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Blib
Original Poster
20,648 posts
66 months
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What little feature annoys you most about your car? Past or present. Something that is not a major issue but sometimes really gets on your wick.
For example, the driver's seatbelt on my Maserati 4200 regularly catches on the seat-back release lever as there's too little space between it and the door. It drives me nuts.
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Shaw Tarse
19,167 posts
72 months
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Opening the boot on a Puma in the rain.
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Blib
Original Poster
20,648 posts
66 months
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Shaw Tarse said: Opening the boot on a Puma in the rain. What happens? Does the rain run into the boot? Or, on top of you?
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KMud
598 posts
25 months
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Rear access on the monaro is terrible, the front seats don't slide forward enough. Also, rain runs straight off the roof through the open windows.
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mrloudly
2,163 posts
104 months
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You can't put a can in the cup holder if you want to change gear... R8
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dibbers006
6,259 posts
87 months
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You can't open the boot on escorts if the engine's running. Pull up, drop someone off, grab their stuff out the boot. f  k. I should get round to sorting that actually except I have an inquisitive nephew who would no doubt hit the button as we are going along. Also, the I always seem to knock the fog light switch which is right at knee level.
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dme123
463 posts
58 months
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Now I can't remember which car it was - Audi or VW something bland - but I had a pool car that you HAD to lift the armrest up to use the handbrake. Piss poor, thoughtless design.
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dibbers006
6,259 posts
87 months
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Oh and the bloody handbrake obscured by the armrest on Audi and BMWs.
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dibbers006
6,259 posts
87 months
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Great minds! 
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Blib
Original Poster
20,648 posts
66 months
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KMud said: Rear access on the monaro is terrible, the front seats don't slide forward enough. The passenger seat on my Masser has a mind of its own. Sometimes it rolls forward and back as it should. At others it goes forward, but doesn't return. On occasion, it forgets that it's an electrically operated seat altogether and just stays put.
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PumpkinSteve
1,802 posts
25 months
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I don't have the car now, but both air vents on the new Fiesta are behind the driver's hands and are therefore pretty much useless, unless you need your hands cooling down. 
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m44kts
705 posts
69 months
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My 3200 passenger seat used to do the same, the passenger window on occasion used to go all the way down instead of just half an inch or so that their supposed to when you open the door.
The arm rest thing is annoying me too, only had a Bora for a week!
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HaylingJag
616 posts
17 months
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Dowdi A3, wipers on window down = wet!!!!! both sides.
Smoking becomes and Olympic watersport!!
Also, have to clear the roller tray thing if i want to use the cupholders!!!
1.6 diesel with eco stop/start but with a 5 speed box !!
glad when the thing goes back!!
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doogz
18,686 posts
56 months
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PumpkinSteve said: I don't have the car now, but both air vents on the new Fiesta are behind the driver's hands and are therefore pretty much useless, unless you need your hands cooling down. I like that in a car. I have terrible circulation, my hands are always freezing, having heaters that'll keep them warm when I'm driving is nice. Hated my A4's armrest, as has been mentioned. You had to raise it if you wanted to pull the handbrake on enough to actually hold the car.
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Rawwr
12,654 posts
103 months
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HaylingJag said: Dowdi A3, wipers on window down = wet!!!!! both sides.
Smoking becomes and Olympic watersport!!
Also, have to clear the roller tray thing if i want to use the cupholders!!!
1.6 diesel with eco stop/start but with a 5 speed box !!
glad when the thing goes back!! That did not require 14 exclamation marks.
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Eighteeteewhy
6,357 posts
37 months
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Rawwr said: HaylingJag said: Dowdi A3, wipers on window down = wet!!!!! both sides.
Smoking becomes and Olympic watersport!!
Also, have to clear the roller tray thing if i want to use the cupholders!!!
1.6 diesel with eco stop/start but with a 5 speed box !!
glad when the thing goes back!! That did not require 14 exclamation marks. Haven't you heard?!! They're going cheap!!!!
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alangla
546 posts
50 months
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My Focus has auto wipers. The sensitivity control is a 5 position up/down switch on the stalk. To turn the sensitivity up, you turn the switch down...
Also, every time I open the boot, even if it's not rained for a while, it releases a few drops of water from behind the reg plate either on my head or onto the contents of the boot.
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Shaw Tarse
19,167 posts
72 months
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Blib said: Shaw Tarse said: Opening the boot on a Puma in the rain. What happens? Does the rain run into the boot? Or, on top of you? Into the boot.
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rohrl
3,725 posts
14 months
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Windscreen wipers are almost universally crap in my experience, rear wipers even more so. Always either a dribble or a smear (stop it).
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blugnu
1,188 posts
110 months
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Leon mk1 cupholder - when you put something in it, you can't see the stereo display.
Alfa 156 - no cupholders. I know, it's the way it should be, but it's nice not to have to jam a bottle of water between the seat and the door pillar on a long journey. Especially as I always forgot and ended up having to fetch them from under the car all the time.
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