Mine, a voyager, ticks me off whenever you go over 20 mph, the kiddy locks hit and I always forget, when I stop and need something in the back seat, it is locked and I have to (oh dreaded clicker🙂 hit the clicker to unlock it. It's just sad....
Another nice thing it has, no heater. The dam thing got plugged up from a previous owner thinking he would fix a radiator leak with about 4 gallons of stopleak. That did the heater core in and you have to drive 30 miles before your feet thaw out🙂 Any normal person would have designed the heater core to be on the firewall in the engine compartment but NOOOOO, they have to put the heater core in the middle of the dash which requires a complete disassembly of the dash and THEN you get to replace the core, making the repair about US$500. I just wear gloves in the winter...
My indicator switch is tempramental, and it on occasion it doesn't turn off the indicator, but instead switches the indicators in the other direction.....What follows is a lightshow of sorts where i have to keep switching the indicators from side to side till the button rests on off.
Bit of a pain, but what can you do 😛
Biggest quirk of my car being it doesn't exist. Every morning I put on my
aviation goggles, sit down on my office chair (which I bring home with me
every evening after work) and kick myself forward through morning traffic
pretending I have a car. At my side, hanging off my belt, I have a sizeable
megaphone which I use whenever I need to honk on people. I pull it up
fast, and yell: "Out of the way you ******* sons of *****", into it.
People laugh at me for some reason, but that's not the worst. Three times
(!) I've been pulled over for speeding, now.
Originally posted by Daemon SinThat reminds me of a taxi driver I got a ride with in Jerusalem about ten years ago. I needed a ride to get from Kibbutz Tzora because my rental died and I didn't want to wait for the rental agency, so I got this cab, it was a hot day as is usual in Israel in the summer, so I gets in the cab. First thing I notice is a soda can half buried in the dash. Clever dude, he cut a hole in the dashboard deep enough to make an entry into the air conditioning duct on the dashboard. So when he puts his coke in there, the air conditioning stream kept his coke nice and cool. Great idea, I can see car manufacture dudes using that idea to keep soda cool while you are driving, truckers too.
Air-conditioned glove box.
I suppose it's designed to keep drinks and snacks cool, but at the moment it just means my CD's and owners manual never get to hot.
Originally posted by sonhousemine likes to run dogs over
Mine, a voyager, ticks me off whenever you go over 20 mph, the kiddy locks hit and I always forget, when I stop and need something in the back seat, it is locked and I have to (oh dreaded clicker🙂 hit the clicker to unlock it. It's just sad....
Another nice thing it has, no heater. The dam thing got plugged up from a previous owner thinking he would fix a ...[text shortened]... ou get to replace the core, making the repair about US$500. I just wear gloves in the winter...
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My "summer car", a 2000 Mustang convertible, has a leak somewhere that allows rain to get into the area where the roof folds into and as you turn a corner it "sloshes about". I suppose I could have a professional look at it but....... I just carry a towel in the trunk and when it happens I just mop it up.
Originally posted by Great Big SteesThat reminds me of another Voyager quirk: the way water drains under the area of the windshield wipers. There is a long trough that collects rainwater and at one end a little hose drains it out to the ground. I had a problem where water would collect, I couldn't figure it out for a long time. Then like you said, going around a turn, left hand turn actually, water, and a bunch of it, would get into the cab on the floor under the front passenger side, soaking the rug and making a smelly moldy mess. Finally figured it out, at one time, it was parked in our back yard by the neighbors garage, and on the other side of that garage was a small stand of fir trees, very tall, maybe 80 feet tall. So the car was parked there for about a year with a bad engine trying to come up with a decent repair plan that didn't cost as much as a new car🙂 So the dang fir trees drop their little loads of needles and such, and what happened was they fell into the area right under the windshield wipers (and the whole car covered with a thin layer of them also). So I finally found a deal where they would replace the engine and transmission with a good used combo for 2400 bucks total, and did that, the new engine has worked great for almost three years now, not even the hint of a hiccup. But there was that mess with the water. So eventually I discovered those needles had settled into the drain and plugged it up, leading to the water getting into the cab. Pulling off that hose, running water through it and cleaning out the final load of needles fixed that problem!
My "summer car", a 2000 Mustang convertible, has a leak somewhere that allows rain to get into the area where the roof folds into and as you turn a corner it "sloshes about". I suppose I could have a professional look at it but....... I just carry a towel in the trunk and when it happens I just mop it up.