Cars features/styling that you hate?

freshpopcorn

One thing I've never got to like is black alloys. I think people like them here.

Cars features/styling that you hate?

lalababa

Radio comes on when you start the car. (I know alot can be reset but fishing for codes and menus can be pain)

All unessary electronic functions ..heated steering wheel , etc

TheW1zard

6ft high BMW grills

EchoIndia

SUVs.

One Who Waits...

Seen one of these the other day and couldn't believe my eyes. Awful looking yoke.

creedp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972159#Comment_120972159

COTY...so you must be wrong😂

sniperman

electric hand brakes

One Who Waits...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972249#Comment_120972249

"People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people."

It was my first time seeing one - I had no idea what it was until I got close. It hurt my brain looking at it.

creedp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972279#Comment_120972279

I'm with you 100%. Neighbour has one so I see it regularly but it's just not growing on me

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972312#Comment_120972312

That's because it doesn't look good....most things with narrow mean out of proportion arses dont.....and that's not the only problem...

The EV 6 has a weird arse too...but the opposite problem ... big ugly arse wearing a fat elvis era flare on it...

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972273#Comment_120972273

yeah 100%

completely unnecessary and potentially expensive deliberate ploy by manufacturers to overcomplicate a system and screw you out of money to fix it when it inevitably goes wrong...

You could have a hand operated lever and cable which pulls brake (simple, effective and likely not to let you down....or a switch, connected to wires that carry current to an electric motor (often with nylon gears which get destroyed if brakes stick) that pulls cables and engages brakes and absolutely will **** up almost 100% of times before the older manual design will

The last two I saw the gears were ground down requiring the motor replaced etc.. min 1k in each case...usually in awkward location so labour involved but parts not cheap either which is the real motivation...

But the pricking things are on a huge amount of cars now.

PsychoPete

Diamond cut alloys

teediddlyeye

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972377#Comment_120972377

Nissan leafs still have an old school pedal operated parking brake. I like it.

Jim_Hodge

The styling of all current Toyota models. Clumpy and like something from a comic.

freshpopcorn

This was very questionable at the time.

D3V!L

Piano black plastic on the interior. Stupid idea that scratches up horribly.

cap.in.hand.

The no seatbelt on warning screeching even when you're only moving the car in your driveway

Boscoirl

Chrome Trim, especially on Navy/Blue cars

Clareman

Everything in a touch screen, not only is it difficult to find anything but the speed of the touch screen is worse than any tablet/phone that I have, Ford is particularily bad.

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972528#Comment_120972528

The no seatbelt warning just because you put something on the seat

Comhrá

Two cup holders moulded into the area between the front seats of VW cars and other makes.

If you're not in the habit of carrying coffee containers or bottles of water etc, they're a waste of stowage space and pretty useless for any other purpose.

colm_mcm

Capacitive touch controls and menus in place of actual physical buttons

Buttons in place of knobs. Like on climate control

start-stop

not a feature as such, but car brochures/websites where you can’t compare different trim levels. Just not a thing anymore.

Eoinbmw

stop start.

Particularly on a cold or hot day and the heating/aircon turns off with the start stop!

spiggotpaddy

Having to get out of the bath when the toast is burning. And surely one dipstick per car is enough.

Atlantic Dawn

Having to go through menus to disengage dual climate control and sync back to single control.

User1998

DPF’s, EGR’s, and Abblue.

But but think of the children …

JohnC.

A bad feature of many cars: The driver.

AyeGer

My current car has no back window wiper. I know the reason is because of the style of the car but I still miss having a back wiper.

mcburns07

How big they all are these days, too wide for our country lanes to handle realistically.

Clareman

I just thought of 1, it was in a rental I got a while ago, I think it was a Honda but not sure, but the rear view mirror was actually a screen with a feed from the reversing camera rather than just a mirror, I don't know why but it was very difficult to use, I know rear windows are very small now but come on, a simple mirror is fine.

spiggotpaddy

It's like riding with hal9000. The computer/driver aids drive you nuts. I'd gladly swap it all for a stereo, I know there's one in there somewhere but you shouldn't have to surf a sub menu just for a bit of cardboard Kenny on newstalk.