GypsyR
just some guy
I've grown to hate auto windows. At one time I got parts to convert a car to auto down windows from a junkyard. Gathering dust somewhere. Window always goes down too far when I want to just crack it or doesn't when I do want it all the way down. Several vehicles I drive. All the same. I can tap the button or hold it in my older F150 and the windows do what I want.
Autolocks blow.
Alarms that go off when you unlock the door with the key and not the remote. Stupid.
Those wonderful "seed" lights. Great to have lit up window controls and cruise controls. (Wish I had them on my F150 and may yet figure out a way to get them). SWMBO's car has four buttons on her steering wheel. The bulbs are out in three of them. Non-replaceable, You have to change the entire switches. Stupid. Same with her heater controls. At night you had to turn on the dome to see to change from heat to mix or dash. Happily the controls burned out and I had to replace the whole thing. Now we can see what's what.
OEM design non-replaceable sound systems. If I want a feature the OEM didn't see fit to include I'm screwed. More a problem with used cars. If the previous owner optioned out the car the way you like but skimped on the sound system you about have to buy a different car.
Theftlock on OEM car stereos no one in their right mind would want to steal. That can only be unlocked if you lose the "code" or have to replace one because some of the stupid little lights inside don't work anymore by going through a bunch of rigamarole and paying through the nose at a dealership.
Lack of transmission dipsticks. First build a transmission that will never ever tear up, wear out, or leak. THEN stop including easily checked transmission dipsticks. Dumbasses.
So maybe an automatic will last forever. If I buy a car with a manual transmission everybody knows that at some point the clutch will have to be replaced. Design the freaking car so it doesn't take a whole team of mechanics two days to do so.
Manual transmission cars that you can't shift they way you want to. If you can't put it in the gear you want, when you want, and as long as you want, what's the point?
Inaccesible exterior light bulbs. Light bulbs burn out. Having to remove the bumper and entire front face of a vehicle just to replace a headlight bulb is really bad planning.
Plastic and hugely expensive headlight assemblies that fade so badly in a few years you can't see at night and look awful.
Rear "collision sensors" that beep and go off like mad about the car next to you in a parking lot yet don't work when you are trying to back into a tight spot inside a parking garage.
Any kind autodimming mirrors whose flicking motion momentarily distracts you from what you really need to be looking at.
Modern cars have all sorts of displays these days. Why can't one read out the code that has set off the Malfunction Indicator Light instead of just shining a stupid light at us. Check engine. Is it about to self-destruct or has the secondary downstream pollution sensor stopped reading?
With all the digital readouts these days we STILL have little problem lights with cryptic letters or symbols on them that you have to pull out the owner's manual to look up and see what they mean.
Autolocks blow.
Alarms that go off when you unlock the door with the key and not the remote. Stupid.
Those wonderful "seed" lights. Great to have lit up window controls and cruise controls. (Wish I had them on my F150 and may yet figure out a way to get them). SWMBO's car has four buttons on her steering wheel. The bulbs are out in three of them. Non-replaceable, You have to change the entire switches. Stupid. Same with her heater controls. At night you had to turn on the dome to see to change from heat to mix or dash. Happily the controls burned out and I had to replace the whole thing. Now we can see what's what.
OEM design non-replaceable sound systems. If I want a feature the OEM didn't see fit to include I'm screwed. More a problem with used cars. If the previous owner optioned out the car the way you like but skimped on the sound system you about have to buy a different car.
Theftlock on OEM car stereos no one in their right mind would want to steal. That can only be unlocked if you lose the "code" or have to replace one because some of the stupid little lights inside don't work anymore by going through a bunch of rigamarole and paying through the nose at a dealership.
Lack of transmission dipsticks. First build a transmission that will never ever tear up, wear out, or leak. THEN stop including easily checked transmission dipsticks. Dumbasses.
So maybe an automatic will last forever. If I buy a car with a manual transmission everybody knows that at some point the clutch will have to be replaced. Design the freaking car so it doesn't take a whole team of mechanics two days to do so.
Manual transmission cars that you can't shift they way you want to. If you can't put it in the gear you want, when you want, and as long as you want, what's the point?
Inaccesible exterior light bulbs. Light bulbs burn out. Having to remove the bumper and entire front face of a vehicle just to replace a headlight bulb is really bad planning.
Plastic and hugely expensive headlight assemblies that fade so badly in a few years you can't see at night and look awful.
Rear "collision sensors" that beep and go off like mad about the car next to you in a parking lot yet don't work when you are trying to back into a tight spot inside a parking garage.
Any kind autodimming mirrors whose flicking motion momentarily distracts you from what you really need to be looking at.
Modern cars have all sorts of displays these days. Why can't one read out the code that has set off the Malfunction Indicator Light instead of just shining a stupid light at us. Check engine. Is it about to self-destruct or has the secondary downstream pollution sensor stopped reading?
With all the digital readouts these days we STILL have little problem lights with cryptic letters or symbols on them that you have to pull out the owner's manual to look up and see what they mean.
