Cars features/styling that you hate?

sundodger5

Daytime running lights, A great idea in theory but too many people think they have lights on and/or on at the rear and they don't.

Maybe they should read the manual but it is that common i think the DRL thing needs a re-think

mcburns07

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120973919#Comment_120973919

Or just make auto lights standard equipment on all cars. It’s crazy how many safety features are optional, or taxed like any other option if you want to add them. Surely we should be incentivizing their uptake.

Speaking of, lane keep assist is another feature that should be consigned to the bin. What a load of crap.

PS Anyone who forgets to turn their lights on because they have DRLs is quite a dim individual. Pun intended.

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120973919#Comment_120973919

A few months back, I had to inform a garda that their lights weren't on properly in their marked garda car (at night). I got the usual "they are" reply before I suggested that they get out and actually take a look.

colm_mcm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120973919#Comment_120973919

Scandinavian (front and rear) DRLs should be standard everywhere. Auto lights too, but you’d still have people who’d manually turn them off.

StreetLight

Matt paint job. It makes the car look like it's been burned in a fire.

Ryath

Fake exhaust's. Old one looks much better.

creedp

Yea can't understand that feature. You even see it on so called luxury cars such as the merc e-class. It's even worse though that BMW couldn't be bothered removing them from the ix3, looks ridiculous on a €70+k EV

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972460#Comment_120972460

Still is...another Kim fatarseifashion inspired monstrosity.

Then again beauty in the eye of yhe beholder I suppose.

Squeaksoutloud

Plastic bumpers that are back to make cars look off road or rugged. Used to be a feature on cheaper cars (like Daewoo) but often a model refresh or higher spec versions (Bluebird?) got the fancier 'body coloured bumpers'. Now it's gone back the other way!

amacca

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120974221#Comment_120974221

I have to say I don't care if a car has drls or not but lads that flash the lights at you in broad daylight when you don't have drls or dims etc boil my piss....they ain't going to make me more visible at midday in the middle of a fine sunny June day ffs

John_Rambo

Excessive chiming, beeps, bongs, bings & chirps.

No engine oil temp gauge (I no longer feel like I'm a WW2 pilot & I have an old van, there's something satisfying to see solid temp on a long drive).

Saloon cars.

Ssanyong styling (some of them look like they got a cheap extension the the owner "designed".)

Buttons that are hidden by the steering wheel. General button placement in my car was designed by a drunk eight year old (Outlander PHEV)

Eyelashes on headlights (I know we're heading in to aftermarket stick ons which I'm sure the OP isn't referring to)

Downward facing exhaust tips (I'm convinced they create skid pans that made me fall off my bike at a right turn acceleration point)

Rev limiters on cars that could sound epic in the port tunnel. (not very green of me)

Excess use of hard plastic on dashes.

Fake wood looks on the dash.

Real wood on the dash.

Diluting recognised performance branding like M for BMW, AMG for Merc, R for Volvo etc... by introducing out M styling, AMG styling etc...

Radiator grills on cars that don't have radiators.

pawdee

Peugeots with those lights that make them look like a walrus just back from a trip to Turkey.

hoodie6029

Lack of a separate compartment for the chauffeur. They’ve gotten very soft since they got enclosed and heated driving positions. Bring these back!

creedp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120976328#Comment_120976328

Tbh a high proportion of today's chauffeurs would prefer to be in the rear compartment with an AI chauffeur doing the actual driving.

yoshiktk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120976328#Comment_120976328

I miss the seat for inlaws.

hoodie6029

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120977354#Comment_120977354

I’d forgotten those! 😂😂

chicorytip

No CD player.

SuperBowserWorld

A dashboard that only the driver can see. Toyota Yaris 🙄

Also, same dashboard that dims when you turn on the headlights ... so that you can no longer read it easily in daylight. 🙄

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120974367#Comment_120974367

I have a cheap phone with 5 "cameras" at the back. Kinda like that.

cap.in.hand.

No full size spare wheel as standard...a wheelbarrow sized one instead.

Yeah Right

The lack of a rear wiper on bigger saloons, looks weird

Fancy reg plates

The "hhhooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" sound of the boy-racer hatchbacks as they're travelling 5km/h down the street

Yellow cars in general

Clareman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120977564#Comment_120977564

No wheelbarrow wheel either, just a thing of gunk.

The fake exhaust reminds me of the fake chimneys on new houses, friend of mine built a house and his wife made him put in a fake chimney because "it looks weird without it", 25 grand it cost.......

hoodie6029

Must have been cheaper than the divorce so…

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120977564#Comment_120977564

Or even worse a can of foam

Jazz Hands

Fake exhaust and fake vents.

Like, What's the point.

Seth Brundle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120977624#Comment_120977624

The lack of a rear wiper on bigger saloons, looks weird

Saloons don't really need them as the wind turbulence pattern leaves less dirt. Hatchbacks do because the draft they create whereas the rear window on saloons don't have the same turbulence shape...

In addition, the presence of a rear wiper on a saloon would make opening the bootlid a bit trickier.

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cnocbui

A stylistic feature I hate is stupid great creases in body work. Fine if you have recently been in an accident, but not straight from the factory.

Hideaus is wholy inadequate.

Allinall

In my car there are three different ways to control the radio, air con, phone etc.-

Control wheel in the central console

Buttons on the dash

Steering wheel controls.

Complete waste of time. I only ever use the centre console controls.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120973487#Comment_120973487

Honda E.

I've used a few camera rear-view mirrors in Vans and they are very hard to get a proper perspective, very offputting.

Ford with their stupid door opening handles.

Cars where you can't easily find the total mileage on the vehicle.

French cars with their completely unintuitive control layouts.

Card with no actual buttons for key functions, especially climate control.

colm_mcm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120974593#Comment_120974593

Does that actually happen a reasonable amount?