Whats the most annoying thing about your car?

Whats the most annoying thing about your car?

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1,378 posts

120 months

Monday 18th November 2019
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GT86:
- The parcel shelf is fixed, as is the rear brake light jutting out of it, meaning getting in there to clean the inside of the shallow rear screen properly is almost impossible.

Kia Sorento:
- Anti-hijack (doors locking automatically over 5mph) can't be disabled. Usually this is something you can disable on most cars by fiddling with the remote fob, or disabling a setting. It seems to be utterly impossible on our car - even quizzed the dealer when it went in for a service and they said they couldn't do it :/

TheFinners said:
GT86 - the abruptness of the clutch. Shoe choice when driving becomes important, and if you're tired or cold then its very easy to end up kangerooing like a learner when you first pull away.
I don't know if this is any good to you, but have you thought about replacing the clutch pedal spring? I did so a couple of years ago and it helped enormously. Made a thread on the owners club of my experience, might be of some help to you: https://www.gt86ownersclub.co.uk/forum/25-engine-d...

TheOversteerLever

1,340 posts

212 months

Monday 18th November 2019
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Stop start. Roll up to a junction in D. Stop with foot on brake, stop start activates and engine stops. All fine.

But, if you want put the handbrake on and not sit with your foot on the brake pedal, the engine fires up again when you take your foot off the brake, even with the handbrake on. Then the back end is dragged down as the car attempts to move off.

So fking annoying - why wasn't this st realised during development/testing?! Surely the stop start shouldn't kick in again until the throttle is pressed?

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

99 months

Monday 18th November 2019
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TheOversteerLever said:
Stop start. Roll up to a junction in D. Stop with foot on brake, stop start activates and engine stops. All fine.

But, if you want put the handbrake on and not sit with your foot on the brake pedal, the engine fires up again when you take your foot off the brake, even with the handbrake on. Then the back end is dragged down as the car attempts to move off.

So fking annoying - why wasn't this st realised during development/testing?! Surely the stop start shouldn't kick in again until the throttle is pressed?
Isn't this why a lot of cars have auto-hold now in combination with stop-start?

Limpet

6,293 posts

160 months

Monday 18th November 2019
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TTmonkey said:
Parked the car this morning after drive into work. Engine must have cut out with stop start.

Obviously forgot to press the actual 'engine off' button. Got out. locked the car, waked away.

just got a call from reception.... your car engine is running! has been for nearly 3 hours.


Heated seat/aircon were on, engine must have restarted some time after I went inside. car still securely locked
I did the exact same thing with my old 320d when I first had it.

As I walked back to it, I saw it was running (cold morning and steam rising from the tailpipe) and my first thought was there was someone in it about to steal it. But no, it was securely locked and I then realised what I’d done.

My M140i bongs angrily at me if I open the door with the ignition still on, but the early F30 3-series never did.


lukeharding

2,930 posts

88 months

Monday 18th November 2019
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Deranged Rover said:
My Mk3 Mondeo again (and the Focus I used to own, come to that...) and the headlamp flash/main beam selector.

Nearly ever car I've ever driven has required you to pull the stalk towards you from its rest position towards you to flash, and push it away from rest for the main beam. Simple, effective and easy.

Why then, do Ford insist on using the ridiculous system whereby you pull it towards you a bit to flash and then a bit further until it clicks to maintain main beam? It's all to easy to pull a bit too far to flash and accidentally leave the lights on main beam. Bloody daft.
I used to have a Fiesta that did this when learning to drive, which my instructor found very odd when I said his car was strange (a Golf). However, both my XJS and Vantage have the pull towards you system for full beam and I love it for the familiarity.

TheOversteerLever

1,340 posts

212 months

Monday 18th November 2019
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Shakermaker said:
Isn't this why a lot of cars have auto-hold now in combination with stop-start?
My car seems to have absolutely every toy and tech feature. Apart from auto hold rolleyes


Gad-Westy

14,520 posts

212 months

Monday 18th November 2019
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thebigmacmoomin said:
MellowshipSlinky said:
Wife’s car - Golf R.
To defrost the door mirrors, instead of them being linked to the rear de-mister (like every other car I’ve had), you have to turn the toggle switch for adjusting the mirrors.
Ford's heated mirrors are linked to the heated front windscreen which is more logical
Yes. Basically the same as almost any other car, except VAG for some unfathomable reason.

TheInsanity1234

740 posts

118 months

Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Shakermaker said:
Deranged Rover said:
My Mk3 Mondeo again (and the Focus I used to own, come to that...) and the headlamp flash/main beam selector.

Nearly ever car I've ever driven has required you to pull the stalk towards you from its rest position towards you to flash, and push it away from rest for the main beam. Simple, effective and easy.

Why then, do Ford insist on using the ridiculous system whereby you pull it towards you a bit to flash and then a bit further until it clicks to maintain main beam? It's all to easy to pull a bit too far to flash and accidentally leave the lights on main beam. Bloody daft.
That's an way of doing things but far from uncommon, probably from before the days where you'd ever need to "flash" your headlights at anyone?

I remember when I bought my second car. I'd spent just over a year in my little old Polo with the main beam being on by pull towards you, and that was the same system in my mum's Renault that I'd done some lessons in and my instructor's Peugeot. I then moved on to a Cavalier, where the main beam was "push away" from you and I didn't know this, was quite alien.

The 19-plate Peugeot I had a courtesy car the other week still uses the pull for main mean, which was once again, a bit odd to get used to again
My mum's Renault Clio was like that, you pulled the stalk towards you once to turn the main beam on, and then you pulled it again to turn it off. You could flash by pulling the stalk forwards without hitting the stop, but it was much easier to just pull the stalk twice to flash the main beam once than it was to actually try and 'flash'.
The Yeti they swapped it for had a stalk where you pulled the stalk forwards to flash, and pushed it back to activate the main beam, but the stalk would return to the central position after you turned the main beam on, and you could then turn the main beam off by pushing the stalk either forward or backwards. A very sensible implementation I thought.
My personal pet hate is when the stalk 'clicks' in a different position to the normal when the main beam is on, mainly because I invariably forget the stalk isn't where it's supposed to be and I miss it when I try to indicate the first time!

talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Tuesday 19th November 2019
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In my Exeo ( B8 A4?) to fold the mirrors in by turning the mirrors knob with the ignition still on.
So you now can't see if there are any cars coming behind you as you open the door.
Still, better than the £45000 2017 S4 B9 I had which didn't come with folding mirrors.


Etypephil

724 posts

77 months

Tuesday 19th November 2019
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X358 & X250 Jags; when either car is wet and one leans into the boot to load / unload, water drips from the bottom of the bootlid down the neck. 'king infuriating. Caught me nicely this morning.

Jonny_

4,108 posts

206 months

Tuesday 19th November 2019
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watchnut said:
Have a guess what car this is by the "annoying bits"

reverse is not easy to get into
no rear leg room
bloody indicators with the "soft touch 3 flash thing"....mind you nearly all modern cars have this
boot tiny
everyone has one
BMW 1 Series, manual gearbox.

talksthetorque

10,815 posts

134 months

Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Jonny_ said:
watchnut said:
Have a guess what car this is by the "annoying bits"

reverse is not easy to get into
no rear leg room
bloody indicators with the "soft touch 3 flash thing"....mind you nearly all modern cars have this
boot tiny
everyone has one
BMW 1 Series, manual gearbox.
Next one down? MINI?

andyxxx

1,164 posts

226 months

Tuesday 19th November 2019
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It’s difficult to decide which is the most annoying:

Terrible turning circle
Heater either freezing cold or boiling hot – no in between
Corrosion when a year old (and ongoing and very common issue)
Latest version kangaroo hops at intermittent periods – a known fault that can’t be fixed.
Heavy steering – the wife won’t drive it.
Spiders constantly make webs on the wing mirror and inside by the windscreen.
Water leaks inside (common issue)
Very nickable (either the whole vehicle, or parts off it)

I have not been without one for 25 years, owned three and think they’re great.

underwhelmist

1,852 posts

133 months

Tuesday 19th November 2019
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Alfa 156. Windscreen washer jets. Almost impossible to get them to aim at the windscreen.

JMEB5

10 posts

61 months

Wednesday 20th November 2019
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IntriguedUser said:
JMEB5 said:
B5 S4 - Everything genuine is becoming/has become NLA. Making it hard to keep them on the road these days. Why can't Audi be more like BMW/Porsche in their parts department? rolleyes

Mk3 Mondeo - heated screen - although the idea is nice, seeing those little wiggly lines all the time grates on me. laugh
Always liked that shape S4, there's one around my way with some sort of AWD 2.8 engine
They made a 2.8 V6 Quattro A4? Not quite an S4 in terms of trim/performance...?

Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Gad-Westy said:
Tank size is somewhere around 60l. An e90 needs to average over 30mpg to do 400 miles but that’s assuming that you run it dry. More like 33mpg if you’re more cautious.

E9* 3 Series tank is 63 litres the same as the E46, so 400 miles is easily achievable for a petrol straight 6. (But my E46 320td could do 600+ miles)!

Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Yesterday morning, it was the frameless windows, which had frozen and refused to drop the 1/2 inch needed to open the door.

AndyXF

295 posts

87 months

Wednesday 20th November 2019
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2017 Abarth 595 (presumably affects all FIAT 500?):

Passenger window has the "one touch" feature only to lower the window. You have to hold the switch to raise it.
Meanwhile the feature works both ways on the driver's side...

cerb4.5lee

30,185 posts

179 months

Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Europa1 said:
Yesterday morning, it was the frameless windows, which had frozen and refused to drop the 1/2 inch needed to open the door.
I had this same issue on my Mini yesterday for the first time(its been in the garage for the last 2 winters but my 370Z is in there now). I managed to get the door open but then I couldn't shut the door again. The heated front screen cleared the windscreen in seconds, but I had to wait a fair bit longer for the drivers door window to thaw before the door would shut.

untakenname

4,953 posts

191 months

Wednesday 20th November 2019
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Had a neighbour alert me yesterday that I had my sidelights running on WRX, took it for an MOT earlier in the day so the switch above the steering wheel was probably accidentally knocked, the first time it happened to me I had to disconnect the battery as I couldn't find the switch.