SierraMikeHotel Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 With you on the XM parking brake though.A random "like" on this oldish post makes me scratch my head... Why was I so anti that XM parking brake? My W203 has the same arrangement and it's fine. I think it's simply because the Mercedes arrangement is better put together: I remember the XM one going on and off with some awful noises. The pedal doesn't travel so far in the Merc, so it doesn't pop off with such a terrifying bang (and a pedal movement that could launch something into orbit). DSdriver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 If not already mentioned, I’d like to add Day Running Lights to this one. Designed to make cars clearer to see in the daytime in poor weather because people are too lazy to turn auto lights off or switch headlights on manually. Then, at night, when they jump in switch the key and head out the dash is already lit, there is light emitting from the front and they’re away.....clueless to the fact they haven’t actually got their lights on. I’ve seen more cars without headlights on at night than I did before. FakeConcern, adw1977, NorfolkNWeigh and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 If not already mentioned, I’d like to add Day Running Lights to this one. Designed to make cars clearer to see in the daytime in poor weather because people are too lazy to turn auto lights off or switch headlights on manually. Then, at night, when they jump in switch the key and head out the dash is already lit, there is light emitting from the front and they’re away.....clueless to the fact they haven’t actually got their lights on. I’ve seen more cars without headlights on at night than I did before.Nothing wrong with the cars then, just the drivers Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 If not already mentioned, I’d like to add Day Running Lights to this one. Designed to make cars clearer to see in the daytime in poor weather because people are too lazy to turn auto lights off or switch headlights on manually. Then, at night, when they jump in switch the key and head out the dash is already lit, there is light emitting from the front and they’re away.....clueless to the fact they haven’t actually got their lights on. I’ve seen more cars without headlights on at night than I did before. ...or a least not since it was fashionable for drivers to go about with just marker lights and front fogs on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SierraMikeHotel Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 I normally drive the Saab very sedately as there's generally a greyhound in the boot, but I found myself in the rare position of driving it solo yesterday so gave it a few more beans than usual. I've discovered that there's an audible warning when the traction control cuts in. Because half-way around a challenging corner is *exactly* when you want to be distracted by a warning bong.Another random like on an old post! I think I decided this was the low screenwash warning but I could never be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Another random like on an old post! I think I decided this was the low screenwash warning but I could never be sure. Yep, mine does that when I corner with some enthusiasm. Always low screen wash, even if the bottle is full. SierraMikeHotel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Nothing wrong with the cars then, just the drivers The cars the excuse for the driver to be lazy! At least that’s how I see it haha DSdriver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 What's the crack with the oil pressure gauge on a mk2 mx-5? It's just a switch so just sits at half way or zero. Nothing in between. Totally pointless.The one in the mk1 seems to fluctuate a little. Not much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FakeConcern Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 If not already mentioned, I’d like to add Day Running Lights to this one. Designed to make cars clearer to see in the daytime in poor weather because people are too lazy to turn auto lights off or switch headlights on manually. Then, at night, when they jump in switch the key and head out the dash is already lit, there is light emitting from the front and they’re away.....clueless to the fact they haven’t actually got their lights on. I’ve seen more cars without headlights on at night than I did before.I notice that Volvo kept on with rear lights as well as fronts on their DRLs as they always had done (they know a thing or two!). rml2345 and Ghosty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 If not already mentioned, I’d like to add Day Running Lights to this one. Designed to make cars clearer to see in the daytime in poor weather because people are too lazy to turn auto lights off or switch headlights on manually. Then, at night, when they jump in switch the key and head out the dash is already lit, there is light emitting from the front and they’re away.....clueless to the fact they haven’t actually got their lights on. I’ve seen more cars without headlights on at night than I did before.Y'know I don't think it's lazyness. If our other, facelift Transit (with auto headlights) decided to just stick with DRL I doubt I could would notice. DRLs are bloody bright at night, the dash doesn't tell you which lights are on specifically and the light switch/dial is utterly perplexing with about 17 options. catsinthewelder and Ghosty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Earlier this Month I happened to be on a business trip to Luxembourg. As it is company policy, I had to get a hire car there. It was something grey and so utterly indistinguishable, that I regularly had to use some remote control thingy that makes the car blink its indicators to identify it in a row of parked cars. That remote control does all kinds of other things, too, that I neither wanted it to do, nor understood. After my answer to some colleagues's question which car I got was 'I haven't got the foggiest' for two days, I decided to check what car it is, but then forgot about it for another day. I then checked in all earnest and knew it for a morning, but had forgotten it the same afternoon. Oh, the point I'm actually trying to make is, that the entire heap was a driver unfriendly feature. No automotive engineer could have possibly come up with something like it, so I assume none were involved and it was designed by a SEM in Bangalore on a computer, like all the other driver unfriendly features that the so called marketing departments try to qualify off as cars since 1986. Thankfully it'll soon be over though, going by the rate they close their factories. When I had to return that thing with a full tank, I was hard pressed to decide whether it needs petrol or diesel. It's impossible to tell from how it was driving and sounding. Thankfully there was a sticker in the filler flap, but I meanwhile forgot what it said. It's pathetic. Seriously. FakeConcern, Ghosty, Lacquer Peel and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrcento Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Honda CRX Del Sol has 2 One is the inner foglight switch being located behind the rear seats, bad enough on it's own, but even worse with the fact that you're constantly turning the things on and off with your elbow every time you change gear. The second being the transtop roof. A phenomenal piece of engineering and a crowd puller in car parks, not so fun if you want to use the boot and need to go round the back, put your key in and wait 30 seconds whilst the rear deck raised for access..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 DRLs are bloody bright at night, the dash doesn't tell you which lights are on specifically and the light switch/dial is utterly perplexing with about 17 options.Surely the switch only needs two positions - DRL and Headlights. Ghosty and Pillock 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 I notice that Volvo kept on with rear lights as well as fronts on their DRLs as they always had done (they know a thing or two!).This is exactly what I would expect Volvo to do. Because they know how stupid people can be. They should all do that sir. myglaren, Ghosty, FakeConcern and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyersey1234 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Pedant mode on Issignosis was born in Izmir in Turkey. His father was Greek, his mother German. Through politics/capitalism they were both British Subjects and hence so was little Alec. Issignosis very much played on his 'Englishness'. So his style over function came from further east (or west) than Italy. Pedant mode off.That's interesting I never knew his parents and he were foreign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SierraMikeHotel Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Earlier this Month I happened to be on a business trip to Luxembourg. As it is company policy, I had to get a hire car there. It was something grey and so utterly indistinguishable, that I regularly had to use some remote control thingy that makes the car blink its indicators to identify it in a row of parked cars... So what was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod/b Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 The rear view mirror in my current car. It’s massive, but for some reason it only covers the view out of the middle third of the rear window. It’s bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 That's interesting I never knew his parents and he were foreign It's actually even more complicated - Alec was Greek, Izmir is now in Turkey, but when he was born there it was in Greece. He was a British Subject because his grandfather (and father) worked for a British company who built railways in Greece/Turkey and as a perk senior managers were offered British citizenship. Alec ended up in the UK via Malta. His father was working on the Smyrna-Aydin railway during the Greco-Turkey war of the early 1920's, as the war approached Smyrna the Issignosis family, being British Subjects, were evacuated by the Royal Marines to Malta. As mentioned his mother was a German and is a first cousin, once removed, of Bernd Pischetsrieder, a well known director of BMW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 So what was it?Probably an Opel Airbag (this comes from a mate who's wife was given a loan car by the garage, they were talking on the phone and he asked her what it was, she didn't know, he suggested that she looked at the badge, as she was inside the car at the time, she looked at the steering wheel and told him it was a Vauxhall airbag, it turned out to be an Astra, but he now always calls them an Airbag) catsinthewelder, NorfolkNWeigh, Ghosty and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 I think it was an Opel Obese, or some such. But don't nail me on that. It could just as well have been a Citroen Chlamydia, a Suzuki Syphilis, a Hyundai Hepatitis, a VW Vipoma, a Gulag Gonorrhea, or any other of those EU mandated UN Agenda 2030 miseries on wheels.It doesn't matter. All modernz are the same driver unfriendly features anyway and should be avoided at all cost. GrumpiusMaximus and puddlethumper 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 I'll second this, also the blue LEDs used on Police/Ambulance/Fire Engine etc strobes are so overpowering and bright you need sunglasses at night. This is becoming an actual regular thing for me. I'm starting to get migraines driving at night, especially in the Civic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Serves you right. Nobody in his right mind would ever drive a Civic. Day or night.Because it gives you migraines. Ghosty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Serves you right. Nobody in his right mind would ever drive an automatic. Day or night.Because it gives you migraines. EFA GrumpiusMaximus, catsinthewelder and John F 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Cheap cars where they have saved 10p by not tinting/putting black dots on the windscreen around the rear view mirror. The sun seems to always shine right through the bits the visors don't cover! DeeJay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HH-R Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 The A/C controls on my KIA do my tits in too. I think it's supposed to remember whether air con and recirc is on or off for each position (feet/screen/face etc) but it seems to forget and you'll be driving along to find it's turned the A/C off or on of its own accord, or worse these days, recirculation so you get gassed by filthy stinking diseasel exhaust closing your throat at the next set of traffic lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Shouldn't that rather be posted in the First World Problems thread? Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puddlethumper Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 My old bucket doesn't have any features. Base model owners don't get that option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 The A/C controls on my KIA do my tits in too. I think it's supposed to remember whether air con and recirc is on or off for each position (feet/screen/face etc) but it seems to forget and you'll be driving along to find it's turned the A/C off or on of its own accord, or worse these days, recirculation so you get gassed by filthy stinking diseasel exhaust closing your throat at the next set of traffic lights.Yee air-co for northern euro cars. should be installing heater controls for every seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 What’s the game with cars using the front fog lamps as indicators? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted December 17, 2018 Share Posted December 17, 2018 What’s the game with cars using the front fog lamps as indicators?They aren't, it's a convenience* feature that turns one foglight on when you're turning, though what good it does I've no idea. Seems to be mainly VAGs with it. Just made me think they had a habit of blowing foglight bulbs. What really annoys me is cars that have excessively bright DRLs (esp BMWs) then they turn off when the indicator goes off. Then they cancel , DRL clicks back on instantly and you get blinded. GrumpiusMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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