CX90 PHEV Road Trip 2900 Miles Mazda Yellowstone 

Well I counted 4 other people yesterday that were pumping gas with the car running so even know it may not be the “right” way to pump gas it is a common thing. Hybrids and pressurized gas tanks are not popular in my book.

I feel that most of the people that say you should not be refueling with car running dont live where it is -20F in the winter. I know it is not the "proper" method but still it is way more common than you think.@@Mike-pb7jm

Those signs are put there by lawyers, not engineers. There's no real risk. I say this as an engineer and a gear head.

If it's either too cold or too hot outside to leave the car on while fueling, how long does it take you to fill your tank? Two hours? Do you leave your doors and windows open that in four minutes all the heat/cold escapes? To each its own, but you got the cx90 phev, so you win. Nicest car!

And having to use your turn signal. Oh woe is me

Good to know about the service mode for wipers but still an extra pain that should be unnecessary. It may be “forbidden” but how many people leave the car running ?? I suspect a lot more than you would think.

@@premiumoctane93my Audi is just like that. I never put my wipers in service mode, it’s just a hassle. I just lift the wipers high enough to wipe under them. I don’t know why they designed it that way. 🤦‍♂️

@@heNzVf20c So dumb !

​@@heNzVf20cthis is to improve aerodynamics in high speeds, reduce drag and wind noise. Germans know their stuff, it is better that way, trust them!

Completely correct. It’s common on Euro vehicles to have a service mode purely to ensure that wipers are low enough not to add extra drag.

I don’t understand why you need to abandon prudent driving practices just because you are on a road trip. Someone is in your blind spot, you happen to not see the blind spot warning and decide to change lane without indicating… bang, the road trip is ruined… People who change lanes with no indication *ahead* of moving lanes are by pet peeve.

I didn’t want it to work though, during a 2900 mile road trip there are just times that you just don’t want to signal every time.

What can I say sometimes I am an aggressive driver when you need to get in front of a semi or a person going under the speed limit in the passing lane... There are instances for me at least where the signal can get overlooked as I am concentrating on the situation.

@@premiumoctane93 If you signal when changing lanes as you always should then it becomes second nature even when alone on the road! I despise idiots who never signal their intentions!

@@retgi1 I signal 95% of the time sometimes it just doesn’t work out or when no one is remotely around or you hit the signal stock too late. Annoying for sure

That 70mph helps a lot for mileage. It also didn’t help that most of my driving was in the north west with a lot of mountain driving.

@@retgi1 that’s crazy, maybe it’s different parts of the country but I leave my cars running quite often in the super hot and super cold. Not saying that I leave them running all the time but I guess I am a rule breaker.

I bought mine and there were too many little annoyances that added up so I sold it back to Mazda. If you can get a screaming lease deal on it maybe you can overlook some of those issues. At the very least I would make sure you get the Premium Plus so you can at least get power folding mirrors and a Touchscreen with Apple Car Play. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sGaJcVSGztA.html

@@premiumoctane93 how did the dealership treat you on the buy back? No hit, light hit or heavy hit?

Its bad, super bad. I would not recommend it.

Everything I have read so far is the cruise thing is normal for Mazda and some other vehicles…. If this is true then adaptive cruise should not be in these cars IMO

@@premiumoctane93 Do you mean it is normal in other Mazda models? I had a 2019 Nissan Pathfinder that has the intuitive cruise control and used it on this same trip numerous times and it has never done that. Once the Mazda even braked/slowed when there was a concrete median and there was a slight turn. No vehicle in front just a median to the left of the actual pavement. We have a Tesla too that has never done this and has the adaptive cruise (aka on basic autopilot). When I was purchasing this vehicle one of the things I really wanted was adaptive cruise control because we go on a lot of trips for my kids sports teams. Most trips are 200-450 miles. So having had that on the Nissan I got used to having such a nice feature. Now its basically useless if Mazda cant fix it.

@@dougwhite2512 yes heard that it does it on other Mazda models. My explorer and tesla never did that although the tesla has the dreaded phantom breaking occasionally.

Yikes… cx90 didn’t go well for me, sold it back within 3 months and I bought a model 3

Thanks !

I have not been running the “premium octane” ;) I save that for my high performance cars. Just 87 octane in the cx90. Premium is Not really needed IMO since I typically daily it on EV only.

No charge mode driving, my mpg was already pretty bad so didn’t want to make it worse with charging mode.

Thanks for watching!

That was the mpg when completely out of EV. Numerous fill ups on gas only and you truly only average 26mpg or so doing 80MPH when using the gas only engine

@@premiumoctane93 Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.

No I was not

I did not, that mpg was with 87

I went straight back to tesla after two months of misery owning the cx90. Tesla is the future for me at least.

@@premiumoctane93I test drove a new model 3 redesigned version, hate to say it, it's the future.

@@derrekb4501 I bought a 2023 RWD model 3 and love it. I was thinking about getting a new model 3 performance when it comes out. I have an order in for a cybertruck and will continue to enjoy the model 3 until that arrives.