Car features that you cannot live without...
Discussion
....and have spoiled cars that don't have these features for you. Excluding things like power steering / ABS etc, I am talking about modern features that would make it a difficult decision to buy a car without.
For me it's LED headlights, DAB radio and aircon. I want to replace my current car, it has LED headlights. Going from a car with Xenon straight into LED on the same night showed how much brighter and how much more road the LED headlights lit. I hate them when fitted to other people's cars, but for me it's a feature I need on my next car. Same as DAB and A/C nowadays. With FM having less stations and the ones I like to listen to only being available on DAB, it's a no brainer.
But, if I really really had to, I'd probably go back to a car without LED headlights if it had DAB and A/C, and was all I could afford.
What about you people of PH?
For me it's LED headlights, DAB radio and aircon. I want to replace my current car, it has LED headlights. Going from a car with Xenon straight into LED on the same night showed how much brighter and how much more road the LED headlights lit. I hate them when fitted to other people's cars, but for me it's a feature I need on my next car. Same as DAB and A/C nowadays. With FM having less stations and the ones I like to listen to only being available on DAB, it's a no brainer.
But, if I really really had to, I'd probably go back to a car without LED headlights if it had DAB and A/C, and was all I could afford.
What about you people of PH?
DKS said:
Jinba Ittai said:
Apart from AC, it would be heated steering wheel. Far more effective at warming me up in the winter than heated seats, I would happily forgo heated seats for a heated steering wheel.
The feature which I wish cars had, but I have never seen (that could be a new thread topic) is an electrically adjustable rear view mirror. I frequently have to jump in and out of pool cars - Ford Tourneos. I have to lean forward to reach the rear view mirror so my body is out of position when trying to adjust it; when I lean back into driving position, the mirror is often then slightly out of position, which irritates me. An electrically adjustable and memory rear view mirror would be a godsend.
My Vauxhall Signum Elite had that, was extremely impressed! A friend (who left it to me) managed to knock the mirror off the screen and we spent an hour or so re-attaching it all. Was amazed to see it move when we were fiddling with the seats! The external mirrors also remembered their position with each seat memory. The passenger side mirror dipped when in reverse, but only if the left mirror was selected. Clever stuff!The feature which I wish cars had, but I have never seen (that could be a new thread topic) is an electrically adjustable rear view mirror. I frequently have to jump in and out of pool cars - Ford Tourneos. I have to lean forward to reach the rear view mirror so my body is out of position when trying to adjust it; when I lean back into driving position, the mirror is often then slightly out of position, which irritates me. An electrically adjustable and memory rear view mirror would be a godsend.
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