What's your car's most annoying niggle?

[eddyramrod]

Blob: Intermittent wipe doesn't work.  The wipers will start to make a move across the screen, then stop randomly.  If I put them on constant they work fine.

Rear wiper doesn't clear a decent arc, which I'm putting down to the curvature of the rear screen.

Boot handle doesn't return to the latching position without help, when I open the boot.  So a bit of leverage with either the ignition key or my fingers is the current fix.

 

Rover: HRW interferes with the radio, so I have to choose which one I want on.  Other electrics work or not at random, but apparently that's pretty normal.

Lighter socket isn't deep enough for the plug on my dashcam so the cam doesn't get power.

 

Cadillac: speaking of the lighter socket: doesn't even work in this car, so no dashcam at all.

Clock doesn't work.

Instrument lighting comes on so dimly it might as well just not bother.  I literally can't see what speed I'm doing at night.

Horn and power seat are on the same circuit, which has to have its own isolator switch so they don't drain the battery when parked.  Naturally if I turn it on, thinking I might need the horn on a journey, I WILL forget to turn it off, and end up with a dead battery.

Driver's door window is slow to wind either up or down.

Rain leaks into the trunk, and a bit past the rear window too.

[Squirrel2]

My S60's Turning Circle......Like the QE2 turning around in your local canal.

 

Ditto my XC70. It’s just something you have to get used to on these FWD Volvos.

[PhilA]

The Renault just destroys CV boots. And it's a complete suspension-apart to do anything about them.

 

Daily (Chevy pickup) has a electronic bell that goes DINGDINGDINGDINGDING like crazy if you leave the headlights switched on but a lazy ding......ding.......ding......ding if you leave the key in the ignition and open the door.

 

The headlights turn themselves off after 5 minutes anyway. Priorities!

 

Phil

[Kiltox]

Duster seems to idle higher than you’d expect when it’s cold - unusually so for a fuel injected modern but not enough to think it’s faulty. Can only assume it’s part of EU6 emissions requirements, trying to get it warm quicker.

[Wack]

Not the cars fault but a family of spiders living behind passenger door mirror.

I rented a car once , set off, came round a bend ,sun in my eyes, pulled the visor down and a huge spider dropped in my lap , when I took it back I told them I'd probably saved that car, if they'd rented it to a woman it'd be upside down in a ditch now

[xtriple]

dollop: rev counter playing silly sods... sometimes. Alloy corrosion that fights every attempt to stop.

 

KIA: the fact it exists, and worse, it exists outside here!

 

The Mazda: noisy with the roof on, and er, that's about it. Until the garage ring with the bad news about its disasterous MOT fail.

[MorrisItalSLX]

The lack of internal boot release on the Jag, makes opening the boot quite an affair.

Also, I wish it had key fobs for the central locking. I believe they make aftermarket kits, Next project?

[Talbot]

Christ, where to start?!

 

Merc. 2 working glowplugs so it barely staggers into life in the morning. And they are well-know for siezing into the head, requiring pullers/slide hammers to remove. And you have to take the inlet fannymould off to get to them, which means getting the front of the car up in the air. Also one side citroen-stylee rear suspension sphere is nearly flat, so one side is softish and the other quite hard making for interesting* handling. And the drivers seat back slowly reclines all on it's own, necessitating winding it back up again at least every few hours of driving. And the boot keeps jamming shut. And half the backlighting on the dash has failed so I can't see what I'm doing at night.

 

Disco. DMF and Clutch are shot to shit and need replacing. Not a job I am looking forward to.

 

Bingo. Showing the very first signs of OMGHGF, which is really bloody annoying, as DW10 HDI90 engines are not known for it.

 

Xantia. Still no interior heater. Or thermostat. Or fuel gauge. Or locks. And the sills need fettling. Oh, and it's SORN off the road and uninsured at the moment, so there's no way I'll be driving it anyway.

 

Everything I own is broken.

[Guest Hooli]

I rented a car once , set off, came round a bend ,sun in my eyes, pulled the visor down and a huge spider dropped in my lap , when I took it back I told them I'd probably saved that car, if they'd rented it to a woman it'd be upside down in a ditch now

 

I used to know a lass who wrote off a metro into a bridge on the A23 for exactly that reason.

[oldcars]

The 75's aircon panel always goes back to recirculate the air rather than fresh air from outside, every time you restart it. The Reliant has a wheel missing.

[bunglebus]

The heater fan on my Passat squeaks. A bit irritating especially as it's already had one, OK that was probably 8 years ago but still! Too cold to mess about taking it apart at the moment.

[rml2345]

Where to start? On the Rover 75;

It vibrates badly at idle because the bottom engine mount bracket is still fucked. Current workaround is to lift the idle a bit using right hoof.

There's a rattle in the dash.

The cruise works when it feels like it.

The headlights have cataracts so the light output is terrible.

The rear light seals are letting water into the boot.

The clutch release bearing is noisy which is both irritating and worrying due to potential imminent failure.

The auxiliary belt tensioner doesn't. Solution this time was to fit a new belt to shut it up for a bit.

Every repair job is twice as complicated and three times as painful as it looks and there's never any access room.

 

Mini Cooper S;

We got this on Thursday. The driver's door actuator has given up and now only works when it likes.

[CanaryinManc]

Touch wood nothing currently. Most annoying ever was central unlocking working perfectly, central locking not at all on my Rover SD1 2600. Had to manually re-lock all four doors and tailgate every time I left the car. Eventually 'fixed' by disconnecting unlocking actuator and reverting to fully manual operation.

[oldcars]

Where to start? On the Rover 75;

It vibrates badly at idle because the bottom engine mount bracket is still fucked. Current workaround is to lift the idle a bit using right hoof.

There's a rattle in the dash.

The cruise works when it feels like it.

The headlights have cataracts so the light output is terrible.

The rear light seals are letting water into the boot.

The clutch release bearing is noisy which is both irritating and worrying due to potential imminent failure.

The auxiliary belt tensioner doesn't. Solution this time was to fit a new belt to shut it up for a bit.

Every repair job is twice as complicated and three times as painful as it looks and there's never any access room.

 

Mini Cooper S;

We got this on Thursday. The driver's door actuator has given up and now only works when it likes.

I think the Mini actuators as the same as the 75's. Get it changed asap, don't be like me and leave it. I have to burst the door card off Saturday to change mine on the 75.

[MarvinsMom]

Isn't this a known 75 problem with a resistor?  The fan does something in tandem with it, either being on all the time or being unable to make up its mind what it's doing, something like that.  An easy thing to fix with a new resistor, but a difficult fault to find because the symptoms are so strange.

hmmm, could be, when i bought the car it still had the original 3 speed fan on the radiator which also keeps the condencer for the a/c cool, which had 2 speeds working, and then it sounded like a cement mixer.

 

the original fan was jiggered!

 

so now it has a rovetec? replacement fan fitted which only has 2 speeds. though in fairness it sounds like a hovercraft or similar cos as soon as the car starts, then the fan starts up cos the heater/ac/climate controll thing ois always on, and so the cooling fan will be running.

 

when i came back north on thrussday on the M18 it was klile i was in my own disco given the rate at which things were flashing on and off, this mornining it has, touch wood, been as good as gold... bloody thing!

[sierraman]

Lack of working central locking is a pain in the arse. On the focus we have to unlock it from the passenger side, again a pain. Could remedy this with a used barrel, but CBA in this weather.

[iainrcz]

Rattles.

Austrian build quality eh.

 

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[dozeydustman]

Biggest niggle with the Saab is even with a new DPF & EGR it wants to regenerate once a month and spew out a ton of white smoke. Nothing showed up when the fitter at work whacked the reader on it.....

[vulgalour]

MarvinsMom: Mike says, if you look through the front where the fan is and see a silver resistor, that's probably the problem.  If it's gold, it's probably not.  It could be the Rovetech being non-original too.  Essentially, it's an annoyance rather than a serious problem and common on 75s, I am told.  Sorry I don't have more info.

[danthecapriman]

Most annoying thing for me is on the Volvo, the rear Monroe air ride levelling shock absorbers.

Great idea, especially for towing stuff. But there’s a tiny air leak on mine somewhere which means the rear suspension drops after a couple of weeks meaning I have to keep pumping it up!

And those old Monroe shock kits aren’t available anymore.

[rainagain]

Despite being a diesel I’m only getting 45ish mpg from my 307 even though I only do 60-65mph on my commute. Then reading on here a clio 172 can do 44mpg and wondering why the hell I still own the 307.

[rml2345]

I think the Mini actuators as the same as the 75's. Get it changed asap, don't be like me and leave it. I have to burst the door card off Saturday to change mine on the 75.

Got one coming for it this week so hoping to swap them over before it gives up completely. Good tip on the actuators being the same, I'll check it out as no doubt it'll go wrong again.

[Magpie215]

My mk1 galaxy

 

No fob

Lock on drivers door borked

Passenger rear door central locking inop

Drivers leccy window inop

Noisy thrust bearing

Lots of dash bulbs inop.

 

Think that's all

[Partridge]

Volvo:

One of the rear doors sometimes won't shut properly, announcing it's state of non-closedness by the interior lights staying on, and the little red light in the door wheel glowing over the rear seats. Slam it to close it, and it makes a very ugly rattle. Nothing seems to fix it.

 

Peugeot:

The backlight for the gear selector has gone. Probably easy enough to fix, but there's been more pressing things to do on it.

 

Merc:

Noisy indicator relay. Again, probably easy to fix but I'm quite apathetic about these things so it will stay noisy.

[mitsisigma01]

Do you mean corrosion between the tabs and the glass?

https://www.frostfighter.com/defroster-repair-tab-bonding-kit-2000.htm

$37 !!!! , that's more than my whole Mx5 cost to buy !!!

[xkjagnz]

ABS/Traction control light coming on plus intermittant brake warning on the w8 Passat, alldue to a dry joint in the computer connection