2021 Honda City GM6 Dedicated Discussion, Owner/ Fan Club Thread

[pwuser151967054480]

The thing you have to think about is that who are you saving the seats for? The next owner? Enjoy what you have right now. Plastic on seats feels horrible and looks disgusting. Plus leather is extremely easy to clean. There are loads of leather protectants and cleaners available for cheap which work well too.

In my old city the cloth seats still look great after 5 years and I enjoyed them fully, and didn't have to deal with seat covers, seat plastics or those horrible fake leather seats. Everyone here has the mentality here to save the OEM seat covers and they never ever get to enjoy the actual seats properly themselves as it's reserved for the next owner. Plus I've yet to hear seats even affecting resale values much. Never heard anyone removing seat covers to check the OEM seats for used cars either.

If you're still not comfortable, you can get aftermarket cloth covers on top of the leather if you really wanna save it them.

[pwuser151967054480]

Yeah the honda CVT modes are more related to responsiveness and rpm. It never holds itself at a single gear ratio when accelerating and constantly keeps varying gear ratios when accelerating in any mode. S and L mode just mean that it'll be varying at lower gear ratios to keep rpm high.

Toyota and Honda CVTs behave very differently. Honda CVT in city and civic x oriel acts like how a CVT is supposed to but in Toyotas there's a lot of emulation to make the CVT feel not like a CVT. New Hondas are moving to a more Toyota like CVT modes. Problem with that is, emulating gears makes CVTs lose their efficiency and performance advantages, but you don't even get the reliability of real auto transmissions.

A few months back I had a random friendly run with a civic X oriel on the motorway while I was driving a grande. Both cars were going dead even until the grande simulated a shift, and that happened in D mode, I wasn't in manual mode. Civic X easily started to pull ahead after cause at those speeds and at full throttle, civic X constantly stays at above 6k rpm and never simulates a shift to go below 6k rpm. That's the real advantage of CVTs which fake shifts remove.

[ammarzubair]

i removed the plastic from the seats as soon as i got home with the car after delivery. the only reason i can think of covering them is that they get pretty hot if in direct sunlight. else covering them is a waste of the leather installed.

this pakistani mentality is to save the car as much as possible. some time back a garbage trike bhi my rear bumber and fender on getting insurance claimed for repair. the inspection guy asking me "nayi gari he sir, kyun dent paint karwa ke value gira rhay he" matlab kharab halat ki gari is better than repaired. i told him meri gari meri marzi

[chinyoti]

My City still has plastics on except for the driver seat, I got ripped of eventually .

I always plan to remove them, later i get lazy,

What i noticed was my jeans color exchanged with the seat leather / Rexene, I guess its ok

One should enjoy orignal seats till they last, and then get them repaired or covered when required.

[jahanzabfarooq2]

Thanks everyone, i got the answer.

[shahbazsarwar]

Hi Folks,

Anyone else faced ticking sound coming from roof, also from dashboard? it’s really annoying
Car is only driven 500 kms, planning to have it checked at 1K inspection.

[pwuser151967054480]

Plastic gets even hotter than leather. Plus if seats plastic covers aren't removed, another big issue is you become the biggest target of all beggars and even petrol pump attendants, tyre pressure checkers, guards, basically anyone who thinks they can earn some extra bucks for free. Have to remove the covers to avoid constantly being harassed for money.

The Pakistani mentality of keeping the car in genuine haalat doesn't actually work well either. The buyers just need any excuse to negotiate for lower value. If the dents and scratches are left as it is, it's used as an excuse to negotiate for lower as denting painting is needed. If denting painting is done, then it's also used as an excuse for negotiation as car isn't genuine. I sold 2 cars this year, one 2010 accord in fully genuine haalat, one 2010 corolla with denting painting done. For both cars, the above mentioned excuses were used. Both were sold at under market value because they were high mileage and not meter reversed. Unfortunately almost all cars that old are sold with meters reversed. I'm sure the value would've remained the same if corolla was left in genuine haalat and accord was painted.

[ammarzubair]

dimaghi masla he pakistani awaam ka.

for seats i meant getting leather seats covered with cloth seat covers. heat is the only reason that makes sense.

[pwuser151967054480]

Yeah driving around in ugly as hell "jaanwan" cars is too important here. It's especially stupid when people with insurance don't get work done. At least if you don't have insurance you're saving some money.

[ifadey]

S mode will shift to the next gear after certain RPM

There's no gear in CVT. The shift you see in Toyotas is a fake shift. Hamza Tariq explained this very well in his post. Personally, I see fake shifts as a negative in a vehicle with CVT. Unfortunately, Honda has also moved to this direction just to give consumer the feel of a manual or traditional automatic.

[ifadey]

Plus if seats plastic covers aren't removed, another big issue is you become the biggest target of all beggars and even petrol pump attendants, tyre pressure checkers, guards, basically anyone who thinks they can earn some extra bucks for free. Have to remove the covers to avoid constantly being harassed for money.

+1 for this

[umairzafar]

Sir i know the fundamentals of CVT, i was just sharing my experience and the scenario where triptonic can be very handy

[nab101]

t 600kms driven. Didn't use cruise control, didn't drive above 140, kept varying rpms every minute or so. Alhamdulillah now at 11k Kms engine feels like it was proper

How does one feel whether an engine was properly broken in or not?

[ifadey]

In my experience you get slightly better acceleration and fuel economy.

[pwuser151967054480]

Improved Fuel economy or acceleration response. It seems to depend on how you drive it in break in period, whether the engine gets more economical or more responsive. In my experience it's one of those 2 things. My 1.5 CVT has remained at pretty much the same fuel economy but the responsiveness has really improved. At first I used to find it a bit weaker than the 2017 1.3 manual city I have but now it feels much faster than the 1.3.

In the past we had 2 glis, one 2009 model driven by my dad and one 2010 model driven by driver. You can imagine how both cars were driven very differently during break in period. 2009 one gave 14kmpl but 2010 one gave 12kmpl with same driving style. But 2010 one was noticeably more responsive.

[pwuser161916082554]

AoA Guys
I'm planning to sell my Honda City 2021 (24 Dec 2021)
1.5 L CVT (Chrome handles, Cruise Control, Shark Fin, Econ Mode button and Leather Seats)
Driven with immense care and well maintained
ODO 22000 km

It is bank leased with 54,000 monthly installments (started at time of booking September 2021)
Around 1.2 Million Down Payment
5 years plan
Tracker & Insurance through bank for remaining 4 years
2950000 invoice

Please guide me in this regard that whether I should sell it the way it is or get it cleared before selling it on full price

Thanks

Tefta white
Bilawalaziz@live.com

[mohammadali1234]

S is not Sports
its like D2 in conventional automatic

Tiptronic is a huge plus, bundled with driving modes, Yaris is much agile/responsive

I own both and have driven them both properly and improperly, Yaris is not only faster but wins big time in agility, Aspire lacks driving modes and tip-tronic

[ifadey]

In every 0-100 run, City 1.5 is faster than Yaris 1.5
Even in some cases City 1.5 can do 0-100 in less than 10 sec with proper launch. Most common is 10.** sec.
Yaris 1.5 time is 11.** sec. In almost every Indian video I saw, everyone claims better acceleration and fuel economy than Yaris.

With that in mind, I think the manual mode in Yaris could be giving you the feeling/impression of being fast.

[pwuser151015259347]

Hi

Anyone who has got his delivery recently? Just want to check if deliveries are being made as per tentatative delivery date or not?

Background of my question is that my tentatative delivery date was 30 July, 22 and I haven't received my 1.2 CVT yet and dealership is not even giving me any idea as to when will I receive the delivery?

[ifadey]

Production is closed for all automakers. They can't give you any new timeline until LCs open by the government