Whats the most annoying thing about your car?

[Shakermaker]

talksthetorque said:

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.

are you sure that you can't fold the mirrors in by pressing and holding the "lock" button on the key?

I too felt the same as you with my Superb, using the little knob before you exit the car seemed counter intuitive, but then when I took it for service I saw the guy do it remotely.

[Pica-Pica]

AndyXF said:

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...

I have had that too on past cars. I wonder if they did not have an ‘anti-trap’ feature? (That is - a small rewind down when a trapped object, such as a finger, is caught in a closing window). I imagine anti-traps are mandatory now on one-touch closing.

[Flibble]

cerb4.5lee said:

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.

Warm water to defrost it before opening is my solution.

[jp-sr71]

On my C6 RS6?

I only have 730hp.

[cerb4.5lee]

Flibble said:

cerb4.5lee said:

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.

Warm water to defrost it before opening is my solution.

Thanks, I will try this next time.

[SkodaIan]

15 pages in, and still nobody has mentioned the non latching indicator stalk on the Vauxhall Vectra. All our company pool cars were these for a while and I never properly got the hang of them.

Move the stalk a bit and the indicators flash 3 times. Move it a bit more and the indicators stay on, but the stalk goes back to the centre.
Want to turn the indicators back off instead of letting them self cancel? Don't even try as it won't ever do what you'd expect.....

Or is it just that nobody wants to admit ever owning an early 2000s Vauxhall...

[Nik da Greek]

If you open the heater vents then it burns your ankles, melts the soles of your boots and the windscreen mists up. If you don't the windscreen clears and you basically freeze. Despite this seemingly volcanic heat running through the sill area, it never quite manages to evaporate all the water sloshing around inside the door

Oh, and the cupholder tends to fall over during hard cornering*

*by which I mean "anything above moderate walking pace"


colour matched wiper by Nick Liassides, on Flickr

[Limpet]

Flibble said:

cerb4.5lee said:

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.

Warm water to defrost it before opening is my solution.

Our old R57 Cooper S used to suffer from this.

I did find a fix though. Wind the window down, get a clean rag, squirt some silicone spray on it, and wipe around the top part of the window seals. It seems to stop the frost bonding the glass to the rubber in cold weather.

[irocfan]

AndyXF said:

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...

same as on my R55 Mini - annoying!!

[Pica-Pica]

SkodaIan said:

15 pages in, and still nobody has mentioned the non latching indicator stalk on the Vauxhall Vectra. All our company pool cars were these for a while and I never properly got the hang of them.

Move the stalk a bit and the indicators flash 3 times. Move it a bit more and the indicators stay on, but the stalk goes back to the centre.
Want to turn the indicators back off instead of letting them self cancel? Don't even try as it won't ever do what you'd expect.....

Or is it just that nobody wants to admit ever owning an early 2000s Vauxhall...

The ‘indicator stays on but the stalk moves back to centre’ is a BMW F30 thing too. Very useful once you get used to it, because you can cancel by pressing it softly in either direction - no matter which direction you indicated, and being in a known position you can find it as your hand sweeps round with the wheel on a bend. Very useful, I find.

[DD3566]

2005 Monaro VXR

The indicator and wiper stalks are on opposite sides to 99% of modern cars, end up flashing my full beam at people when I mean to use the screen wash etc. You do get used to it fairly quickly until you jump into another car and it all goes out the window again

6.0L soundtrack more than makes up for minor annoyances though...

[irocfan]

DD3566 said:

2005 Monaro VXR

6.0L soundtrack more than makes up for minor annoyances though...

Indeed - an LS soundtrack makes you far more accepting of a car's quirks

[TheInsanity1234]

SkodaIan said:

15 pages in, and still nobody has mentioned the non latching indicator stalk on the Vauxhall Vectra. All our company pool cars were these for a while and I never properly got the hang of them.

Move the stalk a bit and the indicators flash 3 times. Move it a bit more and the indicators stay on, but the stalk goes back to the centre.
Want to turn the indicators back off instead of letting them self cancel? Don't even try as it won't ever do what you'd expect.....

Or is it just that nobody wants to admit ever owning an early 2000s Vauxhall...

Because I'm a nerd, I looked up the Vectra C instruction manual and this is all the manual says about the indicators:


Delightfully unhelpful!

[hardingeaton]

Le-Mons said:

Mk2 MX5, nothing too terrible, but:

Passenger-side door speaker gets damp every time it rains, resulting in it sounded like it's blown until it dries out (changed the external weather strip, checked the door card membrane, fitted a protective plastic 'bucket' around the back of the speaker, all to no avail).

If the roof is wet and you put the window down you can guarantee that every last drop of rainwater will flood directly onto you, regardless of the speed or direction you're travelling in. This is especially bad with a hard-top fitted.

I had this problem with my Mk 2 with the hard top on. I stuck a strip of dark brown 'E' section door insulation along the edge of the roof above the window and the deluge stopped.

Unfortunately, I've no idea how to stop the soft top leaking into the cabin with the window open. Which is not ideal in N Wales.

[Flibble]

Limpet said:

Our old R57 Cooper S used to suffer from this.

I did find a fix though. Wind the window down, get a clean rag, squirt some silicone spray on it, and wipe around the top part of the window seals. It seems to stop the frost bonding the glass to the rubber in cold weather.

Mine tends to freeze at the bottom where the glass meets the door.

[cerb4.5lee]

Flibble said:

Limpet said:

Our old R57 Cooper S used to suffer from this.

I did find a fix though. Wind the window down, get a clean rag, squirt some silicone spray on it, and wipe around the top part of the window seals. It seems to stop the frost bonding the glass to the rubber in cold weather.

Mine tends to freeze at the bottom where the glass meets the door.

That was the problem I had as well, and the window couldn't drop down like it usually would.

[Etypephil]

DD3566 said:

2005 Monaro VXR

The indicator and wiper stalks are on opposite sides to 99% of modern cars, end up flashing my full beam at people when I mean to use the screen wash etc. You do get used to it fairly quickly until you jump into another car and it all goes out the window again

6.0L soundtrack more than makes up for minor annoyances though...

That is the correct orientation for RHD.

[Low Pro]

The Driver

[talksthetorque]

Shakermaker said:

talksthetorque said:

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.

are you sure that you can't fold the mirrors in by pressing and holding the "lock" button on the key?

I too felt the same as you with my Superb, using the little knob before you exit the car seemed counter intuitive, but then when I took it for service I saw the guy do it remotely.

Nope, definitely not.
I had a Leon FR before this and that did fold them in. So I knew about the fold in function.

Some of the guys on the seatcupra.net forum coded/rewired them to do that though.
It was based on a 2002 Audi remember

[vergil300]

Have you ever tried to open an Alfa 147 boot...