New guy with a new car, soon.

[FJR Ken]

Hi.
Quite used to Bike Forums, so this is new to me, a car forum.
Currently own a Subaru Forester XS.

May well be buying a Civic diesel hatch down the track.
Took one out for a test drive yesterday, what a great car.

Question,
Why doesn't the USB function on the Civic work with a USB stick ?
Had 2 albums with about 10 songs each, about 500 M on a 4 Gig stick, the info display came back "unrecognised format"

The dealer didn't know and Honda Australia hasn't got back to me.

Use Windows 7 so I think it's a NTFS file format on the stick.

Will do some Google searches on the site soon about it.
Hope to post off again about a new purchase.

Cheers
Ken

[curtis265]

are they MP3 files?

How's the diesel feel/sound?

[FJR Ken]

Woops, yep they are MP3's.
Spent ages converting all my music to it.

The diesel is great.
Solid feel on the road however the suspension was great on some of the crappy roads we have around here. Couldn't feel any steering probs like in a normal front wheel drive.

The motor pulled from about 1800 rpm, take it it's when the turbo starts to build up.
A bit sluggish before that.
Doing about 60 kms hr at approx 2000 rmp in third with 3 more gears to go, so can easily loose licence around town if your not careful. You couldn't drive around town in top.

Very little noise at all, esp from the diesel motor, only under a bit of acceleration.
The only thing I didn't like was the automatic motor stop mode.

Ergonomics were good, very nice for me, 6'4", currently a slim build hope to get fatter.

Just have to wait until I'm financial.

[FJR Ken]

Talked to my mate last night who has a new Civic Hatch work car, 1 week old.
He tried one of his USB sticks and the all works fine, his was formatted in FAT

So it could be the file system of the stick itself, FAT FAT32, NTFS etc
Taking 3 USB sticks down the the dealer soon to try them.

UPDATE A USB stick formatted with:
NTFS the sound system doesn't recognise format
FAT 32 works good
FAT works good