Bad designs on cars
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Pegueot 106 pedals being too close to each other 
Dodge magnum
was our rental car in USA, you had to have a front window open a little bit BEFORE you opened the rear when driving above 60mph
Why?
Cos it becomes a pressure build up and sounds like you just turned a stereo on with 60 subs hitting you in the side of your head!
First time we found that out was when we were doing 110mph in the Arizona dessert...
was our rental car in USA, you had to have a front window open a little bit BEFORE you opened the rear when driving above 60mph
Why?
Cos it becomes a pressure build up and sounds like you just turned a stereo on with 60 subs hitting you in the side of your head!
First time we found that out was when we were doing 110mph in the Arizona dessert...
First time we found that out was when we were doing 110mph in the Arizona dessert...
Woah, your e-penis is hoooooooooooooge
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Cost-cutting. Electric mirrors are expensive so they fit a manual window to the driver's side where the benefits of having electric mirrors aren't as apparant
electric handbrake on new passats, wouldnt be half as bad if it was actually on the centre console and not on the far right side near the headlight switch.
ford full beam stalk (again) twice ive flashed ppl to let them out and then realised 2 mins later i have the full beam on, actually i did the same thing in the passat but that was on the motorway at night.. eek
peugeot 307.. erm, the entire car is a bad design
ford full beam stalk (again) twice ive flashed ppl to let them out and then realised 2 mins later i have the full beam on, actually i did the same thing in the passat but that was on the motorway at night.. eek
peugeot 307.. erm, the entire car is a bad design
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I had fun with that when I had a Passat as a courtesy car. What makes it more fun is lid for the storage bin where the hand break should be won't close unless it's been fully opened. So when you're trying to work out how to use the hand break you then realise you can shut the storage bin either 9just to make you feal really stupid).
When I did find the button I pressed it and the LCD display on the dash told I needed the foot break on. I wasn't looking forward to the next hill start, I hadn't relised that I could just pull away and it would turn the hand break off.
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Dont they hold the handbrake for a few seconds?
I had a courtesy mini once and I swear they had that function.
The air con on my old 156's, con was the right word for it as it never did anything with the air other than warm it up. Glove box on my Griffith which spent most the time flying open and spitting its contents into the passenger footwell, and a boot that never seemed to shut cleanly and was forever breaking struts.
The arm rest on my Audi, not great for resting the arm, always needs to be moved when I want to use the gearstick and has to be lifted if you want to use the handbrake. Also, a Sat Nav system which, after much use, is not as good as a Tom Tom.
The brakes on my Mini 1000 with their special 'ABS' feature. No matter how hard you hit the pedal they would NEVER lock........or do much braking either!
Oh, and Gibbo's Mustang, how the hell are you supposed to use that when you need a burger with its stupid left hand steering wheel idea, that will never catch on!
There are millions more, just can't think of em.
The arm rest on my Audi, not great for resting the arm, always needs to be moved when I want to use the gearstick and has to be lifted if you want to use the handbrake. Also, a Sat Nav system which, after much use, is not as good as a Tom Tom.
The brakes on my Mini 1000 with their special 'ABS' feature. No matter how hard you hit the pedal they would NEVER lock........or do much braking either!
Oh, and Gibbo's Mustang, how the hell are you supposed to use that when you need a burger with its stupid left hand steering wheel idea, that will never catch on!
There are millions more, just can't think of em.
Cup holder position on the gen 6 celica, you have to arch your arm over whatevers in them to change gear. Without the cups thought its thes most comfortable way to change gear in any car i've driven 
Standard headlights on the celica are crap too.
Also, with my limited car experience, I can't forget the passenger side indicator lens on my mk3 astra, 1 in every two mk3 astras seem to have it missing lol
Standard headlights on the celica are crap too. Also, with my limited car experience, I can't forget the passenger side indicator lens on my mk3 astra, 1 in every two mk3 astras seem to have it missing lol
you can turn that off... its on one of the computer settings
Ford headlight stalk.
On most cars, you push the stalk forwards to lock on main beam, bring it bank central to turn off main beam. Pulling the stalk toward you will flash the main beam and then return normally by a spring.
On my Focus, both actions are done by pulling it toward you. So you pull it halfway for flash and it springs back, or all the way to lock full beam on. Unfortunately, it requires only very gentle pressure. The amount of times Ive gone to flash an oncoming driver only to lock the full beam on, blinding them...its about the only thing I don't like about my car
same in the fiesta... go to flash someone and instead go full beam and blind them. lol
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Headlight bulbs on Smart cars....changing one is akin to sticking your hand through a letterbox, and then reaching around a corner to release the clip by touch alone, whilst barely being able to reach it. Oh and if you drop the bulb you will *never* retrieve it again.
Polos from around 2002 onwards and many modern VAG cars that use a standard H7/477 bulb have a crap rotatable clip to hold the bulb in place which once released is stupidly difficult to replace as its difficult to twist it hard enough. Old style conventional 'bent-wire' clips for the win.
Any car where access to change front bulbs on is gained through a hatch in the front wheelarch. Fiddly, means you get messy, and you have sod all way of seeing what you're doing. Mazda RX-8 worst I've ever done.
Battery location on many modern cars, which precludes easy replacement of the battery without removing vast quantities of brittle plastic trim, rubber seals, or even occasionally windscreen wiper mechanisms! Audi A4 and Passat diesels are especially bad...
And uess who works at halfords doing this sort of crap day in day out?
Aww ya poor thing. Don't you check the difficult fit guide?
Had to laugh at my mate fitting a parrot kit to a C220....full centre console + vents + gearstick gater and trim + end panel off the dash while the door is open. The VW polo that used a BMW wiring harness....
My main points with cars is the vauxhall indicator stalks. I did get used to them though and only got them wrong once on my test.
The ABS on my mates' mum's daewoo nubira....sounded like metal to metal when i did a 70-0 on a wet road.....i think something was up. The brake pedal was shockingly spongy aswell tbh...oh and lift off oversteer for the lose(first time giving a car stick on country roads at 2am).
The point that I was stating is that the pressure was powerful to bust your ear drums, so the fact that we found this out at such high speed nearly caused us to crash,
Having driven a Chrysler Neon to southampton and back I#m now qualified to talk about it..
PRoblems
Just a few of the many things I hate about the car.
Still, we only paid £100 for it
PRoblems
- Indicator and wiper stalks are not solid, but made of vacuum formed plastic, so the back of them is hollowed out. They feel absolutely horrible; my mkiii fiesta is much nicer, and feel flimsy too.
- The controls for mirrors and lights aren't backlit.
- The seats have a strange shape which doesn't support your upper back and shoulders, unless you bend yourself backwards in an uncomfortable manner, whilst the headrest is fixed so you can't get it anywhere near your head.
- The pedals are just horrible to use.
- Once you reverse into a bay, the shape of the boot and kinks in the bottoms of the rear side windows mean you cannot see where you are going to get into the space. Also for front parking, the front drops off and the shape of the dash etc means you go forward further than you meant to.
Just a few of the many things I hate about the car.
Still, we only paid £100 for it
Not exactly a major flaw, but one irritant on the Seicento: the windscreen wash reservoir is tucked down near the drivers side headlamp, and is pretty inaccessible. Not only is it a bugger to get open (skinned knuckles ahoy!) you also need a fairly long, quite thin funnel to get screenwash into it without getting more over the inner wing and wiring than in the reservoir.