Newbie

[Neil Ives]

Hi. 
I just bought my first Honda car, a new Jazz Hybrid

[madasafish]

Welcome

Envy

[WelshBeauty]

Welcome to the forum, your new car sounds great.

[Jocko]

Welcome.

[Derkie54]

Welcome Neil, and are you pleased with it ?

[Neil Ives]

Welcome Neil, and are you pleased with it ?

I've only done 100 miles so I'm getting used to it. I love seeing the power flow animation on the dashboard showing no engine input while I'm driving.
A year ago I bought an ex-demo BMW Series 1, MSport. My wife and I are 71; the Beemer was not easy to get in and out of. I soon realised that I regretted buying the BMW. We are not the right demographic for an MSport Beemer! I traded the BMW in for the Jazz EX. The Jazz is much better for us and has the big bonus of great fuel economy due to the hybrid power train.
Tapping the door of the Jazz sounds like an alluminium drinks can! The BMW was built like a German tank.
I'd like the boot of the Jazz to be a bit larger. Our dogs bed fills it!

I'm not sure about those silly trims on the alloy wheels that make the car look like it has steel wheels pretending to be alloy wheels. 

[Kremmen]

Those wheel trims are similar to what I had on my first 2 Xantias. They are certainly a lot easier to clean than having to use a mini bog brush on alloys.

[RichardA]

Hello and welcome.

[Neil Ives]

110 miles covered and still 520 miles range in the tank. Seriously impressive! 

[John Ratsey]

110 miles covered and still 520 miles range in the tank. Seriously impressive!

Be forewarned that once the gauge gets below half the miles remaining decrease faster than the extra miles travelled so that when the miles remaining reaches zero there are still several litres in the tank.

[Westy36]

Welcome to the forum! 

[culzean]

110 miles covered and still 520 miles range in the tank. Seriously impressive!

Be forewarned that once the gauge gets below half the miles remaining decrease faster than the extra miles travelled so that when the miles remaining reaches zero there are still several litres in the tank.

This is a common thing on every car I have driven, the halfway mark really is normally 'a real half a tank', so in a 40 litre tank will be 20 litres used ( may actually be a bit more because of the pipe leading to tank from filler holding extra fuel ) - but the zero mark on fuel gauge will be 20 litre minus the reserve amount,  so at zero there may still be 6 litres in tank.  This means from halfway to zero mark is 20 litres minus 6 litres,  which is only 14 litres, which is why fuel gauge falls faster after halfway mark. 

[Neil Ives]

... Be forewarned that once the gauge gets below half the miles remaining decrease faster than the extra miles travelled so that when the miles remaining reaches zero there are still several litres in the tank.

Sounds like a useful safety measure.

[Kremmen]

I found in my Civics that the 'tank range' is quite clever.

It not only uses the fuel level but also your current average mpg so if you ease off, the tank range can increase even though you're using fuel.

[culzean]

I found in my Civics that the 'tank range' is quite clever.

It not only uses the fuel level but also your current average mpg so if you ease off, the tank range can increase even though you're using fuel.

They pretty much all work like that, they get the present fuel usage from open time of injector valves ( ECU info ) and adjust the range forecast to reflect present usage rate.   After about 50 miles from being zeroed the average MPG display barely moves however you drive,  but there is also an 'instantaneous mpg' a bar graph display which moves pretty damn quick, too quick to focus on while you are driving.