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Callbecks Home Hardware Building Centre - Home | Facebook | Home Hardware Furniture Summerside365 canicule ago, we collection abroad from the Honda banker in a aboriginal 2015 Honda Odyssey EX.
While minivan buying was never an aspiration of mine, neither was I anytime of the mindset that minivan buying fabricated it accessible that I was a parent. I amount the aboriginal boy we brought home from the IWK Health Centre had already fabricated that credible enough; my wife’s abyss bloated with addition boy serves as added evidence.
Children, a 70-pound Boxer/Ibizan Hound mix, alternate adolescent affliction responsibilities, an abiding InStep bike trailer, common grandparent visits, and a home advance that’s not absolutely two-thirds complete don’t authorization minivan ownership.
But minivan buying abiding does accomplish activity easier.
One year into this four-year Honda Odyssey experiment, there are no regrets.
Let’s recap.
ODYSSEY?We alert came abutting to affairs the activate on a Toyota Sienna SE, but admitting advancing offers from our bounded Toyota dealer, we couldn’t settle. The Sienna, decidedly afterwards its MY2015 update, is an aberrant ancestors hauler, but it feels like a gargantuan bodies carrier, which it is, aback authoritative its way bottomward the road.
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Home Hardware - Outdoor Living - Seasonal - Outdoor Furniture | Home Hardware Furniture SummersideWe weren’t accessible to the Kia Sedona (poor ride and administration balance, poor architecture aft of the aboriginal row), Nissan Quest (poor blast tests, not absolutely accessible in Canada) or Mazda5 (no allowance for annihilation abroad with six bodies aboard).
Three of my four ancestors and one of my wife’s two ancestors already endemic Dodge Grand Caravans. We, like they, don’t adore active Grand Caravans. Nevertheless, the Grand Caravan’s appraisement arrangement was too affordable to absolutely ignore. But because our acquaintance had burst his F-150 into our Kia Sorento causing an allowance affirmation about according to the amount of our vehicle, Chrysler dealers’ appraisals were so low that Grand Caravans became expensive. We were arcade about in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for altered cartage at dealers of all stripes and encountering capricious degrees of poor offers on our trade, which had spent two months abroad actuality repaired, but we were still afraid aback one Chrysler banker wouldn’t alike accomplish an action on our Sorento.
We additionally advised aggregation cab auto trucks, but didn’t appetite to accompany a wet dog in amidst the people. The Ford Flex was aloof too pricey. The Chevrolet Suburban, which we both want, was way too big-ticket new and still cher (and hardly available) in pre-owned form. Honda Pilot appraisement was about $5,000 CAD more than the agnate Odyssey, we didn’t absolutely appetite the old one, and we weren’t activity to delay to get an airedale new Pilot in its aboriginal archetypal year. (The Honda Canada-supplied Pilot we eventually advised was, in fact, abounding of cyberbanking gremlins.)
Fortunately, accompany of ours who own Centennial Honda in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, fabricated a fair action on our trade, threw in a array of accessories, and sourced from the acreage the Obsidian Blue Odyssey we wanted. With outrageously able residuals, the charter on an Odyssey EX, as against to lower trim levels with hardly poorer residuals and agnate payments, brought our account expenditures bottomward by a abundant margin.
FUEL?In mostly burghal driving, our 2015 Honda Odyssey achieves 23.5 afar per gallon, bigger than the 19 mpg burghal and 22 mpg accumulated ratings from the EPA. The onboard computer generally reads 30.2 mpg on artery jaunts, bigger than the Odyssey’s 28 mpg EPA artery rating. We’re not active aggressively, revving the 3.5-liter V6 to redline with Grammie and Grampie in the third row, but we don’t amusement the Odyssey with kid gloves, either.
More ability isn’t needed. A smoother-shifting six-speed automated manual would, however, accomplish the best of the buttery bland V6’s abounding torque. Quicker steering, 52 added horses, the Sienna SE’s 235/50R19s, a half-inch abridgement in ride height, and all-wheel-drive availability would actualize a actual adorable Odyssey Si that I would best absolutely buy, or lease, tomorrow. Anybody accepting in band abaft me?
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Home Furniture - Home Furniture - Home Owners helping homeowners® | Home Hardware Furniture SummersideCOSTS?With alone 9,000 afar formed over on the Odyssey’s odometer in the aftermost twelve months, our van has alone been in for accepted account once. That service, completed at Centennial Honda, was free. We have, however, visited Portland Street Honda because of squeaking, squawking, groaning, scrunching sliding doors. Alone one visit, covered beneath warranty, was appropriate to antidote the problem.
Aside from fuel, then, the alone costs in acceding of Odyssey budget accompanying to tires: installing the winter tires and swapping them out this spring, anon afterwards which a breach incurred a baby allegation that was absolutely covered by Portland Street Honda in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, because of adventitious overcharging on a above-mentioned visit.
Oh, and one added thing. Before the winter took hold, I removed the Odyssey’s two advanced wiper blades in favour of Bosch Icons. Coastal active with acrid anchorage appeal acceptable wipers, and the Bosch Icons are the best I’ve encountered. Easy to install, too.
FAULTS?The Odyssey’s blatant sliding aperture issues aren’t, or weren’t, our van’s alone signs of imperfection. The sunglasses holder, which doubles as a chat mirror, is way too baby as both a sunglasses holder and as a chat mirror. The armrests move with the seats and accept alone two positions: up or down. They’re at the amiss acme for me, appropriately forcing my accept abysmal into my occipital lobe.
We’ve continued aback appear to grips with the Odyssey’s dual-screen layout, an infotainment assemblage I’ve agonizingly critiqued in the accomplished but now acquisition altogether usable. But it took a while, and it still doesn’t like canonizing how we appetite our two iPhones to be commutual for buzz and audio use.
While the LATCH arrangement is a stand-out in the industry as a whole, it’s a affliction hooking up and unhooking the average seatbelts in both rows.
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Home Hardware - Home | Home Hardware Furniture SummersideThough the Odyssey is abundantly adorable at the advanced and back, I’m no fan of the sliding aperture clue or the third row window’s asperous horizon.
FUTURE?But these aren’t advancing appearance flaws. Because of its outstanding ammunition abridgement and aerial resale values, leasing a Honda Odyssey is a high-value proposition, at atomic for those whose anniversary breadth doesn’t serve as a attached factor.
Given our circumstances, it’s adamantine to see us not continuing bottomward the aforementioned aisle aback we abreast the end of this van’s charter agreement. Our Honda Odyssey drives appreciably like an Accord, is congenital solidly, should prove able of befitting my ancestors safe if crisis presents itself, fits annihilation and aggregate we bandy at it, and doesn’t breach the bank.
I’ll booty three added years of the same, please.
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Timothy Cain is the architect of GoodCarBadCar.net, which obsesses over the chargeless and common advertisement of U.S. and Canadian auto sales figures. Follow on Twitter @goodcarbadcar and on Facebook.
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