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I have a 2018 Touring. In am in Houston and we had a mild winter but regardless my CR-V was slow to warm up, the slowest warm up car I have had and much slower than my wife's 2010 with the 2.4L engine. It does warm up eventually but I have to drive it on S and I have to make sure the climate control is set to AC OFF so the louvers are shut. If you have to defog the windshield the AC will turn on defeating this setting. This car is not good for short trips, a few miles, you will get there before the engine warms up. Once it warms up it tends to stay warm but this is SE Texas, not much heat needed, at least this past winter.

Regarding OD, the jury is still out. I just returned from a trip to Dallas (about 600 miles, most at 70-75 mph) and I came back with more "oil" than I left, not much more but slightly above than when I left. I have had one oil change and the dealer overfilled it which is typical, my oil is slightly above the orange section. This may be good for OD, I rather have a bit more oil to start with.

Keep in mind that the 2019s are the same as the 2017-18s as far as OD is concerned other than they had the so called "fix". Many here report the fix did not work for them. My advice to you is to consider other vehicles or to wait until Honda updates the engine, the 1.5L is more prone to OD than other turbo DI engines.

 

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Another Texan, living near Austin, 2017 AWD EX-L purchased in Midland, had it about a year and half....

On the positive side: Round Rock Honda has been great with service and helping out on the oil dilution issue as well as getting the "fix" done now that they have finally been allowed by Honda.

I was not aware that Honda is now allowing the "fix" for Texas or other states besides the 21 originally mentioned. Is that the case? Have they issued a new TSB? If so can you or others give me a web reference? My dealer (North of Houston) said that they could not apply it.