Must be something you hate about cars?

[delux]

I love cars. During the week I work on cars, in my spare time I work on cars, daydream about cars, make models of cars or chat on beige forums about cars. Cars! Cars! Cars!

But...

I hate cleaning cars!

 

I like having a clean car. I just grudge every second I spend washing/polishing/hovering cars. 

I am going to Japan classic Sunday next month in my Impreza. Its a car show and I want to be there with a shiney car but its a real slog!

Its not that dirty! It doesnt live a hard life and it will get dirty driving to the Netherlands but that annoying voice in my head is going to nag me until its done!

My daily driver is a bit different...

Last time I cleaned it the clutch shat its self, the time before I broke the windscreen! I have embraced the Colts hatred of being cleaned with open arms!

 

What do you hate about cars? 

 

(and dont cheat and say 'Insurance', everyone hates that!)

[Six-cylinder]

7 minutes ago, delux said:

What do you hate about cars? 

(and dont cheat and say 'Insurance', everyone hates that!)

I can't have every one I like.

[Sham]

The fact that the bit I love most about them, driving at the limit of grip on a twisty road, is impossible on the roads of today with the cars of today.

But that's what motorbikes are for.

[Kiltox]

[Six-cylinder]

1 minute ago, Kiltox said:

Aren't those and Nissans the same thing?

[Shite Ron]

Rust! I have no desire to own a modern car, Ideally I would have nothing built after 1982 but I do shy away from using my cars when there is salt on the roads as they do like to rust. 

[delux]

5 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

The diamond of doom!

I dont like them because of what they have done to Nissan but they are still not my most hated manufacturer and I can see why the people who like them do so.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Shite quality parts. 

[Kiltox]

12 minutes ago, delux said:

The diamond of doom!

I dont like them because of what they have done to Nissan but they are still not my most hated manufacturer and I can see why the people who like them do so.

I own two (and a Dacia)  

Three if you count the fucked Zoe in my workshop 

[Soundwave]

Any awkward job that requires you to have at least three arms, each with five elbows and toddler-sized hands with the grip strength of a silverback gorilla.

Mostly modern cars suffer from this - but not exclusively. Had plenty of shiter jobs where I've questioned what kind of creature they used in the factory to assemble the car.

[FakeConcern]

I like Renault

My hate is other drivers.

If I can't have that then it'll be all the unnecessary tech being added to new cars being produced now. Touchscreen? No thanks! Most of them seem to think I have gloves on! 

[MrGTI6]

"Automatic Emergency Braking" systems, which I believe are now compulsory on new cars. 

It's supposed to be a safety feature. However, my experience is that it's far more likely to cause an accident than prevent one due to a phenomenon known as "phantom braking".

There's nothing pleasant about driving a car knowing that it could perform a full-on emergency stop at any moment.

Our Hyundai Kona also had a feature which meant it would steer itself back onto the correct side of the road if you crossed the centre line. That was fun* when passing parked vehicles.

[loserone]

Or cyclists!

[hairnet]

media types that when speaking in print or otherwise

dont do their fkin research

also modern 'safety aids'

lane assist is just fkin dangerous

 

[Metal Guru]

The built in sat nav on my wife’s Bini. Sometimes it will send you through someone’s back garden to save 50m off your route, at others it will send you 2-3 miles out of your way by sending you 350 degrees around a loop nearly back to where you started from , rather than “ turn right in 100m”. I’d much rather have a decent map book, but asking my wife to read a map is even more frustrating than the sat nav.

[Lord Sterling]

Where do I start?

• Maintainance - Cars are bastardly needy cunts. Every 5 minutes they need something because it's delaminated/it's a got a hole in it/it's leaking/someone else has put cheap parts and so on.

• Rust - 🤬

• MoTs - I absolutely FUCKING HAT the way that the future life of your car is in the hands of someone who'll pass/fail it depending on how he feels that day. Leading on from the rust rant, most MoTers don't seem to able to tell between surface rust and the kind of corrosion that is basically wheetabix. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE! 🤬

• Parking - It's become a proper shite of a problem for me. In fact, since I started driving, I've never lived anywhere where I have something called a "driveway" or even a "parking space" where I know I can just drive to and leave the car after a long hard day. Councils these days are shitebags on these things. Any piece of land they can make a bit of coin out of, they will. Be it charging for parking or taking parking away to sell to some arsehole developer.

• Other F*king drivers - These days,  we have FAR too many people driving because 'convenience' - Fair enough, oir public transport system is shit, no consistency,  too expensive and having to share with societies' dregs and dickheads. But a lot of these drivers have no actual interest in driving. They'll sit in the middle lane forever then cut across when their brain tells them; Hoi! You might wanna get off here! or you have the entitled ones, the Tesla/ESUV owners who believe somehow they are a cut above the peasants and that they should be put in front leading everyone else. Fuck off. Then you have the fashionistas' in ugly little hybrid big-marques like Mercedes and BMW pretending they are Prada handbags and of course, the boy racers. Gone are the days of Fast Fords and Fast Vauxhalls and now it's all Audi/BMW/Audi/BMW. No imagination anymore and they even act entitled.

• Cheap Parts - Fuck off. These things should be made illegal to be sold here, but alas they are not. And then you have a plethora of cheap bastards whacking on cheap chineseum parts because "cheapppzzzzz innit!" Then a later on when someone else ends up owning the car, it feels like it's going to fall apart. 

• Cleaning cars - Like @delux, I like a clean car. My cars MUST always be clean. In my late 20s/early 30s, I could spend ALL day washing, polishing and vacuuming/cleaning the seats in my cars. But these days, simply vacuuming it takes it out of me (three cheers for asthma! 😮‍💨) I pay to have my cars cleaned and again, because I have nowhere to actually park my cars that is actually mine, it means the general gaggle of the public are always around passing by where I may get them with water or whatever, it just makes it more difficult than it should be.

[Dyslexic Viking]

How expensive it is to keep an old worn-out Mercedes on the road.

[Jazoli]

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

The built in sat nav on my wife’s Bini. Sometimes it will send you through someone’s back garden to save 50m off your route, at others it will send you 2-3 miles out of your way by sending you 350 degrees around a loop nearly back to where you started from , rather than “ turn right in 100m”. I’d much rather have a decent map book, but asking my wife to read a map is even more frustrating than the sat nav.

Just use google maps or Waze, you don’t get what you are complaining about, it just works.

[sierraman]

People. Especially these that assume because you like cars you’ll want to talk about BMW M140is. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

I'm with the OP - washing/valeting is a real bind.
Mechanically? FWD clutches.
Overall? Their predilection for throwing minor (and major) FTPs at the most inopportune moments. Living here a working car is a must, owning AS quality motors therefore means you must run more than one, preferably three or more   

[MikeR]

people driving SUV sized cars who would be out of their depth in a Mini ...  

why are modern cars so big ?  

why so many fiddly bits that can go wrong that no one can fix ?

[Split_Pin]

I don't really hate anything about cars, plenty of things (like hidden rust) make me go "awww shit". But to me that's a robust variable, if I don't want to put up with it any more I'll sell them all and get the bus.

I don't even hate crossovers, they seem to suit people so manufacturers will continue to design them.

My dislike is of people related to cars. Whether it's the 2-bit Wimpey homes Insta-slave driving 2 mm from your bumper, on their phone in their financed premium* branded car, 2 twats chasing each other on a public road in their STs, embroidered polo-shirt wearing snobs at car shows, or British car zealots at a Rover meet, they all make me run a mile.

I'll add car shows in general, yawn.

A lot of folk dont seem to get that I'm happy to have a cheap example of a mechanically solid ten-footer car, because I only want the experience, not perfection. 

I like my cars to be clean so it doesn't look too neglected and spotless inside is an absolute must. I'm well over polishing now (I used to do that almost religiously) because I simply don't have the time. A weekly wash is enough!

[Supernaut]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

embroidered polo-shirt wearing snobs at car shows, or British car zealots at a Rover meet, they all make me run a mile.

I've taken the Land Rover to 2 or 3 shows so far this spring / summer and I'm already over it.

[Split_Pin]

[eddyramrod]

"Ford Tax" which has long-since expanded to cover models of Fords; and incidentally "Old Car Tax" which is pretty darn busy doing the same thing.

OK the models are a bit niche, but to me, and it seems several on here, it's an important niche.  But come on, sellers, dealers, traders, be realistic!  We can't all be retired Glam Rock stars!

 

In short: why is every-bloody-thing so fucking expensive?

[juular]

Aftermarket parts.

Modern rubber.

People trying to climb in my boot at every straight but unable to go round a corner at more than 8 mph while straddling middle of the carriageway into oncoming traffic.

[Fabergé Greggs]

I hate how big they are. It's annoying that you need a whole parking space for them or that they take up a whole garage. You can't just stop wherever you like or turn off the road if you feel like it.  When they break they're huge unmanageable bits of metal.

That's why I got into scooters and motorbikes. Then I started disliking all the various fuels and oils and general nasty stuff that you need to keep them running. 

More and more it seems my collection of bicycles gives me the most pleasure. Soz guys. 

[IronStar]

Rust. Brittle plastic fittings. Seized bolts made of world cheapest alloys. Things designed in a way they save 30 seconds at the factory line, but now you need to dismantle half a car to do something that should be accessible. Carburetors. 

[DSdriver]

14 hours ago, Kiltox said:

I agree that modern badge is an abomination 

[MikeR]

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

Rust. Brittle plastic fittings. Seized bolts made of world cheapest alloys. Things designed in a way they save 30 seconds at the factory line, but now you need to dismantle half a car to do something that should be accessible. Carburetors. 

I just looked up how to change the clutch cable on a Aygo , take the dash out !!!  , I reckon a stanly knife would quicken the job up , once instant hatch in the dash , bit like doing the petrol pump hatch on a Focus .