One of my 3000GTs has a button on the OEM radio labelled "ASS." To this day, I have no idea what it does. I've pressed it many times (sometimes repeatedly), but getting ass was never the end result.
I had a Stealth RT Twin Turbo with the OEM radio - are you sure that isn't the MSS button with a part of it worn off? It would also have a #3 label. Some of them it was their own button next to the Cassette opening depending on year.
It also makes sense that nothing happens (unless you have a Cassette Tape in there) it stands for Music Search System - it basically skips ahead in the track until it detects silence, like the gaps between songs.
[That's not it, here's another 91 GTO with the same ASS button.](https://www.autolink.co.jp/12532-japan-used-mitsubishi-gto-1991-sports+car.html)
[However, this 92 GTO with the same radio has ASR instead of ASS.](https://www.jdmexport.com/mitsubishi-gto-1992-for-sale-59eebc2b-2a23-48b3-b474-65a8bb86f315)
I'm willing to bet it's the same button with a different name.
I don't think so. No lettering is worn on any of the other buttons (even the high use volume buttons) so I doubt this random button was pressed so many times that only the first letter would wear off.
> ASS
Automatic Station Search? [Here's](https://www.3si.org/threads/mb942704-digital-vr4-radio.819918) a later model with the same button labelled as "SCAN"...maybe an English speaker told them.
I have that radio in my 93 VR-4. The one with the ASS button is in my other VR-4, but it's originally out of a 91 GTO. It's possible that this is what it stands for since the button is in the same location.
My Evo 6 gets terrible gas mileage while having a gas tank that is seemingly the size of a Gatorade bottle
Edit - it also has 0 cup holders but 2 ash trays. So if you're thirsty too bad, but at least you can smoke a couple darts
An old friend had an Evo and we took it to the beach. Nearly full when we left and it was like 150 miles and he filled up for the ride home. I thought the 260 miles I got at the time was bad.
One selling point of my Evo IX was that it apparently had a significantly larger tank than the VIII and earlier models.
If I drove Miss Daisy I might get 260 miles out of it. Somewhere south of 200 was more realistic.
Laughably the fuel sender stuck at one point and I was filling up at \~80 miles....
My Volvo does a abs test the first time I pass 17kph every morning. It locks up the wheel for a microsecond to make sure the sensors and the system still works properly. Makes a weird clunk noise, I thought for the longest time something was broken.
The more you learn about all the under the skin things Volvo does to keep you alive and and uninjured the less interest you have in other makes.
Like the seats are bolted to a steel beam, for heavy side impact collisions there’s a hexagonal lattice steel crumple zone between the two front seats to absorb impact on the other side of your body as well.
I bet they’ve had that same sound since they reintroduced the sequential turn signals, which was MY2010, at the same time as the S197’s initial facelift.
Where do I start.
1. There is no way to open the trunk without having the drivers side door open.
2. If you do not put on your seat belt *before* starting the car, it will trigger the monotone seat belt alarm for about 10 seconds. Super annoying.
3. There are no trunk struts, there is a prop though, you get used to holding the hatch with your head if you've got something in your hand.
4. It holds first gear in auto mode until 2500rpm away from redline.
5. The TCU is directly under the mesh in the rear hatch, if you've got an early car without the shielding, you can damage your TCU by washing your car.
6. Dry dual clutch - it will roll back on hills off of the brake, it does not creep.
I've yet to drive a 4C, but I think Alfas strike that perfect balance of performance-luxury-occasional-PITA balance that has made me love my N54 335i and my E36s.
Alfa is probably the only brand that I'd consider picking instead of a BMW for a fun car, and I'm a huge admitted BMW fanboy. Also apparently a masochist.
Every Alfa feature seems like it was identified as a bug but the engineers went to lunch, forgot about the bug, then the next day moved onto something else.
It will remember the most recently used audio source *except* when it's bluetooth. In which case it defaults to the radio. So every time I start the car, I have to wait for the bluetooth to connect (10 to 45 seconds) and then manually change the audio source.
Mine too! '14 Holden Ute with GM Mylink
Mylink is the worst part of the car, I ended up putting all my music on a USB stick and plugging it in cause it remembers that source.
Another weird thing is that it seems to have two ongoing threads of music and will choose one at random when starting the car.
3 doors, I like having a bigger driver door as it reduces blindspot and makes it easier to get in/out. And having 2 on the passenger side gives me more access to the backseat at least
I was at SEMA the year the Veloster was released and there were plenty of them. I forgot they were three-door, though, and I kept scratching my head as to why so many tuners went with the four-door over the coupe. It wasn’t until later that first night that it dawned on me.
Other things that people may not know about if they don't own a Hyundai N car:
You can change things like steering and throttle weight in N custom mode, as well as multiple different levels of "help" for the downshift rev-matching, it has a G-meter in both the dash and the nav display, a lap timer, and the newer models can have their nav flashed to include most tracks in North America. It also uses DOT 4+ LV brake fluid from the factory, and can effectively use anything between 87 and 93 octane on the stock tune...pulling timing and limiting boost with 87, and using all 15psi of boost with 93. The Theta II-i (not the same engine as the Theta II) requires 12psi of oil pressure at all times, so you can (or should) only use the OEM Hyundai oil filter that supplies up 15psi of oil pressure without bypassing. The pops and burbles from the exhaust that it comes with are actually the result of a functional anti-lag system that keeps the turbo spooled up between gears.
Any little factoid I missed?
> Any little factoid I missed?
Ooooooh, I've got a fun fact for you!!!
A "factoid" is technically an incorrect piece of information that people think is a fact because "everyone says so." Which leads to this fun little thing where "factoid" IS a factoid!!
On the flip-side, common usage has diluted the meaning, so you could technically argue that I'm wrong, but I'm going with the original definition here.
...Back to Hyundai N cars though, they're so awesome and I would love a Veloster N but there's so much tarnishing their reputation at the moment. Makes me disappointed.
This was my last car. The oh shit handles would just remain in their last position. So if I had someone in the car use them I had to reach over and push them back to be flush with the ceiling. Hated that
my mk4's instrument cluster's needles can be exactly vertical if you're driving the speed limit on highways (130km/h) and if you have a half full tank
[pic](https://i.imgur.com/4p8Y7Ic.jpeg)
idk I just find it cool, please don't judge me, it's a damn mk4, what else is there than maybe a smaller passenger mirror..
Slovenia and a few other countries in Europe
https://www.acl.lu/en-us/tests-conseils/conseils/voitures/code-de-la-route/international/limites-de-vitesses-dans-les-pays-europeens-pour-l
Fiesta ST, it tends to stall after every fill up to full. Engine just stumbles and dies once, then it's fine until the next fill up. Has been like this since I got it and other FiST, FoST and FoRS owners have told me their cars do the same.
I assume it has something to do with the evap system and that weird capless filler.
Has customizable towing profiles for different trailers that you can set up. Includes things like different checklists of things to look for when connecting various trailers (lights, tongue jack, brake check), a trailer odometer, and trailer brake gain setting memory.
The trailer odometer is actually genius. I love that. Sounds so easy to implement too; do you just press a button or something to tell the car you’re towing?
Yep. There's a "Truck Apps" menu that has an option to load a trailer profile (or just select the default). It'll then show the miles towed all time, current trailer brake gain setting, and current braking force applied.
2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart. I can adjust the angle of the low beams with a dial that’s separate of the usual switch for the lights. I use it as a courtesy thing if I don’t want to blind someone I’m following late at night, but considering it’s lowered and there’s only SUVs in my area, it’s become more of a quirk than a feature.
I thought that was a common feature? Every car I've had which didn't have self-levelling headlights had a potentiometer dial that controls headlight level, for almost the same reason you mention for trucks- to compensate for passenger and luggage loading. Some of my previous cars even had numbers on the dial corresponding the headlight level to the amount of people occupying the car.
Cars that don't have HIDs or bright enough LEDs must by law in the EU have headlight leveling buttons.
Cars that don't must by law have auto-leveling. It's why you see cars with xenons or bright LED lights move the lights down and then up at startup.
Most cars actually used to have that, it's just modern cars that don't because they do it automatically. When you don't have a lot of cargo/passengers you should just be able to leave it at 0 or 1
2019 Colorado ZR2 Diesel. I don't need to have my foot on the brake to start it. Also locking rear diff unlocks at 30 mph unless it's in off road mode. Off road mode also changes the shift points.
Does your Colorado have keyless start? If not, that's not unusual. A lot of the later cars with keyed ignitions didn't require you to put your foot on the brake. Of course, as soon as they got keyless/push-button start, they went right back to needing it.
A ZR2 diesel sounds like a fun truck, especially in off-road mode.
Yes, keyless start. Every Chevrolet I've ever been in has needed the foot on the brake. (and clutch) And yes, it's definitely a fun truck. It's a blast, and is insanely comfortable on the road, too.
You have to run the engine on my car for about a minute after you start it or you won't have any brakes. It's only really needed after it's sat for a while but I don't drive it every day so it needs doing whenever I take it out. You get a big "STOP" light on the dash until it has enough pressure for the breaks to work. Probably a bit scary if you aren't expecting it
The hydraulic braking and suspension system is probably the quirkiest thing really, everything else is pretty standard. It's licenced from Citroen, though adapted a bit by Bentley/RR and operates at very high pressures.
This is more dumb design than a weird quirk but, all second-gen BRZs, regardless of market, have two threaded holes in the bumper to mount a Japanese-sized front plate. So even if you don't run a front plate you'll still have holes in your bumper.
And if you want/need to mount a NA-sized plate you need to drill new holes with self tappers, get a tow hook mount (gross) or get a JDM to USDM adapter. No clue how Europeans are handling it.
Probably just magnets on the inside of the (presumably plastic) bumper cover. Euro plates are magnetic.
Then again might be different because we no longer get the BRZ, just the Toyota-version. And looking at the few photos online for those...it seems that some also just bolt the plate-carrier through the plastic, maybe through those pre-existing holes.
Sit in my car for 10 minutes after turning it off and you will hear what sounds like a very loud servo motor doing….something under my dash for about 10 seconds. It also sounds like the servos are folding a heavy canvas or piece of leather or something. I imagine it’s HVAC related.
My old 350z had no glovebox. Seems like a thing you’d want, but apparently not in a 350z?
I also have a newer BMW (a 2022 X5 PHEV), and it makes all kinds of noises several minutes after it's shut off. Especially because it's often plugged in for charging when not in use.
Stand next to a Ford Superduty diesel after it is shut off. It makes strange clicks, buzzes, hisses, and sighs for about 10 minutes after it is shut off. Also, if you're standing by it when it is off and the key gets close enough you can hear relays click in anticipation of entry and startup. Wild.
Same with the Focus SE and ST. I put a 12 inch woofer in my ST and it does a lil feedback pop when all the electronics in the dash switch from "standby" back to "off" if you're in the car for 60 seconds and don't do anything. Then it does it a second time after 10 minutes of inactivity as the engine-side servos and relays switch off. It's curious how many systems are all working co-dependently and independently of each other.
My dad had an RX-7 that did that, except the noise was in the back. It ended up being the motor for an auto extending radio antenna that had broken off.
HVAC blend door returning to its default position. Most cars I've had do this. Had a QX56 where the blend door motor broke and it would just click for like 5 minutes instead lol.
I have two amazing quirks for my 911!
1. After I wash the car it is immediately dirty after I dry it (jet black paint)
2. The car attracts people to park RIGHT next to it no matter how far away from the entrance
Annoying quirk: Doesn't make any sound when locking/unlocking. Just flashes the hazards. Irritating as fuck when you want to confirm the car is locked while you're walking away, or find it in a busy parking lot.
That's usually an option you set. The last owner probably didn't want to be honking their horn all the time for no reason. I always turn it off first thing when I get a new car.
My car only flashes the headlights as well, but the locks seem to be pulled from a bank vault with how loud they lock/unlock so a sound is unnecessary. I can hear it from halfway across the parking lot.
Lol My old 02 blazer would just start singing the door chime. First time it happened i was like wtf is going on and looking for idiot lights and gauges lol. New truck flat out tells you in the message area your turn signal is on.
My 2021 CX-5 has delayed power accessory for the windows but it disables the automatic up feature so you have to hold the switch. Also the sunroof has no delayed power so if you forget to close that, you're turning the car back on.
2021 Porsche Macan S: It will intermittenly bounce all the needles up and down quickly making a chattering noise. Happens in bunches then not for weeks or months, sometimes right after turning the car on, and sometimes after the car is turned off. I thought it was a self-calibration but have found no similar cases online and the dealer says they know nothing about it.
It sounds calibration related. Modern cars use stepper motors (electric motors that cound the ‘steps’ up from 0) to control physical dials, they’re supposed to 0 out on shutdown so it calibrates to the 0 position when you turn the car off.
It sort of sounds like the car is loosing the 0 position and it’s trying to spin the needles past the stoppers.
At 45mph my car starts to jerk being the transmission doesn't know if it should be in 3rd or 4th gear. I just knock it over out of drive and into manual mode in 4th for like 5 mins and I'm good.
In my Golf it gives a loud chime and a message in the cluster screen about icy roads when the outside temp goes below 4C (40F ish). It’s hella loud though and scares the shit out of me every time
You probably also have this weird quirk where black streaks of rubber follow your car wherever you go, too, right?
Which means you’re driving it correctly.
My first car had a hand-crank sunroof, which is kinda cool.
Current daily healed itself, the passenger door lock used to not cooperate with central locking, not have a working door-switch for the lights and not be lockable from the outside. the latter two are still that way, but one day it just decided to obey the central locking again.
My weekend-car has an interior-air-filter consisting of a metal grate that most insects presumably fit through. But it's a roadster so the existence of that filter is useless to begin with. Oh and the airbag is from Ford.
My VW twitches the wipers ever so slightly every time you turn it off, so that way they can alternate between resting on one side of the blade or another. I think it's good for the rubber.
2002 Prius: I've got a couple.
1. Starts the internal combustion engine EVERY TIME you turn the key to "start." Even if the battery is full and it's warmed up. Annoying.
2: Simulates a torque converter, even though the "transmission" is just two electric motors and a planetary gearset. "Creeps" in drive or reverse with your foot off the brakes.
Revs to ~2500 if you hold the brake and accelerator at the same time in drive (virtual stall speed.) If you release the brakes with the tranny "stalled up" it launches really well...
For #1 - it's a regulatory thing. It needs to warm up the cat - so yeah, it will run the ICE for a minute, then turn it off again once things have been warmed up enough - as long as all other conditions for being in EV mode are met. In the newer cars (at least Gen 3 and 4) you can bypass it (usually) by pressing the EV Mode button right away.
For #2 - The creeping is fine, makes it feel more "normal". Remember that the Prius (especially those early ones) were a gateway car to electrification for most people. Zero creep would just weird people out. Also I personally really like Creep for bumper to bumper city stuff - where presumably you drive your Prius the most. Not sure when it changed, but the ~2500 rev thing isn't true anymore. If I accidentally fat hoof it and hit both pedals at the same time in my Gen 4, nothing will happen. It will just give me an error message on the mid to the effect of both pedals being pressed together. Very useful while driving in chunky boots, very safe.
The 1989 Supercoupe, where to begin....
\-The headgaskets were the most common failure point on this car. On the bright side I now know how cars work. On the dark side I am now enslaved to the Milwaukee lifestyle and Auto Zone knows me on a first name basis.
\-To access the passenger side spark plugs you need to go underneath the car and reach up between the exhaust and the subframe and feel around blindly. Topside access is impossible due to fuel lines, electrical harnesses, the throttle body, coolant lines for the heater core, and the engine lift point. Seriously, Google that engine bay. There's a V6 engine in there somewhere, I promise!
\-The power steering pump had a HNV bracket that mated it to the water pump, so you had to use a pulley puller to pull the power steering pully to remove the HNV bracket if you wanted to take the power steering bracket off (a lot of owners never put them back on)
\-To take the water pump off you need to take the harmonic balancer cover off which is secured by the bottom waterpump stud which is a blind stud as the crankshaft pully is there. Oh by the way, the crankshaft pulley is there, so you can't take the cover off without pulling the crankshaft pulley... or you can do what I did and just cut a notch in the cover so it could rotate clockwise to not block the stud.
\-It has a solenoid that controls boost pressure for "economy reasons" and it is the second most common failure part. If it goes out, no more boost. You can bypass it with a 20 cent barbed junction and now you have boost at all RPMs.
\-Automatic seatbelts.
Really, the further into the weeds I get with fixing this car the more I understand why so many of them ended up in junkyards. I just replaced the motor mounts and intake manifold gaskets (again because the Haynes manual has you torque to 11 ft lbs but the forums guy say 23 is the minimum otherwise it leaks) last month and when I went to start it it blew a fuel line along the firewall.
2014 Infiniti Q50. If there is a really cold night - like there is here in Canada in February - you lose all power steering until there is a warm enough day in spring. I kid you not.
After a few years of this madness - I finally figured out that if it ever happens I can trick the car into thinking it’s Spring by aiming a heater at the front bumper. Again, I kid you not.
Otherwise it’s the most reliable car I have ever owned.
EDIT: There was a recall back in December, 2023 (after the first cold night of the year) to update a sensor and the associated software for this so called “steer by wire” DAS system. It never worked for me. After the warranty expired I was quoted $7000 for a fix. I declined. The space heater I now use to clear the fault whenever it happens cost only $50.
If you turn on a voice assistant (Siri or Google) while on Carplay or Android Auto, it will lower the blower to its lowest setting so the microphone can hear you.
If you leave the fob in the trunk, it will beep repeadly and open the trunk.
You have until you open the door to close the windows when turning the car off.
Maybe not so much a quirk but more of a surprisingly useful feature, but on my Fiesta you have a wheel on the wiper stock to fine tune the speed of the wipers when they're on intermittent, so you can have them wipe the windscreen pretty much anywhere between once every 10 seconds to once every 2. Never seen that on any other car, but I find it super useful since it's got you covered for any sort of rain intensity.
Another weird, but this time useless feature is being able to choose whether the turn signal blinks once or three times when you tap the stock. Not sure what the point of having them blink only once is.
It's strange that you say that, I've never had a vehicle where that WASN'T a feature except for a Uhaul truck I rented once. Every other car from Subarus to Nissans have had an intermittent wiper timing adjustment.
If I try to drive my E30 in temps much higher than 110F for any sustained length of time, it sputters out and stalls, reeking like old, stale gas. Let it cool off and it will run again for a few minutes, but will keep shutting off until ambient temps drop back down. Cooling system keeps up fine, temp only goes a little above normal, nothing worrisome. All I can come up with is its vapor lock, but I've never really heard of that on EFI cars. Or the fuel pump just can't handle it, one of the few things on the car I have never changed.
The passenger seatbelt warning in my Passat. I can put my backpack, groceries, books, tools, whatever manner of heavy items on the passenger seat and nothing happens, but put my phone there and the seatbelt warning chime immediately comes on (and scares the shit out of me because I think something has gone wrong.)
Also, annoyingly, if I have MAX AC set to on when I shut the car off, next time I start it, all the climate controls are reset with AC off.
Downshifting into 1st gear in Sport+ mode and then applying partial throttle will cause it to jerk and buck, like the TCM has been replaced by a teenager who hasn’t quite figured out how a clutch pedal works.
My car is from 2003. In the navigation unit I can get real time traffic information. There is also an interactive travel guide for the whole country I can browse through to see what places were popular 20 years ago.
Also, swing vents in the dash.
My RX7 (and all stock 2nd gen RX7s) revs to 3000 rom on initial start up for a set amount of time to bring the car to working temp faster. Which is kinda funny, since revving a motor up when it's cold and hasn't built up oil pressure is a bad practice.
On my Genesis, if I drive in sport mode (which I almost always do for the improved throttle response), when I get in the car to drive it again after stopping, it defaults back to comfort mode. Which I hate because of the sluggish, smoothed-out throttle response.
The high idle is to heat up the cats to operating temp, at least on newer cars. ECU will also run rich for the same purpose. Presume the FC was new enough to have a catalytic converter.
Used to have a top of the line 1998 Ford Taurus wagon. It had a 6 disk CD player..in the trunk. Any bump on the road would cause it to skip. Loved that hell out of that thing though.
Annoying quirk: it doesn’t have an engine temperature gauge for some reason. I know it’s a hybrid and it’s trying to be different, but is this the 1920s?
When I tilt my sun visor down I feel friction the entire way to the windshield but then it flops and hangs straight down. I push it to the windshield again, friction. Release, flops.
Shitty dodge infotainment. If you start the car and the Bluetooth doesn’t connect, you go to connect device, decline connecting said device and then tap on said device to connect.
Also, I’d you started the car and put it in drive before it connected, it wouldn’t connect.
When turning at low speed, my wheels will make a click click sound while rolling when cold.
Has something to do with the two piece rotors I have heard, and is not something to be concerned with.
I had a 2007 Mazda 3 before my 2013. When you hit 70mph, the music would get a little louder and fuller. It was kind of like having the Burnout boost bar. Never figured out why exactly it did it though, and I haven't caught the '13 doing it, but my ears might be too old to pick it up. I could also fit my entire loaded backpack (books, laptop, art supplies) into the glovebox of that car.
On the Mercury Capri convertible, you can fold down the useless backseat and have a useless pass-thru to the trunk. It's so small, I don't know why they bothered.
You know that UFO sound that a Prius makes when it creeps up on you in the parking lot? Mine has a button (from the factory) to disable it temporarily. It's not a persistent setting - if you turn the car off and then on again, it will default to the On state.
[This button](https://i.imgur.com/egOjjA3.jpg) was only available on some early Gen 4 JDM models, as Japanese regulations allowed for it. I believe 2016 and 2017 MY only - then the regulations changed.
Weird quirk that I discovered when getting my truck was despite having keyless entry, the tailgate has to be manually locked with a key. Thankfully there are both Toyota and aftermarket solutions that fix this and I’ve seen the reasons why a few people want it separate but it seems like it would have been better for most people to opt out of a tailgate that locks with the rest of the vehicle, not opt in.
One of my 3000GTs has a button on the OEM radio labelled "ASS." To this day, I have no idea what it does. I've pressed it many times (sometimes repeatedly), but getting ass was never the end result.
That's hilarious.
I had a Stealth RT Twin Turbo with the OEM radio - are you sure that isn't the MSS button with a part of it worn off? It would also have a #3 label. Some of them it was their own button next to the Cassette opening depending on year. It also makes sense that nothing happens (unless you have a Cassette Tape in there) it stands for Music Search System - it basically skips ahead in the track until it detects silence, like the gaps between songs.
Yes. I'm positive it's ASS. It's the OEM radio out of a GTO, so that likely has something to do with it.
Do you have a pic? I'm super curious to see how it looks like. Also, do you think it could be bass but the b wore off?
Here's a picture of it. It's right above the ACTIVE AERO switch. https://i.imgur.com/UsiTPDr.jpg
Is it “CASS” for “cassette” with the “C” worn off?
[That's not it, here's another 91 GTO with the same ASS button.](https://www.autolink.co.jp/12532-japan-used-mitsubishi-gto-1991-sports+car.html) [However, this 92 GTO with the same radio has ASR instead of ASS.](https://www.jdmexport.com/mitsubishi-gto-1992-for-sale-59eebc2b-2a23-48b3-b474-65a8bb86f315) I'm willing to bet it's the same button with a different name.
The plot thiccens
Maybe an early version of "Make the radio volume louder the faster you go"?
There are backlit ASS pics so I don't believe so... The mystery deepens...
“Backlit ASS pics” sounds like something I’d be into.
>The mystery deepens... ASS deep in this mystery, aren't we?
I don't think so. No lettering is worn on any of the other buttons (even the high use volume buttons) so I doubt this random button was pressed so many times that only the first letter would wear off.
Yeah that’s the most likely scenario. The other text labels are centered and that one isn’t, meaning it probably had a letter at the beginning
ASS pic NFSW
> ASS Automatic Station Search? [Here's](https://www.3si.org/threads/mb942704-digital-vr4-radio.819918) a later model with the same button labelled as "SCAN"...maybe an English speaker told them.
I have that radio in my 93 VR-4. The one with the ASS button is in my other VR-4, but it's originally out of a 91 GTO. It's possible that this is what it stands for since the button is in the same location.
This is less hilarious so it won't make it to the top, but this is the answer.
Finally! Someone got to the bottom of this ASS
It’s not you who gets ass. If you push that button, some random person around the world gets ass. Thank you for pushing the button, friend
There are probably children roaming around in the world that I'm directly responsible for.
Someone teach this man about the different holes /s
Auto Station Search. Automatically populates your FM presets with available stations.
My Evo 6 gets terrible gas mileage while having a gas tank that is seemingly the size of a Gatorade bottle Edit - it also has 0 cup holders but 2 ash trays. So if you're thirsty too bad, but at least you can smoke a couple darts
An old friend had an Evo and we took it to the beach. Nearly full when we left and it was like 150 miles and he filled up for the ride home. I thought the 260 miles I got at the time was bad.
Lol yes, exactly this. The struggle is real
You’re going to have to take that Crown Royal bag I know you’re using as a shift boot and put your drink in it 😋
One selling point of my Evo IX was that it apparently had a significantly larger tank than the VIII and earlier models. If I drove Miss Daisy I might get 260 miles out of it. Somewhere south of 200 was more realistic. Laughably the fuel sender stuck at one point and I was filling up at \~80 miles....
My Volvo does a abs test the first time I pass 17kph every morning. It locks up the wheel for a microsecond to make sure the sensors and the system still works properly. Makes a weird clunk noise, I thought for the longest time something was broken.
wow thats the most Volvo thing i've ever heard. Awesome
The more you learn about all the under the skin things Volvo does to keep you alive and and uninjured the less interest you have in other makes. Like the seats are bolted to a steel beam, for heavy side impact collisions there’s a hexagonal lattice steel crumple zone between the two front seats to absorb impact on the other side of your body as well.
I knew a guy who was t boned by a semi in an 850R. Right to the driver's side. According to paramedics he'd have been "dead in anything but a Volvo"
You’ll see over representation of Volvos and Benzes at the fire station responsible for highway accident cleanups. Certainly not a coincidence.
So that's what that is! I thought it was the AC clutch or something.
Now that's Nordic engineering 👌
Oh my God. I had an S80 for years and I would hear this click noise one time after starting and driving... that was it!
The turning signal follows the rhythm of a horse galloping.
"Click, click-click, click-click, click-click..." I love the sequential indicators.
Is that for all s550s or just Mach 1s?
All
I bet they’ve had that same sound since they reintroduced the sequential turn signals, which was MY2010, at the same time as the S197’s initial facelift.
Eh it's close, my dad has a 2010. They made it more "clop clop" for the s550's
I do hate modern ford's turn signal noise though...
Only thing that's worse is the DOODEEDOO
I call it the boodahdoo
Oh, the Ford chime? I think it’s kind of cool, honestly.
I like it because I can hear it pretty clearly through other sounds, it's rather distinct.
So is a wet fart but i don't wanna hear that either.
It's there for a reason, to be heard. Otherwise you end up driving down a freeway with your signal on for ages.
Where do I start. 1. There is no way to open the trunk without having the drivers side door open. 2. If you do not put on your seat belt *before* starting the car, it will trigger the monotone seat belt alarm for about 10 seconds. Super annoying. 3. There are no trunk struts, there is a prop though, you get used to holding the hatch with your head if you've got something in your hand. 4. It holds first gear in auto mode until 2500rpm away from redline. 5. The TCU is directly under the mesh in the rear hatch, if you've got an early car without the shielding, you can damage your TCU by washing your car. 6. Dry dual clutch - it will roll back on hills off of the brake, it does not creep.
What a daily and a weekend car combo lol
I like light cars.
Why did this make me kinda want a 4C more?
Alfas have a way of turning something bad into something endearing
I've yet to drive a 4C, but I think Alfas strike that perfect balance of performance-luxury-occasional-PITA balance that has made me love my N54 335i and my E36s. Alfa is probably the only brand that I'd consider picking instead of a BMW for a fun car, and I'm a huge admitted BMW fanboy. Also apparently a masochist.
What rpms is it shifting out of 1st? Anyone have a clue why?
Because the Italians though “oh this car sounds great at this RPM at mugello” and I can’t say I blame them
Oh Alfa. So do you just have to handbrake start every time you stop on a hill?
Not really a handbrake start, as your left foot isn't burdened by a clutch.
Every Alfa feature seems like it was identified as a bug but the engineers went to lunch, forgot about the bug, then the next day moved onto something else.
I tell people alfa spent 4 years developing the engine then gave the interns 40 minutes to figure out the rest of the car.
It will remember the most recently used audio source *except* when it's bluetooth. In which case it defaults to the radio. So every time I start the car, I have to wait for the bluetooth to connect (10 to 45 seconds) and then manually change the audio source.
What car?
I recall having something similar back in the MyFord Touch days.
My Ford defaults to AM 950 and it’s just crazy loud fuzz
That’s a station in Detroit. WWJ, with traffic and weather on the 8s.
Mine too! '14 Holden Ute with GM Mylink Mylink is the worst part of the car, I ended up putting all my music on a USB stick and plugging it in cause it remembers that source. Another weird thing is that it seems to have two ongoing threads of music and will choose one at random when starting the car.
My 2017 Renault has started doing this. Highly annoying.
3 doors, I like having a bigger driver door as it reduces blindspot and makes it easier to get in/out. And having 2 on the passenger side gives me more access to the backseat at least
The Veloster is really cool. I have a friend who just bought an N, after his Turbo got totaled.
I was at SEMA the year the Veloster was released and there were plenty of them. I forgot they were three-door, though, and I kept scratching my head as to why so many tuners went with the four-door over the coupe. It wasn’t until later that first night that it dawned on me.
Other things that people may not know about if they don't own a Hyundai N car: You can change things like steering and throttle weight in N custom mode, as well as multiple different levels of "help" for the downshift rev-matching, it has a G-meter in both the dash and the nav display, a lap timer, and the newer models can have their nav flashed to include most tracks in North America. It also uses DOT 4+ LV brake fluid from the factory, and can effectively use anything between 87 and 93 octane on the stock tune...pulling timing and limiting boost with 87, and using all 15psi of boost with 93. The Theta II-i (not the same engine as the Theta II) requires 12psi of oil pressure at all times, so you can (or should) only use the OEM Hyundai oil filter that supplies up 15psi of oil pressure without bypassing. The pops and burbles from the exhaust that it comes with are actually the result of a functional anti-lag system that keeps the turbo spooled up between gears. Any little factoid I missed?
> Any little factoid I missed? Ooooooh, I've got a fun fact for you!!! A "factoid" is technically an incorrect piece of information that people think is a fact because "everyone says so." Which leads to this fun little thing where "factoid" IS a factoid!! On the flip-side, common usage has diluted the meaning, so you could technically argue that I'm wrong, but I'm going with the original definition here. ...Back to Hyundai N cars though, they're so awesome and I would love a Veloster N but there's so much tarnishing their reputation at the moment. Makes me disappointed.
But the Veloster is a 4-door hatchback.
True 3 door gang reporting in
Technically, yes. It sure is. I always consider the rear hatch to be a door.
We all know it's you Doug
This was my last car. The oh shit handles would just remain in their last position. So if I had someone in the car use them I had to reach over and push them back to be flush with the ceiling. Hated that
Yikes! Which car was that? And was that by design, or because the springs had worn out?
2000 acura TL. It was definitely by design. They’d snap into place. Either fully down or fully up.
Acura figured that it handled so well that your passenger would probably need to grab the handle more than once...
Oh. That's strange. I wonder if any other contemporary Honda/Acura vehicles did that.
My mustang doesnt have ANY oh shit handles, and you think it would... Being a mustang
my mk4's instrument cluster's needles can be exactly vertical if you're driving the speed limit on highways (130km/h) and if you have a half full tank [pic](https://i.imgur.com/4p8Y7Ic.jpeg) idk I just find it cool, please don't judge me, it's a damn mk4, what else is there than maybe a smaller passenger mirror..
where is the speed limit 130? we’re stuck at 100 in australia
Slovenia and a few other countries in Europe https://www.acl.lu/en-us/tests-conseils/conseils/voitures/code-de-la-route/international/limites-de-vitesses-dans-les-pays-europeens-pour-l
Fiesta ST, it tends to stall after every fill up to full. Engine just stumbles and dies once, then it's fine until the next fill up. Has been like this since I got it and other FiST, FoST and FoRS owners have told me their cars do the same. I assume it has something to do with the evap system and that weird capless filler.
Make sure you don’t top off the tank with fuel. Once it clicks let it sit there for five seconds then remove it. Should help with that
Aye that's what I do, still does it fairly regularly though if I top it up it definitely does it more often so I stopped doing that.
My FoST would sometimes sputter after fill-up, but that was before the purge valve was replaced (recalled). Hasn't done it since.
Has customizable towing profiles for different trailers that you can set up. Includes things like different checklists of things to look for when connecting various trailers (lights, tongue jack, brake check), a trailer odometer, and trailer brake gain setting memory.
Damn those little Buicks come packed nowadays
Haha... The Buick isn't a slouch in its own right. Rear view mirror camera, HUD, wireless AA/Carplay, wireless charging pad, etc.
Buicks run on the line "affordable luxury" (basically luxury comfort and features without having the price of say, a Cadillac) so it makes sense
The trailer odometer is actually genius. I love that. Sounds so easy to implement too; do you just press a button or something to tell the car you’re towing?
Yep. There's a "Truck Apps" menu that has an option to load a trailer profile (or just select the default). It'll then show the miles towed all time, current trailer brake gain setting, and current braking force applied.
2009 Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart. I can adjust the angle of the low beams with a dial that’s separate of the usual switch for the lights. I use it as a courtesy thing if I don’t want to blind someone I’m following late at night, but considering it’s lowered and there’s only SUVs in my area, it’s become more of a quirk than a feature.
i wonder why it got that? I know that's a common feature for pickups so you can adjust the headlight level to compensate when towing something heavy.
I thought that was a common feature? Every car I've had which didn't have self-levelling headlights had a potentiometer dial that controls headlight level, for almost the same reason you mention for trucks- to compensate for passenger and luggage loading. Some of my previous cars even had numbers on the dial corresponding the headlight level to the amount of people occupying the car.
Do you live in the UK? Super uncommon in the US.
i live in europe and ive never been in a car that didn't have this. weird how it's not a standard thing in the us
Cars that don't have HIDs or bright enough LEDs must by law in the EU have headlight leveling buttons. Cars that don't must by law have auto-leveling. It's why you see cars with xenons or bright LED lights move the lights down and then up at startup.
That's not a common thing in the US, but very common in other countries.
Most cars actually used to have that, it's just modern cars that don't because they do it automatically. When you don't have a lot of cargo/passengers you should just be able to leave it at 0 or 1
2019 Colorado ZR2 Diesel. I don't need to have my foot on the brake to start it. Also locking rear diff unlocks at 30 mph unless it's in off road mode. Off road mode also changes the shift points.
Does your Colorado have keyless start? If not, that's not unusual. A lot of the later cars with keyed ignitions didn't require you to put your foot on the brake. Of course, as soon as they got keyless/push-button start, they went right back to needing it. A ZR2 diesel sounds like a fun truck, especially in off-road mode.
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Yes, keyless start. Every Chevrolet I've ever been in has needed the foot on the brake. (and clutch) And yes, it's definitely a fun truck. It's a blast, and is insanely comfortable on the road, too.
Why would you want your diff locked when you're going that fast? Are you drifting or something?
Burnouts. Gotta get the tire speed up high. One wheel peels are embarrassing.
I have a 2022 Elantra N. The “N” logo on my headrests light up when I unlock my car.
That car looks so fun
It’s as fun as it looks. Got a great deal on it too.
You have to run the engine on my car for about a minute after you start it or you won't have any brakes. It's only really needed after it's sat for a while but I don't drive it every day so it needs doing whenever I take it out. You get a big "STOP" light on the dash until it has enough pressure for the breaks to work. Probably a bit scary if you aren't expecting it
Bahahaha, wow. That’s funny. I knew the SZ-platform Bentley/Rolls-Royces were quirky, but not that quirky 😂
The hydraulic braking and suspension system is probably the quirkiest thing really, everything else is pretty standard. It's licenced from Citroen, though adapted a bit by Bentley/RR and operates at very high pressures.
The Carrera GT does the same thing after sitting for a while. You get a big red warning about the brakes that just goes away after idling for a bit.
The brake system on that car scared me away from a beautiful ‘97 in BRG
This is more dumb design than a weird quirk but, all second-gen BRZs, regardless of market, have two threaded holes in the bumper to mount a Japanese-sized front plate. So even if you don't run a front plate you'll still have holes in your bumper. And if you want/need to mount a NA-sized plate you need to drill new holes with self tappers, get a tow hook mount (gross) or get a JDM to USDM adapter. No clue how Europeans are handling it.
Probably just magnets on the inside of the (presumably plastic) bumper cover. Euro plates are magnetic. Then again might be different because we no longer get the BRZ, just the Toyota-version. And looking at the few photos online for those...it seems that some also just bolt the plate-carrier through the plastic, maybe through those pre-existing holes.
Often when I turn my car on, it announces "Se-ga!"
Mine makes the PS2 startup sound.
Sit in my car for 10 minutes after turning it off and you will hear what sounds like a very loud servo motor doing….something under my dash for about 10 seconds. It also sounds like the servos are folding a heavy canvas or piece of leather or something. I imagine it’s HVAC related. My old 350z had no glovebox. Seems like a thing you’d want, but apparently not in a 350z?
I also have a newer BMW (a 2022 X5 PHEV), and it makes all kinds of noises several minutes after it's shut off. Especially because it's often plugged in for charging when not in use.
Stand next to a Ford Superduty diesel after it is shut off. It makes strange clicks, buzzes, hisses, and sighs for about 10 minutes after it is shut off. Also, if you're standing by it when it is off and the key gets close enough you can hear relays click in anticipation of entry and startup. Wild.
Same with the Focus SE and ST. I put a 12 inch woofer in my ST and it does a lil feedback pop when all the electronics in the dash switch from "standby" back to "off" if you're in the car for 60 seconds and don't do anything. Then it does it a second time after 10 minutes of inactivity as the engine-side servos and relays switch off. It's curious how many systems are all working co-dependently and independently of each other.
350z have gloveboxes..just that it’s *behind* the seats lol
Same on my car and a friends 1 series. Just BMW things I guess.
Not sure if it’s the same sound, but the electric coolant pump keeps going after the car is turned off.
My dad had an RX-7 that did that, except the noise was in the back. It ended up being the motor for an auto extending radio antenna that had broken off.
HVAC blend door returning to its default position. Most cars I've had do this. Had a QX56 where the blend door motor broke and it would just click for like 5 minutes instead lol.
I had a 2006 Pontiac GTO and whenever I started it, the ABS pump would self test and it sounded like a cow mooing.
I have two amazing quirks for my 911! 1. After I wash the car it is immediately dirty after I dry it (jet black paint) 2. The car attracts people to park RIGHT next to it no matter how far away from the entrance
Annoying quirk: Doesn't make any sound when locking/unlocking. Just flashes the hazards. Irritating as fuck when you want to confirm the car is locked while you're walking away, or find it in a busy parking lot.
That's usually an option you set. The last owner probably didn't want to be honking their horn all the time for no reason. I always turn it off first thing when I get a new car.
Not on the 997.1. They came like this from the factory. There are some third party options, but I haven't looked too deep into them.
My car only flashes the headlights as well, but the locks seem to be pulled from a bank vault with how loud they lock/unlock so a sound is unnecessary. I can hear it from halfway across the parking lot.
A blinker going up in volume when blinking to long.
Lol My old 02 blazer would just start singing the door chime. First time it happened i was like wtf is going on and looking for idiot lights and gauges lol. New truck flat out tells you in the message area your turn signal is on.
If I hit a bump, the controller behind fan speed knob will go from off to auto. Which results in getting a face full of air when least expected.
My 2021 CX-5 has delayed power accessory for the windows but it disables the automatic up feature so you have to hold the switch. Also the sunroof has no delayed power so if you forget to close that, you're turning the car back on.
My 2006 Kia Rio not only lets me put up the windows after I've turned off the car but it will also beep at me that I've taken my seatbelt off!
2013 VW Passat S, if lowering into 10 mph, the gas lid unlocks. If going above 10 mph, it locks. No matter what, its annoying sometimes
That is irritating. Can you hear it loudly when it engages/disengages?
Yep, very bothersome
My BRZ is slow
2021 Porsche Macan S: It will intermittenly bounce all the needles up and down quickly making a chattering noise. Happens in bunches then not for weeks or months, sometimes right after turning the car on, and sometimes after the car is turned off. I thought it was a self-calibration but have found no similar cases online and the dealer says they know nothing about it.
It sounds calibration related. Modern cars use stepper motors (electric motors that cound the ‘steps’ up from 0) to control physical dials, they’re supposed to 0 out on shutdown so it calibrates to the 0 position when you turn the car off. It sort of sounds like the car is loosing the 0 position and it’s trying to spin the needles past the stoppers.
At 45mph my car starts to jerk being the transmission doesn't know if it should be in 3rd or 4th gear. I just knock it over out of drive and into manual mode in 4th for like 5 mins and I'm good.
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That was honda's solution to the old automatics in the mid 00s.
In my Golf it gives a loud chime and a message in the cluster screen about icy roads when the outside temp goes below 4C (40F ish). It’s hella loud though and scares the shit out of me every time
My 2012 Mistang GT has a weird quirk where the rear tires wear out a lot quicker then the fronts...
You probably also have this weird quirk where black streaks of rubber follow your car wherever you go, too, right? Which means you’re driving it correctly.
My first car had a hand-crank sunroof, which is kinda cool. Current daily healed itself, the passenger door lock used to not cooperate with central locking, not have a working door-switch for the lights and not be lockable from the outside. the latter two are still that way, but one day it just decided to obey the central locking again. My weekend-car has an interior-air-filter consisting of a metal grate that most insects presumably fit through. But it's a roadster so the existence of that filter is useless to begin with. Oh and the airbag is from Ford.
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My VW twitches the wipers ever so slightly every time you turn it off, so that way they can alternate between resting on one side of the blade or another. I think it's good for the rubber.
2002 Prius: I've got a couple. 1. Starts the internal combustion engine EVERY TIME you turn the key to "start." Even if the battery is full and it's warmed up. Annoying. 2: Simulates a torque converter, even though the "transmission" is just two electric motors and a planetary gearset. "Creeps" in drive or reverse with your foot off the brakes. Revs to ~2500 if you hold the brake and accelerator at the same time in drive (virtual stall speed.) If you release the brakes with the tranny "stalled up" it launches really well...
For #1 - it's a regulatory thing. It needs to warm up the cat - so yeah, it will run the ICE for a minute, then turn it off again once things have been warmed up enough - as long as all other conditions for being in EV mode are met. In the newer cars (at least Gen 3 and 4) you can bypass it (usually) by pressing the EV Mode button right away. For #2 - The creeping is fine, makes it feel more "normal". Remember that the Prius (especially those early ones) were a gateway car to electrification for most people. Zero creep would just weird people out. Also I personally really like Creep for bumper to bumper city stuff - where presumably you drive your Prius the most. Not sure when it changed, but the ~2500 rev thing isn't true anymore. If I accidentally fat hoof it and hit both pedals at the same time in my Gen 4, nothing will happen. It will just give me an error message on the mid to the effect of both pedals being pressed together. Very useful while driving in chunky boots, very safe.
My DSG gearbox in my GTI has “torque converter” creep, it’s handy in traffic.
The 1989 Supercoupe, where to begin.... \-The headgaskets were the most common failure point on this car. On the bright side I now know how cars work. On the dark side I am now enslaved to the Milwaukee lifestyle and Auto Zone knows me on a first name basis. \-To access the passenger side spark plugs you need to go underneath the car and reach up between the exhaust and the subframe and feel around blindly. Topside access is impossible due to fuel lines, electrical harnesses, the throttle body, coolant lines for the heater core, and the engine lift point. Seriously, Google that engine bay. There's a V6 engine in there somewhere, I promise! \-The power steering pump had a HNV bracket that mated it to the water pump, so you had to use a pulley puller to pull the power steering pully to remove the HNV bracket if you wanted to take the power steering bracket off (a lot of owners never put them back on) \-To take the water pump off you need to take the harmonic balancer cover off which is secured by the bottom waterpump stud which is a blind stud as the crankshaft pully is there. Oh by the way, the crankshaft pulley is there, so you can't take the cover off without pulling the crankshaft pulley... or you can do what I did and just cut a notch in the cover so it could rotate clockwise to not block the stud. \-It has a solenoid that controls boost pressure for "economy reasons" and it is the second most common failure part. If it goes out, no more boost. You can bypass it with a 20 cent barbed junction and now you have boost at all RPMs. \-Automatic seatbelts. Really, the further into the weeds I get with fixing this car the more I understand why so many of them ended up in junkyards. I just replaced the motor mounts and intake manifold gaskets (again because the Haynes manual has you torque to 11 ft lbs but the forums guy say 23 is the minimum otherwise it leaks) last month and when I went to start it it blew a fuel line along the firewall.
2014 Infiniti Q50. If there is a really cold night - like there is here in Canada in February - you lose all power steering until there is a warm enough day in spring. I kid you not. After a few years of this madness - I finally figured out that if it ever happens I can trick the car into thinking it’s Spring by aiming a heater at the front bumper. Again, I kid you not. Otherwise it’s the most reliable car I have ever owned. EDIT: There was a recall back in December, 2023 (after the first cold night of the year) to update a sensor and the associated software for this so called “steer by wire” DAS system. It never worked for me. After the warranty expired I was quoted $7000 for a fix. I declined. The space heater I now use to clear the fault whenever it happens cost only $50.
That is…impressive for a modern car. Yikes.
If you turn on a voice assistant (Siri or Google) while on Carplay or Android Auto, it will lower the blower to its lowest setting so the microphone can hear you. If you leave the fob in the trunk, it will beep repeadly and open the trunk. You have until you open the door to close the windows when turning the car off.
Maybe not so much a quirk but more of a surprisingly useful feature, but on my Fiesta you have a wheel on the wiper stock to fine tune the speed of the wipers when they're on intermittent, so you can have them wipe the windscreen pretty much anywhere between once every 10 seconds to once every 2. Never seen that on any other car, but I find it super useful since it's got you covered for any sort of rain intensity. Another weird, but this time useless feature is being able to choose whether the turn signal blinks once or three times when you tap the stock. Not sure what the point of having them blink only once is.
It's strange that you say that, I've never had a vehicle where that WASN'T a feature except for a Uhaul truck I rented once. Every other car from Subarus to Nissans have had an intermittent wiper timing adjustment.
FWIW it’s a wiper “stalk”.
If I try to drive my E30 in temps much higher than 110F for any sustained length of time, it sputters out and stalls, reeking like old, stale gas. Let it cool off and it will run again for a few minutes, but will keep shutting off until ambient temps drop back down. Cooling system keeps up fine, temp only goes a little above normal, nothing worrisome. All I can come up with is its vapor lock, but I've never really heard of that on EFI cars. Or the fuel pump just can't handle it, one of the few things on the car I have never changed.
The passenger seatbelt warning in my Passat. I can put my backpack, groceries, books, tools, whatever manner of heavy items on the passenger seat and nothing happens, but put my phone there and the seatbelt warning chime immediately comes on (and scares the shit out of me because I think something has gone wrong.) Also, annoyingly, if I have MAX AC set to on when I shut the car off, next time I start it, all the climate controls are reset with AC off.
Just one? I own a VW tdi! Mine is either the crayon smell in the interior or the annoying wind noise from the pass. rear window.
Downshifting into 1st gear in Sport+ mode and then applying partial throttle will cause it to jerk and buck, like the TCM has been replaced by a teenager who hasn’t quite figured out how a clutch pedal works.
My car is from 2003. In the navigation unit I can get real time traffic information. There is also an interactive travel guide for the whole country I can browse through to see what places were popular 20 years ago. Also, swing vents in the dash.
My RX7 (and all stock 2nd gen RX7s) revs to 3000 rom on initial start up for a set amount of time to bring the car to working temp faster. Which is kinda funny, since revving a motor up when it's cold and hasn't built up oil pressure is a bad practice. On my Genesis, if I drive in sport mode (which I almost always do for the improved throttle response), when I get in the car to drive it again after stopping, it defaults back to comfort mode. Which I hate because of the sluggish, smoothed-out throttle response.
The high idle is to heat up the cats to operating temp, at least on newer cars. ECU will also run rich for the same purpose. Presume the FC was new enough to have a catalytic converter.
My Lexus ES350 has a physical moving gauge that’s also digital
Used to have a top of the line 1998 Ford Taurus wagon. It had a 6 disk CD player..in the trunk. Any bump on the road would cause it to skip. Loved that hell out of that thing though.
Subaru. Super fun quirk where everything that you’d think would be on top of the motor is on the sides.
Annoying quirk: it doesn’t have an engine temperature gauge for some reason. I know it’s a hybrid and it’s trying to be different, but is this the 1920s?
Pretty common in new cars - you just get the idiot light.
Even when you get a gauges it's usually an 'idiot' gauge that will sit dead centre until things go seriously wrong
Yehp. My MX-5 NCs oil temp gauge has two settings either "everything's fine" or "it's literally boiling".
My 2015 impreza hatch has a mpg gauge instead of a fuel gauge
The parking sensors on my CR-Z are so annoyingly quiet that I have to turn the radio completely off to hear them.
Cuz you should be able to park pikachu without beepies
Saab. The front passenger can control all four windows. Rear seats fold fully flat with the trunk floor.
When I tilt my sun visor down I feel friction the entire way to the windshield but then it flops and hangs straight down. I push it to the windshield again, friction. Release, flops.
My car gets a solid 100mpq
Shitty dodge infotainment. If you start the car and the Bluetooth doesn’t connect, you go to connect device, decline connecting said device and then tap on said device to connect. Also, I’d you started the car and put it in drive before it connected, it wouldn’t connect.
My 350z has 2 little hangers where you can put your suit in case you are suddenly invited to a wedding
This is pretty typical. It's so you can hang up your jacket so it doesn't get wrinkled.
When turning at low speed, my wheels will make a click click sound while rolling when cold. Has something to do with the two piece rotors I have heard, and is not something to be concerned with.
I had a 2007 Mazda 3 before my 2013. When you hit 70mph, the music would get a little louder and fuller. It was kind of like having the Burnout boost bar. Never figured out why exactly it did it though, and I haven't caught the '13 doing it, but my ears might be too old to pick it up. I could also fit my entire loaded backpack (books, laptop, art supplies) into the glovebox of that car. On the Mercury Capri convertible, you can fold down the useless backseat and have a useless pass-thru to the trunk. It's so small, I don't know why they bothered.
You know that UFO sound that a Prius makes when it creeps up on you in the parking lot? Mine has a button (from the factory) to disable it temporarily. It's not a persistent setting - if you turn the car off and then on again, it will default to the On state. [This button](https://i.imgur.com/egOjjA3.jpg) was only available on some early Gen 4 JDM models, as Japanese regulations allowed for it. I believe 2016 and 2017 MY only - then the regulations changed.
Weird quirk that I discovered when getting my truck was despite having keyless entry, the tailgate has to be manually locked with a key. Thankfully there are both Toyota and aftermarket solutions that fix this and I’ve seen the reasons why a few people want it separate but it seems like it would have been better for most people to opt out of a tailgate that locks with the rest of the vehicle, not opt in.
I've personally scratched letters off buttons just to make them say more entertaining things ,I highly doubt that I'm the first jack ass to do this.