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thepharcyde

thepharcyde

thepharcyde

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As with all cars you press the button and out spirts washer fluid on your windscreen. Wipers come on dependant on the duration that you have held the button down for.

Windscreen nice and clean nice waft of washer fluid (in my case apple) then.........unnecessarily it then gives the windscreen a final sweep smeering the windscreen 5 seconds later! Both my current Ford and BMW's do this, its pointless.

Any annoyances on your cars?
 
The BMW E39 was obviously designed by a talented and amazing automotive genius. However, the climate control system was designed by his apprentice on his day off. The intake vents for the temperature sensors, where the system decides how warm or cold the cabin is, are located right where the cupholders are. Use the cupholder, and the vent is obscured by whatever cup you've put in.

Therefore, if you place a hot cup of coffee there, the vent samples hot air and freezes the car. If you place a cold drink there, the vent samples cold air and superheats the car.

WHY! Why put the vent there? Why not put it in the footwell or something? ARHGHGHGHG
 
Mine does that wiper thing, is so all the fluid is gone off the screen its a good feature but in the winter when loads of salt is being cast onto the screen it can be a slight pain, nothing major though.

My rain sensing wipers really annoy me, since my screen got replaced they've never been the same and sometimes wipe like mad when its only raining a little.
 
[TW]Fox;13498897 said:
Therefore, if you place a hot cup of coffee there, the vent samples hot air and freezes the car. If you place a cold drink there, the vent samples cold air and superheats the car.
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I have a solution - carry 2 Thermos flasks and a cup. 1 thermos has a hot drink and the other has a cool one. :D
 
my 300zx wipers do a do a similar thing, whilst in normal use they're fine so your windows are now clear, you turn them off and they do another sweep so as to park lower down the screen.
 
[TW]Fox;13498897 said:
The BMW E39 was obviously designed by a talented and amazing automotive genius. However, the climate control system was designed by his apprentice on his day off. The intake vents for the temperature sensors, where the system decides how warm or cold the cabin is, are located right where the cupholders are. Use the cupholder, and the vent is obscured by whatever cup you've put in.

Therefore, if you place a hot cup of coffee there, the vent samples hot air and freezes the car. If you place a cold drink there, the vent samples cold air and superheats the car.

WHY! Why put the vent there? Why not put it in the footwell or something? ARHGHGHGHG
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Thats assuming your drink hasn't toppled over due to the awful design and destroyed the climate control unit.
 
I find the Xenon washers particularly annoying.

Jets spray..Check
Wipers wipe..Check
Lovely clean windscreen..Check
Overspray all over clean windscreen from delayed Xenon washers.. :mad:Check
 
Firestar_3x said:
My rain sensing wipers really annoy me, since my screen got replaced they've never been the same and sometimes wipe like mad when its only raining a little.
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Same here, the prat who installed the screen left big finger prints on the glass around the sensor!

Neil.
 
If you have the wipers on in my car and engage reverse it engages the rear wiper so you can see where you're going.....all very clever but when your rear wiper is like mine and cuts into the glass the last thing you want to do is use it and theres no way of turning it off. Strictly speaking its not the cars fault but meh :p :D
 
thepharcyde said:
As with all cars you press the button and out spirts washer fluid on your windscreen. Wipers come on dependant on the duration that you have held the button down for.

Windscreen nice and clean nice waft of washer fluid (in my case apple) then.........unnecessarily it then gives the windscreen a final sweep smeering the windscreen 5 seconds later! Both my current Ford and BMW's do this, its pointless.

Any annoyances on your cars?
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I get this problem as well. I think in the time i've driven it i've filled the washer fluid up more often than the fuel tank. :o
 
The preludes cup holder is just as useless, it sits right in front of the gear stick so any gear change is greeted with a beverage coated wrist.
 
My car has a handbrake which is quite useful :p

However its just crap. I've had it checked out and have been told its "absolutely fine" and under normal circumstances i suppose it is. However, i wouldn't dare park it up some of the more extreme hills you get in wales and that can grow irritating when you see perfectly good parking spaces on rather steep hills.

Its not a problem i've had with any previous cars which were fine even on these particually steep welsh hills.
 
[TW]Fox;13498897 said:
The BMW E39 was obviously designed by a talented and amazing automotive genius. However, the climate control system was designed by his apprentice on his day off. The intake vents for the temperature sensors, where the system decides how warm or cold the cabin is, are located right where the cupholders are. Use the cupholder, and the vent is obscured by whatever cup you've put in.

Therefore, if you place a hot cup of coffee there, the vent samples hot air and freezes the car. If you place a cold drink there, the vent samples cold air and superheats the car.

WHY! Why put the vent there? Why not put it in the footwell or something? ARHGHGHGHG
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He realised his apprentices his mistake and didn't grace the E46 with cupholders :rolleyes:
 
ash_scotland88 said:
want to know how to solve it?
buy an older car, you have to press the button for water then turn on the wipers.
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Is a W reg considered old? My wipers and washer jets work independently.

thecremeegg said:
If you have the wipers on in my car and engage reverse it engages the rear wiper so you can see where you're going.....all very clever but when your rear wiper is like mine and cuts into the glass the last thing you want to do is use it and theres no way of turning it off. Strictly speaking its not the cars fault but meh :p :D
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Turn the wipers off before reversing, and wipe front wiper once as required? or get a new wiper you tight git:p
 
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It would be nice to have a wear wiper, but for some reason they're not fitted to saloons. What's that all about?

Apart from that the controls on my car arn't bad.
 
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