Picked up our new GG EX-L this week. Brought my 100 point checklist with all known issues etc. Tracks straight, wheel centered, no clunks, shifts smooth, no window rattle. everything functional. Perfect paint and perfect panel gaps. No cracked spoiler. This is by far the best built vehicle I have ever had the pleasure to scrutinize. And I've inspected hundreds as a car show judge and family/neighborhood car guy consultant. Eventually, I did find a partially loose seatback handle screw (It's crossthreaded and won't budge yet).
Now here's the BEEF. Those conflabin' interior lights turn off way too soon (3 min). This will suck for camping etc. And then the activated lights stay on until the battery is dead. So now whenever I want lights on or off I'm forced to use the master rockerswitch on the dash. My old Intrepid had a master timer for any interior or trunk light and turned them off in about an hour. That was nice. I hope when honda fixes this, that the parts will retrofit into my van
That goofy shift lever doesn't bother me, but the wimpy detents do. It always shoots from park to D3 or lower passing up D. when you shift it back up it passes D again and you are in N. Honda better work on this if they want to avoid being the "unintended accelleration Audi" of the new millenium.
Final beef is the front seatbelt female buckles (in the center). When you are just hanging out in the van (not wearing belt and sitting sideways) that buckle jams into your buttockular area. why can't it just rotate down a little further. I fixed it a little bit by just bending it down by standing on it.
Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love the functionality of this van. But I AM still trying to fit it in my garage.
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'91 Sentra SE-R
'57 Chevy Belair Sport Coupe.
If at first you don't succeed...so much for skydiving.
Now here's the BEEF. Those conflabin' interior lights turn off way too soon (3 min). This will suck for camping etc. And then the activated lights stay on until the battery is dead. So now whenever I want lights on or off I'm forced to use the master rockerswitch on the dash. My old Intrepid had a master timer for any interior or trunk light and turned them off in about an hour. That was nice. I hope when honda fixes this, that the parts will retrofit into my van
That goofy shift lever doesn't bother me, but the wimpy detents do. It always shoots from park to D3 or lower passing up D. when you shift it back up it passes D again and you are in N. Honda better work on this if they want to avoid being the "unintended accelleration Audi" of the new millenium.
Final beef is the front seatbelt female buckles (in the center). When you are just hanging out in the van (not wearing belt and sitting sideways) that buckle jams into your buttockular area. why can't it just rotate down a little further. I fixed it a little bit by just bending it down by standing on it.
Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love the functionality of this van. But I AM still trying to fit it in my garage.
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'91 Sentra SE-R
'57 Chevy Belair Sport Coupe.
If at first you don't succeed...so much for skydiving.