Follow up: 4/15/2021, with 25,040 miles on it I changed the CVT fluid last week using Honda HCF-2 fluid. I used one of my brothers drive ways because it is level enough that with jacks and jack-stands I could get the vehicle level. I put down a lot of plastic sheets and cardboard so as to not stain his driveway, and took my time. It took 3 hours, but is done correctly.
This vehicle is nice to drive. It is always trying to get the best gas millage and with all the hills in the south-hills of Pittsburgh and the traffic and abundance of red-lights, using economy on all the time and D 98% of the time, using 87 octane my tanks of gas had a worst of 18.83 MPG and a best of 22.35 MPG and most are 20.XX something or 21.XX something. Which is a lot better than our 2001 Impala with the 3.4 Liter 6 cylinder with an automatic that got 13.5 to 17 MPG ever got, and that vehicle had almost exactly the same HP and same weight. And the CR-V has more room, and has much more get-up-and-go. That is with driving on roads with a 25, or 35, or 40 MPH speed limit 98 % of the time. And I do not drive much more that 5 or 6 over the speed limit, and I am glad I do that because in the last 2 weeks I have seen 2 vehicles pulled over for speeding.
The sport mode selection of the CVT ( S ) really does keep it in a lower ratio and it has a lot of get-up-and-go in S mode. There is a long hill with a few turns in it that I go most days, and I put it in S just before I get onto that hill and in S mode it has way more power than I need going up that hill. I actually have to not use too much gas-peddle so I do not abuse the tires and wear them out faster than normal on the turns going up that hill, or even go faster and risk a roll over. It is fun to drive in S because it really gets up and goes if you want it to. But I seldom use S mode unless I am about to go up a steep long hill. Of course in S mode it gets worse gas millage, but again, I seldom use it.
Drive mode has enough power and if you need it to go faster it will if you just give it more gas.
For a vehicle with a fairly large interior space it is quiet enough. And my songs on a flash-drive sound good enough on its stereo. I have not upgraded the sound system, for two reasons. I would have to get something that kept all the vehicle info access available because that is accessed with the center display, and the interior noise while not annoying is enough that I would first have to seriously go over all ways to reduce all road noise getting in before improving the sound system would be worth doing. And I am happy enough with listing to my music as it is.
I may get the heater in the drivers seat modified to come up all the way on the back of the seat for my bad back. And I'm 6'4" tall, and there is a company that makes the gas supports for the rear hatch in a selection of available lengths much longer, which would be nice so I do not accidently hit my head on the opened trunk, but I will have to get the metal modified so it does not hit the roof before I install them. I might get that done. I have been waiting until everyone in my family is vaccinated + 2 weeks for immunity before getting anything like this stuff done.
I am glad I bought this vehicle, but the extended warranty the dealer talked me into was a waste of money, and I realized that before it would of cost me anything to cancel that deal, but the dealer was closed due to C-19 so when they re-opened and I canceled it a month later it cost me $180.00 to get out of it. Still that is a lot less than the totally worthless extended warranty cost. The dealer actually lied to me regarding the time the extended warranty was good for saying to my face that it was good for 7 years from when I bought it, when in reality it was good from 7 years from the day the original owner bought the vehicle. And the Certified warranty that the vehicle came with covered almost everything the real extended covered, for one year, and the drive train for 7 years from the date of the original owner purchase. That lie is why I will never buy from them again.
So, I am happy with the vehicle, but not happy with the dealer.