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Small issues with your car that annoys you

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jtvang125

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State make and model if you're willing to share.


08 BMW 328i
-Front window switches too far forward on door. I always press the rear ones.
-No button to set temperature dials to synch with each other. Must set each individually.
-Stereo won't shut off even after terminating a bluetooth call. Must unpair bluetooth first.
-I often mistakenly flash my high beams when trying to set my cruise control. Both stalks are on the same side with not enough spacing between them.
-Hard to place drink back into driver side cupholder at night because it's unlit and a little out of reach. Drinks will also block middle AC vent to the passenger.
-Keyless entry system doesn't always work. My brother's Lexus works every single time
 
2015 Porsche Macan
-Can't fit anything in the back (like my collapsible grocery cart)
-Bluetooth takes between 1 and 2 minutes to connect phone after startup
-Ancient Infotainment system. Audis & BMWs you can send locations to your car's nav system straight from your phone or computer
-USB to hard drive transfers take forever. I'm not being precious about it either. It takes about 2 minutes per 100 MB. It has a 40GB HD. You do the math
-Launch control is difficult to activate
-Key\fob is huge
-Precipitation\ice cause the exterior proximity sensors to go berserk
-Need a PhD to figure out the windshield wiper settings
-Bose speakers are mediocre at best
-Center console has over 20 buttons, no easy way to change to Sport or Sport Plus
-Rear hatch can only be electronically operated. If you start to close it and realize you need it back open, you have to allow it to fully close and then reopen it
-14-way seats don't seem to go the way I want them to
 
Most of my issues are fairly small and things that I've usually just ignored.

2013 Ford Taurus SHO

  • If you request a song through MyFord Touch that is in your current playlist (automated or pre-existing), the system will always revert back to the entire set of songs rather than play it from your current playlist.
  • If you hold the outside of the door handles for too long (a couple seconds) and close the door, it will automatically lock all doors, flash the lights and honk twice.
  • The car's fob-related sound notifications are done using the horn instead of a chime (i.e. those cars that go *beep beep* when you lock them). In my opinion, horns tend to be too loud for more urban settings.
  • The automatic high beams system has too narrow of a range, which causes it to work improperly when you're on a turn (especially an on/off ramp) or on a road with a divider. I tried it out for a few minutes, and ended up turning it off.
  • The automatic rain sensing wipers are usually too sensitive. I assume that this is based upon the sensor's location, which seems to be on the lower part of the car. One issue that I tend to have is that the wipers will come on when a car in front of me is kicking back water onto the front of my car, but my windshield is clear.
  • The air circulation feature likes to turn off after about 10 minutes, which is more of an issue when you consider the next problem.... In my Fusion, as long as I left the air conditioning enabled (note: not necessarily on), it would leave air circulation turned on indefinitely. This does not work on the Taurus.
  • The air intake for the cabin seems to be in a terrible spot, because if I'm ever behind someone with a stinky exhaust, it invades my cabin quickly.
  • The car uses capacitive controls with absolutely no tactile feedback or separation between the buttons. It's just one flat panel. I'm pretty used to it by now, but it took time.
  • The steering wheel has electric adjustment, and when you turn the car off, the steering wheel recedes to make it easier to get out. Well, sometimes when it's cold, the steering wheel stays in the receded position instead of going back to where you had it. I didn't realize this at first and I wondered why I was having such a hard time steering.
  • The seat's memory feature saves everything... but the lumbar position.
  • The car doesn't come with a spare wheel or jack.
  • Probably the most annoying and troublesome issue is that the car is a bit jerky in first in cold weather. It feels like what would happen if you didn't have a torque converter or flywheel on a car. I can stop the issue if I use a more finite accelerator control, but it still shouldn't behave this way.
  • The car lacks an electric plug feature that the same year Fusion has. Obviously, the Fusion is newer, which is probably why it had one, but you'd think they'd include one on a fancier car instead of requiring an inverter.
 
2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid XLE.

Steering is kind of numb.
Threshold between regenerative braking and actual brakes could be a little smoother.
Slight rattle from the headliner occasionally.
Could use another USB jack so I can plug in USB stick with music and charge devices at the same time.
HID headlights would have been nice.

Minor gripes really. It has been a great car so far. I have had it almost 2 years to the day and I have over 40,000 miles on it already. Nothing but oil changes and tire rotations. Needs new tires already though.
 
2013 - C-Max

There's some sort of over aggressive EQ'ing in the head unit that destroys sound quality. It's not over driving the speakers, it's actually distorting the sound at even very low volumes. There's 9 speakers in there and they are all mid range or tweeters. Nothing with any depth so you turn up the bass compensation a few ticks and it just sounds like boomy, garbled mush at even a whisper of volume.

Cold weather MPG sucks badly. Even if the battery is completely full when leaving my house or work after sitting for a couple hours I'm halfway home before it starts pulling juice from the battery packs in temps below 40 degrees.

Arm rest sucks on center console. Needs to be higher up, and able to slide forward. Or skip the arm rest and just give me one of those little flip down arm rests like in vans and SUV's. It's not a comfortable seating position for long drives.

2012 Camry
- It has a tire pressure display on the touch screen. But it just shows 4 tires in a row and their pressures. You don't know which tires are which. How hard would it have been to put a small top down image on there with pressures that actually corresponded to a tire that you can identify on the car?

Rear doors are obnoxiously long. Like stupid long. It's horrible trying to get kids in and out of it in tight parking spots. It doesn't really seem to do much other than styling.
 
2008 tundra

The accelerator pedal is way too touchy when going over potholes or bumps. You tap the pedal and it greatly increases power instead of being linear. No other car I've driven with drive by wire pedal does this.

If the seat belts aren't tucked back into the side clasps, they will bang and rattle against the plastic and annoy the hell out of the driver.

Front and rear sonar is all but useless. It goes off too close to the object. Needs another 1-2 foot of sonar range.

Crewmax bed is a joke, yes, its a bed, no, I can't put 4x8 sheets of anything in the back without the tailgate down. Its a tradeoff for the large rear seat, but another 2-3 feet of bed would be nice with the crewmax.
 
2014 Altima 2.5 SV

-sometimes I hear a mysterious rattle from the roof/moonroof area, like 1 in 20 times I'm driving.
-interior quality could be better, armrest has occasional plastic creaky noise
-electric steering can be kind of 'whiney' in the cold, told this is normal with the cars, guess helps eek out better MPGs though...

That's probably about it. Wayyy more pros than cons, great car for the $ IMO.
 
"Low Coolant"
warning is always on. The broken sensor is part of the reservoir tank, so I'd have to replace the whole tank if I want to fix the sensor. Thanks a lot, GM. 😡

On a related note, the oil pan gasket is leaking, but in order to replace it, the TRANSMISSION HAS TO BE DROPPED! WTF design fail. Thanks a lot, GM. 😡
 
2012 Speed3

Driver and front passenger windows rattle if you have it rolled down about a centimeter. Any more and it stops and no rattling when fully up. Just right at that point.

Soft paint, easily gets paint chips

No real indicator for oil temperature. Only the on/off light

Headrest is not particularly soft.

Other than that though it's been wonderful.
 
2013 Focus ST:

- brake dust...I'm going to replace the pads soon because it's just crazy how much dust the stock pads make
- like vi_edit said above about his C-Max, sound system is a bit overequalized. All in all it has a better than average sound but could be better
- SYNC nav system has a lot of trouble understanding voice destinations. The latest updates have made it tolerable for everything but nav, so I often use a third party app (Send To Car) to send an address to the nav system.
- Paint quality is subpar so it chips easily - basically comes from the same assembly line as Focii costing $10K-$15K less.
- Gas tank is very small (12 gallons) - for a performance car it gets excellent MPG but even at 30MPG, a 12 gallon tank provides a small range.
- Limited storage space - not a big deal but I loved the little cubby in my 98 Accord under the HVAC/stereo

FWIW, a lot of these issues were fixed for '15.
 
vi edit said:
2013 - C-Max

There's some sort of over aggressive EQ'ing in the head unit that destroys sound quality. It's not over driving the speakers, it's actually distorting the sound at even very low volumes. There's 9 speakers in there and they are all mid range or tweeters. Nothing with any depth so you turn up the bass compensation a few ticks and it just sounds like boomy, garbled mush at even a whisper of volume.

Cold weather MPG sucks badly. Even if the battery is completely full when leaving my house or work after sitting for a couple hours I'm halfway home before it starts pulling juice from the battery packs in temps below 40 degrees.

Arm rest sucks on center console. Needs to be higher up, and able to slide forward. Or skip the arm rest and just give me one of those little flip down arm rests like in vans and SUV's. It's not a comfortable seating position for long drives.

2012 Camry
- It has a tire pressure display on the touch screen. But it just shows 4 tires in a row and their pressures. You don't know which tires are which. How hard would it have been to put a small top down image on there with pressures that actually corresponded to a tire that you can identify on the car?

Rear doors are obnoxiously long. Like stupid long. It's horrible trying to get kids in and out of it in tight parking spots. It doesn't really seem to do much other than styling.
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:thumbsup: I forgot about this. It is annoying that they don't indicate which wheel is which. I guess I could go around to each wheel and let some air out to see which is which.

One other thing that annoys me about the car is the seatbelts. Sometimes you get in, yank the belt to buckle it and it stops mid yank.

Seat cushions in the front could be a little longer too.
 
Mermaidman said:
"Low Coolant"
warning is always on. The broken sensor is part of the reservoir tank, so I'd have to replace the whole tank if I want to fix the sensor. Thanks a lot, GM. 😡

On a related note, the oil pan gasket is leaking, but in order to replace it, the TRANSMISSION HAS TO BE DROPPED! WTF design fail. Thanks a lot, GM. 😡
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What car?
 
SearchMaster said:
2013 Focus ST:

- brake dust...I'm going to replace the pads soon because it's just crazy how much dust the stock pads make
- like vi_edit said above about his C-Max, sound system is a bit overequalized. All in all it has a better than average sound but could be better
- SYNC nav system has a lot of trouble understanding voice destinations. The latest updates have made it tolerable for everything but nav, so I often use a third party app (Send To Car) to send an address to the nav system.
- Paint quality is subpar so it chips easily - basically comes from the same assembly line as Focii costing $10K-$15K less.
- Gas tank is very small (12 gallons) - for a performance car it gets excellent MPG but even at 30MPG, a 12 gallon tank provides a small range.
- Limited storage space - not a big deal but I loved the little cubby in my 98 Accord under the HVAC/stereo

FWIW, a lot of these issues were fixed for '15.
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I tend to think that 300 miles is the normal range for most vehicles. You at 360 miles seem to be just a bit better than average/normal. The vehicles I drive are right in that range also though so I may be just used to less than the current norm.
 
2012 MB C350

Transmission can be a little slow to give you a downshift. (Used to manuals though)
Brake pedal can be a little inconsistent in feel. (Think I might be near the end of my pads.)
MB seems to purposefully put roadblocks to you doing your own services.
No easy place to put stuff quickly on the center console.
The window switches are a bit too far away.
GPS only takes voice input while in motion. Means my passenger can't set a destination and the voice input is "meh".
Shuffle function on the mp3 player seems less than random.
No LSD and the TC is a little over active.
Wish it has another set of cupholders up front.
US models don't get the MB online stuff.
 
2013 highlander

1) can't turn off small information display in center of dash. I like to have dash lights down or off at night. I can blank the radio tough screen and turn the dash down low, but that little mpg display I can only reduce slightly. Really wish more cars had all red dash lights.
2) heater fan dial doesn't always turn do anything. Sometimes I have fan, sometimes nada.
Toyota was no help.
3) only one USB port and its inside of a flip up panel. Panel is always flipped up.
4) when bt pairing my phone, it always disconnects after about 60 seconds, then re-pairs again.
5) rubber molding on the roof in the rain channels comes loose all the time and smacks the roof. Nice twacking sound going down the highway till I can pull over and reattach it.
Toyota was no help.
 
2015 Fiesta ST:

The steering wheel leather feels pretty crappy compared to my old Hondas (S2000).
The airbag is ugly.

I pretty much love everything else about it.
 
1997 Honda Civic EX

Noisy at speed
Oil leak that I can't pin down
Harsh shifting transmission
No fun to drive
Leaky trunk
Vague steering
Cruise control only keeps car within ~5 MPH of setpoint, so I never use it
Radio volume control is probabilistic...if you turn it up a click, you have 50/50 odds of it turning down instead
No line-in for sound system
ABS kicks on over very minor washboard
Can't put back seat down without climbing INTO the back seat and using the key to release the latches on each side
Remote unlock sometimes doesn't work until you get RIGHT next to the car and press the button a ton of times
Windows jump off the track in wet weather

...but at least it's CHEAP!
 
2014 Ford F150 Raptor, supercharged

The screen will show the current song, but not show which playlist you're in, nor the next song(s) in the list.

The Roush exhaust has significant drone, which is annoying.

The brakes could be better.

The fake beadlock rims are kind of ugly (though I knew this going in, and intend to replace them at some point).

The tailgate doesn't lock via the key fob.

There is a physical key.

11.7 MPG

Not enough horsepower lol...
 
tweakmonkey said:
The steering wheel leather feels pretty crappy compared to my old Hondas (S2000).
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After seeing how worn my Altima's leather steering wheel was after a few years, I started using covers on my steering wheel. You may just want to do that.

Kadarin said:
The screen will show the current song, but not show which playlist you're in, nor the next song(s) in the list.
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Yeah... I always use the number of songs to tell what I'm in. It's pretty messy, but the system only displays the song title, artist and source device.
 
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