| furball |
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| 01/03/23 08:19 AM |
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New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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Picked it up last week, took 4 months.
Haven't really had a chance to drive it. Moving on from a 2017 Nissan Qashqai...
Initial impressions
- Honda Jewel Eye headlights. Never really a fan of them, preferred Morimoto H11b HID projector kit installed on the Qashqai
- Underbelly and wheelwells have fabric(?) covers with pushpins installed ... It's like hard felt? I'd imagine this shit would gather and retain water and dirt like mad...
- Push button start seems to be a bit hidden?
- Hate the front end
- Rear windows + rear glass come tinted pretty dark (25%?) ...
Just like the damn Volvo XC90, I can't quite figure out the jack + jack stand points...
... I mean, I can find one spot per wheel area, but then, if I use that, there's no spot for the jackstand... So for now I'm doing unsafe tire changes...
| Senor Eduardo_82 |
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| 01/04/23 06:56 AM |
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Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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Originally Posted By: furball
Picked it up last week, took 4 months.
4 months to pick it up? Did you have to swim to Japan?
| SuPeR-MaRiO |
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| 01/04/23 07:41 AM |
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Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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Originally Posted By: furball
Hate the front end
Originally Posted By: furball
So for now I'm doing unsafe tire changes
| furball |
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| 01/04/23 09:17 AM |
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Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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Leaving it on the jack with no jackstand.
The HR-V has a section of metal that's about ... 5 inches wide, looks like an L bracket. I use that section for the jack. There's no other viable spot for the jackstand (large portion of the L bracket is covered by the 'sideskirt' plastic ...
Yes, I could throw a tire under as a safety ...
Originally Posted By: SuPeR-MaRiO
Can you elaborate? What's unsafe about what you're doing? Not using a jackstand and leaving it on the jack?
| c2k |
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| 01/04/23 01:57 PM |
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Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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Clearly you guys haven't experienced buying a new car lately. RAV4 backlog is/was nearly a year.
| Senor Eduardo_82 |
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| 01/04/23 05:01 PM |
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Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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I'm quite content to never know the joy of buying a new RAV4.
| c2k |
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| 01/05/23 10:28 AM |
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it's not just RAV4, the wait time to buy new cars are just crazy long. BTW, welcome back.
| 4Three |
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| 01/07/23 05:15 PM |
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Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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I'm hearing if you order a new car now, you might get it by 2024.
Maybe they're ushering us into the self-drive future ... yuk
| Cee_mon |
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| 01/09/23 07:25 PM |
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I ordered a new mazda cx9 in October... projecting to arrive in march or april. The wait sucks but the cx50 wait is over 1 year currently.
| TheRealCSnapper |
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| 01/10/23 08:52 AM |
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Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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Originally Posted By: Cee_mon
I ordered a new mazda cx9 in October... projecting to arrive in march or april. The wait sucks but the cx50 wait is over 1 year currently.
picked up a used '21 in late November and it's been great
wireless apple car play is garbage, not sure if it's a apple thing or a Mazda thing....
| ru4real |
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| 03/09/23 11:02 AM |
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Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
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Originally Posted By: TheRealCSnapper
Originally Posted By: Cee_mon
I ordered a new mazda cx9 in October... projecting to arrive in march or april. The wait sucks but the cx50 wait is over 1 year currently.
picked up a used '21 in late November and it's been great
wireless apple car play is garbage, not sure if it's a apple thing or a Mazda thing....