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KCJeep said:
We have a couple at work, they are okay I guess albeit a bit older. If the CRV drives better than your Accord that’s not a compliment. 😮
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Since I'm the hybrid king I want to see what i can wring out of it...
 
I took it for a short ride along my Accord travels.. this thing feels like it was machined from a solid block of steel. It's around 4000 lbs but drives like a 6000 pound truck..

It's always torqued up being a AWD
And feels like an old 70s muscle car in 3rd gear...Rock crusher manual of course...
I took it on the
offending roads and not one rattle anywhere...

Everything like cup holders etc are bigger in the Accord. The seats are tighter but I like the material.

Nothing like the older CRVs...
I have nostalgia with Mitsubishi vehicles as noted. This CRV hybrid would be $8k more and I think its well worth it...

Here are my normal mpgs for the trip with a drive thru thrown in.. No attempt to get stellar mpgs... 43.5 mpg over 15.8 miles

Not bad..
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Watching Raiti and he said 40 city, 30 highway... so my number is mostly highway so I think my 43.5 mpg is great...
Funny the side mirrors are smaller than the Accord...
 
walterjay said:
Interesting to hear your critique of the CRV. Sounds good. I know I have been in some of the previous models and they were not up to snuff and very loud and tinny IMO.
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Absolutely..... I hooked up my old friends mom with one for a discounted price years ago because that's what she wanted....they dumped it because they were turds back then... she found her way to Mitsubishi.....lol...the daughter copies me... but I am really shocked about the mechanicals and I'd actually like to have a FWD one.
I'm surprised by it...the front seats aren't perfect but it only has 5k miles on it... I've seen them take longer to break in.
 
Starting to look around a bit for a “new to us” vehicle, not planned. Wife is not on the same page yet. I’m looking for a replacement for our totaled Edge and hopefully a slight upgrade whlle minimizing the financial damage. She is thinking big upgrade even though we were years from updating. She also thinks an Explorer is too big even though it’s only 10 inches longer, and she won’t budge on having a cream or brown interior, which immediately eliminates 90% of what is out there. So it goes when buying a car for a woman. 😜

I did too well on the wrecked Edge it’s coming back to bite me. We’ll get it eventually.
 
I found the dirty little secret on the AWD CRV
I drove it in light rain and it refused to go into EV mode even when going down long steep hills. Seems to be overly geared for safety...the result, a loss of over 6 mpg....

Very light rain....
 
Zee09 said:
What a fiasco......
I got up very early as usual. Had a 7:30 service appointment at Honda.
Went out and took out the private documents out of the car and typed up a detail note in the post above this...

Okay all good... i got a sick feeling I better check under my hood. I had some recent issues with mice and never had that in nearly 30 years. Never.....
A few years ago a very small farm started two doors up...I blame that..
It keeps getting bigger too.

I pop the hood up and I have 2 mouse balls under the hood and they smell horrible....well you guys talk about pad slaps but this is the battery slap.... the top of the battery again has a huge mouse nest..

That's enough to set me off...those mouse deterrent balls were supposed to stop this.... @Pablo knows how nasty they are and one was tied to the side of the battery...
It did nothing...
I had to get the shop vac and a hose as all I need is Honda seeing that... disgusting. What a mess.... nothing gets me upset like this...

Then I get to the dealer and they said bring a cc so they can charge $150 incase it gets damaged..
I totally reset my phone a few days ago and my car insurance password no longer comes up...another fiasco.. I was half way thinking of changing the date on my card via AI but thought better of it... I just did a password reset.....
I ran into a service guy which was really an AutoMechanic double about the same age.....he did love himself too...really...

My loaner was a 25 CRV Hybrid and rattle free period...nothing...it had 5k miles on it....and it was quieter in all respects to my 25 Accord.... The seats were heavily bolstered and a bit tight but not uncomfortable.

It handles road imperfections far better too... no rattles coming from the engine compartment either...

I have an electronic device to try in the car and I got rechargeable batteries but I thought those mouse balls would have solved it....oh well.

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I had the same color hybrid loaner for a couple days, nice vehicle overall. I had some complaints if I was to get one for my use. Same complaints on CRV Owners club. There are no foglights, no factory add on options for them either. The headlights have a dark spot on left opposite lane. I get it for not blinding others coming at you but when you are on dark 2 lane, or highway by yourself it's a very noticeable missing light section.

The windshield wipers have the nozzles on the wiper arms. For some reason it only starts to spray when the wipers are about 1/2 way up the windshield. It sprays a lot of fluid, make sure your drivers window is up as it's like a wall of water and will come in the window if even cracked open. The passengers side leaves that same wall of water in the middle and when the wipers go back down, the drivers side pushes that all down, a bit splashes in the wind, not much. The problem is that passengers side gets basically no fluid right in front of passengers face. Yup, 10 minutes into loaner I got hit hard with bird crap. No matter if you stay holding the sprayer it does not spray on the way back down to coat that, just dry smear. I used so much fluid trying to get it clean I would run out of fluid very quickly. Pulling over with a napkin and water bottle is more productive. Could the nozzles be re-aimed or one mounted on trailing side of the arm, probably. Could software be updated definitely. Could you add a regular cowl mounted nozzle in the supply line, yup, looked at that. In my case this was a short time loaner so I wasn't digging to much.

I did mention to my dealer service manager and she said they have had many complaints about the wipers some with the dark spot but of course nothing that they can do with it, currently.
 
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Sequoiasoon said:
I had the same color hybrid loaner for a couple days, nice vehicle overall. I had some complaints if I was to get one for my use. Same complaints on CRV Owners club. There are no foglights, no factory add on options for them either. The headlights have a dark spot on left opposite lane. I get it for not blinding others coming at you but when you are on dark 2 lane, or highway by yourself it's a very noticeable missing light section.

The windshield wipers have the nozzles on the wiper arms. For some reason it only starts to spray when the wipers are about 1/2 way up the windshield. It sprays a lot of fluid, make sure your drivers window is up as it's like a wall of water and will come in the window if even cracked open. The passengers side leaves that same wall of water in the middle and when the wipers go back down, the drivers side pushes that all down, a bit splashes in the wind, not much. The problem is that passengers side gets basically no fluid right in front of passengers face. Yup, 10 minutes into loaner I got hit hard with bird crap. No matter if you stay holding the sprayer it does not spray on the way back down to coat that, just dry smear. I used so much fluid trying to get it clean I would run out of fluid very quickly. Pulling over with a napkin and water bottle is more productive. Could the nozzles be re-aimed or one mounted on trailing side of the arm, probably. Could software be updated definitely. Could you add a regular cowl mounted nozzle in the supply line, yup, looked at that. In my case this was a short time loaner so I wasn't digging to much.

I did mention to my dealer service manager and She said they have had many complaints about the wipers some with the dark spot but of course nothing that they can do with it, currently.
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I have mentioned the same complaints here on the Accord and Honda headlights have been horrible for decades and the CRV as you say is actually worse than my Accord... I also complained about the dumb wipers 😆
 
Zee09 said:
I have mentioned the same complaints here on the Accord and Honda headlights have been horrible for decades and the CRV as you say is actually worse than my Accord... I also complained about the dumb wipers 😆
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The factory LED projectors on my '19 Pilot are actually pretty good IMO. Only issue I had with them was actually being aimed too high blinding people. The fog lights were on the ground like 10 feet out and had to come up also.

I had a Ridgeline loaner, the headlight switch defaults to "auto". First night I blinded multiple people before moving switch to "on". The sensors didn't see the headlights on wires coming at you and decided to turn the high beams on as soon cars crested the slight hill and totally blinded them.
 
I'm still loving it (CRV)
It's lightly raining and that means the EV mode isn't very active where it should be. Again down about 7 mpg.
However I drove it on roads I avoid with the Accord...not a noise and the back hatch was loaded with 10 1 gallon paint cans and a bunch of other stuff...
The infotainment screen doesn't bother me as I'm not watching TV while I drive 😁
FWD for me...
 
Disgusting 🫣
3 neighbors called an asked if I got a new car... I just messed with them....
I told one yes..... she said the other car was only 6 months old or so.
She asked why and I told her I started it the other day and a serious issue developed and I was warned to take action....
Oh she said....what was it......
WASHER FLUID IS LOW......
Cheap lesson....
 
Progress for me. Wife has admitted the Explorer isn’t that big and the small third row would be handy for grand babies. 👍

No budging on the no black interior though.

Someone on the other thread suggested a CX9 and it looks like a great option as well.
 
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