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#10373182 - 01/03/23 08:19 AM New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD
furball Offline
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Registered: 09/24/03
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Loc: Toronto, ON
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...


Edited by furball (01/03/23 08:21 AM)

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#10373640 - 01/04/23 06:56 AM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: furball]
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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?

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#10373654 - 01/04/23 07:41 AM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: furball]
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 Originally Posted By: furball
Hate the front end
Eeek, thats something you usually want to iron out before you buy a new car

 Originally Posted By: furball
So for now I'm doing unsafe tire changes
Can you elaborate? What's unsafe about what you're doing? Not using a jackstand and leaving it on the jack?

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#10373685 - 01/04/23 09:17 AM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: SuPeR-MaRiO]
furball Offline
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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?

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#10373960 - 01/04/23 01:57 PM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: furball]
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Clearly you guys haven't experienced buying a new car lately. RAV4 backlog is/was nearly a year.
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#10374087 - 01/04/23 05:01 PM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: c2k]
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I'm quite content to never know the joy of buying a new RAV4.
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#10374281 - 01/05/23 10:28 AM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: Senor Eduardo_82]
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it's not just RAV4, the wait time to buy new cars are just crazy long. BTW, welcome back.
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#10375599 - 01/07/23 05:15 PM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: c2k]
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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
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#10376510 - 01/09/23 07:25 PM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: 4Three]
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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.
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#10376618 - 01/10/23 08:52 AM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: Cee_mon]
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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....

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#10399542 - 03/09/23 11:02 AM Re: New vehicle in garage: MIL's 2023 Honda HR-V AWD [Re: TheRealCSnapper]
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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....
All wireless carplay that I've seen has been garbage.

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