Hey guys, I am soon to be a new Ridgeline Owner! :)

Just purchased one today (Silver complete with Navigation) for $33,000 thanks to some good negoations by my wife.

They were going to get the truck to me today but they didn't have time to detail it today and my wife wanted it cleaned before taking it. So now I need to wait til Monday to pick it up. (Dang it why arnt car dealers open on Sundays?) :D

I am so looking forward to getting it.

I have been reading here for the last week and have learned a lot! So thank you all for the reviews and details about your trucks! Because of this site I knew more about the truck then the sales guy did!

Soon to be a real owner. :)

Scott
SatelliteGuys.US

Welcome aboard Scott, Enjoy your new ride and dont be shy with some pics !! This is a great site I agree, a LOT of good people !! :D

Welcome to the boards. There is a lot of good information within. Congratulations on your soon to be new truck.

Welcome, Scott. Get your wife to post her impressions too.

Congrats on the new ride, everyone who comes into this club/site brings new and differewnt perspectives. Yours will be appreciated too. I hope you have a much fun here as I have had.
Drive it in good health
Jules

Welcome to the club. I'm a newbie here having had my RTL only a week and 200 miles but loving every minute with it. Mine is silver too. Good luck with it and keep us posted on the pluses and minuses.

Great price, Scott. I payed your price on an RTL with moonroof WITHOUT NAVIGATION. Of course, that was 2 months ago when everybody was paying sticker (or above). I hope you enjoy your new ride as much as I am. Happy driving.

Just got a call from the Dealership. (Schaller Honda in New Britain, CT) and they tell me my truck is ready to go. (Yippie!)

Of course I won't be able to get there until 6:30 after work which STINKS. And I am stuck here in the office not being able to think about work, so I guess I will just spend my day here at the owners club reading and getting more and more excited. :D

The dealer was nice enough to give me the owners manual and the navigation system manual, and I have read them both from cover to cover. I don't know why the navigation system has me so excited, but I can't wait to play with it later.

I have been looking at add ons now, I think I am going to pick up the under the seat storage as well as the carpet floor mats. (I will get them from H & A)

I think the under the seat storage will be good for the kids, it will be a place to put their toys. :)

Does anyone know how the XM works? I already have XM now (I actually have 4 XM Radios and 3 Sirius Radios) will I be eligible for the 3 months free service? Or since I am already a subscriber will they add it onto my family plan?

One of these days I would like to add the DVD Player to the truck. But I will wait on it for now. I am kind of disapointed that the audio is sent via a FM modulator. You would think that you could hook it in and get some good psuedo surround sound. Besides a few people tell me its better and cheeper to get the screens put in the headrests instead.

I got to admit, WAITING SUCKS. :( But I will be happy later tonight.

Thanks for the great forum.

Scott
SatelliteGuys.US

It's like waiting for your first born.
Congratulations and Welcome to the best group of people I have never known. ;)
I am sure you will come to feel the same about the camaraderie here and the "family" like atmosphere. I rely on this site daily and I think I actually enjoy my 'Line that much more because I share a love for it many others do too!! It's like I'm driving down the road with all of you with me. The only difference is I ALWAYS get to drive!!:D
Enjoy your new ride Scott. :)

Scott,
Bummer that you have to work! I guess we all have to find a way to pay for our obsession.

I'm glad you got the manuals first. I've been cramming since we got ours and I would have enjoyed it being part of my pre-purchase research.

You're going to love NAV. It is fun to play with and learn to use. It can be frustrating too, like trying to find a store you know exists in your town. I wanted the phone number for Harbor Freight, but all I could get were listings in far away states. I had to rely on a traditional, paper phone book. Darn.

More often I am impressed by how many things are listed. It is so fast at recalculating routes that by the time you get to the next corner, it's giving you alternate directions.

NAV would not be as interesting or fun if you live outside of the detailed mapped areas. We will be taking our first camping trip in a couple of weeks. We are going to a remote part of Idaho, so it will be interesting to see how much help it is outside of the metro areas.

All in all, I think you are going to be happy you got the NAV. If you are at all tempted, you should check out the back up camera. It is a great add on and would give parents, in particular, peace of mind that they aren't going to run over toys left in the driveway or heaven forbid, a child.

The underseat storage is a great catch all box.

As for XM, it just works. It's set to go when you pick up your Ridge. There is no reason you should have to pay any extra because you are already a subscriber.

How long have you had XM? We are enjoying it while we have it, but as much as I like it, I don't think we'll keep it. I just don't want to have more bills coming in the mail and this is something I can live without. I'll switch to taking my iPod with me.

I purchased my first XM a week after they went online. I run a forum like this that deals with Satellite TV technology so I wanted to review the XM Radio. I figured I would get a unit, play with it for a week or two then return it to the store.

After getting it installed they could't pry it from my hands. :) Even my wife who was against me keeping it wanted one when she heard the comedy channels. She now has one in her car. :)

I even carry around the XM MyFI which is a portable XM Walkman. I use it in my office and at home in the house, it works great.

The cost of XM is per radio, it is $12.95 a month for the first radio then $6.95 a month for each additional radio (up to 5) on their family plan.

5 1/2 hours to go! :) Yippie.

I can't work......

Make sure and give your current vehicle a good thrashing on the way to pick up the Ridgeline. You gotta vent all this pent-up energy in a non-Ridgeline threatening manner :) . You'll want to take it very easy on your new ride for at least the first 600 miles.

Bought mine last Sunday and thankfully the very large dealership prepped it while we did the paperwork. Had to wait an extra hour or so but I didn't complain.:D

Bought mine last Sunday and thankfully the very large dealership prepped it while we did the paperwork. Had to wait an extra hour or so but I didn't complain.:D
This dealship was having some weekend sale going on in its Mitsubishi store, and they were trying to get everyone their car the same day.

They sold a lot of cars that day. The line to the autobody shop where they clean the cars had a line of 20+ cars in it waiting to be preped.

Ahh 5 hours to go. :)

Good luck with your new RL. I know you'll be happy. Concerning XM, I am one of their biggest fans, with 5 radios on their family plan. Having owned 2 Accords with factory XM, I can tell you from experience that you will have no trouble adding your RL's radio to your account at the end of the 90 days. You will receive a reminder notice from XM app. 30 days from the expiration of your trial membership. It looks like a bill but don't pay anything. Wait until the last day, call XM and give them the new radio's ID. It's as easy as that!

Ahh 5 hours to go. :)


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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SCREW IT TAKE VACATION!!!!!! GO GO GO !! :D



Have we mentioned how much your going to love driving this truck? :cool:

Prepare facial muscles for permanent grin status... :)

I wish I could go now, I really do. The dealer has me setup for 6:30 and thats when I go and finish signing all the papers etc...

Tick tick tick.... :)

Just kidding scott, you'll have her pretty soon and then comes the next problem.. not being able to get out.

Ever seen the movie "Office Space?"

Well its time you show them your "O" Face !! :eek:

Wish I could be on the roads in Conn. to see that smile!!
Counting down for you in Ohio Scott!! :)

Well now have a nice new silver Ridgeline RTL sitting in my driveway. :)

Just got in after sitting outside in the dark for over an hour setting up the audio system and navigation system settings to my liking.

Then I fooled around with the voice commands feature. I couldn't get it to do a damn thing at first, but then I started talking at normal levels instead of yelling at the mic and it started working. Without having the manual in front of me I just started giving commands and most of them worked.

My 11 year old son came out and asked me when I was going to get out of the truck and come in and I said "What time is it" the navigation system replied "It is NINE OH FOUR P.M." he thought that was the coolest thing. :D

Didn't drive it much, took my father out for a ride he was in awe of it. We went on the highway, but I didn't open it up as I saw something in the manual when I was flipping through it not to try stuff like that until after you reach the 600 mile mark. However without hammering the gas we were quickly driving on the highway at 75 - 80 mph. :)

I was to nervous driving to be looking around but my dad said at all the stop lights the other cars were all checking out my new baby.

My "trunk" is already full with all the crap (mostly all of the kids stuff) that we took out of my old truck (Mercury Mountaineer) I need togo through all that stuff so I have room in my trunk for my stuff.

I can't wait to get up and go to work tommorow. :D

Congratulations!

I have had mine for one week and just hit 1000 miles. It definetely does loosen up as it breaks in. The first several hundred miles were very tight so take it easy. At 600 miles it starts to feel completely different. I still have not tested the limits yet. Ok, I'll admit to a brief test when I had the dealers demo / loaner while I was having some accessories installed. It had 1600 miles on it and it seemed like a sports car compared to the first 200 miles. I have to keep reminding myself to resist temptation. Good things come to thee who wait.

Enjoy!

Today is a day just like yesterday, I am at work but nothing is getting done today.

After a nice ride in to the office I have been spendning most of the morning taking the elevators from my office down to the parking garage and showing people my new baby. :)

People are loving the navigation system, every time I have shown it off the voice commands have worked flawlessly. (Phew) I always save the hidden trunk for the last. This kind of shocks people. Of corse two of them had said "Its a nice trunk but it is hard to reach with the tailgate down"

My reply was no problem, and close the tailgate then open again from the side. :)

People are loving this truck, and I am loving showing it off. :)

Today is a day just like yesterday, I am at work but nothing is getting done today.

After a nice ride in to the office I have been spendning most of the morning taking the elevators from my office down to the parking garage and showing people my new baby. :)

People are loving the navigation system, every time I have shown it off the voice commands have worked flawlessly. (Phew) I always save the hidden trunk for the last. This kind of shocks people. Of corse two of them had said "Its a nice trunk but it is hard to reach with the tailgate down"

My reply was no problem, and close the tailgate then open again from the side. :)

People are loving this truck, and I am loving showing it off. :)


Congratulations and welcome to the Ridgeline family Scott!!
Enjoy the ride!! :)

WELCOME Scotty G. and Congrats on your new ride !!! :cool:

See the wait was well worth it !! :D

Gee I wonder what Scott's going to do this weekend? :rolleyes:

Enjoy !!

Enjoy in good health Scott. :)

Gee I wonder what Scott's going to do this weekend? :rolleyes:
I know what I am going to do....

I am going to check for Water Leaks. :D

Its supposed to rain all weekend. :(

Which sucks since on Monday (Memorial Day) its my Birthday and I was hoping it would be nice outside.

Congrats! Now it's my turn to get antsy since I sign tonight but won't get it until Saturday when I can nail down the promo rate that's coming out. I'm looking forward to playing with the Nav as well.

On that note...anyone interested in a 2000 yellow XTerra??? Available this Saturday!

Scott

I know what I am going to do....

I am going to check for Water Leaks. :D

Its supposed to rain all weekend. :(

Which sucks since on Monday (Memorial Day) its my Birthday and I was hoping it would be nice outside.

While this club is wonderful, it does make you a little paranoid about the more common issues the owners are reporting. Although I've had no sign of leakage in 2+ months of ownership, I have found myself checking under the mats 2 times this week after rain :( A word of recommendation: enjoy your ride, don't worry about leaks, creaking steering wheels and wind noise. You now own a state-of-the-art light duty truck that is unlike anything else on the road. Be proud of it and HAVE FUN!

Still no issues on ours either. We had days of downpours and each time we've washed it we spray it good and soak the wheelwells. No leaks and no windshield noise, in fact, no creaky steering wheel. We're relieved and I just want people to know that most of the trucks are fine. I hope those of you with these issues get quick and satisfactory resolutions.

Let me add my welcome to you. Just curious what other options did your truck come with other than the Navi? :)