What's your car's annoying foibles?
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[TW]Fox said:No car is perfect
Wasn't entirely serious
It's hard to park with poor rear visibility and long overhangs, it's comparatively quite slow, it costs too much, it grips well enough but handles badly, the ESP is intrusive - it feels almost like the opposite to torque steer if you boot it mid corner as it brakes the inside wheel, being black it looks constantly filthy, people think you're a **** when you come looming up behind them on the motorway, did I mention it's a diesel?
Better?
Fiat Stilo:
Head lights bulbs are annoying to replace.
Random function on the CD player is trash, I can predict with great accuracy what the next track will be.
Can't use both the arm rest and the handbrake, clever design that one.
Ford Focus:
Seats involve back pain after using them for more then an hour or so.
No one touch windows.
Rattle on the dash, and another rattle near the bottle holder.
Can't get comfortable.
Ride is terrible with the autobox.
Key is a stupid length, and not that easy to insert in the dark.
Lights stay on when I switch car off, have to manualy turn them off.
Head lights bulbs are annoying to replace.
Random function on the CD player is trash, I can predict with great accuracy what the next track will be.
Can't use both the arm rest and the handbrake, clever design that one.
Ford Focus:
Seats involve back pain after using them for more then an hour or so.
No one touch windows.
Rattle on the dash, and another rattle near the bottle holder.
Can't get comfortable.
Ride is terrible with the autobox.
Key is a stupid length, and not that easy to insert in the dark.
Lights stay on when I switch car off, have to manualy turn them off.
I have an optimistic fuel gauge that doesn't register a drop in the fuel level for the first 80 miles or so after filling up. So i drive around thinking "Great, Ive done nearly 100 miles and used barely any fuel!". Then suddenly it will drop quickly for the next 20 or so miles until its reading correctly. The annoying thing is, although i know it's going to happen, I always think the same every time, that Im getting fantastic fuel efficiency somehow. My brain refuses to learn.
On the Estima:
Why the hell is there a sport mode on the autobox?
Press it and it holds the gears for longer, but because the massey furgesson-esque power unit completely stops making any power past 3k the sport mode actually makes the car SLOWER. Just why does it exist?
Another autobox related annoyance: Sometimes when going up a hill I just want to put my foot down and give it more gas in the current gear, but no, the autobox changes down and takes it completely out of it's 'powerband', thus actually slowing the car down. I end up having to just tickle the throttle enough to pull harder in the current gear, but not so much that the 'box changes down.
The Integra:
Erm........ the A/C could do with a regas.
Why the hell is there a sport mode on the autobox?
Press it and it holds the gears for longer, but because the massey furgesson-esque power unit completely stops making any power past 3k the sport mode actually makes the car SLOWER. Just why does it exist? Another autobox related annoyance: Sometimes when going up a hill I just want to put my foot down and give it more gas in the current gear, but no, the autobox changes down and takes it completely out of it's 'powerband', thus actually slowing the car down. I end up having to just tickle the throttle enough to pull harder in the current gear, but not so much that the 'box changes down.
The Integra:
Erm........ the A/C could do with a regas.
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Mondeo: I got vexed with the radio not working on the way to London a few months back, so ripped the radio and surrounding center console out in a fit of rage. The center trim how hangs off slightly and often digs into my left knee. I'd like it to be more economical as it's just a runaround.
Integra: Bucket seats + Harness' + C pillar brace + Big spoiler = reversing nightmare. Yes I should be able to reverse using my mirrors but I prefer to just turn my head. I'm physically unable to when strapped in. Ohh and the exhaust note does my head in, that shall be sorted shortly, though.
Integra: Bucket seats + Harness' + C pillar brace + Big spoiler = reversing nightmare. Yes I should be able to reverse using my mirrors but I prefer to just turn my head. I'm physically unable to when strapped in. Ohh and the exhaust note does my head in, that shall be sorted shortly, though.
Mr Footlong said:150 miles max on a full tank grates somewhat, especially when having to plan trips around where the Shell stations are located.
I was going to say 230 miles out of my tank was bad.......
My car also has no clock as it was taken out to put gauges in, and I never got round to doing it yet.
Also, my rear suspension makes an annoying creak sometimes....should really get that checked out!
oh yea that's another one, only my drivers window has a one touch down feature, and it DOESNT have a one touch up! It's more often that i want to put the window UP without having to hold it (ie joining a motorway) than down, but why not put bloomin both on!
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rear visablitiy is just awful i also have that one touch window down but not one touch up that is very annoying.
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My car's too low, so tends to catch on things which really is ******* irritating (might be selling it soon anyway). The lowest point of the car, unfortunately, being the manifold downpipes.
The gearing permits it to about 140, at which point it starts approaching the limiter. Not that it's irritating as such as there's not many places you can use that but it just makes it a little under-geared.
Spax shock absorbers squeak, as they're renound for doing.......
The gearing permits it to about 140, at which point it starts approaching the limiter. Not that it's irritating as such as there's not many places you can use that but it just makes it a little under-geared.
Spax shock absorbers squeak, as they're renound for doing.......
on the commuter shed, there's an ominous metallic clunking noise from the front left every time you load up the suspension too much.. like when you're breaking and turning right at the same time.
i'm quite worried about it but it passed it's mot with it last month so i figure i'll run it till the wheel falls off then scrap it
also, Shell's autowash station ripped the passenger door mirror off last week, it landed in the track of the washer and got mangled, so now i don't have a mirror there.. parallel parking from memory is hard >.<
i have the same problem as Jonny's megane.. the steering wheel is offset to my left by an inch or so, it's starting to give me backache now
but the worst thing about my car, is that it was bought on my behalf by my brother, without me seeing it, i needed something cheap and economical to abuse, i've ended up with a white cavalier that has a Caravan Club sticker in the back window, but no towbar o.0
on my nice car, it didn't have a dipstick when i bought it, which i thought wouldn't be a huge deal, but now after going to three vauxhall parts depts in the midlands, i find that vauxhall never bothered to digitise any of it's parts records for cars before 1984, which wouldn't be a problem if the last vauxhall dealer in the midlands that had the old microfiches hadn't thrown them away last year
i'm quite worried about it but it passed it's mot with it last month so i figure i'll run it till the wheel falls off then scrap it
also, Shell's autowash station ripped the passenger door mirror off last week, it landed in the track of the washer and got mangled, so now i don't have a mirror there.. parallel parking from memory is hard >.<
i have the same problem as Jonny's megane.. the steering wheel is offset to my left by an inch or so, it's starting to give me backache now
but the worst thing about my car, is that it was bought on my behalf by my brother, without me seeing it, i needed something cheap and economical to abuse, i've ended up with a white cavalier that has a Caravan Club sticker in the back window, but no towbar o.0
on my nice car, it didn't have a dipstick when i bought it, which i thought wouldn't be a huge deal, but now after going to three vauxhall parts depts in the midlands, i find that vauxhall never bothered to digitise any of it's parts records for cars before 1984, which wouldn't be a problem if the last vauxhall dealer in the midlands that had the old microfiches hadn't thrown them away last year
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Expensive to run
Only does 230 miles to a tank
Very noisy on motorways
Only does 230 miles to a tank
Very noisy on motorways
306?ruffneck said:
Mine-
*Stiff clutch (not a huge issue)
*Bit of glass stuck in the window mechanism from when a ***** broke in. Means that as the passenger window comes up it finishes with a nasty scraping sound.
*Heaters randomly going either full hot or full cold, no inbetweens
*Heat shield or something rattling on the exhaust
*Bust fog light bulb. Thats not the annoyance, the annoyance is that the bumper needs to come off to replace it.
*Creaking front suspension
*Buzzing fuel pump
*Whiney gearbox
*Patented insta-fade brakes
*Pointless self leveling suspension that makes you look odd when holding the car on the handbrake on steep hills
*crunchy accelerator pedal. a squirt of wd40 sorts it short term but it always comes back.
Think thats it
The only thing that really annoys me on mine is the indicator stalk. To flash full beams, you have to pull it back a little bit. To stick full beams on, you pull it back fully. I often end up pulling it back too much when I want to flash people, resulting in burning their retinas until I notice
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16mpg! Average!!
Paint work is a bit bashed from the previous owner
Some of the bulbs in the dash need replacing.
Hot start issues, when been run for more than an hour or so, if you turn it off, the engine will not turn over for up to 15 minutes. Im told this is a starter motor issue, not go round to replacing it yet.
Other than that, i love it to bits
Paint work is a bit bashed from the previous owner
Some of the bulbs in the dash need replacing.
Hot start issues, when been run for more than an hour or so, if you turn it off, the engine will not turn over for up to 15 minutes. Im told this is a starter motor issue, not go round to replacing it yet.
Other than that, i love it to bits
My back seats are tiny! There used to be a very annoying rattle coming from the dash somewhere..... I just noticed the other day though that it has gone (the rattle not the dash) Oh and my exhaust temperature light is permanently on (after fitting a lovely SS cat back). Well execpt in winter when it starts to get colder, then the light is on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off,on........ it's very annoying!!
Oh and my exhaust temperature light is permanently on (after fitting a lovely SS cat back). Well execpt in winter when it starts to get colder, then the light is on, off, on, off, on, off, on, off,on........ it's very annoying!!