What are the RDS features supported on our local stations?

Nowadays, a lot of car can show the station names. That's like bare minimal implementation of RDS.

More advance one like auto switch the frequency to stronger tower when you cross their effective range, which station support this?
Other like traffic/disaster alert push, I don't think we have that here in Malaysia.

This post has been edited by constant_weight: Aug 12 2022, 05:26 PM

This is no surprise. Consider the ICE and electric motor are both 100'ish horsepower + Consider during motor max output, the ICE also need to run max output to just to break even battery power. This impossible in real life, as generator motor horsepower is the limit. Now Honda didn't disclose the generator capacity, it would be very generous if Honda give 30hp+ generator motor.

Prius and Prius C also same problem. When idle in long traffic jam, during charging the engine sounds very loud like reving at least 4000rpm. Anyone want to test the experience just hold 4000rpm with free gear for 1 minute with own car.

That's why a good comfortable hybrid also need a high capacity ICE like PHEV 180hp+ so that engine only need go rev a little go charge the battery and it charge faster, way more comfortable.

Read an US review then eHEV just released couple years back. It is for 2.0L version for CRV hybrid, but you can reference it.

Interview with Honda engineers there stated when driving about 40km/h smoothly 60% of time can be pure EV drive. When increased to 60km/h, the pure EV ratio reduced to 30%.

It been a while and I converted MPH to KPH approximately.

If this numbers remain true with the 1.5L eHEV, it is very efficient. Better than Toyota HSD with 1.2kwh - 1.3kwh battery I experienced in Prius/Prius C.

If you drive enough cars, you will find not all ACC are created equally. Hard acceleration is sadly pretty common. Some also affected by rain, enter/exit tunnel sometimes will auto disengaged. While some are mind blowingly consistent.

You the first one that said Honda ACC harsh. It proven again Wxxcar is bullshit paid review. They praised it better than TSS 1.1/2.0 which I find hard to believe.

I can confirm Mazda ACC is harsh, it is last gen tech and due for refresh amyway. Honda up until FC facelift 2020 and Toyota old TSS 1.0 are also doing hard acceleration and hard braking with strong nose dive as well. Then most others are slightly better at middle pack, eg Nissan Altima 2.5s my favorite rental car when travel to US. Best ACC are Hyundai, Volvo, Tesla by large margin up until 2019-2020 by many credible international reviewers (Straightpaip, Buycartv, Savagegeese etc). I can testify for Hyundai and Volvo, never driven Tesla.

Now many already catch up. TSS 2.0 is huge improvement (I can testify 2022 Harrier is quite good, it seems to be 1.1 with extra patch, sales person explained ACC same, just 2.0 can recognize more object types on the road for AEB), BMW Personal Copilot get good reviews, Ford ACC will do lift off and cruise over long distance like a human (really interested to try this when chance come by) to name a few. They are now at least on par with the 3 traditional ACC leaders if not better.

Not everyone can do precise throttle input like you man. This solution is not for everyone.

A lady drove my ES once, few years ago. I wasn't feeling good after lunch. Lol wheel spin out of junction. Counter intuitive solution was put the car in sport mode, let her felt the push early to ease off the input early. It was a little jerky with on/off throttle, at least no more wheel spin.

Which make the Ford implementation of ACC so interesting. From Taiwanese review of Kuga, the ACC have a more relax margin around the set speed. It will lift off and glide like human driver from far when the car in front gradually slowing down.

Didn't see any news from local Ford about this. Very interested go test this out myself.

We only guess by comparing the tested capability, feel like UMW is not that transparent.
Maybe more confident way is ask the service manager directly.

Otherwise, check if the ACC (DRCC) do self centering. Not lane departure, but actively steer the car maintaining it at the center of the lane. I think Toyota call it LTA.
If it do that it is at least TSS 1.1 with extra patch (learned such thing exist from Taiwanese review), if not TSS 2.0.

But to differentiate 1.1+ with 2.0, that's a bit harder. Most obvious upgrade is able to detect more type of objects and different angle of the object during intersection, but those are not easy to test.

Apparently TSS 2.5, 3.0 also exist. Lol, we are still UMW old tech dumping ground after all.

Help me understand further. It seems like the exhaust at the side and not through the center tunnel?

The extra rod, like it is mounting for other models, but unused here.


I'm actually very curious why Honda still mount the engine (at least for the 1.5T, didn't check other engine) with exhaust facing the front (after extractor the exhaust has to go through bottom of the engine), intake manifold facing the back.
Most modern engine already flip the engine block to reduce exhaust path.

For crazy engineering first company, they should have good reason other than cost.
** they designed 3 totally different Hybrid system in past 2 decades. In most company that put financial/supply chain/management background people on top, a lot of people will get fired in similar situation.

Thanks, very good explanation about the impact of the ultra seat.

Still curious about the engine direction decision though. So far I know the turbocharger is right in front of the engine, such that there is no visible exhaust manifold. The exhaust manifold path is within the cylinder head similar to EA888. Then the catalytic converter is right below the turbocharger. From exhaust until catalytic converter is super optimized, compact, and efficient until this point. They should be managing exhaust heat with coolant using this "integrated exhaust manifold" design, again similar to EA888.

Anyway, just my own curiosity, maybe one day answer will pops up itself when I'm not thinking/asking.

2) My car came with Premium Contact 6. The noise baffled me at first, those are rather premium touring/UHP blend tires. The tipping point was 2000km, they become nice and comfy after some rather long break-in period. HR-V come with what tires? Give it some time and continue to observe.

3) Suspension for road use, there are 2 important distinct signatures it needs to handle for regular drive. High speed low amplitude and low speed high amplitude.
The speed here is not the vehicle speed, but rather the speed of the shock absorber movements.

Low speed high amplitude is like during cornering, the vehicle has gradual weight transfer that compress the outer wheels suspension and extend the inner wheels suspension.
High speed low amplitude is like gravel road, bad pavement, brick roads that give constant fast vibration but relatively small movement to suspensions.

To me, a good and balance suspension for road use is stiff on low speed, which provide good support during cornering, and yet soft on the high speed movement to absorb the vibration.
Such that the car is still pleasant on the bad pavement, but the driver can clearly feel the road reflector etc, and over road undulation change the car settle in just 1 swing.
I'm not a fans of magic carpet ride, so if you think it absorb the rapid vibration well, then it is good in my world.

Of course if driven fast over a pothole fast, that become high speed high amplitude, no road car suspension can handle that.

I'm a little bit tempted to upgrade to Ohlins DFV. The kit for my car is 80% stiffer then stock, but it has separate bypass valve for high speed movement that allow the shock to behave like "soft" in rapid vibration. It is a hefty cost for sure.

Thanks for adding the not straight forward part. I was hesitating to add that or not. In the end just include my personal preference tuning.

Port hole rebound is not an issue for the place I live. Usually the road is bad enough people drive super slow anyway.

I experience a less common problem known as bump lift in rally cross world. During continuous high speed low amplitude irregularities, the car will gradually lifted higher and higher. Well provided I tends to drive over those bad road patches quickly, they unsettle the car.

This usually not an issue if only few patchee, the car has all the time it needs to sink back to original ride height. Seems to be overly stiff shocks from OEM, yet on smoother pavements the stiffness is perfectly absorbing the small rattles and keep important road feedback.

I'm hoping Ohlins DFV high speed bypass would help the lift issue. Or 3 ways adjustable setting to stiffer rebound will make the car sink faster, but the flip side is it would worsen the porthole rebound you mentioned.

There is Polestar tuned Ohlins available, me the type tends to stick with OEM solution if available + don't have patience/place/practical experience to play with compression/rebound for days. Ohlins damn expensive, I'm very tempted. Keep telling myself don't waste the remaing 3 years warranty to stop myself... lol

This post has been edited by constant_weight: Sep 4 2022, 06:34 PM

Just hope after 2000km, the NVH improves 😇. Referecing PC6 experience.

Isn't this a two decades old problem?

Like 1st, 2nd gen Priuses or 1st gen Insight that debut during the 90's

Volvo has Polestar Engineered that have Ohlins from factory. S60/V60 is Brembo 6 pots + Ohlins
XC60 is Akebono 6 pots + Ohlins

Unfortunately not officially available here. Can order and install the kits from official dealer directly but still void warranty.

*still not 100% conversion though as the real PE car still has bigger camber. Unless one change all the suspension arms with PE parts.

Well, I can confirm that base on 2 wheels on Primacy 4.

Even their UHP PS4 and PS5, the noise is around the same as most Touring tyre category where Primacy belongs.
Haven't driven the PS5 that much, but quick impression was quieter than Prime2 that it replaced. Again, Prime2 is Touring vs PS5 UHP.

Human's impression on quieter sometimes don't match the machine measurement, it could be the frequency range is that less bothering but still as loud base on measurement.

Michelin's sidewall is soft on general, that could be one of the reason.
*Don't have chance to drive Cup2 yet, so I don't know on that spectrum.

This post has been edited by constant_weight: Sep 5 2022, 02:36 PM