What's your car's annoying foibles?

[Jonny69]

Lets have a good old moan about our cars

On the Scenic the steering wheel isn't in the middle of the drivers seat, it's offset to the left by about 2 inches. So when you're driving you lean over to the left to compensate and end up having to shuffle back to the middle to keep comfortable. Where the last owner was fatter than me the seat has squashed down more on that side and I roll into it.

Oh and the gearbox changes down when you're braking so the car doesn't pull up at a consistent rate. This is really annoying when trying to smoothly brake towards a queue of traffic.

What's yours?

 

[Jonny69]

Made of cheese.

Could be worse, mine is made of spam tins

Oooh how could I forget my bike...

The sparkplug lead fatigues after about 10,000 miles. Except it's glued into the coil so you have to change the coil at the same time. Except to change the coil you have to take all the bodywork off. Oh and then you can't get the plug lead off the plug because it's too close to the frame so you have to drop the engine. Except to drop the engine you need to take the back suspension. Except to do that you need to take the stand off the bike so there's nothing to support it so you need an engine crane to hold the bike up. What a load of complete ********

The engine oil needs to be changed every now and then. All engines need their oil changed at some point. So why why WHY Piaggio did you think that blanking off the sump plug was a good idea?

And why fit an immobiliser if it drains the battery flat in a week?

And why fit a kick start if you can't start the engine on it?