What annoys you about your current car?

[HoneyBadger]

Although the car has auto wipers, when set at that position, if you start the car, it’ll do a single wipe of the windscreen even if it’s not raining.

Fold in wing mirror buttons have to be done manually, so you have to press the button. There is not auto so when you turn the engine off or lock the car it folds them in.

I believe you can alter the mirror with some mod pack but can’t be bothered.

I think the face lifted model sorts out those issues.

 

[mikeo]

Don't get me started on auto wipers!!! Never owned a car (and I've had many) where they work that good. The ones on the I30N are rubbish. The screen can be soaked and they do nothing, or a tiny spot of rain sets them into "orgasm mode"! And just on the odd occasion, they seem to work not too badly (think this is just to annoy you).

At least on the Focus st, you could switch them off and just have "normal" intermittent wipers.

 

[rG-tom]

F31 335i

Nothing really annoys me, maybe the manual handbrake.

is it a manual? Whilst it's aesthetically antiquated to have a manual handbrake in my f36 440i, it literally doesn't move except for when BMW put it on after they've had it, so i don't really care much at all...

 

[chanjy]

is it a manual? Whilst it's aesthetically antiquated to have a manual handbrake in my f36 440i, it literally doesn't move except for when BMW put it on after they've had it, so i don't really care much at all...

You don’t use it when you’re parked up?

It mainly annoys me because the last few cars I’ve had were electronic and I’m used to just putting the car in gear and driving off and I keep dragging the handbrake in this one

 

[Jez]

You don’t use it when you’re parked up?

It mainly annoys me because the last few cars I’ve had were electronic and I’m used to just putting the car in gear and driving off and I keep dragging the handbrake in this one

I have never used the parking brake in any of my automatic cars, whether it be electronic or a manual lever/pedal (Mercedes). I don't see why you ever would in normal circumstances to be honest, the car wont move when chucked into park. Always viewed them as being there only really for the legal/MOT aspect.

 

[Rroff]

Don't get me started on auto wipers!!! Never owned a car (and I've had many) where they work that good. The ones on the I30N are rubbish. The screen can be soaked and they do nothing, or a tiny spot of rain sets them into "orgasm mode"! And just on the odd occasion, they seem to work not too badly (think this is just to annoy you).

At least on the Focus st, you could switch them off and just have "normal" intermittent wipers.

Have to say the auto wipers on my Navara are really good - the only failing, which isn't a fault of the system, is they don't stop when they are making the windscreen more smeary - not got down to the bottom of why my windscreen is liable to get so smeary.

 

[ianh]

With the drivers seat as low as it goes and the steering wheel as high as it goes, due to my apparently "long body" the top of the steering wheel still covers the small "Indicator's are on" area of my dash so, due to the rather loud volume my car can output I often forget to cancel my indicators on dual carriageways/motorways after overtaking someone as I can't see the green arrows flashing or hear the indicator ticking.

I've also "had" to fit bigger flappy paddles, not due to the extra "height" but because the OEM ones sit about 5mm too far away from my finger-tips in the horizontal when I'm hooning and the stick-on ones I got add about 1cm extra horizontal material.

 

[Clarkey]

G30 530e. Not much to criticise, but the Bluetooth audio is totally rubbish. Despite having the top B&W stereo, when playing from Bluetooth source the audio is very quiet and weak compared to all other sources. This in top of then dropping Spotify for Android support makes the stereo a bit crap and limited.

Secondly the suspension, it's a M sport car so why not develop a proper M sport suspension for it. Adaptive is great bit it's based around a very softly sprung SE setup and isn't very sharp handling. The adaptive mode doesn't really do anything, a poor effort really.

I suppose I can argue that the B48 was the wrong engine to use, better to use a more refined and powerful B58, or probably better still a diesel with efficiency.

 

[ZeeWrath]

F11 525d, intermittent seat base creak and load cover rattle that I can't fix

 

[mikeo]

Have to say the auto wipers on my Navara are really good - the only failing, which isn't a fault of the system, is they don't stop when they are making the windscreen more smeary - not got down to the bottom of why my windscreen is liable to get so smeary.

Have you tried cleaning the screen with isopropyl alcohol? It's certainly worked for me in the past.

 

[Rroff]

Have you tried cleaning the screen with isopropyl alcohol? It's certainly worked for me in the past.

Yeah - white vinegar all sorts, some of it seems to be down to either a bad batch or change to RainX which I was using but not all of it.

It is weird as it doesn't happen with heavy rain but any kind of misty conditions or light rain it just smears up, with the RainX it was really bad.

 

[[TW]Fox]

F11 525d, intermittent seat base creak

Must be a pre facelift? Drove me mad on my last one and contributed to it being traded in for a facelift

 

[DanTheMan]

'Automatic' wipers that don't stay on auto once you turn the ignition off, so you have to flick them off and on again. It defeats the point of auto wipers.

The car always starts with the radio on, regardless of the last source used. My wife likes to control the volume with her phone when using android auto as a passenger, instead of using the car volume. She turns the car volume way up to do so. When I start the car the next journey, I get blasted by full volume radio.

 

[Ahleckz]

GLC:
Chris Country rarely gets signal, every other radio station is fine.
There’s not an instant readout, in numbers, of my current MPG. Just a silly bar.
The fact I’ve averaged 34mpg in 7000 miles. In a diesel.

I’ve got a 3 Series on order, let’s hope the DAB aerial is better. I wonder if you can get boosters you can put on top? Ideally in the shape of a cowboy hat. Yeehaw!

 

[MagicBoy]

When I put the car in reverse and it's raining ... I have to manually turn the rear wiper on. All my VAG cars from the last 25 years have automatically triggered a single wipe if you put the car in reverse with the front wipers on. Toyota can make a car with a collision avoidance system that stops the car automatically, so why can't they do something that simple?

 

[Vandle]

Diesel particle filter filling up due to lockdown driving - short trips, mostly slow moving. Get an orange warning telling to drive at 80km/h for 20 minutes. I am 15 to 20 minutes away from a road I can do this on (motorway) but no way of knowing when that will turn red. Sometimes it takes days of more driving, sometimes it's half an hour. When it goes red it goes limp, kills the turbos and it drives like a truck with a speed reduced to I think about 40kmh. Fortunately there is a dealer relatively close by. $300 each time, happened twice now

 

[dlockers]

Diesel particle filter filling up due to lockdown driving - short trips, mostly slow moving. Get an orange warning telling to drive at 80km/h for 20 minutes. I am 15 to 20 minutes away from a road I can do this on (motorway) but no way of knowing when that will turn red. Sometimes it takes days of more driving, sometimes it's half an hour. When it goes red it goes limp, kills the turbos and it drives like a truck with a speed reduced to I think about 40kmh. Fortunately there is a dealer relatively close by. $300 each time, happened twice now

You are paying someone $300 to keep your car at 80kmh for 20 mins?

 

[MrRockliffe]

2021 Citroen C5 Aircross Hire Car, everything feels lhd orientated. annoying

Can’t remember which car it was, but I had a similar thing!

Vents/infotainment and the centre part in general were slightly angled towards the passenger

 

[MrRockliffe]

Diesel particle filter filling up due to lockdown driving - short trips, mostly slow moving. Get an orange warning telling to drive at 80km/h for 20 minutes. I am 15 to 20 minutes away from a road I can do this on (motorway) but no way of knowing when that will turn red. Sometimes it takes days of more driving, sometimes it's half an hour. When it goes red it goes limp, kills the turbos and it drives like a truck with a speed reduced to I think about 40kmh. Fortunately there is a dealer relatively close by. $300 each time, happened twice now

Bottle of redex advanced diesel cleaner and cruise would do the job

The fact I’ve averaged 34mpg in 7000 miles. In a diesel.

34 seems okay for a GLC. Which engine? 2L

My dad averages around 27 in a diesel cayenne

 

[MrRockliffe]

F31 320d

Got some vibration from the engine bay, quite loud. Something is resonating, as happens 1700-2300 RPM, otherwise fine.


Checked for timing chain at a local BMW specialist, and apparently it’s is great condition.


Doing my head in