[pmolina]

I love my "Elite" trim, but hate all the hard plastic especially the rear door panels are completely PVC plastic. Cheap feeling. Need more "soft-touch" added to doors for this higher price point. Also, and this is huge to me... all the little storage cubby-bins in the front doors do not have any silicone or rubber liners. Even felt would help. So even a small item moves around and "tings" or "ticks" in the doors (read: rattles around). I'm coming out of a Volkswagen and they did those little extra steps. For $44,000 I expect those little things. The lack of Remote start from your smart phone also is very disappointing.

In other car forums there are solutions to your noise issue.. One is to purchase a flat rubber-type sheet and cut to fit. maybe found at a hobby store or Walmart. or imagination required.

 

[pmolina]

I've looked. Not easy to find and "rubber" can be very stinky!
I bought some 1/8" think rubber adhesive backed 1" wide tape, and it smells. The ideal material would be silicone! (soft, pliable and not smelly)
They make "cubby bin" liners for Accord and Civic.... I'm waiting for this to come to Passport. The kits I saw even had a glove box liner for the bottom. I will buy instantly.

The Passport is a very quiet vehicle... but the bins and glove box are all slippery - Hard plastic. It's a symphony of noise with the Tire gauge, a pen and a little spare change (for tolls) rattling around on every brake/accelerate and turn motion.

Note: I said 'rubber-like". There are small sheets that are of a soft plastic that I have seen in other car forums to fix the same problem you have. I searched but could not find any immediate threads.

As a secondary solution, the Michael's stores (hobby-type retail), have 9" X 12" felt sheets that are adhesive backed (or not) $1.10 and $0.40 respectively . See attached photo. Just cut to shape and apply. I hope this helps.

 

[pmolina]

Good points.

See this thread: https://bc1-noiap-ae.staging.lb.ope...raveling-with-a-spare-key-fob.629/#post-11693
This OP never has a problem with getting in trouble. He keeps it in in pants - and the Key fob as well.

 

[pmolina]

Sensitive?
https://livehealthonline.com/psychiatry/

 

[pmolina]

Just test drove Passport Touring for about 2 hrs without the salesman in the car...My wife and I were very impressed...quiet..plenty of power on the highway...Took it over some very bad side streets...felt solid...Seats are very comfortable...arm rests..captains chairs..were very comfortable...(I had my doubts about the arm rests)..Definitely considering buying an Elite at end of this year..waiting for dealer prices to settle down and any vehicle bugs worked out.

...... "waiting for dealer prices to settle down and any vehicle bugs worked out"
Same strategy for me, or at least understanding the Honda idiosyncrasies.

 

[pmolina]

Learn how to use it, don't let it win. Once mastered you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Took me a couple months (former vehicles) till I stopped hating it, learned it and won!

 

[pmolina]

Piano black, everywhere. HATE.

If there is enough demand for a non-gloss covering somebody will offer a solution. If Lloyd christmas and Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber can cover their van with fur, one should be able to find something.

 

[pmolina]

Wear steel-toed work boots?

I haven't had the opportunity yet to use such a feature. I do have a satellite speaker system with my desktop PC. It has a remote on/off switch. It does take the right motion to make it work. Same for other remote device such as TV's & other sound systems.

 

[pmolina]

The one I thing I truly "hate" has got to be the approximately 1.5 second delay of the transmission engaging when shifting from reverse to drive. It really irritates me for some reason. Safety issue as well in my opinion. Outside of that, so far so good!

Does it happen when the engine/transmission hot or cold? Or both?

 

[pmolina]

I don't like how I can't drive or reverse with the door open. Sometimes I want to open my door to look down to the curb or line, when parking while inching forward oe backward a bit.

That's interesting. So --- If someone approached your PP and if the doors were unlocked, that person could keep your car from moving simply by opening the door??? I hate to educate any potential or current carjackers but that would certainly make it easier for them.

 

[pmolina]

Good to know. Now will hit the car jacker with my door both times running him over and then backing over him. Fantastic!
Thanks

TO each his/her own. Just remember, and this is important especially if a homicide is involved, it takes 1 1/2 seconds for the transmission to shift in or out of reverse. See earlier post (#237).