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My First Impression of G6 V Spec

According to tint and PPF installer, this car is easier to install Tinted and PPF.
For my G5, Installer for PPF need several try to get the film glued at the edge, and for side mirrors both side, you have to live with some side edges not stick to the panel, even its hand cut not machine cut

According to Audio Installer, this car door panel, is tougher to open, if you go to normal audio installer, they might ruin it or missed some clip when they want to install it back.

Door panel only got 1 screw as usual, but few clips (now green color) G5 pink color

Overall they took 3 hours to complete install front component speaker, while only took 1 hour to install at G5,, I think probably this is new car,, nobody that I know have change their speakers

Since the tweeter is at A Pillar, you should source for brand that come with smaller tweeter Crossover, the crossover need to be fitted at A Pillar, if you fit it at door panel, will need longer wire, hence will reduce power coming to your tweeter

Car Build Material
1. Seat more comfy for all, rear space is more,, and I like that now rear seat can adjust more
2. Leather is hard and rough compare with G5, can feel it while do some own interior detailing, G5 leather material is softer
3. They cut cost on door panel leather, G5 the leather covers up until tweeter, this time only small part of it at door handle, for all 4 doors, you can see that leather is lesser.
4. G6 OEM speaker sound is better than G5, overall sound is better,, probably of the location of the speaker and tweeter,, but I still change to better setup.

Last Saturday while I change it, can saw that the OEM speaker built is more cikai, lighter and the magnet is much smaller, I still have OEM G5 speaker to compare. I change to Focal Auditor 165 at KK Lau Audio
5. Inside door panel, the safety bar much thicker, no wonder the door feels heavier.
6. Now they use rubber material to cover inside door panel in between speaker, for G5 they only use plastic, I can see this when I install sound proofing for my speaker
7. Paint for this car a bit thicker compare to G5, and paint defect is lesser, mine is Mantellic White
8. The 360 camera is so so
9. Reverse camera better, for G5 the brightness is auto and always need to adjust to high, this time it is preset to max bright whenever you reverse
10. Left blind spot camera, is lousy as usual, i prefer blind spot indicator than this camera.
11. You can switch off your wireless charger, only know this last night
12. The interior ambient lighting is superb
13. For V Specs supposedly got Reverse Auto Tilt Mirror, but I don't see any different when I reverse my car...

Driving Experience
1. This car more quite than G5, but still a lot below par than X70, Mazda CX5, XTrail and Forester.
2. Toyo OEM tires less noise than last time Goodyear Asymmetric
3. Since V Specs is AWD, the Fuel consumption a bit on the high side, I can easily get 13Ltr without even trying on my G5 FWD
4. The AWD don't really give significant improvement on driving experience,, I feels like driving normal FWD car, even yesterday trying to reverse park at 1 shopping mall, this shopping build ram at few of their parking slots, and this car really struggle to even clear the ram (reverse)

Overall V Spec is not worth it,, just take E

** And I got extra 1 pcs of boot plastic covers, if your buy Online will cost around RM100.00, because I got from my SA
If anybody want this PM me, I sell of cheap, prefer COD at KV

This post has been edited by Old1030: Apr 22 2024, 11:14 AM

Picking up acceleration, obviously slower,, car heavier and lazy to moved, I don't want to floor it yet
And I cant really feels the turbo,, cant feels much compare to G5

Vibration during idling, I can feels more or less same with G5,, but not new G5, aging G5,,

I used Michelin Primacy SUV+, for my G5 last time, its RM580/piece, the tires is a good all rounder tire,
Problem with Michelin is that, once you use it, you will always want it

What I like most about Michelin is their performance is almost same regardless of the condition of tire threat.
Most other tire performance will degrade over the time.

This post has been edited by Old1030: Apr 22 2024, 03:00 PM

Bro,
That is when I compare it with my G5 factory fitted tire Goodyear Asymmetric,, hehehe

If NVH is your only point of comparison
I dont think CRV can beat Toyota Harrier in any road condition

Somemore Harrier is one class above

But I never seat in Harrier Z before ya,,

Read few page back, got issues on some chips and production slow down for all, then on March all back to normal,,
I can see many G6 on the road now,, but agree that RS is very rare..

for consumable better change outside, you can check the price with service advisor,, the price is higher at SC
and, they only brings few brand, I dont think changing tires will void warranty, but for RS you better check tho

Go for Primacy SUV +
survey few shop, some price can differ almost up to RM50/piece

Cheapest you can get is RM750 for year 2023, if still got stock
Newer probably around RM850
And for this size and Michelin brand,, most shop dont have stock, need to pay deposit and wait around 3 days

to update my long drive over the weekend
KL - Ipoh - Tanah Merah (3am-6am-12pm)
Tanah Merah - KL (8am-3pm)

Driver seat comfort
G6 way better than G5 on seat, with G5 from KL even before Tg Malim, my butt bone sakit, and need to stop, with G6 can drive all the way to Tapah,, dunno if this is because this is new car and I looking forward with this long drive or seat really good

But the leather feel cheap in G6

G6 Auto high beam is better than G5

Suspension feels better

Im getting around 13km/L on average
Fuel up to full at Tg Malim and can go to 650km, I believe this car can go to 750km if easy drive 80% on highway

Only complain is this V Specs pick up is bad probably because this car is heavy
and AWD did make some minor different during cornering at Grik road up to Titiwangsa

Have you been to old trunk road from Grik - Temenggor - Belum - Titiwangsa, this road cornering is not as bad as in Ulu Yam or Genting,, but 1 par below,, and plus long up hill drive, its not better better, slightly better, but I not cornering kaki

From KL to Ipoh, highest I go is 150km/h but not for long, only around less than 20mins, intermittent, during this period most is at 120km/h, the rest maintain below speed limit at 105km/h (Using ACC)

Yeah,, I believe my average is below 100km/h
in G5 we can look see look see our average speed in speedometer,, but could not find it at G6 how to check

Thats why i think honda put 2.0 engine with the hybrid,, to accomodate highway speed fuel consumption
If you ask me,, RS pulling factor for me to purchase is not really the hybrid battery, for my personal POV is 2.0 NA engine that comes with the hybrid system

I choose and booked hybrid initially, but same reason with you that this car is only for my long hway drive,, then i go to v specs

Power is the same,
For cornering what do you expect from an SUV,, even with AWD, like my few post above,, not much significant,,
And how many time we do cornering with SUV, this feature is just nice to have

Check YS Khong YT driving VSpec at Balik Pulau,, you need to drive like him only to feel it

Wiper cap? The one that cover the wiper screw?
Can you explain more,, front or rear.?

This post has been edited by Old1030: May 25 2024, 08:12 PM

Its like that because the windshield washer is attached to the wiper arm

Material and build quality, I like all except the leather
360 camera, its nice to have, quality is not bad but not good either,, only good thing is that anytime the car detected any object near you, the camera will turn on
With this 360 cam, sometime it will confius you more, esspecially during reverse

If you have the budget, and time to wait,, go way up to RS,, dont take AWD,, just settle for E

For pick up,, AWD is lazy from the start

What i really dont like with my V,, is that when we glide downhill, the car will hold the gear and maintain RPM for engine breaking,, not sure about other specs

Overall from my G5 upgrade to this G6,, Im happy

This post has been edited by Old1030: May 29 2024, 07:35 PM

Yeah the pick up is lazy,, but I cannot comment on your remarks V is like E on eco mode,, because never try it,, and im not really into pick up, but can say that based on G5 1.5TCP,, G6 AWD is really slow,, but comfy

Never test drive S or E,, only seat on it at showroom
Just I feel that my extra money go to AWD and lousy 360cam,, not worth it,,

The only reason I go to V long story short,,,,,
at first I budgeted for RS, booked for RS, loan approved for RS, and I have all the time in the world to wait, we got extra car, this car main purpose is purely for long drive and weekend car,,,,,,,
2 months already wait, so peaceful and enjoy life with temporary lesser monthly commitment

At the end of the day,, wife win, she dont want to wait, she want it fast, she want it now
Everyday asked me, , every time see new G6 she asked me,, lucky very few on the road to see,,

Happy wife peaceful Life

I just telling evrybody here,, again,, Im happy with my G6 more than my G5,, because wife happy,,

But truly, deep down inside my heart,, G3 still the best of the best gen CRV hahaha

Best is to install accessories at Honda

but warranty claim is purely based on your luck and how the service advisor and Claim Manager mood.

If you asked me
Dashcam is stand alone accessories, this can install and uninstall easily or can be argue if it is blame
while 360cam is not because need to have some wired hot tapped then route to your center console, this is tricky

If anything happen to your any original accessories,, they can blame it to your 360cam