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What do you hate about your current car
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2007 volvo s40 1.8 petrol
1. Cupholders are useless. Two shallow holes between me and the handbrake. Anything larger than a small coffee gets in your way changing gears or using the brake. You end up moving your arms around it.
2. Appalling lack of storage. The door pockets are next to useless, there's a fidgety area behind the floating console, and a small area under the arm rest. The glove box is a little pokey too.
3. Fairly large pillars can make visibility awkward.
4. Crappy reverse light is next to useless in any kind of inclement weather
5. Beeping for seat belts. If I put something on the passenger seat, I have to position it so it doesn't trip the over sensitive seat belt sensor. I didn't figure this out at first, and one day drove 25km home from work listening to high-pitched intermittent boop boop boop noise (it escalates from bing bing bing the faster you go), thinking I had a fault before I clicked what was going on.
6. Fidgety clutch has to be released slowly due to a short bite
7. Gear box is fidgety. 2-3 needs a split second of centering or it won't slot properly into 3rd. Between that and the clutch I scrape going into 3rd from time to time.
I do like the car though.
Add door deals that fall off the rear doors, and overall have flimsy closing noise.
Wind noise from the front doors due to a poor seal (Can be cured with Silicon Spray)
The rear window washer gets blocked very easily.
I have the estate, the reversing lights are grand
The cup holders are ok, although I bought a a cup that fits, I'd agree anything smaller flies pretty easily out of them otherwise :mad:
Other gripe is that the parts are bloody expensive !
Add to that you can't turn the lights off so bulbs go quite frequently !0 -
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BMW e60 - it's like the indicator stalk was designed to annoy me (hate would be a bit strong), been about 7 months I've had the car now and there are still times when I just can't get it right, tax on 3 liter is a bitch too but that's not the cars fault
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08 Focus ST:
Hate the rattle that comes from passanger side rear panel. I read it's 3 wires connected to the stereo that are abit too long...so if it's anyway bumpy / uneven ( 99% of the roads in ireland) it makes this lovely little vibrating hum as it taps of the metal body...that will eventually drive me crazy!
I read it's a handy fix....but i dont even own a screwdriver
Aside from that she's a beaut!0 -
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When I had the Elise I turned up at the office one day with it and one of the guys asked me where the cup holder were.:)H3llR4iser wrote: »Ah man...it's a GTV...if you need cup holders, you aren't driving it right
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When I had the Elise I turned up at the office one day with it and one of the guys asked me where the cup holder were.:)
There is always one...it's the type that, if they won the lotto, would get themselves an Enzo and drive it at 80kph on the motorway (in a 120 zone, no less!).
Besides, I always found the whole idea of cup holders in a car to be quite stupid: you're supposed to drive, not thinker with cups. Of course it's an American thing but, judging by the number of posters mentioning them, my theory about Ireland becoming an US colony seems to gain ground 0 -
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H3llR4iser wrote: »Besides, I always found the whole idea of cup holders in a car to be quite stupid: you're supposed to drive, not thinker with cups.
ah now. To be fair if your commuting then a bottle of water of similar could easily be required. I don't think its "an American thing", its just a normal thing that people require fluids and a cup holder allows easy access to said fluids when on a long(ish) drive.
In sports cars I can understand the lack of them. If they can fit one in then fine, but if not then grand.
But to say the idea of cup holders in cars is quite stupid is a bit of a generalisation! 0 -
2005 Honda Accord i-CTDI 2.2:
Little enough, come to think of it!
It's not an auto (for me these days, changing gears has about as much appeal as a plate of cold sick - I know it gives you more "control" over the car, but then so does winding up the windows rather than pushing a button and letting the car do it).
Also, on the Mitsubishi Carisma I had before, it had a warning light for the washer water which I found very useful (although when it was borderline and you were driving on back roads, it would drive you cracked blinking on and off!
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The main thing is the bloody road tax. Yes, I know you have to look at total cost of ownership, but Christ alive, over €900? :eek:H3llR4iser wrote: »Besides, I always found the whole idea of cup holders in a car to be quite stupid: you're supposed to drive, not thinker with cups. Of course it's an American thing but, judging by the number of posters mentioning them, my theory about Ireland becoming an US colony seems to gain ground
LOL, I see where you're coming from, but try to look at it from the POV of someone who needs a can of Red Bull before hitting the road at 5.15 on a Monday morning! :pac:0 -
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ah now. To be fair if your commuting then a bottle of water of similar could easily be required. I don't think its "an American thing", its just a normal thing that people require fluids and a cup holder allows easy access to said fluids when on a long(ish) drive.
In sports cars I can understand the lack of them. If they can fit one in then fine, but if not then grand.
But to say the idea of cup holders in cars is quite stupid is a bit of a generalisation!
As a matter of fact they are indeed a very American thing, as US car companies started putting them in cars after an octogenarian woman won a 2.7 million Dollars lawsuit against McDonald's because she was too stupid to properly handle her cup of coffee spilled boiling hot coffee in her lap at a drive-trough "restaurant".
Further confirmation to this, most European car makers didn't install cup holders at all in their vehicles until relatively recently, when large-scale economic considerations meant many global manufacturers started using the same baseline interiors for their models regardless of the market they were sold into; So many Toyotas, Nissans, BMWs, Hondas, Mercedes, Audis and the likes essentially got US-friendly interiors that incorporated cup holders even in their EU-market-destined versions. Other, mostly EU-based manufacturers followed suit and here we are now - all cars have cup holders, even my plebeian Megane from 2001 (which is, in fact, the first car I owned equipped with them).
I still see no use for them at all and deem drinking from a cup or a bottle to be a distraction from the task at hand - driving the car. As a matter of fact, in many countries (the UK, for example) you could very well be pulled over for drinking or eating while driving (https://www.gov.uk/general-rules-all-drivers-riders-103-to-158/general-advice-144-to-158)
Back in topic, what I hate about the mentioned 2001 Megane Cupe': being 6'2", I have to slide the seat all the way down to accommodate my legs under the wheel but, if I also lower the seat to the minimum height, the backrest tilts back, giving it a single-seater style driving position that makes it hard to properly reach the steering wheel!0 -
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Moons ago at my old c*nt of a job I brought my dads car with me one day and had some apple juice to drink. It spilled all over the passenger seat. I'm a clumsy bollox at times
The seat is still stained to this day
Yikes!
I only ever have water really so I should be alright but then, my seats are almost like new so I should probably be more careful.0 -
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Ford Fiesta - everything is too small
1) The cup holder: If I use my extra large travel mug I can't get into first gear given the proximity
2) The height: (maybe that's my fault) I have one of those hand free kits that clips to the sun visor and I had to take it off as my head hits it and calls the last person I called on my phone. 0 -
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