I have had my '18 CR-V Touring less than 1 month, and every day it seems that I find something else that is just so cool that it blows me away!

This one I just had to share. (Although i suspect many of you have discovered it anyway!)

One thing i didn't like was the way I will accidentally touch the volume remote switch on the left side of the steering wheel, which will either turn the volume way up, or way down.

Well, on page 377 of the Owners manual it shows how to disable this function! It's under "System Others" Volume gesture On or off.

very cool!

Thank you Honda!

OH thanks! I have owned my Touring for a year now and I still learn new stuff all the time. I have just learned to be careful about moving my finger around that area as I have too often turned the volume too far up or down

After one year of ownership of this new Touring I love it more now than when it was new. Great car...

 

And the really cool thing is turning this setting "off" doesn't change the ability to use the + and - to raise or lower the volume manually!

 

Huh? I thought that's what you were turning off. Then what does it actually do?

 

Page 377 in the online manual has bluetooth HFL menus.
I hate that feature.
Can you post how to do the change?

 

I like the idea of a readily available rapid volume control but Honda's slide volume control implementation is inconsistent at best. On the right side of the steering wheel too, CC controls sometimes are seemingly asleep and require 2 click inputs before a change is accepted. But if recently adjusted, CC controls only require 1 click. Way too quirky and frustrating.

 

Thanks for sharing. I've only had my EXL for a week, and have only driven it a few times due to snow, and already hit that volume slider at least twice.

 

You're welcome! I was accidentally touching it often, never considering there was a way to de-activate the slider. Reading through the customizations i just happened across it.

 

Another wonderful thing! All (or most apparently) of the customizations can be set differently based on the fob that is used to enter the car.

Today my wife wanted something out of the back seat, and took her fob with her, as I have it set to auto lock when I exit the car. I have it set so when I touch the driver's door, all the doors unlock. Well when she touched the driver's door latch, the back door didn't unlock, only the drivers. I haven't set up her fob settings yet, but this means she can have her driver's door only unlock, and I can have all my doors unlock.

I confirmed this be seeing "fob #!" at the top of the customizatins screen. I have yet to set hers up, but will be ding this soon.

Blown away by what this car can do!

 

So much better with the volume slide feature off.
Works now like my RDX.Press to top to raise or bottom to lower volume.

 

So much better with the volume slide feature off....

Agreed!

 

What is also cool about the volume slider is that when you slide your finger quickly in a downward motion across the ribbing of the slider it “MUTES” your music! I accedently found it out on day. I muted the stereo while pulling up to a drive through coffee place, not knowing what I did to achieve the mute function. I then went to the large owners manual to find out how to do it in the future. It takes some practice, if you go to slow or not rub hard enough it won’t mute

 

True, but I find it easier to just press the round volume knob in (or quickly rotate it counter clockwise) to effectively "mute" when or if needed. It doesn't take any practice to push the knob in. Just me.

 

Finally, a Honda vehicle that doesn't have a sloshing gas tank. I have owned a 94 Accord and 03 Pilot.

 

The fuel tank is not made out of metal, it is plastic and may mute the sound you would normally hear if it was metal.

 

I love the engine power present when in S mode compared to D.
What a change!

 

I love the AWD in the crazy rain we are having the last few days. I was vividly reminded how good it is in the rain when I took my 2WD 2007 Toyota Tacoma Pre-Runner to the store. Keeping that damn thing in a straight line in the rain was a challenge. Makes me really appreciate my AWD Touring!

 

I was driving our Fit tonight and kept spinning the wheels on the wet streets after our rain. We have several intersections where their is a stop light on a banked turn. When you take off the front end will spin the wheels and go side ways. The Traction Control will finally catch it but not until its moved over and gotten your attention. On my AWD CR-V you never ever have this happen. My last three cars were AWD and I have no intention of buying anything without it now.

 

34.97 mpg! With 3.5 months of ownership, and 3285 miles, that is my overall calculated fuel mileage. 70/30 mix of around town/highway. Very blown away with the economy of this 2wd Touring.

 

34.97 mpg! ... 70/40 mix ...

I guess you are just 10% better than us mere mortals whom need to average out to 100%...:Naughty:

Just kidding' with you!

 

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34.97 mpg! With 3.5 months of ownership, and 3285 miles, that is my average calculated fuel mileage to date. 70/40 mix of around town/highway. Very blown away with the economy of this 2wd Touring.

That's amazing! My mileage is nowhere near that despite judicious throttle use. What is your typical highway speed?

 

I know the Gen5's have been in the states for over a year now but down here they have only been around since December 2017 and even then it was only a handful of 2018 that arrived.

What I have noticed is that I am challenged daily by other drivers that want to see what this baby can do. I already related the 2018 RAV4 blow away that I did and since then I have had about 4 or 5 other guys in various SUV's trying to push me into a race.

All I can say is that for an SUV this thing does everything exceedingly well. It accelerates like no other SUV I have driven, it takes corners so tightly that you start just smile all the way through and when you need to really hit those brakes, they are just superb.

Rob

 

all depends on how you drive.. if you drive it like a prius you will get max mpg

 

Well, NO, I don't "drive it like a Prius". I don't floor it. I use the ACC about 80% of the time, even in town... and use "Resume" when the stop is longer than a few seconds, (when the display shows "Stopped). Rarely more than 4-5 MPH over posted speed limits.

Mild climate here, rarely hits freezing, and if it does, it usually warms up above freezing when the sun comes up.

I'm sure my mileage will drop when summer hits here in Southern Arizona. 100 degrees from mid May until mid October. (Hey, its a dry heat! LOL) I'm guessing the AC will likely drop this down 2-3 MPG.

But, I am very happy with the CR-V and the excellent mileage. On the '15 Escape 1.6L Turbo FWD, I got 28.0 mpg over ~40,000 miles with the same driving style (except no ACC) and places that I go routinely. So big improvement for me.

 

Sometimes I think we all forget that the Honda figures for MPG are based on using Econ mode.
I wonder what the MPG numbers are supposed to be without it on?

Rob

 

EPA MPG numbers are NOT done with Eco mode. Why did you think they were?

https://www.cars.com/articles/do-al...rticles/do-all-those-driving-modes-affect-a-cars-epa-gas-mileage-1420663064071/

"All EPA ratings are done in the Normal mode," Honda spokesman Chris Martin said of the Civic and Accord, which have Eco and Sport modes, respectively. "EPA ratings are trying to create an apples-to-apples comparison between models, which is best done in a default normal driving mode."

 

You'll want to change the setting for trip A to reset to something. I have mine to reset on refuelling. To change that you go into the Home/Settings/vehicle/Meter Setup.

If you aren't seeing the trip computer screen then it is in Home/Info/Trip Computer.

 

The car defaults to non-ECON mode, so it would be a tall hill to climb indeed to prove it was used 80 percent of the time.

And, again, absence proof to the contrary, why would you assume that it was tested in ECON? Especially given a quote direct from Honda explicitly saying otherwise? I don’t see the confusion.

 

So has anybody run the numbers on a long drive with Econ mode? I am not doubting you, I am just use to companies throwing out numbers that represent the most you can get and then backing the numbers a hair down in case of lawsuits.

Rob

 

I just noticed this today, when I put it into reverse the passenger side rear mirror tilts downward and then moves back to normal when I shift out of reverse. Nice little feature.


Rob

 

Yeah, I don't think the USA models have that.

 

Yeah US models have heat and BSIS

 

What is BSIS?

 

HEH! Didn't notice that typo! Wow, should have been 70/30. Edited!

Thanks!

 

We took a 3 day trip from southern AZ to San Diego last week. Round trip was over 900 miles and elevation changes from sea level to over 4,000 feet. The CR-V ran great, averaging over 34 mpg, and this includes up and over the 4,000+ foot mountain passes, driving 75-80 MPH (speed limit in AZ is 75), with the A/C running the whole time (its been 100 degrees here.)

No other vehicle that I have ever owned ever averaged this high fuel economy, and this included a few Toyota Hybrids.
The CVT worked great on the steep inclines and declines, no gear hunting like a conventional transmission. NICE!

Overall calculated MPG for the 7,000 miles I have driven the CR-V is 34.7. Mostly around town until this trip. Likely down a couple of tenths from last reported MPG due to recent A/C use.

Blown away!

One slight negative, on some of the rougher road surfaces, there is more road noise than I have experienced in some other cars I have owned.

The display shows 34.6 on Trip B which has never been reset from new.

 

We took a 3 day trip from southern AZ to San Diego last week. Round trip was over 900 miles and elevation changes from sea level to over 4,000 feet. The CR-V ran great, averaging over 34 mpg, and this includes up and over the 4,000+ foot mountain passes, driving 75-80 MPH (speed limit in AZ is 75), with the A/C running the whole time (its been 100 degrees here.)

No other vehicle that I have ever owned ever averaged this high fuel economy, and this included a few Toyota Hybrids.
The CVT worked great on the steep inclines and declines, no gear hunting like a conventional transmission. NICE!

Overall calculated MPG for the 7,000 miles I have driven the CR-V is 34.7. Mostly around town until this trip. Likely down a couple of tenths from last reported MPG due to recent A/C use.

Blown away!

One slight negative, on some of the rougher road surfaces, there is more road noise than I have experienced in some other cars I have owned.

The display shows 34.6 on Trip B which has never been reset from new.

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Wow! Once again you somehow knocked it out of the park. You must've had fortuitous tailwinds in both directions.

I did the exact same trip over the 3 day weekend with a family of 4, 100deg temps, and never saw anything near 30mpg! We were mid 20's driving a few mph over the posted freeway speeds (i.e. keeping out of the way of the 85mph traffic). I keep a close look at fuel economy and the hill climbs kill fuel economy and we never recover on the steep downhill descents. That thirsty knee in the turbo fuel curve is unforgiving. No chance of seeing 30mpg even on the flat freeway with a good headwind let alone 34mpg.

 

They have auto tilt mirrors in other countries.. Not available in North America

 

oh Ok...thanks phareous

 

Yes, we use ACC the entire way.

We left Saturday morning and there was a strong headwind the whole way. The wind farms were happy, my fuel economy not so much. No way to overcome that one other than slowing down which wasn't an option for us.

 

Our trip was Tuesday - Thursday. Not much traffic!

Yeah, a couple of years ago we were driving west across West Texas, and had a strong headwind, we almost ran out of gas as we were only averaging around 15 mpg in a car that usually hit 28-29 on the highway. There aren't many gas stations there.

 

I've gotten so used to the "walk away auto lock" feature and the automatic engagement of the parking brake, that I'll often forget to lock the car and set the parking brake when I drive my wife's car!