What do you hate about your current car

AugustusMinimus

1.6L Mk 1 Focus Saloon

1. The cup holders. More like shelves which can't even stop a can of coke from falling over if you can any corner at all.
2. No remote central locking.
3. No front heated windscree
4. Leaves and other dirt gets between panel gaps and rests in the gaps around the boot and bonnet
5. Changing front lightbulbs is horrible.

BrianJD

Focus Saloon.

Cruise control buttons don't light up. Pain in the ass at 5.30am on the motorway every morning.

12gauge dave

the rust thats coming through the white paint on my dc2 time to find a an eg shell me thinks

galwaytt

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

1.6L Mk 1 Focus Saloon

1. The cup holders. More like shelves which can't even stop a can of coke from falling over if you can any corner at all.
2. No remote central locking.
3. No front heated windscree
4. Leaves and other dirt gets between panel gaps and rests in the gaps around the boot and bonnet
5. Changing front lightbulbs is horrible.

Audi TT: bloody warning lights on the dash......

Supergurrier

Keeping Ford Performance Blue clean is a nightmare

L-M

11 Berlingo

Armrest just that littlleee bit too short.

ABajaninCork

No outside temp gauge.
No bloody aircon!

Apart from that, my car's great!

CianRyan

Nissan Almera: My wheel is too big and when I have my wipers on full my knee hits the stalk when I brake.

Redisle

Alfa 156...

Er, right now. Camshaft Sensor = Belt off job
Randomly getting limited to 3k rpm. Fun noticing that going into a small roundabout today..

CiniO

I love my car... I just hate the bills on petrol stations - that's it.

Cookie_Monster

useless lights
cracked bumper
no elec windows
interior is a sea of cheap grey
squeky seatbelt
useless AC

Really, I just hate the car but can't afford a new one

CianRyan

Oh seat belt, my belt only likes come about half way across my chest sometimes, generally when I'm in a hurry.

Amprodude

No cd player/ mp3 player.
No cruise control.

MuppetCheck

Start up causes the car to shake so much you'd swear there was an earthquake.

No xenon headlights.

padma

no cup holders
no rear wiper

Stallingrad

The fact I can't retrofit cruise as the car has lane assist.

iceax

when reverse gear is selected, the back wiper blade turns on also. This is pain-full when the rubber is stuck with frost and ice on winter nights and you hear that noise the one That's going to cost you money.:(

Cuddlesworth

Dashboard rattle. Several actually.

Supergurrier

iceax wrote: »

when reverse gear is selected, the back wiper blade turns on also. This is pain-full when the rubber is stuck with frost and ice on winter nights and you hear that noise the one That's going to cost you money.:(

That's pretty much standard though with rear wipers

Colonel Sanders

Why oh why don't saloons have rear wipers?

Apart from that nothing apart from it being a pain to keep a black car clean!

kaimera

1.4 fiesta tdci.

it's a 1.4 fiesta tdci...

poxy double din non mp3 playing radio.

cig lighter is broken.

rear wiper is still crap after a change of blade.

Stheno

alfa gtv

NO CUP HOLDERS and nowhere to fit one either
Drivers seat is not height adjustable
Window noise once you open and shut one at speed

Happy out with mine, would like someone to clean it every so often though.

Yakuza

1.6 Petrol Qashqai+2
It has all the toys I could shake a stick at, and plenty of room for the family and our stuff.
It just is soul-crushing to drive

neglectarino

BMW e60... Four annoying things are a) buffeting noise when you open the rear windows in motion and b) fact wipers force water into the passenger window if you have it open, c) no folding rear seat d) rear window demister interferes with radio reception.

Phew, feels good to let it out!

Thatnastyboy

Hmm good thread, where do i start :pac:


Dashboard rattle at idle - not actually dashboard, firewall, had the whole dash out and still cant find it, sounds like a hammer drill working away at concrete. :mad:

Doesnt go over 130kmh, well it can, but not in any form of comfort or sanity.

Does 28mpg when hypermiling

The tyres sound like jet engines and theres no sound insulation - anywhere - at all - i.e sounds like theres a door open ALL the time

all of the above are reasons that i love it too, and theres many many more good things

biko

BMW 320i

Clearcoat peeling :mad:

unkel

Saab 9-5

2l 4 cylinder petrol, just 150BHP (has turbo though)

Much prefer cars with V8 petrol and over 300BHP

Don't need the turbo then either

corktina

Supergurrier wrote: »

Keeping Ford Performance Blue clean is a nightmare

pah you should try Ford Imperial Blue....but thats not what I don't like...what I don't like is not being able to reach the top speed... off to the UK soon, better roads there!

markkelly2

Thatnastyboy
What do you drive?

Thatnastyboy

markkelly2 wrote: »

Thatnastyboy
What do you drive?

A Hilux Surf

Scortho

2002 vw polo mk 4
The 1.2 i3 54 hp (god knows how many horses are in it now)
The windy up drivers window
The tape player
No central locking.
No alloy wheels.
No speakers in the back-just speaker covers on the paddy spec.
The electric mirrors don't work
Heater only works on setting no. 4. Either it's really hot or too cold in the car.
The leak into the boot that cannot be traced.
The awful smell of damp that can't be removed (disappears for a few weaks) as a result of said leak.
The ****e thing that they call a wrench that they threw in with the spare tire.
The horn (it sounds girly)
The amount of plastic on the dash
The miraculous medals that the previous owner had glued to the dash. Glue still remains. Miraculous medals stored under seat for fear of bad luck
Cigarette lighter won't charge phone unless charger is physically held in position.
The rear windscreen washer doesn't hit the windscreen sometimes.
Very slow when carrying 5 people.
Drinks petrol when carrying 5 people.
Gets 38mpg (not worth the savings)
The massive scratch I put in it when I got in a row with a girder in jervis st car park. Cost 180 to repair!:(
The prick who knocked the cover of my winger mirror last week but left mirror intact



Positives
Car had 30000 miles on it and fsh when bought in 2010. Have put 30k miles on it since.
Unladen it's fairly nippy and easy to red line
Reached 150km/h with 5 people in it somehow on the way to mayo=turbelance:)
Uses feck all oil
Costs little to service
Easy to keep clean inside.
Runs as smooth as a babies bottom.

All in all I absolutely hate it.

akura

Citroen Saxo

Water leaking into both footwell's
Gear stick's really floppy
Carpet impossible to keep clean

dgt

Dayyyyyysel Peugeot 406

Tamperproof injector pump
Bolloxed engine (burning oil at an alarming rate)
The dent on the door and rear quarter
No oil level guage in the dash
Airbag light gremlin

Apart from those I really like my floppy smokey car :cool:

PrettyBoy

There's been a leak somewhere in my Golf for a while now. The windows are constantly fogged up which is annoying but yesterday a really bad, damp smell made itself very apparent

Cungi

05 Mondeo LX 1.8 Petrol

Underpowered 108bhp engine
No leccy mirrors
No fog lights
Scrape on front bumper
Black is a bastard to keep clean

Things i love:
Aircon
Quickclear windscreen

alanmc

2004 Nissan 350z

CD skips when car is cold (known issue)
Tramlines quite a bit on Irish roads (though I think it's my tyres)

Other than those small gripes, I love my car.

Roger_007

The colour.....orange.

razorblunt

05 320D Coupe Black

No internal lever for the boot.

_Kaiser_

06 2.0 TDI Passat

- Boot line being so high that reversing it (especially when you then factor in the fairly useless single reverse light on this model) is a pain. Things like the metal posts that often line the edge of parking spaces disappear from the mirror long before the back of the car is anywhere near them.

Can't think of anything else I actually "hate" about the car. It's comfy, good on diesel, plenty of power when needed etc. The rest is more things I wish it had, like...

- Heated seats
- Front fogs
- Steering wheel controls
- Leather seats

The 04 3.0 TDI A6 I took for a spin on Wednesday had all those though...

Cee-Jay-Cee

It's just too powerful. I have a 640bhp R34 GTR and its my every day car. It' has a triple plate HKS clutch and driving around town is a nightmare. Poor me.

renofan

At the moment I'm driving a '98 Micra. So my hate is no power

unkel

unkel wrote: »

Saab 9-5

2l 4 cylinder petrol, just 150BHP (has turbo though)

Much prefer cars with V8 petrol and over 300BHP

Don't need the turbo then either

They can be remapped to about 205 bhp "for free". I have a combi adapter on order and live in Leixlip :-)

Bpmull

Astra h 2008 1.3 cdti

Not that powerful.
No cup holders.
No front foglights.
No radio steering controls.
No trip computer.
Sometimes I think the fuel gauge just randomly guesses how much fuel is in the car it fluctuate by over 1/6 of a tank when driving along.
Not that terribly economical compared to anyother diesel we have.
No cruise control.
No armrest.
Headroom is slightly limited my is always nearly touching the roof.

All the above is really only whay an ideal car should have.

mitosis

2003 Merc

Space saver instead of spare
No folding mirrors :eek:

TestTransmission

2000 s2000

It hasn't got a clock. :cool:

Hero777

Citroen C4 1.6HDI

It's French......... Do i have to say anything more?

MrDerp

2007 volvo s40 1.8 petrol

1. Cupholders are useless. Two shallow holes between me and the handbrake. Anything larger than a small coffee gets in your way changing gears or using the brake. You end up moving your arms around it.
2. Appalling lack of storage. The door pockets are next to useless, there's a fidgety area behind the floating console, and a small area under the arm rest. The glove box is a little pokey too.
3. Fairly large pillars can make visibility awkward.
4. Crappy reverse light is next to useless in any kind of inclement weather
5. Beeping for seat belts. If I put something on the passenger seat, I have to position it so it doesn't trip the over sensitive seat belt sensor. I didn't figure this out at first, and one day drove 25km home from work listening to high-pitched intermittent boop boop boop noise (it escalates from bing bing bing the faster you go), thinking I had a fault before I clicked what was going on.
6. Fidgety clutch has to be released slowly due to a short bite
7. Gear box is fidgety. 2-3 needs a split second of centering or it won't slot properly into 3rd. Between that and the clutch I scrape going into 3rd from time to time.

I do like the car though.

RootX

08 Grande Punto T-Jet (1.4/120)

* light steering
* no CC
* no auto-dim rv mirror
* if it's raining and I open the boot, the water accumulated on the hatch drops into the boot

Stallingrad

Hero777 wrote: »

Citroen C4 1.6HDI

It's French......... Do i have to say anything more?

Most of the stuff mentioned here one finds out after buying the car. :rolleyes:

heroics

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Why oh why don't saloons have rear wipers?

+1

Audi A6

No Bluetooth and miss the Xenons that my A4 had
other than that love the car