Home With New one.

[Carvingbarn]

Proud New Owner!
Just got home with our new CR-V EX Taffeta White. No add-ons yet. I will be ordering most of those from H&A. Hope we can get an active CR-V Group going here in Mobile. Will post picture Later.Raining here.

[Black Pearl]

Congratulations on your new purchase, and wouldn't you know it is raining and you can't try out that new moon roof! How do like the huge door handles?

Be careful with the accessories. No all are easy to install. H&A has on line instructions, read them and make sure you can handle the job before ordering.

Good luck with your new purchase!

[Carvingbarn]

Congratulations on your new purchase, and wouldn't you know it is raining and you can't try out that new moon roof! How do like the huge door handles?

Be careful with the accessories. No all are easy to install. H&A has on line instructions, read them and make sure you can handle the job before ordering.

Good luck with your new purchase!

Thanks. I am real happy to have our new V. I have been looking forward to getting a new car for a few months . I want to thank all who have taken the time to share on the forum. I was able to go in to the dealership very well informed. Becouse of that I was able to get a great deal too. I knew more about some thing to do with CR-V than they did. How ever I am now trying to learn the onboard computer. It is like learning a new cell phone. We hope to take a weekend trip next week. I will follow your advice and check out the H & A instruction when planning to do a accessory on my own. I would like to have the hood deflector and the roof rack. I think I will also get the cargo try. I carry a lot of found wood I use in my wood carving. I ment to tell you we have a daughter that lives in Reading Pennsylvania.

[Black Pearl]

Not much to the computer. You have two trip odometers (A & B) with separate gas mileage indicators, and the calculated range left in the fuel tank based on your tank level and current average conditions. Either odometer can reset at any time by pressing the knob. When you reset the odometer, the average mileage indicator resets as well. One display shows Oil Life in a percentage remaining (maintenance minder). Another display shows your cars total mileage (the vehicle odometer) and that can't be reset. The top bar is your real time mileage. This shows you your mileage right now with the throttle, gear, and load that the vehicle is experiencing. There is outside temp on the EX, and there is a graphic showing the status of all your doors. The hood release does not show on this graphic. Then you have a temp gauge and fuel gauge. I noticed the fuel gauge is very linear compared to previous vehicles.

One caution, don't trust the range indicators when you get near empty. They get inaccurate. The usual observation is that they tend to error on the conservative side. With a couple gallons left in tank, the range indicator will indicate only a few miles left.

I don't know about the roof rack or the hood deflector, but the cargo tray is simple. Its fitted and you just lay it in like floor mat. I think it is worth it. I bought the wheel nut locks and the cargo net. I wasn't too impressed with the net. It is bundled up in the spare tire well.

[Carvingbarn]

Thanks for the information. I hope you have a great night.

[Black Pearl]

Is it still raining? (Radar at New Orleans shows some storms heading your way.) If not, it is time to go and try that new moon roof! When you do try it, try an experiment I seen in another thread, I was amazed with this. With all the windows up, A/C on, radio off (so you can hear), open the moon roof and between 25 & 40 mph hold the air deflector in the front down. I got this loud low pitched whopping noise that I could actually feel in my eardrums. It was reminiscent of an approaching Huey helicopter.

I missed the note about your daughter living in Reading. That is on the opposite side (and rich side so I'm told--they get 50 foot accelleration ramps) of the state. I was there a couple times in the late '60s.

I got to thinking about your wood cargo. The cargo net may actually be useful to you. I wasn't too impressed with it. It seemed like a good idea until I got it. I installed it and thought what am I going to do with this? So I took it back out and threw it in the spare tire well. I bought a pack of bungees for about $8.00 at K-mart, that I have found to be far more useful. The other thing we bought was a 40 quart storage container (roughly 19 L X 13 w X 11 h) It has about an inch clearance under the shelf. We use the box to carry milk and other heavy items to keep them from clunking around in the back. We just leave it in there all the time. It will hold about 3 plastic bags of groceries, and has worked out nicely. The cargo tray has a soft rubber tacky surface (similar to the top of the fold up tray in the front) and it grips the box enough that it does not clunk around when empty.

Well get out there and try that moon roof--you'll love it. A thought just occurred to me as to why Honda calls it a moon roof--liability, no one gets skin cancer from the moon.

[Carvingbarn]

We are going to be wet most of today. I think as a old Jar Head I will pass on the Huey remembrance. I have only been to Reading once. I loved the outlet stores there.
I have a large section of flat bungee cords that I thing will work well. I have a collapsible plastic box I got a Boaters World. It is great; it folds down flat for easy storage. I think I will get a small 4x6 tarp to put down if I have the seats up to use the hole back cargo area. Well I am off to the world of honey do’s. Have a great day

[07CRVOWNR]

I have bought the roof rack, cargo tray, and cargo net and installed all of them myself, all being very easy.

1. For the roof rack you will need a torque wrench and a T40 Torx Soket (I bought the socket at Home Depot). The most time consuming part of this was to tighten the nut provided in the package two to three times per thread (8 total) to get the paint off in order to get a clean surface to tighten the nut to. The nut will have to be tightened to 14 psi (pound per square inch). Don't be afraid of this project, it was very simple.

2. Cargo Tray. This came rolled up and no special instructions are needed to unroll the package from the box and place in the back.

3. Cargo Net. I have used this alittle. The biggest benefit that I have found is that it provides a wide area of friction so things do not slide around on the cargo tray when placed on top of it. This is a big plus for me. This was easy to install once I figured out the instructions.

Hope this helps.

[Carvingbarn]

Sounds great. Thank you for the feedback. I will order soon.

[Carvingbarn]

Thanks for all the help on how upload pictures. This is our new car.We ahve 78 miles on it as of tonight.
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