[Indricotherium]

A friend was driving me home the other night as I'd had a pint and I made a startling discovery.

My car will not start without the clutch being pushed down. I've had the car 4 years and never noticed this simply because I always put my foot on the clutch before I start any car.

My friend however puts the car in neutral and then starts it. So the two of us were sat in the car and it wouldn't start. We swapped around and I gave it a go and away she lit. Swapped again and dead. Took ages to figure it out. I thought he was taking the piss tbh.

I presume this is some sort of safety feature, but as I said I had no idea about it. Has anyone else ever discovered a feature after Driving a car for years???

[Mc Love]

Never knew that the focus had a guide me home lights until I read it in the manual one day! Comes in pretty handy

[racso1975]

Yup discovered if you keep the open button pressed on the fob all the windows open and close if u keep the closed button pressed

[conzy]

Never knew that the E46 had a little glove box on the drivers side, and a torch

[biko]

I bought a s40 once from a guy that had it from new, 11 years.
During the test drive I reached under the steering column and pulled the lever and adjusted the steering wheel.
The guy had never noticed that feature in 11 years.

[Doom]

In my car if you press a button on the dash it shoots missiles, well thats what Q tells me

[Beer Baron]

Took me months to figure out my VAGs had auto open/close windows.

Took me 3 months to find out my rental can had 6 gears instead of 5.

Took me 5 minutes to learn not to lock my keys into the boot of my own Passat yet took my colleague 1 hour to do this in his new 2012 Passat(last week). When the car is locked and you hold down the boot key the boot pops open and when you close the boot the entire car locks itself completely. He obviously left the keys in the boot when he closed it. Never happened to me because I'm afraid of it happening when I am 350kms from the spare keys.

[maclek]

On my passat, if you turn off the engine and press the wiper lever down, the wipers go to a up position, this is so you can lift them off when cleaning.

Comes in handy if you're driving in drizzle and there's a leaf or something under the wiper causing a big streak. Come to a red light, open the window, turn off engine, push lever, reach out and remove leaf. Hope light isn't too short!

[vectra]

Discovered after several days of fun the my vRS had a third pedal..BRAKES

On a serious side I had my car sitting with the windows down a few inches when it started to rain.. Wife shouts at me.."It's raining and your windows are open"
I ran fro the keys and went outside but they were closed..Forgot they were rain sensing

[colm_mcm]

My avensis diesel has a fast idle feature when cold, you need to turn fan position to 1.

(actual feature, checked the manual afterwards!)


Toyota don't really do nice little features that you only notice after a while.

[milltown]

If one of my brake bulbs fails, the car uses the fog light on that side as a substitute until the brake bulb is sorted.

[smcelhinney]

Took me 5 months to realise my car had cruise control

Im very much blonde.

[eringobragh]

heated mirrors - mk2 MR2 ...hit the demister for the rear window and the mirrors started to clear...pleasant surprise

[qz]

Originally Posted by milltown

If one of my brake bulbs fails, the car uses the fog light on that side as a substitute until the brake bulb is sorted.

That is very cool, so long as people don't assume the car has fixed itself and carry on driving regardless.

[alwaysadub]

I have my car over 7 years, only discovered a few months ago( by accident) that you can set it so the doors automatically lock themselves.