Earlier this week I requested you positive folks to share probably the most annoying issues about your automobiles, and boy did you ship. As lovers we hopefully all love the automobiles we drive, however that doesn’t cease us from completely hating some points of our rides. My instance was the annoying door chime in my Mercedes CLS; your solutions ran the gamut from infotainment woes to mechanical points and all kinds of different quirks.
There have been numerous nice solutions right here, so I both went for the most well-liked or funniest ones. Maintain scrolling to see all of my favourite solutions, and tell us within the feedback which one would piss you off probably the most, too.
Steering Wheel Controls
I’ve a 2022 CT5 and the wheel controls for the infotainment and gauge cluster are within the unsuitable place. Each of those controls are on the appropriate facet of the wheel however the gauge cluster controls are very simple to succeed in with a pleasant scroll wheel to cycle via the choices, the infotainment controls take a attain with the amount controls being a proper/left format and ahead/again being an up/down format.
I acquired my 2022 Toyota Tacoma model new virtually three years in the past, and I nonetheless get aggravated by the radio management on the steering wheel – quantity is left-right and channel/observe is up-down. I’m just about used to it now, till I spend just a little time driving a distinct automotive that has quantity up-down accurately (and has been in each different car I’ve pushed with steering wheel controls). Word: I’m sufficiently old that my first truck had an precise dial so I nonetheless image radio stations as left to proper in my thoughts.
Submitted by: Cluck, Ours Blanc
Tailgate Buttons
2024 BMW X3 – That is to date past nitpicky it’s virtually embarrassing. However, on the tailgate, you’ve two buttons to shut the tailgate when open. One button is a lock and the opposite is an in depth tailgate. If the tailgate is open and the automotive is unlocked, you may press both one to close the tailgate. If the automotive is locked, you may press the shut tailgate button, however the lock button doesn’t shut the tailgate. There have been so many occasions I’ve pressed the lock button just for the tailgate to simply keep open. It makes far more sense (till confirmed in any other case) that the lock button would do the identical as shut tailgate button even when the automotive is already locked.
Submitted by: bmwx3tailgatehater
Unhealthy Windshield Wipers/Sprayers
I drive a base mannequin guide 2016 Nissan Versa Word. My one huge gripe (other than dwelling in Canada and never having distant begin) is that the washer fluid spray merely doesn’t hit the windshield whereas travelling above 60km/h. They can’t be moved or adjusted in any means, and its annoying as something to not be capable to get a clear windshield in some conditions on the freeway with out utilizing half a bottle of washer fluid.
2008 Ford Escape Restricted. Love every thing about it besides the wiper push to spray perform. What it does is, you hit the button on the top of the stalk and it sprays the wiper fluid onto the windshield-great! It runs the wipers 3 or 4 occasions, I neglect, but-also nice!
…then when it’s all completed, it runs them ONE MORE TIME and streaks up what was a clear windshield, particularly now in winter with all of the salt on the market. If it wouldn’t do this final swipe, it might be excellent. And there’s no strategy to defeat that, so I simply manually activate the wipers, spray it as a lot as wanted, then manually flip them off. Irritating trigger I can’t imagine sufficient folks requested for that additional swipe to be added to the routine to make it into manufacturing.
The Mk7 Golf is a good automotive however the best way the wipers are designed, they throw all the water (and no matter else is on the windshield) right into a vertical place close to the driving force’s A pillar.
Whereas that clears a very good quantity of house for visibility, it additionally means the airflow over the automotive grabs all that crap and sprays it all around the driver door. Did you wash a ton of hen crap off your windshield whereas driving? Get pleasure from it in your door deal with subsequent time you get in.
Submitted by: Stephinki, FiveLiters1, OnceInAMillenia
Touchscreen/Haptic Controls
Lack of buttons. I’m bored with every thing being managed by a touchscreen. Pouring via menus to entry local weather management and drive modes is irritating.
My 22′ GTI’s haptic controls with the local weather controls built-in within the display screen just isn’t an enchancment over my 17′. Go away local weather controls in automobiles the place they’re available with out having to undergo screens and loading delays simply to show your fan velocity down.
Infotainment, notably the radio interface. I actually hate how I’ve to enter the display screen menu to brows/search the stations. I additionally hate how every thing is finished via the display screen. I hate having a silly starter button, what was unsuitable with the fucking key? I hate how huge the hot button is, I hate proximity lock/unlock. I don’t want all of the silly data on the sprint both, simply speedo, tacho, coolant temp, gas stage, oil temp, oil stress, and volt, that’s all I want, so why does it inform me what number of MPG I’m doing at a given second, that’s a very irrelevant data. I hate auto headlights, I hate auto wiper, thank god I can flip these issues off. It’s faster to checklist the issues I truly like in regards to the automotive. And if it weren’t for a way bloody good it’s to drive, I’d in all probability eliminate it ASAP.
My 2022 Lexus GX has no AC button. So if I need to cool/warmth the automotive, I’ve to undergo a menu to uncover the AC button.
I’m totally conscious that this feels like a superfluous grievance, nevertheless it’s not. It’s an ordeal, each time, if solely as a result of I’m 45 years outdated and automobiles I’ve owned courting again to my teenagers had that straightforward AC On/Off button.
Submitted by: Ermahgerd!, a a, jb21, Justin Celko
Skinny Paint
Skinny paint. Each my Maverick and my Miata appear to get new little paint chips if the wind hits them too onerous.Again within the day you had fear about rust preventing its means via from behind the paint; now it appears each little factor on the highway is a frontal assault on paint jobs.
That is additionally my major gripe about my 2014 Civic. The surface paint is simply too skinny identical as yours, however the within the trunk is principally pink because the paint is so skinny it may possibly’t convey the true shade (rally crimson). My 2002 Civic made in England had significantly better paint.
Submitted by: ReluctantFloridaMan, Pinkerton
No Android Auto/Apple CarPlay
I drive a 2024 Chevy Equinox EV. 2 issues actually trouble me. No Apple CarPlay. Horrible glare from the dashboard whereas driving with the solar above and in entrance of the automotive.
2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV-ooooo boy, prepare for it. Primarily your entire automotive. The infotainment with it’s lack of Android Auto is a HUGE misstep. The audio system loves to leap between Spotify and Bluetooth audio at random, the HUD simply randomly stops working, the passenger facet proper flip sign has an intermittent error the place it’s going to act as if the LED is burned out at random, the wi-fi cost pad not often works with any telephone, the bodily HVAC management panel stopped working at week three(this was remedied with a software program replace), the MyChevrolet app on my telephone likes to disconnect itself from the care which disables the distant begin characteristic……this checklist simply retains going. It’s been within the store quite a few occasions for software program updates which is able to repair the issues for some time however they all the time return. My child put it finest. All the pieces that’s on the automotive that works, works nice. All the pieces that’s on the automotive that doesn’t, makes you need to punch it.
Thank fuck it’s a lease and I don’t must take care of it after one other 12 months.
Submitted by: Daveedo1, TheCoryJihad
Gauge Cluster Shows
I’ve acquired two:
#1 My heated/cooled seat “switches” are on the infotainment display screen. Whereas I’d favor precise buttons, this isn’t the top of the world, they’re at the least entrance and middle. What pisses me off to no finish is that each time the automotive is shut off, so are the warmers/coolers which don’t come again on. FFS.
#2 The nav shows present road data in gauge cluster. However the absolute idiots who developed the UI would somewhat present a ineffective large compass filling 2/3 of the display screen space as an alternative of permitting a number of traces of textual content. So multi-name streets/routes are sometimes truncated which may be fairly irritating.
I actually like our Opel Insignia (Buick Regal TourX for you) wagon. However I’d prefer it much more if
1) I might change the small digital gauge to one thing extra helpful than battery voltage, as a result of the guide states I can, however the software program isn’t there.
2) the kick-open sensor for the trunk lid truly labored. As it’s, it’s much less of a problem to set down the groceries and open the trunk manually than balancing on one leg making an attempt to hit the candy spot with the opposite foot.
19′ fusion. dashboard. tons of choices within the view on the sprint, however can’t see numerous them on the identical time. if I exploit the paddle shifters to down shift or upshift on an enormous hill no matter view I at present have set adjustments to the tach, then I’ve to return and alter it once more. additionally temp gauge and tach can’t be proven on the identical time. as an alternative I’ve 3 screens one in all which exhibits the compass,radio station or telephone name. the radio already exhibits what I’m listening to why do I want it once more. compass might simply be the little letters N S E W and let me see my tach and so on.
Additionally the shortcoming to disconnect a bluetooth paired telephone to swap for one more. I’ve to do it from the telephone unstead of there being a disconnect characteristic on the sprint.
Additionally the driving force seat began cracking at <2 years outdated. I’m not an enormous man,simply junk materials.
Worst traction management ever. 1/4 of snow on an uphill and the automotive received’t put any energy to the wheels. theres no button to show it off, I’ve to undergo numerous menus to get out of my driveway. fairly dumb.
Honda Perception – it has an analog speedometer and seven” LCD gauge cluster. The speedometer solely exhibits MPH. So when switching to metric, as an alternative of shifting the needle to the KPH worth, it stays on MPH and exhibits the KPH on the display screen proper beside the analog gauge. Annoying, however i by no means use metric. The true dig is it ONLY exhibits the digital velocity in KPH. While you change to US customary models, the digital velocity show disappears and stops displaying the present velocity (it does present was ACC is about on).
WHY? I’ve had primarily or solely digital velocity since 2009, utilizing the analog show is annoying and pointless
2013 Mazdaspeed3. I’ve owned the automotive for 11 years, and I completely love the factor. Its nonetheless a lot enjoyable to drive and I nonetheless stare again at it each time I get out. However dammit I hate the digital gasoline gauge. 4 segments of three blocks. So once you’re all the way down to that final block it truly is guess work how a lot you’ve left. Sure, it has a ‘vary’ possibility on the higher show, however that factor has been mendacity to me since I acquired it. Fairly certain its setup for a daily Mazda3 as on a full tank it typically claims I’ve acquired over 400 miles of vary, and even with out driving like a jackass I’m fortunate to get 300 miles with out freeway driving. Newer fashions have damaged the final phase down into 6 smaller blocks as an alternative of the identical 3 blocks because the others, however the second gen was apparently the beta check, as a result of it sucks.
Submitted by: Jason Rocker, Aracan1, Chris Drives outdated Paint, Levi1922, Maxis47
Configurable Drive Modes
Truthfully, little or no. I’ve a 2023 BMW M3 Competitors, and it’s rattling close to excellent (sure, persons are going to reply that it’s ugly. I’m not going to disagree. I simply personally don’t care about seems. I’ve pushed far uglier, imagine me).
It’s loaded with know-how, which is often a recipe for catastrophe, nevertheless it’s all completed actually, very well (other than my grievance beneath).
So, that is going to sound nitpicky, as a result of it’s. However my greatest grievance is that the automotive let’s you configure two customized drive configurations (throttle response, steering really feel, brake response, traction management, stability, suspension, and so on) and assign every configuration to M1 and M2 buttons on the steering wheel. Which, sensible thought. I critically want each automotive did this and would actually have hassle shifting to a automotive that didn’t. With the ability to pull up my very own customized configuration with a single button push that doesn’t require me to take both hand off the wheel is unbelievable. There’s been loads of occasions after I’m merging on a busy freeway and wish just a little additional juice to get to an open spot to merge in, so I push the M2 button and get it immediately. It sounds trivial, however belief me, it’s far more helpful than you suppose.
The issue is that it doesn’t allow you to additionally map drivers display screen (HUD and Gauge Cluster) settings to these buttons as properly. That choice is finished by a button on the middle console. And the most important downside with that’s that the default HUD doesn’t present the RPMs. So after I resolve to enter my M2 setup, which is configured for enjoyable, I’ve to go down and press a button to vary my display screen to the efficiency setup as properly.
That’s hardly a deal breaker. Nevertheless it’s actually probably the most annoying factor I’ve discovered with the automotive in virtually two years of possession.
Golf Golf equipment Don’t Match
It’s so dumb however my golf golf equipment received’t match within the trunk until I take the driving force and three wooden out, which makes it a a lot greater ordeal than simply throwing them within the trunk. It’s so annoying to me that after I go automotive buying subsequent I’ll ensure my golf equipment match comfortably within the trunk.
First World hardship alert. I like my Bolt EUV nevertheless it must be about 3-4 inches wider so I can match my golf golf equipment totally within the trunk with out having to fold down the rear seat.
On a extra sensible entrance its charging is gradual AF however contemplating my driving is 90% native this has much less of an affect.
Submitted by: Kuhat, HelloNewman
Children Damage All the pieces
I’ve been driving my automotive (2012 VW Passat SE 2.5l) for the previous 11 years. It now has 278k miles and has been a rock regular car with few points exterior routine upkeep. It has a touchscreen infotainment system, however nonetheless has bodily buttons and knobs that additionally work. The steering wheel controls make sense and work nice. Cruise management does a very good job of sustaining a gradual tempo (not like my 2011 Avalanche which appears to drift +- 5mph from the place it’s set). However with all of that love, there may be one factor that has, over time, soured a bit. And as a lot as I like them, it’s my children…
You see, the principle points with my automotive can typically be traced to the youngsters immediately.
The blown audio system? The children maintain setting the bass as much as the max. The FOUR wrinkles in sills by the elevate factors? Numerous children “serving to” decreasing the automotive off a flooring jack by turning the discharge about as rapidly as they turned up the bass. The blue latex home paint spattered all alongside the driving force’s facet? One of many children was following a painter’s truck, when a heavy bounce tossed a can out the again, and the child didn’t wash the automotive or inform me. The trash shoved within the again seat door pockets? The children can solely carry one factor from the automotive, and it isn’t going to be one thing they’ve already used. The dents on each rear quarter panels? Properly, that’s on my spouse, however nonetheless, in a kind of circumstances, the youngsters had been distracting her.
Submitted by: Go Padge (GoPadge)
So Many Issues
2022 Camry w/ AWD. This can’t be boiled down to 1 annoying factor, however right here goes, from most annoying to least:
1) AWD is engaged on a regular basis when temperatures drop beneath 38 levels F no matter highway situations. Residing in Wisconsin, it is a important period of time, and is a large suck on gasoline mileage. In summer time, often get 35+ mpg; in winter, it’s beneath 25 mpg. There isn’t any cause for AWD to be engaged until there may be want for it. And sure, I’ve winter tires.
2) Distant begin – two explicit annoyances about this characteristic: a) shuts off once you open the door/trunk, that means you must re-start the automotive. I truly referred to as Toyota buyer care on this and was informed it is a security characteristic so the automotive can’t be stolen. Newsflash – it can’t be put into gear with out the important thing fob; b) the warmth/a/c perform solely kicks in on the final setting, e.g., so as to have my automotive toasty heat in winter or ice chilly in summer time, I’ve to set the HVAC capabilities/seat hotter/vented seats to max earlier than I get out of the automotive. Since most of my driving is longer distance (I work distant; my driving principally consists of father taxi to children sports activities and different errands), the inside of the automotive has gotten to temperature and such settings are low or off. Even my crappy 2008 Chevy Impala knew to kick the warmth/a/c as much as max and switch rear defrost on.
Now, a bit nitpicky:
3) radio shuts off when the automotive turns off; as I hearken to numerous both dwell sports activities, sports activities speak, or podcasts, it might be good to not must maintain the automotive working to complete listening for a logical break;
4) no wi-fi android auto/CarPlay;
5) no remote-enabled “all home windows down” perform – cherished that on my 2014 Fusion;
6) No rear center seat entry gap; to suit longer gadgets I’ve to place down the “40″ facet of the rear seats when a lot of the gadgets i would like are small however lengthy (insert “that’s what she mentioned joke”), like hockey sticks and fishing poles; and
7) heated steering wheel solely at 2:00 to 4:00 and eight:00 to 10:00.
Submitted by: jakuiper
Hater Feedback
2001 Porsche 911.
Essentially the most annoying factor about my automotive is that it invitations probably the most idiotic feedback about how a lot I will need to have spent on it from people who find themselves underwater on an 84-month mortgage for his or her large SUV that may price them extra after only one third of their mortgage has elapsed than my automotive price me.
The second most annoying factor is the truth that the primary proprietor didn’t spec it with a rear wiper.
The third most annoying factor is the truth that tyre producers not make the scale of my donut spare, so I’ve simply eliminated it from the automotive and put in a plug equipment and inflator.
Submitted by: TheSchrat
