What stupid feature bugs you in your car?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

What year? From what i read it tends to be a problem mostly in the hotter places.

'10

[Bill]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

does the Cruze have button trans and "L"

It has a center console shifter; looks like this (but not my car, not my French fry).



I can apparently put it in low and 'paddle shift' through gears, as shown. Usefulness of that feature? Totally worthless, just adds cost for a feature no shitbox buyer would want.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

I have to use the voice feature which doesn't exactly work so well. I can understand that it doesn't work well with strong acccents, but damn, mine isn't that bad. Not like I'm speaking Cajoon like our resident swamp person does.

I don't think mine has voice control. I need to check that out.

[theandies]

2016 Fusion Titanium
Not really a feature but a stupid government mandated system.
The ****ing evaporative emissions system, the system that sucks (literally) gas fumes from the tank to the intake to burn. Now the government demands the system be checked for leaks every time you start your car. What's worse is sometimes it goes into vacuum lock after filling up and the car won't start. If one of the valves fails and it won't hold a vacuum it trips the check engine light. One valve on my car is easy to get to and I've replaced it. The other valve is on top of the gas tank so it will have to come out to replace it. **** that. I'll just keep clearing the code with Torque. Leave it to government to mandate a system that will cost people money if one of these valves fail. All that is needed is a pipe from the top of the tank to the intake. One pipe, two connections and two points of failure.

The heater outlet blows directly on my right ankle.

Touchscreen is a resistive touch screen not capacitance like our cell phones. It's sensitivity is very low because if it.

Navigation is poor and based on an SD card so I have to pay for new maps.

Dash lights are way too bright at night. I have them set to their lowest setting.

Leave it to Ford - My wifes 2015 Explorer has ambient lighting that includes the cup holders. Fast forward to 2016 and Fords top Fusion model, the Titanium, which doesn't have ambient lighting around the cup holders but everywhere else. What the **** were they thinking?

[Giraffe (He/Him)]

Originally Posted by Norm

Really don't have anything that I can think of, I lub my car.........

Weirdo.

[C3C7NIC]

On my Volvo XC90, if you are backing up and turn on the radio, the back up camera goes away and only displays the radio on the large center screen.

Also, my remote start from my phone takes forever to activate. The old fashioned key FOB worked instantly.


OH, and the voice command is a joke! They need to talk to Alexa....

[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

Well, I like the full screen warning that comes up at various times saying you should not take your eyes off the road while driving but.......you have to look at it and touch the dismiss section to get rid of it ! TAKING YOUR EYES OFF THE ROAD !!!!!!!!

I know the feeling. For whatever reason the DIC in my Z06 would spit out a P0160 alert for the O2 sensor once every ride (emissions related). Clearing that was a major PITA while driving. There's a butt load of button pushing involving multiple buttons being pushed in a specific sequence. Got so good at it after a few years that I even quit forgetting how to do it during the 6 months of Winter storage. Thank the gods it stopped appearing after about 15 years. Must have been some really super important information though?

[IB4TL]

Porsche- Only thing I don't care for is the window adjusting everytime you open & close the door.
You have to pull the handle twice to open the door. I already broke it once because I pulled it hard one too many times ☻🤣

[erickpl]

Originally Posted by TripleBlack

I hate the fact that 9 times out of 10 when my rear view mirror is filled with a bumper and head lights, it's a RAM pickup. Back off!!!! This is Texas after all. It's for your own good.


BTW, brothers in arms with you on the GPS subscription and touch screen menus replacing knobs.

What year Rams do you have? My 2017 requires no subscription for GPS (it does for Sirius/XM and uConnect (which I've never used - kinda like OnStar). My climate control is on the screen but I have temp controls knobs and ac/defrost buttons as well.

The feature I hate about it is the rain-sensing wipers. At a drizzle, it'll go to max speed if I'm on the highway.

[markids77]

Originally Posted by C3C7NIC

On my Volvo XC90, if you are backing up and turn on the radio, the back up camera goes away and only displays the radio on the large center screen.

Also, my remote start from my phone takes forever to activate. The old fashioned key FOB worked instantly.


OH, and the voice command is a joke! They need to talk to Alexa....

Another great to see you posting! Glad you survived the pandemic so far!

[C3C7NIC]

Originally Posted by markids77

Another great to see you posting! Glad you survived the pandemic so far!

It finally let up a few weeks back I was ready to quit medicine and become a professional botanist.

[Taurus]

I have to agree with the engine auto stop, hate that function. My wife's newish Traverse needed to have the transmission put into manual mode and select gears 1 - 9 to disable it. There was no button or switch to do so. At least my 2021 Grand Cherokee has a button to disable it, I would prefer that it stayed disabled and gave the option to turn it on rather than starting in auto stop mode.

Also, 2020 50th Anniversary Hemi Challenger has a cup holder protruding from the driver's door panel right where my knee rests.

[Rodnok1]

Hate sitting behind cars with that auto shutoff at a short light. Has bit me several times... Wastes my gas.

[Stangkiller]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Hate sitting behind cars with that auto shutoff at a short light. Has bit me several times... Wastes my gas.

Mine does that but with the “e-torque” mild hybrid setup I don’t hate it as much. The truck will start rolling before the motors even up and running.

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

What year is your RAM? The head unit is known for delaminating and it ****s everything up as far as radio, GPS, AC, and heating goes. I'm glad I bought the extended warranty when I bought my truck so a $600 head unit only cost me a $50 deductible.

2020 Ram Limited 5.7 e-torque.

[Scissors]

Originally Posted by Stangkiller

The auto braking on the Ram, i had to disable it cause it wouldnt let me back out of the driveway or drive through my work parking garage without locking the truck up for no reason at all.

Agreed. Had the same issue, with violent braking in reverse. Disabled and had no issues since.

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

What year is your RAM? The head unit is known for delaminating and it ****s everything up as far as radio, GPS, AC, and heating goes. I'm glad I bought the extended warranty when I bought my truck so a $600 head unit only cost me a $50 deductible.

Originally Posted by Stangkiller

2020 Ram Limited 5.7 e-torque.

I have the exact same truck as Stangkiller, it seems, and haven't had any head unit delamination issues.

[NEED-A-VETTE]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

[Stangkiller]

Originally Posted by Scissors

I have the exact same truck as Stangkiller, it seems, and haven't had any head unit delamination issues.

Same here the screen looks and functions as good as new, it will occasionally (less than 3 times a year) glitch and kill audio until the truck can be restarted.

[09CTSV]

I like the lane assist on the Explorer, actually in Eco Pilot cruise control, you can barely keep your fingers on the wheel and it drives itself well.
Two things I've killed with Forscan, Auto Start Stop and FENG. Stupid BMW for starting that shit. I do wish the back up display would be larger, you have an 11" screen and they put a postage stamp for the display with the overhead view.


When I had the Trackhawk, the display would lose volume for the radio a few times. I would have to shut down the Hawk, wait about 3 minutes and then it would come back. Never figured it out and didn't want the dealer screwing with the vehicle.

Our 2021 Express, the lane assist is a joke, turned it off and don't use it. All it does is beep and flash a little stupid icon on the display. I haven't taken it back to the dealer for the back up lines. They turn opposite of what they should do, little aggravating backing up but I can live with it for the time being. When we take it in for our complimentary oil change I'll have them look at it. On the conversion side, nothing really to complain about, Explorer did a nice job putting the package together.

[RonC5]

2018 Acura MDX

Have to go thru 3 screens to change from the wifes phone to mine, out last MDX was push a steering wheel button and say "Next Phone".

Voice command is useless, I say "XM channel 26" it responds "turning on heated seat" or something equally stupid.

I can't change the radio station for the first 30 seconds or so when starting the car. If gives me "Can't do that command now". WTF?

[BayouCountry]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

I have had 4 Vettes and 1 Camaro 6spds with that thing and if your hitting the throttle good it will not engage. If your passing a car you should be hitting it hard enough not to engage.

Your driving a Vette like it ought to be driven you will not have that problem!

Well, my friend, I said I was passing a car. I thought it was understood that I was on the gas as I was doing a pass. The skip shift rarely engaged on me, so I was surprised that it engaged in this instance. Maybe I hesitated enough for it to kick in. I don’t know.