Really stupid design features
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Corvette C6.... No door locks. the key fob in your pocket recognises you as you approach the car , unlocks the doors ,so you just press the pads and open the door ,
Fine as long as you don t have a flat battery or a "dead" key fob.
If you are inside the car and the power fails there are emergency door handles down at the seat bases.
If you re outside you fumble under the rear number plate ,locate the one keyhole on the car then using the emergency key unlock the rear hatch, reach in and pull the the tag attached to the cable which opens the drivers door.
Why not just fit good old fashioned mechanical door locks !!!
Fine as long as you don t have a flat battery or a "dead" key fob.
If you are inside the car and the power fails there are emergency door handles down at the seat bases.
If you re outside you fumble under the rear number plate ,locate the one keyhole on the car then using the emergency key unlock the rear hatch, reach in and pull the the tag attached to the cable which opens the drivers door.
Why not just fit good old fashioned mechanical door locks !!!
Audi A4 2011 stop start. No problem with the system in general, works well. But if you stall the car, you can't use the normal means to restart it. In fact, if you try that, you have to remove the key and start again.
It uses the stop start to restart automatically - which is fine once you know - but why prevent "manual" operation? There's no reason for it.
It uses the stop start to restart automatically - which is fine once you know - but why prevent "manual" operation? There's no reason for it.
Golf mk7 iOS integration, plug iPhone in, entertainment system switches to media mode and plays the alphabetically first song. Every f
king time, and at a reasonably loud default volume. Why can't it just dock the phone and leave it at that? It has to actually send a "play, first track" message to the phone, do it's not even mandatory!!
king time, and at a reasonably loud default volume. Why can't it just dock the phone and leave it at that? It has to actually send a "play, first track" message to the phone, do it's not even mandatory!!Wipers that still auto wipe when you press the washers when it's empty or frozen, what kind of a fking idiot thinks it's a good idea to allow crap to be smeared all over a windscreen you then can't wash off without getting out and pouring water from a bottle over it.
The 55 plate M5 we had, that had no dipstick, consumed more oil than the Exxon Valdez could supply, and had a pathological liar of a dashboard display telling you how much oil it needed. But only after you start the poxy thing up, stopped it again, put the amount in it says you need, only to be told when you restart it that you've over filled it! It's the Germans getting their own back, stuff like that. st design at it's sttest.
king idiot thinks it's a good idea to allow crap to be smeared all over a windscreen you then can't wash off without getting out and pouring water from a bottle over it.The 55 plate M5 we had, that had no dipstick, consumed more oil than the Exxon Valdez could supply, and had a pathological liar of a dashboard display telling you how much oil it needed. But only after you start the poxy thing up, stopped it again, put the amount in it says you need, only to be told when you restart it that you've over filled it! It's the Germans getting their own back, stuff like that. s
t design at it's sttest. R_U_LOCAL said:
I used to have that problem with my old CLK and Mrs Local's old TT until I stumbled across this:
Just rub it around your door seals and let it dry & it prevents door/seal stickage, even on Baltic mornings.
Well I've been rubbing Gummi Plefge Stift in for ages ... had no idea I should be using it on the car Just rub it around your door seals and let it dry & it prevents door/seal stickage, even on Baltic mornings.
With the Honda Civic seats; have you tried keeping the seat back tilted forwards, then sliding the whole seat back? My mk4 Astra has clever slidey seats and as long as you keep the upright back angled forward you can slide it back to where it was before.
Surely crappy old Vaux/GM haven't outhought clever old Honda?
Admittedly it took a while for me to suss it out, and NO-ONE EVER as a passenger ever thinks to operate the seat like that, to the point I always move the seat for people making them think I have some sort of OCD protection for my cars. Which I sorta do, so it's fine.
Surely crappy old Vaux/GM haven't outhought clever old Honda?
Admittedly it took a while for me to suss it out, and NO-ONE EVER as a passenger ever thinks to operate the seat like that, to the point I always move the seat for people making them think I have some sort of OCD protection for my cars. Which I sorta do, so it's fine.
Shamelessly recycled from previous topics of this sort:
My 370Z:
Like most coupés if you open the window when there's water on the roof you'll usually find it in your lap when you turn a corner. More annoying in the colder weather as the ice on the roof defrosts and slowly drips in through the open window.
Turning the heating direction knob to the windscreen automatically activates the AC. I know when it needs activating, stop nannying me!
Opening the boot is remarkably free of waterfalls but the one-touch button takes two touches. The first touch merely unhinges the boot, the second touch unlatches it so you can lift the boot free.
The door mirrors are enormous. They're great for seeing what's in your blindspot, but incredibly frustrating at a roundabout when you're trying to see if there's a car behind the mirror. At a medium sized roundabout you probably lose 3-4 metres of visibility per side.
I have a one touch window on the drivers side, but the pax side is one touch downwards only. So I can fire-and-forget both windows open to remove steam/water, but I have to hold just the pax switch up for NO REASON. WHY DO 75% OF THE fkING JOB?
My 370Z:
Like most coupés if you open the window when there's water on the roof you'll usually find it in your lap when you turn a corner. More annoying in the colder weather as the ice on the roof defrosts and slowly drips in through the open window.
Turning the heating direction knob to the windscreen automatically activates the AC. I know when it needs activating, stop nannying me!
Opening the boot is remarkably free of waterfalls but the one-touch button takes two touches. The first touch merely unhinges the boot, the second touch unlatches it so you can lift the boot free.
The door mirrors are enormous. They're great for seeing what's in your blindspot, but incredibly frustrating at a roundabout when you're trying to see if there's a car behind the mirror. At a medium sized roundabout you probably lose 3-4 metres of visibility per side.
I have a one touch window on the drivers side, but the pax side is one touch downwards only. So I can fire-and-forget both windows open to remove steam/water, but I have to hold just the pax switch up for NO REASON. WHY DO 75% OF THE f
kING JOB?
55palfers said:
Bongs.
Door open - Bong
Key in ignition - Bong
Reverse selected - Bong
Not only 'bong' , but the same 'bong' for EVERYTHING:Door open - Bong
Key in ignition - Bong
Reverse selected - Bong
Dropped below 3 degrees? BONG
Tyre lost pressure? BONG
Seatbelt not on? BONG
Something of no significant weight on the passenger seat that doesn't require a seatbelt? BONG
Nuclear warhead incoming? BONG
Ebola detected? BONG
I f
king hate 'bongs'. I look into trying to work out how to turn them off on the cars I have but it's often not a simple option. The problem with so many bongs? You become deaf to them eventually. My E36 doesn't make a single sound unless I take the key out with the lights on.Krikkit said:
MX5 - on RHD models the little centre armrest cubby is hinged backwards! Why couldn't we have another moulding to get it the right way round?!
Seems strange considering that the Japanese also drive RHD cars this isn't part of the conversion from a LHD design.My Alfa 75 suffers from the same thing but this is a minor embuggerance compared to some of the other "features" it has.
sixpistons said:
Hmm I've got a few gripes with my 1 series. The electric window switches on my are placed too far back on the door so you need to move your whole arm to operate them, rather than falling easily to hand - much preferred placement by the gear knob like in my old e46.
I completely agree. Why BMW moved the window switches to the door is beyond me. The previous position was the best location for them in any car. They tried to fix something that wasn't broken and made it worse for doing so on every single model.sixpistons said:
The cruise control doesn't roll the power on smoothly so using it to accelerate feels like suddenly mashing the throttle into the carpet.
That was part of the fun of it. It was brisk and to the point and felt like it meant business. By comparison, the newer models seem to take an absolute age to get to the requested cruising speed, so much so that I end up helping it with a blast of throttle, which largely makes the resume function a bit pointless. The cruise in the pre-F20 models is by far the more effective cruise control to use.Oh, and as for the daft door handle position that doesn't give you enough leverage. This is also carried onto the newer models and even my 5 door doesn't have a nice secure handle where you want it for accurate control in car parks that are tight on space.
Current Skoda Octavia. This is a good idea gone bad..ish. The car comes with a very good ice scrapper secured in the fuel filler flap. This is a good idea. However when you need to use it the car is frozen and the fuel flap is one of those press in and it springs out jobs....which on an icy day stay frozen shut!
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
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
Funk said:
55palfers said:
Bongs.
Door open - Bong
Key in ignition - Bong
Reverse selected - Bong
Not only 'bong' , but the same 'bong' for EVERYTHING:Door open - Bong
Key in ignition - Bong
Reverse selected - Bong
Dropped below 3 degrees? BONG
Tyre lost pressure? BONG
Seatbelt not on? BONG
Something of no significant weight on the passenger seat that doesn't require a seatbelt? BONG
Nuclear warhead incoming? BONG
Ebola detected? BONG
I f
king hate 'bongs'. I look into trying to work out how to turn them off on the cars I have but it's often not a simple option. The problem with so many bongs? You become deaf to them eventually. My E36 doesn't make a single sound unless I take the key out with the lights on.I have a Range Rover and it's an all purpose Bong on that too.
amusingduck said:
sebhaque said:
Turning the heating direction knob to the windscreen automatically activates the AC. I know when it needs activating, stop nannying me!
If the windscreen doesn't need demisting, why point it there? If it does, you're better off with the AC on. Disagree with you here.
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