Things you hate about your car

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IonYou

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Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
passenger air bags - 1
glove compartments - ZERO

Having your face intact after swerving to avoid an atoter throwing bricks at your vehicle and hitting a tree?

priceless.
 

NiKeFiDO

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May 21, 2004
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Originally posted by: IonYou
Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
passenger air bags - 1
glove compartments - ZERO

Having your face intact after swerving to avoid an atoter throwing bricks at your vehicle and hitting a tree?

priceless.

sure but i have an air bag (driver) so naturally that doenst bother me.
besides, W(here)TF will i keep MY ATOT brick!?!??!
 
Jan 31, 2002
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Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
Originally posted by: IonYou
Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO
passenger air bags - 1
glove compartments - ZERO

Having your face intact after swerving to avoid an atoter throwing bricks at your vehicle and hitting a tree?

priceless.

sure but i have an air bag (driver) so naturally that doenst bother me.

I see you're single.

- M4H
 

Mr N8

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1992 Crown Vic:
Cheap interior (falling apart, engine, trans, and body are perfect)
Power Window cables are cheap and keep breaking
Exhaust system rattles

1995 Olds Aurora:
Great concept, horrible implementation
FWD Full-sized sedan with 260 HP (bastards)
Battery located under back seat
Unreliable, and very expensive to fix

2005 Honda Civic EX SE:
Perfect, so far, exept friend who is 6'4" can't drive it, since his knees block shifter is 1st gear.
 

Stuxnet

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Jun 16, 2005
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Originally posted by: meltdown75
- no fricking CD player
- no power windows or sunroof

Those aren't design flaws. Those are features you opted out of when you bought the car.

 

V00DOO

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Dec 2, 2000
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Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
My new toyota tundra has the worst cup holder I've ever seen in a vehicle.

Apparently, you haven't seen the cupholders on BMW E39. They are so bad it sells like hotcake on Ebay.

 

Hankerton

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Just bought an 2005 Magnum RT (Hemi). Only complaint is that I want to hit the gas to let all 8 cylinders push me down the road, but with gas prices recently, i keep holding back and only using 4.

Also, poor parking brake placement, I tend to touch it getting into the car.
 

Quixfire

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Jul 31, 2001
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1992 Ford Escort GT - 220K miles

The only think I hate about this car is the fact that after 13 years of driving it has succumbed to the Michigan Winters and rust has prevented me from replacing the clutch in a reasonable amount of time and expense.

If you must know three out of the four crossmember bolts broke inside the frame upon removal and the clutch disc exploded making it impossible to separate the engine and trans without extreme effort. :(

RIP my little Escort. :(
 

Demon-Xanth

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Feb 15, 2000
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Originally posted by: radioouman
I love my Dakota, but I seem to have to mess with the brakes ALL THE TIME!!!

I love my Dakota, and I never have to do anything with the brakes. I check them every 10,000 miles or so. Still original pads and shoes at 71,000. Lots left on the front.

Biggest downside, some minor rattling noise in the transmission under moderate load (not light or heavy) in 3rd and 4th. (not there in 1, 2, 5, and R, manual transmission)
 

eakers

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it looks like crap in the winter (its white :()
a plastic piece is falling off from where i may or may not have hit way too many curbs
the back seat is full of doghair

i really should take better care of my car
 

meltdown75

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Nov 17, 2004
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Originally posted by: jbourne77
Originally posted by: meltdown75
- no fricking CD player
- no power windows or sunroof

Those aren't design flaws. Those are features you opted out of when you bought the car.
negative. used car. yadda yadda, my fault blah blah. it's my POS now
 

Nebor

Lifer
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It's a 2003 Acura, and it just had a new transmission put in. I think that pretty much takes the cake.
 

Jzero

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2002 Civic LX Coupe. I have very few complaints:
The in-dash 6CD changer seems to be prone to error and jamming (although mine has not acted up for the past 2 months)
Passenger side power lock actuator conveniently failed about a month after the warranty period expired.
No trunk release on the factory keyless entry system
Sometimes 2nd gear is dodgy...feels like it's engaged but it's not...*SCRAPE*
Fuel gauge occasionally "jams" after filling.
Driver's seatbelt sometimes won't latch.

I've pretty much got to nitpick to come up with complaints about it.
 

Tea Bag

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It missfires like CRAZY after a rainstorm followed by a warm day or a muggy morning, becuase the distributor cap on my car is mounted horzontally instead of vertically, causing massive sputtering becuase of condensation inside the cap. I can take it off and dry the inside of the cap off easliy, but I'm lazy and postpone driving the car until I absolutley have to or it dries up outside. This started happening like a month after I bought the car and finally figured it out last summer. :roll:

Also, the driver's side seat's stiching is coming loose up by my left shoulder, and the front bolt that attaches to the frame - well, the frame that connects at that point rusted off and snapped one day. I had to re secure it by welding a rectangular piece of metal and a large bolt so the lugnut could be re-fastened. The console (the part that lifts up) is all busted up too.

Oh, and yesterday I ripped off the cloth that is on the side of the door by 'cleaning' it with a shopVac.

Other than that, it's PERFECT! :thumbsup:
 

Baked

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Doesn't take me to places fast enough. Have to look for parking space when I go out.
 

acemcmac

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Ford owes me a TSB on the ebrake but won't do it because the only cars that ever show the symptoms are the ones where the ebrake is used constatnly (read MT). I use mine all the time anyway to keep the 3200lbs from rocking against the AT when I go to park and have all of the same slippage problems that the TSB was issued for in the first place :|

3200lbs is too heavy for any sports car meant to do things other than quarter miles

Live axle means that when you send your back end out, it hops around instead of gradually sliding in and out, making it VERY unpredictable.

Back seat is impossible to sexxor in with any girl over 5'8" or without leaving the drivers door open for your left foot

All cars should have internally released gas doors. Get with the 20th century GM/Ford! I had to buy a locking gas cap.

Spark plugs are hard to get to.

 
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rear windscreen wiper and those little demisting heating elements on the back work only when they want

and now that its starting to get into autumn and therefore freezing cold, the flippin heater has packed up
 

Munky

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I love my car - 95 Volvo T-5R wagon.

Fixing oil leaks and engine misfire - $1000
Replacing AC compressor - $300
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Burning some prick in a ghettotized ricer - priceless.
 

EyeMWing

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No A/C (deleted due to engine mods)
Headlights don't go off automatically after shutdown
No power locks
No power windows (except the rearmost wind-vents, which ARE, for some ungodly reason, power, and can only be activated from the front row)
Heater has a funny "burnt" smell to it
Dipstick *DESPISES* being reinserted.

And that's about it.