Clarity Accessories

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insightman said:
The backup sensors are a Clarity option our Honda dealer installed. Some on this forum have performed their own installation, but it requires drilling holes in the rear bumper, which is not a task for the faint-hearted. Here's what the kit looks like: https://tinyurl.com/y7h3nz7m

We paid more than triple the discounted $186 price of the kit to have them installed by our dealer before we took delivery.

The parking sensors really helped me squeeze into a tight parking space yesterday. I normally wouldn't park our Clarity in a tight parking space because I always worry about the skill of the adjacent cars' drivers, but I was parking there for less than a minute.
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Thank you! You're right, not for the faint-hearted (or the faint-backed, which is my case). Did you have any residual noise or rattle afterwards? Some people around are concerned about that since it would need significant disassembling. How much did the dealer charge you overall?
 
coutinpe said:
Thank you! You're right, not for the faint-hearted (or the faint-backed, which is my case). Did you have any residual noise or rattle afterwards? Some people around are concerned about that since it would need significant disassembling. How much did the dealer charge you overall?
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Not only did we pay $800+ for the sensors, but after waiting more than a year for the Clarity PHEV to show up, we paid MSRP to get the first one to arrive. Sadly, my enthusiasm was not matched by other prospective car buyers. It took two months before our high-volume dealer sold their second Clarity. I'm not only an early-adopter, I'm an over-payer.

One reason I don't regret paying the full freight for our Clarity is because I like Germain Honda in Ann Arbor so much. Their service department is on top of the Clarity and the installation of the door-sill plates and rear parking sensors went without a hitch--they both look as if they were installed at the factory and there are no rattles at all.

I'm not done being an early-adopter. The Clarity PHEV is the gateway drug leading to full EVs. Today I received a call from Honda. I've been writing letters to American Honda in Torrance, begging them to bring the Urban EV (or whatever they decide to call it when the prototype is unveiled in Geneva in March) to North America. In my most recent letter, I begged Honda to make the European Urban EV US-legal (crash-protection, DOT-compliance, etc.) so we wouldn't have to wait 25 years to import their first mass-produced electric car from Europe to the US. The call was from American Honda's complaint department. They were letting me know that my "complaint" had been received and they would let me know if the complaint could be resolved. Dim prospects, indeed, but I'm ready to open my wallet again should my complaint be resolved.
 
toomie said:
Hi, just wondering what others are buying for their new Clarity. So far, I've purchased a key fob cover from the jacket store, a tempered glass screen protector for the infotainment unit from Amazon, and an Intro-tech automotive ultimate reflector sunshade from Autoanything.

I'm currently researching floor mats and right now leaning more towards the tuxmats as my next purchase.

I've attached pics of the screen protector, which I haven't installed yet and the key fob cover.

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Key nob cover.... You guys are really serious, :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
A rationale for the fob protectors would be protecting against damage. We just got a quote from the dealership for replacing a lost fob: 445.58 for the fob itself, 31.46 for the emergency key, plus tax and whatever labor involved in cutting/programming. You can buy a lot of protectors for 500 bucks!
 
insightman said:
I just created a new thread with photos and measurements of the phone mat. I didn't want to fill this thread with a bunch of large photos.
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SO i went with the leather fob covers off amazon. Also worried id lose my fobs i slid the "tile" bluetooth device thingy in the fob cover and it makes it a little bulky but its clutch when you "cant find the keys"
 
Found the full set of all weather mats on some random honda dealership website "college hill honda" ... think the mats were 110 and the truck tray was 75.... GREAT QUALITY and COVERAGE... except in the trunk that lil tray is pointless.. in my humble opinion
 
Olimpia said:
Did anyone get the interior illumination and the door sill trim installed?
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Maybe it comes with the touring trim, or I got lucky, but it appears that my car came with the footwell lighting. It's really faint, but I actually like that about it. The whole interior appears as if it's cast by moonlight.

With all map lights off, what I see is, driver and passenger footwells, drive console and armrest, lighting below drive console, and rear passengers.
 
AlAl said:
Maybe it comes with the touring trim, or I got lucky, but it appears that my car came with the footwell lighting. It's really faint, but I actually like that about it. The whole interior appears as if it's cast by moonlight.

With all map lights off, what I see is, driver and passenger footwells, drive console and armrest, lighting below drive console, and rear passengers.
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Thanks for sharing. Wish the installation wasn't so expensive otherwise I would have gone for it.
 
graure said:
We just got a quote from the dealership for replacing a lost fob: 445.58 for the fob itself, 31.46 for the emergency key, plus tax and whatever labor involved in cutting/programming. You can buy a lot of protectors for 500 bucks!
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Not sure how having a protector will help you not to loose the fob. Not only it doesn't help, it increases your loss, beside $500 fob replacement cost, you also lost $5 protector :) :)
 
The Tuxmat floor mats are fantastic, especially in messy winter weather. They fits tightly and precisely. In my city (Pittsburgh) the overuse of salt on snowy roads make good mats a necessity to preserve the carpets.
 
izudin said:
Not sure how having a protector will help you not to loose the fob. Not only it doesn't help, it increases your loss, beside $500 fob replacement cost, you also lost $5 protector :) :)
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If you lose a Clarity key fob, you sometimes can find them on eBay for substantially less $$$. For example, a current eBay Clarity FOB listing is eBay Item #153369330051. Of course, you will still have to find a cooperative dealer to pay to program your second-hand FOB to work with your own Clarity. I was able to do this sort of thing with a Ford pickup I previously owned and got a replacement FOB on eBay, which was programmed by a local Ford dealer for me as part of an oil change service. Saved several hundred $$$ on that one.
 
insightman said:
The Clarity PHEV is the gateway drug leading to full EVs.
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Not until you can charge in 5 minutes. PHEVs are more of an evolution of hybrids like the GEN 1 & 2 Prius, and full EVs.

My wife and I are both moving away from all EV and going to PHEV - when you run out of charge on an EV and there is no where to charge, you are pushing or towing. And outside of metropolitan cities like Los Angeles, charging options are limited.

I just ended the lease on my Fiat 500e all electric for a Clarity PHEV, and my wife will end her Mercedes B250 E all electric in August for a Mercedes GLC 350E PHEV.

Granted that new EVs have a longer range, its still the charging time. At level 2 charger my Fiat took about 2.75 hours to go fro zero to full, same for the wife's car. That is impractical - and our cars had the old battery tech, limits of 88 miles. Newer larger batteries take longer to charge, and level 2 charges aren't all over the place outside the big cities.
 
Texas22Step said:
If you lose a Clarity key fob, you sometimes can find them on eBay for substantially less $$$. For example, a current eBay Clarity FOB listing is eBay Item #153369330051. Of course, you will still have to find a cooperative dealer to pay to program your second-hand FOB to work with your own Clarity. I was able to do this sort of thing with a Ford pickup I previously owned and got a replacement FOB on eBay, which was programmed by a local Ford dealer for me as part of an oil change service. Saved several hundred $$$ on that one.
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Ouch. That one got crunched pretty good. Sorry to see that.

I'd be interested to see how much luck someone would have getting this FOB programmed. Each different MFR has different setups for keys and sometimes even different models. For example, Fiat 500E keys can't be programmed to work with a car if they've ever been used before. They get hard-coded to the car their paired with, maybe RFID style. On the other hand, I've also had very good luck using used Ford "Intelligent keys" I buy online and get programmed at my local locksmith.
 
Bobby Beucher said:
Not until you can charge in 5 minutes.
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If Honda will bring their new Honda e (descendant from the Urban EV Concept) to the US, I'd pay $35K for one even if it takes 12 hours to charge and goes just 150 miles on that charge. (Note: Honda has released no specs whatsoever for this car, which is to become their first mass-produced BEV--for Europe.) I consider this car to be a work of automotive art. Honda, please bring this car across the ocean for me!

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