Planning to trade-in new CRV with CX-5
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7eregrine
The man, the myth, the legend
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- Land of Cleve
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- 2016.5 CX5
Warm it up first, it takes like 2 driving minutes.
Exactly!
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Mine takes forever. Not so much to get hot, but because there is no insulation the cold intrusion occurs nearly as fast as the heat, until you've driven for 20-30 minutes.
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- Denver, CO
Yeah. If I turn the heater off, cold gets back in quick for sure. But the heater itself heats up pretty fast...once I start driving. Idling? Takes forever.
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Mainly, I miss my jeep's climate control. I think the higher trim level CX5's have it though.
Yup the GT we have has it. Also gen 2 insulation advantage!
The CX-5 doesnt warm up as fast as my GTI or ST did but its faster than a lot of other stuff I have owned. So its at least above average imo.
Oh and gen 2 also has vents for the 2nd row.
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It will be a nice upgrade when I wear my gen 1 out.
I went over to a CRV forum to read about the heat issue and wow. Seems odd to me as in other small turbo products Ive found it to be the opposite so I wonder what Honda is doing wrong here. Maybe they need to design a cooling system with multiple circuits. I believe this in combination with the water cooled exhaust is why the GTI provides heat so quickly even in extremely cold conditions. ST Ecoboost also had water cooled exhaust but I dont remember if it could isolate that circuit the way the EA888 can.
Nigel Tufnel
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- 2007 Mazda 3 5-door
We have the most recent Civic with the same basic engine and the heating is fine. Smaller interior though of course.
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- 2019 CX-5 Signature
That's the problem! They made the interior of the CR-V more spacious than the climate control can handle.
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- 2014 QX70 AWD
My Infiniti heats up very quickly... never thought about correlating that to the engine size.
