Really stupid design features
Discussion
Swanny87 said:
R2T2 said:
Fiat Grande Punto.
The bonnet release is stupid, it doesn't "pop" like any others, it just opens silently, meaning you pull, nothing, so pull harder, bonnet handle snaps.
I've had to replace it 3 times so far because it doesn't make any noise and it gets yanked off. (ooo err!)
How the bong is the same for telling you your fuel is low as telling you your engine is about to explode, or is it telling you there could be ice on the road?
And when you open the boot, water runs form the lid, into the scuttle down the sides of the car and meets back in the middle, so if your pressing your knees against the car leaning in, your knees get wet.
FML
Err I think there may be something wrong with your bonnet catch as mine definitely 'pops'. I'll add another one, the idiot who thought it was a good idea to put 'cup holders' in front of the gearstick. This is so bad that it wouldn't be possible to change into first or fifth with the 'cup holders' full. I guess there's another one from that; the fact that you can't really fit anything resembling a normal cup in the cup holders. The glovebox is also completely cack.The bonnet release is stupid, it doesn't "pop" like any others, it just opens silently, meaning you pull, nothing, so pull harder, bonnet handle snaps.
I've had to replace it 3 times so far because it doesn't make any noise and it gets yanked off. (ooo err!)
How the bong is the same for telling you your fuel is low as telling you your engine is about to explode, or is it telling you there could be ice on the road?
And when you open the boot, water runs form the lid, into the scuttle down the sides of the car and meets back in the middle, so if your pressing your knees against the car leaning in, your knees get wet.
FML
The glovebox is okay for a USB stick, but other than that it's tiny, although I did come from a Ka which had a pipette for a glovebox.
The stupid and unnecessary 4th wipe that my wife's Clio does when you've used the windscreen washers... You all know the sequence, pull on the wiper stalk, give the screen a good scoosh, then you get three automatic swipes of the wipers.
We're all good up to this point.
However, in a Clio (and maybe other Renaults), you get a 3 second pause before a final, 4th swipe. All this final swipe does is to smear road grime into the screen again, causing you to start all over again.
I can only assume that whomever programmed this has shares in a screenwash fluid company.
We're all good up to this point.
However, in a Clio (and maybe other Renaults), you get a 3 second pause before a final, 4th swipe. All this final swipe does is to smear road grime into the screen again, causing you to start all over again.
I can only assume that whomever programmed this has shares in a screenwash fluid company.
Same with the 159, four then ten seconds later a fifth, just as dirty spray begins to hit. Luckily there's a way round it on the 159, the blades are triggered by an obvious micro switch so pulling on the trigger just enough to let rip with the spray but not enough to trigger the blades.
Super Slo Mo said:
99 model Passat. To change the battery necessitates removing the wipers and the plastic cover thing beneath them.
Oh yes I remember that... Very retarded. The battery also being in the bulkhead chamber that fills with water and floods the cabin, frying your Comfort module. Or, at worst, getting into the brake servo, and hydro locking the engine...On the subject of batteries, my E34's battery is under the back seat. If the battery is completely flat to the extent that the central locking doesn't work, it turns out you can't pull up the rear door lock and open the door, they are deadlocked. The way around it is to open the bonnet and jump it.
Edited by Triumph Man on Thursday 29th January 09:35
Fastdruid said:
RenesisEvo said:
Fastdruid said:
MK4 Mondeo
4) The power fold mirrors need the ignition on. So you park up think "Hmmm might be an idea to fold the mirrors in", have to reach in to press the button on the far side of the wheel to turn the ign on, press the button for the mirrors and then turn the ign off again. Obviously if you remember to do it before shutting the engine off they're fine.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the power fold mirrors automatically folded in when you locked the car regardless?4) The power fold mirrors need the ignition on. So you park up think "Hmmm might be an idea to fold the mirrors in", have to reach in to press the button on the far side of the wheel to turn the ign on, press the button for the mirrors and then turn the ign off again. Obviously if you remember to do it before shutting the engine off they're fine.
kiseca said:
Blown2CV said:
They aren't questions.
Don't be a dick. You brought them up, so address them or f
k off.Edited by kiseca on Thursday 29th January 06:42
king rude. Ok here I will address those misguided statement as if they were questions, and as if I gave a st about the people that might utter them. "But A/C uses extra fuel" response "maybe you should have tried harder at school so you have more money"
"I don't like the idea of A/C" response "get a f
king life" Not sure what that's added to the discussion, but if nothing else we've learned that if you demand something rudely and aggressively enough, you'll get it.
RenesisEvo said:
Fastdruid said:
RenesisEvo said:
Fastdruid said:
MK4 Mondeo
4) The power fold mirrors need the ignition on. So you park up think "Hmmm might be an idea to fold the mirrors in", have to reach in to press the button on the far side of the wheel to turn the ign on, press the button for the mirrors and then turn the ign off again. Obviously if you remember to do it before shutting the engine off they're fine.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the power fold mirrors automatically folded in when you locked the car regardless?4) The power fold mirrors need the ignition on. So you park up think "Hmmm might be an idea to fold the mirrors in", have to reach in to press the button on the far side of the wheel to turn the ign on, press the button for the mirrors and then turn the ign off again. Obviously if you remember to do it before shutting the engine off they're fine.
http://www.talkford.com/community/topic/186923-aut...
The automatic speed-based volume adjustment on my Mk2 Leon.
Perfect example of a really good idea, really badly executed. The volume scaling is all kinds of terrible, particularly between 50mph and 90mph where one volume setting (4 or 5 depending on speed) is too high and the next one down is too quiet. Also particularly annoying on overtakes. Picture this- you're stuck behind Doris in her pastel blue Honda Jazz, on the way to her Saturday afternoon carvery, doing 35 in an NSL. You come round a nice sweeping corner, there's nothing coming the other way, so drop a gear and put your foot down...
But, wait! You've got the radio set at 6, because that's about the right volume for 35mph, and now you're doing 60+ it's like standing in from of the speaker stack at a Motorhead gig. Well, not quite, but it's gone from being "just right" to "annoyingly loud" in the space of about 3 second.
It's made doubly annoying by the fact it only affects the CD player and not the radio.
Perfect example of a really good idea, really badly executed. The volume scaling is all kinds of terrible, particularly between 50mph and 90mph where one volume setting (4 or 5 depending on speed) is too high and the next one down is too quiet. Also particularly annoying on overtakes. Picture this- you're stuck behind Doris in her pastel blue Honda Jazz, on the way to her Saturday afternoon carvery, doing 35 in an NSL. You come round a nice sweeping corner, there's nothing coming the other way, so drop a gear and put your foot down...
But, wait! You've got the radio set at 6, because that's about the right volume for 35mph, and now you're doing 60+ it's like standing in from of the speaker stack at a Motorhead gig. Well, not quite, but it's gone from being "just right" to "annoyingly loud" in the space of about 3 second.
It's made doubly annoying by the fact it only affects the CD player and not the radio.
kiseca said:
Blown2CV said:
Wow you're really fking rude.
Says the guy who started this off by calling three different people retards. You want to receive good manners, start by showing them.king rude. ManOpener said:
The automatic speed-based volume adjustment on my Mk2 Leon.
Perfect example of a really good idea, really badly executed. The volume scaling is all kinds of terrible, particularly between 50mph and 90mph where one volume setting (4 or 5 depending on speed) is too high and the next one down is too quiet. Also particularly annoying on overtakes. Picture this- you're stuck behind Doris in her pastel blue Honda Jazz, on the way to her Saturday afternoon carvery, doing 35 in an NSL. You come round a nice sweeping corner, there's nothing coming the other way, so drop a gear and put your foot down...
But, wait! You've got the radio set at 6, because that's about the right volume for 35mph, and now you're doing 60+ it's like standing in from of the speaker stack at a Motorhead gig. Well, not quite, but it's gone from being "just right" to "annoyingly loud" in the space of about 3 second.
It's made doubly annoying by the fact it only affects the CD player and not the radio.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?2813059-How-To-turn-off-Speed-Dependent-Volume-ControlPerfect example of a really good idea, really badly executed. The volume scaling is all kinds of terrible, particularly between 50mph and 90mph where one volume setting (4 or 5 depending on speed) is too high and the next one down is too quiet. Also particularly annoying on overtakes. Picture this- you're stuck behind Doris in her pastel blue Honda Jazz, on the way to her Saturday afternoon carvery, doing 35 in an NSL. You come round a nice sweeping corner, there's nothing coming the other way, so drop a gear and put your foot down...
But, wait! You've got the radio set at 6, because that's about the right volume for 35mph, and now you're doing 60+ it's like standing in from of the speaker stack at a Motorhead gig. Well, not quite, but it's gone from being "just right" to "annoyingly loud" in the space of about 3 second.
It's made doubly annoying by the fact it only affects the CD player and not the radio.
any good?
Fidd said:
Rover 75 shed - anything below about 5 degrees and the heated rear screen comes on automatically every single time upon start up (why?) - which in turn interferes with the radio - so much that you cannot hear it (was a known fault I think). Same car - auto door locking on pull away, I'm only going 50 foot and then want to get out again to shut the gate. Tried to disable this feature without success.
You need to get it onto a T4 machine iirc. You can enable a whole raft of stuff including the auto lock function, when I was getting my ZT fixed I had someone change some of the functions. Try the owners club and get some specialist recommendations in your area 
amusingduck said:
ManOpener said:
The automatic speed-based volume adjustment on my Mk2 Leon.
Perfect example of a really good idea, really badly executed. The volume scaling is all kinds of terrible, particularly between 50mph and 90mph where one volume setting (4 or 5 depending on speed) is too high and the next one down is too quiet. Also particularly annoying on overtakes. Picture this- you're stuck behind Doris in her pastel blue Honda Jazz, on the way to her Saturday afternoon carvery, doing 35 in an NSL. You come round a nice sweeping corner, there's nothing coming the other way, so drop a gear and put your foot down...
But, wait! You've got the radio set at 6, because that's about the right volume for 35mph, and now you're doing 60+ it's like standing in from of the speaker stack at a Motorhead gig. Well, not quite, but it's gone from being "just right" to "annoyingly loud" in the space of about 3 second.
It's made doubly annoying by the fact it only affects the CD player and not the radio.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?2813059-How-To-turn-off-Speed-Dependent-Volume-ControlPerfect example of a really good idea, really badly executed. The volume scaling is all kinds of terrible, particularly between 50mph and 90mph where one volume setting (4 or 5 depending on speed) is too high and the next one down is too quiet. Also particularly annoying on overtakes. Picture this- you're stuck behind Doris in her pastel blue Honda Jazz, on the way to her Saturday afternoon carvery, doing 35 in an NSL. You come round a nice sweeping corner, there's nothing coming the other way, so drop a gear and put your foot down...
But, wait! You've got the radio set at 6, because that's about the right volume for 35mph, and now you're doing 60+ it's like standing in from of the speaker stack at a Motorhead gig. Well, not quite, but it's gone from being "just right" to "annoyingly loud" in the space of about 3 second.
It's made doubly annoying by the fact it only affects the CD player and not the radio.
any good?
ManOpener said:
I'll give it a try when I'm home with the car but if that works then awesome. I've looked for a solution in the past but never managed to find one!
Just found another post, specifically about a Mk2 Leon which suggests you may need to hold down the SETUP button for 30 seconds to get into the secret menu. Best of luck!
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