-62mph, 155mph
Efficiency: 34.4mpg (official), 32.4mpg (tested), 186g/km CO2
Energy cost: 21.7p per mile
Miles this month: 1982
Total miles: 8006