BLU
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Nov 10, 2017 15:22:02 GMT
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hired a peugeot boxer, it had the most irritating indicators. if you flashed the indicator for half a second it would stay stuck on for about 3 flashes. so a normal accidental flick that would go unnoticed suddenly becomes a very deliberate-looking signal. Shame, quite an impressive van apart from that. Its called "lane change" most newer cars have it. If you just push the stalk a little it gives three flashes for changing lane on the motorway. You click it all the way on as normal to keep them constantly flashing. I quite like it tbh. Most cars will have a menu where you can turn it on or off.
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Last Edit: Nov 10, 2017 15:22:59 GMT by BLU
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luckyseven
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Owning sneering dismissive pedantry since 1970
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Nov 11, 2017 10:33:46 GMT
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Cars with menus
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Nov 11, 2017 10:49:02 GMT
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Have I mentioned designers who locate the alternator directly beneath the power steering pump so it drowns in leaking power steering oil? Or the distributor so far up under the inlet manifold as to be unreachable by a normal human? My Ford Falcon suffers from both of these things. My wof (mot) man tells me it is possible to remove the dizzy with the manifold in place but you need hands that bend the wrong way to do it.
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RobinJI
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"Driven by the irony that only being shackled to the road could ever I be free"
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Nov 11, 2017 12:44:41 GMT
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The lane-change indicator thing makes some sense on paper, the issue I had with it on my e61, is simply that 3 flashes isn't actually enough to change lanes. I always wanted about 5.
Going completely against this thread, one detail I did like was the I-drive in that car. Really easy to use without distracting you from the road, and most importantly, it only dealt with optional stuff (like turning off the 'lane change' indicators), and they'd kept proper buttons for stuff like the climate control, and basic stereo functions. It meant I could adjust stuff exactly to my taste, but could still throw the keys to a friend without having to give them a half hour prep-talk on how everything worked. In fact, reading through this thread, that car had a fair few of the niggles from people have mentioned, but generally they could be switched off with the I-drive.
We've got a brand new Peugeot golf-sized-thing at work which does everything with the touch screen and its dangerously distracting to use. No tactile buttons means you have to stare at it to do anything with it (especially on a bumpy road), and sharing 1 screen to do everything means adjusting the heat isn't just pressing the 'increase heat' button, its exiting the stereo, to enter the heater controls, to increase the heat. Then a few seconds later a terrible song comes on and you can't just skip song, you have to exit the heater menu, to enter the stereo, to skip song. And that's if you haven't got to exit the sat-nav to do any basic function. It's genuinely dangerous.
Having praised the e61, the only thing I miss going from it to my e36 touring is the cruise control. None of the other auto-this, auto-that stuff took more than 30 seconds to realise I actually kind of prefer full control of everything, rather than it automatically doing stuff nearly as I'd want it to.
In terms of retro stuff, my 924 has the handbrake on your right by the sill. The thing I found most odd about it was that it was always getting out of the 924, and into the daily that felt 'wrong'. Having it by the sill, opposite to the gear lever somehow felt more natural, even though it was the car I used less (and not even for very long before it fell apart.)
The wind noise in my volvo 240 estate bugged me. It was such a comfortable cruiser that would have been such an amazing mile muncher, but as soon as you hit motorway speeds it sounded like you were clinging to a small crag on the side of Kilimanjaro in a storm.
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Last Edit: Nov 11, 2017 12:50:44 GMT by RobinJI
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Porsche
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Kev from B'ham.
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Nov 11, 2017 17:27:00 GMT
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People talking about modern details that drive you mad, when this is a site for retros.
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Nov 11, 2017 20:34:31 GMT
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Okey dokey, a retro gripe, my rubber bellows screen wash pedal with a wipe function ring around it on the Mk1 Escort. The wipe ring is great to use, but I have size 12 feet and long legs and it's virtually impossible to stamp on the rubber ball up the toeboard so I usually only manage to get a dribble on the screen. (I know I should fit an electric pump). Also why did Ford make the wiper spindle to arm connector out of Gruyere?
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74 Mk1 Escort 1360, 1971 Vauxhall Victor SL2000 Estate.
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rollingcoal
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we can engineer a way around that, maybe
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Nov 11, 2017 20:37:00 GMT
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Cars with menus cars with any form of microprocessor except for the stereo or led lights or front fog lights that come on in September and go off in june, no need
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A55 Austin Cambridge 1961 Triumph Spartan 1965 mk1 Ford Escort 2 door 1968 Peugeot 406 diesel estate 1998 Citroen Xsara hatchback diesel 1999
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Nov 11, 2017 21:24:05 GMT
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The wind noise in my volvo 240 estate bugged me. It was such a comfortable cruiser that would have been such an amazing mile muncher, but as soon as you hit motorway speeds it sounded like you were clinging to a small crag on the side of Kilimanjaro in a storm. My Falcon suffers from this too. Surprisingly as it is the first Falcon model to utilise wind tunnel testing during the design process.
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often bending in the door window frames fixes a lot of wind noise issues.
Niggles: Cars that don't have a central point at the front to jack up on, or the rear for that matter. cars that have the oil filter positioned directly above the exhaust downpipe so that you have to spill oil on the exhaust cars with push-on oil filler caps (that get old and expand and get impossible to push in) cars that won't let you use the blower motor unless the engine is actually running. cars with stupid pushbutton heaters/climate. cars with winders for the seat backrest angle instead of 'instant nap position' lever. cars with bonnet pull on the passenger side cars with seat heaters that leave a cold bit at the front or the back of the squab interior lights that shine in your face cars with too long throw on the clutch pedal cars with pedals at a horrible angle (MG-F) cars with steering too low geared (mk4 escort etc) cars that let you accidently turn the headlights completely off when just changing from hi to low because the switch on the same stalk is too sensitive diesels that have an i in the model name cars with fake eco credentials or meaningless blue something badge cars with only one reversing lamp when there's plenty of room in the cluster for both reverse and fog, or sometimes an empty space where it should be. electric window switches not on the door boots that lock every time you close them vinyl roofs on 4 doors and estates SPORT on something that wouldn't know what sport was let alone compete in one cars with the horn on a stalk not on the steering wheel cars with silly little 3 inch windows in the A pillars. Vertical cigar sockets that crud falls into cars with no drain plug on the petrol tank, or the radiator cars with carbs that don't have a glass window on. fuel pumps that you can't dismantle plastic clips that are physically impossible to take off without them destroying themselves. sender units in side of fuel tank instead of top
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69 Plymouth Fury Convertible 75 Range Rover 2 door 82 Range Rover 4 door 84 Range Rover 4 door 78 Datsun 120Y 2 door 78 Datsun 120Y Coupe 78 Datsun 620 Pickup 81 Datsun Urvan E23 86 Datsun Vanette van 98 Electric Citroen Berlingo 00 Electric Peugeot Partner 02 Electric Citroen Berlingo 76 Honda C50 04 Berlingo Multispace petrol 07 Land Rover 130 15 Nissan E-NV200 15 Fiat Ducato
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cars with fake eco credentials or meaningless blue something badge SPORT on something that wouldn't know what sport was let alone compete in one Sounds like the Ford EcoSport to me! Saw one beached the other week, as it'd been driven halfway through a flood. Oops, but one less to worry about!
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Nov 14, 2017 13:22:13 GMT
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The wind noise in my volvo 240 estate bugged me. It was such a comfortable cruiser that would have been such an amazing mile muncher, but as soon as you hit motorway speeds it sounded like you were clinging to a small crag on the side of Kilimanjaro in a storm. My Falcon suffers from this too. Surprisingly as it is the first Falcon model to utilise wind tunnel testing during the design process. My Forester too. I thought it was the JDM side-window deflectors, but we upgraded to a younger, but the same model and it's just as noisey. I think this our penance for wanting to drive a car shaped like a brick not a bar of soap...
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BLU
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Nov 14, 2017 13:48:39 GMT
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My Falcon suffers from this too. Surprisingly as it is the first Falcon model to utilise wind tunnel testing during the design process. My Forester too. I thought it was the JDM side-window deflectors, but we upgraded to a younger, but the same model and it's just as noisey. I think this our penance for wanting to drive a car shaped like a brick not a bar of soap... Thats the mirror rubbers, common fault on them! Can't remember how you cure it though......!
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The future's bright, the future's BLU
Silver 1987 MK2 Fiesta Ghia White 2006 MK6 Fiesta ST150 Yellow 2007 MK6 Fiesta Zetec S Anniversary #279 Green 2007 MK6 Fiesta Zetec S Celebration #471 (diesel conversion) Red 2008 MK6 Fiesta Zetec S Anniversary #893
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rude
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Nov 18, 2017 14:01:48 GMT
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Discovered this little detail last night on the E36... Yes, whilst checking my sidelights I found the image of Tweety pies forehead. This did drive me mad... With amusement. I'm easily pleased.
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1986 Haunted BMW E24 635CSi 1999 Povo spec BMW E36 1.8i Touring Work Hack 2001 Petrol annihilating Discovery V8 2000 Jaguar S Type 3.0 V6 ~NEW~
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Jan 18, 2018 21:58:55 GMT
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apologies for the pic which is shamelessly ripped from the "show me sidewall" thread...but it so nicely illustrates one thing that drives me nuts every time I see one of these astons. the abortion of a box "thing" dangling under the rear bumper , it looks like it was designed and installed by Reg Prescott..!!!
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'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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79cord
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This also frustrated me: The interior sunshade blocks almost half the glass sunroof, admittedly the roof doesn't open any further than that but I've been spoilt by the extra light of bigger glass, so it's currently out having been attacked with the angle grinder. Weighs in around 14kg, 6 of which is the glass while the padded vinyl covered & steel reinforced sunshade weighs 1.2kg on its own! Cut the bottom out of the sunroof frame to match the glass size, trimming 1.4kg away thanks to the 6mm steel plates attached as vibration dampeners! I was lucky to have an early one though with laminated metal-tinted glass to better block heat & UV that was quickly replaced to (cheaper?) toughened glass with a printed dot 'tint'. Still working on a new 2-piece sunshade sliding much further back than Honda's effort.
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Jan 19, 2018 10:19:50 GMT
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Still working on a new 2-piece sunshade sliding much further back than Honda's effort. Could you do something like a roller-blind on it? I'm sure the covers in my mates Freelander are like that as it has two glass panels and not enough room between them for a solid shade on the front one.
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79cord
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Jan 19, 2018 11:35:25 GMT
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Don't think I have anywhere for a roller-blind to fit especially with curved roof across car. Have about 10mm of space above motor, & slide-track is 7mm.
Have soaked & bent some 2mm 3-ply wood to the slight curve required to match headlining & prevent sagging, trying to paint it now. Still a bit worried about heat effects that ruled out cheap plastics. If that fails 3mm aluminum/plastic composite sandwich panel for next try, just need to find scrap piece somewhere so I don't have to spend $70 buying 2.4m sheet for 2, 30x70cm pieces I need.
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Last Edit: Jan 19, 2018 11:45:05 GMT by 79cord
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Jan 19, 2018 12:09:57 GMT
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What annoys me is owning a very cheap and unremarkable car, but then finding out that just because Aston Martin and Lotus also ordered the same parts bin fittings from third party suppliers, the cost of replacement items is up in the £100's, even though they're cheap and often ugly bits of tat who's actual value is mere pennies.
Ref: Scimitar SE5a rear lights. Ugly as sin. Awful plastic boxes. Cost for a decent original item replacement... hundreds, if you're lucky to find them.
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kev13s
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Jan 19, 2018 18:48:37 GMT
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What annoys me is owning a very cheap and unremarkable car, but then finding out that just because Aston Martin and Lotus also ordered the same parts bin fittings from third party suppliers, the cost of replacement items is up in the £100's, even though they're cheap and often ugly bits of tat who's actual value is mere pennies. Ref: Scimitar SE5a rear lights. Ugly as sin. Awful plastic boxes. Cost for a decent original item replacement... hundreds, if you're lucky to find them. Try rebuilding a series 1 lancia fulvia, ignition switch indicator stalk door locks and the likes all shared with much more exotic Italian cars. I did get a buzz tho when I was looking into sterling moss's 250 swb at the weekend and recognise the switch gear.
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Jan 19, 2018 21:59:35 GMT
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another pic ripped from the bosom of its original thread but beautifully illustrates one of my major pet hates....a little detail that I truly detest....wheels , whatever they are on and however nice , without any sort of centre cap! sorry , it is just plain wrong wrong wrong and looks like its been molested by a herd of beered up traveller teens!!
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Last Edit: Jan 19, 2018 22:00:12 GMT by strikey
'80 s1 924 turbo..hibernating '80 golf gli cabriolet...doing impression of a skip '97 pug 106 commuter...continuing cheapness making me smile!
firm believer in the k.i.s.s and f.i.s.h principles.
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