Slate your ride !

blackbox

2007 Passat 1.6FSI 25k km

Cruises quietly, but noisy (induction?) when pushed hard.
Suspension very hard - and this is the comfortline - thank god I didn't go for sportline with lower suspension.
Engine knocks seriously at low revs when hot (anyone else?)
Trim loose at my left knee - (warranty job).
Plastics a bit grotty compared to previous car.
Exterior mirrors not heated (or not working).
Could do with a rear wiper.

..for...
Much quicker than expected for 1.6 lugging a big car.
Good climate control.
Huge boot.
35mpg

JHMEG

Archeron wrote: »

Snap!
1991 Honda Integra, 167,000 km on the clock. Severe lack of suspension

I rate that as a good thing.:)

RobAMerc

JHMEG wrote: »

1991 Integra XSi

Complaints:
- no cup holder

Is it that you don't know enough about cars that you can't find anything wrong with it or is it truly the best car ever made - without cup holders ?

jayok

2003 E46 325Ci (face-lift), 67k miles

1. Projector headlights - p1ss poor visbility. A flash-lamp would be better
2. Interior matt finish is beginning to peal around wear spots
3. Leather creaks against plastic and drives me nuts
4. Tape deck as standard!! - FFS
5. No auto-close on the rear windows (auto open though)
6. No cup holders
7. Cigaretter lighter is in a bad spot (for iPod)
8. Open a wet boot and water leaks in
9. Have to roll through the OBC to get the temp (would like it on the display also)

Not too bad on petrol though - or am I just too sympathetic.

bennyx_o

2007 Opel Corsa OPC

-Harsh suspension with 18" wheels (I kinda like this though..)
-Pretty high fuel consumption
-Cup holders are pretty useless (bar one)
-Can't lock the windows from opening (that I know of, anyway)
-Wing mirrors don't fold, at all
-Black is an absolute nightmare to keep clean

jayok

bennyx_o wrote: »

Black is an absolute nightmare to keep clean

To be fair Benny, black is a b1tch to keep on any car!

furtzy

2005 Vectra CDTi 150 SRi 59k km

Very very hard suspension
Lack of cupholders
Slightly crunchy gearbox

Apart from that no faults

bennyx_o

jayok wrote: »

To be fair Benny, black is a b1tch to keep on any car!

Ah, I know, i just couldn't think of anything else

BnA

2002 MG ZS 120+

Appetite for Head Gaskets (2 so far)
A bit hard on juice. Especially when you drive it on a bit.
Impossible to sell.

JHMEG

RobAMerc wrote: »

Is it that you don't know enough about cars that you can't find anything wrong with it or is it truly the best car ever made - without cup holders ?

For me it's the latter.. otoh here's my Civic 1.6 VTI:
- Numb steering
- Too much assistance on the steering
- Steering ratio too slow
- Notchy gearshift (keep meaning to change the MTF)
- 2nd and 3rd gear too long
- 5th gear not long enough
- Ride height too high
- Suspension not firm enough
- Suspension not communicative enough
- Waaay too much road noise
- Resonator box is too effective
- Factory tyres (Dunlop D87m) are brutal in the wet
- No memory on the passenger seat (grrr)
- No climate control, only A/C
- No power folding mirrors
- Half the switches aren't backlit
- Driver and passenger map lights on the one switch
- And still no bloody cupholders.

CrowdedHouse

JoeA3 wrote: »

MKV Golf GTI...
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- open the window after its rained... and water pours in on top of you from the roof!

+1 here (06 MkV GTI 5 dr) -total pain in the a.... don't know how they missed this

The standard stereo is very poor,doesn't even have LW.I actually took the car back 2 days after I bought it assuming it was faulty..

ianobrien

2005 Nissan Almera, and the things I hate are
1. The ashtray blocks one cupholder
2. The cupholder grips too low, so any corner speed has the cup on the floor
3. Rear suspension. It skips over bumps in corners, becoming unsettled and can snap into oversteer. The "unsettledness" be cured with left foot braking!
4. Steering gearing too low (for oversteer!)
5. Tyre choice critical for wet traction
6. Slight delay in FBW throttle, but used to it at this stage
7. THE BOOT DOESN'T LOCK WHEN THE IGNITION IS ON!!!!!!
8. Headlights useless. The 30 year old Escort at home has better lights!

colm_mcm

Mitsubishi FTO GPX

Complete lack of safety features (airbags ABS and TRC were optional though)
Headlights are poor, (HID's improved things, but still not brilliant)
Pretty severe on fuel (MIVEC encourages a heavy right foot though)

That said, the fuel consumption or lack of safety doesn't bother me, I do small mileage, and the fact that you're on your own safety wise means you have to be more focussed!

E92

00 Volvo S40.

It has a disgusting shade of a choclate like colour on the centre console and on the door cards(its got fake wood and I hate fake wood of any description in a car).

For a 1.8, it is slow. It blows light bulbs like there is no tomorrow. And if you sit in the back seat, you can hear the rear suspension doing its job. And if you unlike me and are quite tall you don't want to be sitting in the back seat because leg room is a problem when the frontseats are fully back. And it's a Volvo, which for people stuck in the past is still a problem.

Anan1

1986 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Cabriolet

- Tiny rear seats
- Limited luggage space
- Noisy
- Requires a degree of concentration in the wet
- No electronic help if you get it wrong
- Controls too heavy for my g/f.
- Probably not great in a crash

ciarsd

Alfa GT JTDm (MY07)

- the brakes are not what I expected, almost sponge like in comparison to the petrol engined GT I had.
- the headlights are pants, although the set of Osram Silverstars fitted to dipped & main beam have helped.
- the elaborate blindspots caused by the A pillars, the worst I've had in any car yet.
- they ditched the total closure on the MY07 models, I WANT it back :mad:

freewing

02 multipla 1.9JTD 116k
Seat belts retract really slowly
suspension needs to be beefed up ( afterall it carries six people)
electric folding mirrors dont really fold electrically
eats front tyres
rear park sensor is either paranoid dilusional or having a sulk , depends on the weather
handbrake freezes in sub zero temps
rear wash wipe hose pops of in sub zero temp
9 oh yes 9 cup holders,only 1 can hold a cup while the car is moving

fairly minor probs and I will miss the old girl when its time for the knackers yard
E

crosstownk

2006 Opel Zafira 1.6..............Let's have a butcher's.............

A/C - pretty useless - very little chill factor
Clutch - bite very vague and juddery
Engine - wouldn't pull the skin off a sausage
Storage space - pretty poor for a small MPV
Cup holder - a disaster - the handbrake lever will cause certain size cups of coffee to spill.
Temperature gauge - There's none and this annoys the bejebus out of me.
Dash - quite bland
Stereo - useless. Very little amplifier power - little or no bass response.
A-pillars - create blindspots that can be a pain when approaching roundabouts.


On the positive (because it's worth a mention)
Rear seat folding combinations - excellent. It makes the Zafira so versatile. It can be a 7 seater or a small van - in less than a minute.

Anyway, the Zafira is currently working out it's notice. I don't think I'll miss it too much.

Max_Damage

'90 Nissan Micra 1L

No cubby holes/cup holders/anything
Very sluggish in cold mornings
Temperamental carburettor
Slow (0-60mph in about 2 weeks)
Not very powerful (50bhp when new, probably about 35-40bhp now).
Burns motor oil at a ridiculous rate
Gearbox (4-speed too! ) is on the way out
It has been broken into so many times that the driver's door frame is now quite warped.
Noisy
Not very economical

And yet I love it!

blastman

1991 CRX VTEC

- For a small car, it's got the same turning circle as a medium-sized boat.
- Useless rear bench (although if people are desperate enough for a lift, it's surprising what they'll put up with)
- Boot struts tend to wear out, leading to a permanent lump on the back of your head.
- Prone to leaks on the rear seats and in the boot, although they're reasonably easy to fix.
- Headlights aren't great.
- No safety features.
- And, you guessed it, no cup-holders! (although that doesn't bother me, to be honest)

kindalen

also have an old k10 knocking around,only 60k on it and i love driving it...it is truly awful. i just cant get rid of it. bought it off someone i know(only 1 owner) and the original plastic was on the back seats...

Max_Damage

kindalen wrote: »

also have an old k10 knocking around,only 60k on it and i love driving it...it is truly awful. i just cant get rid of it. bought it off someone i know(only 1 owner) and the original plastic was on the back seats...

Great cars they are too.

Mine has 110,000 miles on it. The engines had a design fault, in that they didn't pump enough oil up to the camshaft, which wore out the valve seals, and hence why the excessive oil consumption at low-ish mileages.

My cousin had a '90 Micra as well, and it had about 180k miles on it, and it just wouldn't die. He reckons that it drank more motor oil than petrol!

bambam

03 Audi A4 TDI 130 Sport (6 speed)

- sounds like a tractor in the morning. I think the newer common rail engines are less prone to this.
- 2nd gear is stubborn in the morning. A known problem I hear.
- no 'external in' connection on stereo. Surgery required to hack something in the back of it for ipod.
- poor visibility for reversing/parking.
- visible wear in interior: top layer of finish has come off around window buttons and gear stick.
- overly-firm ride.

great car all the same.

maidhc

Great thread:

2003 Ford Focus 1.8 TDCI

• Contrary when cold, very easy to stall, pretty unwilling in general until it gets warm
• Takes a long time to heat up on cold mornings
• Think it needs a new starter motor

2002 Toyota Avensis 2.0D4D

• Utterly crap and bad to drive
• Very unreliable
• Rusts
• Thirsty
• Nothing good to say about it

1995 Mondeo TD

• Suspension noisey
• Slow
• Dash a bit creaky

1974 Capri 2.0

• Won't idle on its own when cold
• Heavy clutch
• Prone to rust
• Thirsty
• Not particularly comfortable
• Cupholders not very useful
• No intermittant wipers
• No FM radio
• Mirrors on the front wings useless

mike65

Right so the message from this thread is - "designers think about Cup Holders!" And Spare wheels.

Mike.

colm_mcm

designers don't think about cupholders enough. Some cars I've had for a while recently without them: Audi A3 Sportback, Volvo S40 new model, BMW 3 series old model. (insude the armrest or glovebox doesn't count)

crosstownk

colm_mcm wrote: »

designers don't think about cupholders enough. Volvo S40 new model

I thought there was one in the centre console - close to the handbrake lever?

caesar

2001 VW Passat 100bhp TDI @ 126,000 miles (well almost)

- Lack of ESP
- handling could be improved with a subtle drop in suspension
- Timing belt is expensive to do, but it was done before I bought it.
- VW stealers servicing costs, although I wont be going near them.
- It's not black....I wanted black, mines silvery blue.
- Tyres for the 18 inch RS4's are going to be expensive.


I cant complain really, I've only had her a week and she looks and drives like she only has 40,000 miles on her.

Mr. Larson

Volvo C70 Coupe - 2.0l LPT - 45,000 miles.

• Wind noise from windows at speed - despite much tweaking of regulators... it just won't go away, if the window is used when the door is in the closed position the whistle is terrible at speed. Need to open the door, let the window down and back up then close. Otherwise whack the volume of the radio/CD up loads.
  
• It's a turbo (LPT) but so damn heavy it's slow off the mark. 165Bhp apparently, doesn't feel like it. Once it's up ahead of steam it shifts though.
  
• Harder to stop at speed than a freight train.
  
• Turning circle is awful. Really awful. To compound this, the tyres rub off axel or something at 85% of lock preventing the last 15% of turn.
  
• Goes through tyres quickly, and they aint cheap, using Pirelli P6000's. Steering wanders a bit when road surface changes with these tyres.
  
• Handles like a coupe - i.e. muck. I just don't take back roads now... ever.
  
• Had plenty of niggles in one year of ownorship so far, clutch pedal sensor, master cylinder (sp?) coolant tank, ignition antennae ring needed replacing, rear light bulbs need regular replacement.
  
• Depreciates like hell, not sure what it was new, about 40 something I reckon but I paid 24k last year and it's worth 10-15 now probably.
  
• Moving the seats to let in & out rear passengers is a pain in the butt and really cumbersome. Only seats 4 people including me.
  
• Sunroof drain makes hollow clunking noise when water is draining out at speed - so anytime it rains, I have to listen to this too.
  
• Front looks really dated.
  
• Main Volvo dealers know how to charge.
  
• It's thirsty - I get ~28 MPG and that's mostly motorway 100 - 130 km/h driving (so I speed, shoot me)
  
• No cup holder , only 1 CD, no changer and a bloody casette player, what's that about?
  
• Rare enough which is good, but I've seen a lot of rich middle aged chicks driving these around south Dublin... is it the poor ladies CLK? :eek:

Despite all this, I loves it and if I had the time back I'd buy it again.

Esel

BnA wrote: »

2002 MG ZS 120+

Appetite for Head Gaskets (2 so far)

Use the Land Rover MLS gasket next time!

Anan1 wrote: »

1986 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Cabriolet

- Controls too heavy for my g/f.

Thought this would be a good point?