What are some weird quirks and cool features of your car?

What are some weird quirks and cool features of your car?

It comes with a little flashlight in the glovebox that you plug back in to recharge.

>2002
>pwr windows/locks/AC/cruise/alloy rims
>no abs

>center console opens left to right instead of front to back.
>little compartments in the bed
>low tire pressure light wont go off

There is little vw logos inside my headlights

Midsize early 2000s hatchback

Features:
>rear seats are removable and can be used outside the car
>multiposion cargo divider/shelf that can be used as a table
>fold-flat passenger seat that can double as a work desk
>has a power point in the hatch area
>map pocket on back of driver’s seat has a little subdivider in it
>all fuses can be checked while in driver’s seat

Quirks:
>LLLOOOONG clutch throw and teeny-tiny bite point
>highest setting on heated seats results in first degree burns through jeans (not kidding)
>headlights are so hazy they are basically useless
>handbrake doesn’t engage until it’s pulled to the last click
>Rear hatch gas struts don’t work in the cold so you need to hold it up
>window lockout switch must be on when starting in temps rear wiper activates when you turn left hard or hit a bump, stays on until you turn the car off and restart it

only the driver's door can be locked
UNIQUE FEATURE!

>have 2 door pickup
>for some reason still have power locks

Hidden key compartment near the wheel, so you can drive your girl to a local pool, skinny dip and not have to take your key in your butthole

Has no b-pillar and electro sun shades

Forgot to add
>Chavvy exhaust and battery where the spare wheel should go
>Lights are in the clamshell, so you can blind passing planes if you open the bonnet with the lights on
>Supercharger screams and exhaust pops draw disapproving looks from oldies

the speedometer cable squeaks between 30 and 45, but if you hit the dash with a closed fist it stop for an average 4 minutes

It tries everything it can to appear luxury, while not being luxurious and continue being the econobox that it is. Fucking Honda, do something new with the Accord and stop trying to copy BMW.

>It previous owner fitted a fully 3 inch exhaust system, except for the cat which is only 2.5 inch
>It has extractors that run too close to the engine which means knock sensors or now considered a consumable part
>aftermarket push button start except the key must be inserted and turned to the on position for the ecu to activate.
>two tactical bags of concrete in the back for increased downforce that can be easily disengaged for burnout mode/drift mode

you can see the engine from inside the car

you set the wiper interval by moving the stalk up and down at the interval you want a couple of times

the steering wheel will vibrate hard at 65mph but disappear completely at 70mph

I had to disconnect the electrics that open the tailgate because there's a fault somewhere in it that makes it unlatch randomly, for no reason.
The dash pad is held in with velcro and rivets, which means it's a little noisy.
Whoever ordered it wanted power windows, locks, leather, a V8, but no TCS.
I have T-tops!

>Have V6 Mustang
>For some reason no matter what I do fix etc my car shudders/lops when driving from 30-50 mph

2002 Audi a3
Storage space fucken everywhere
>slide out box under seats
>glovebox with removable floor to fit more shit in
>3 storage spaces in centre console
>storage space in centre armrest
>2 small storage spaces for coins or whatever under the armrest
>storage space to the right (or left if not in bongland or bogan land) of the steering wheel
>standard spaces in the doors

It's the perfect car for autists who want everything to be neat, you can assign different spaces for different things

my car has a third pedal, I don't think any other car has that

No matter how much I tighten things up. No matter how nicely I shift gears. My 1999 Cobra's rear suspension will clunk.

Torquing everything down and maybe even loctiting some things just moves clunk to another part of the car.

First it was my diff bushings. Then my driveshaft. Now it's my limited slip.

I have a 2013 Ford Focus. The transmission is shit. Does that count as a quirk?

Sometimes if I take a corner too fast, the seat makes a screaming noise.

Where does your steering wheel go? Does it come back? How do you steer while it's gone?

lockable compartments behind the seats. a good place to store a your handgun

DD Honda Fit
>second charging port inside center console
>cup holder in front of AC vent to keep drink hot or cold

WW Saab 900 Turbo
>ignition is in center console

My car only blows hot air through the floor and defrost vents, the dash vents are cold air only.
This is intentional and it comes from the factory this way.

>What are some weird quirks and cool features of your car?
It weights over 100 kg less than a 1st gen NA miata with doubble the seats and airbags.
It was sold under 3 different names from 3 different manufacturers with a 4th manufacturer designing the engine.
It has no glovebox.
The exaust manifold and catalythic converter are one part.
The engine weights less than 70 kg with all ancillaries and fits on a sheet of paper.
Forged conecting rods, but a limiter at 6400 rpm.
Understeer at normal speed, oversteer over 100 mph.
Air filter integrated in valve cover.
Tires 40 mm more narrow than prius tires.

>Driver door lock locks all door locks without a stupid lock switch.
>It moves 'slow' when speeding.
>Engine temp is still under 80°C @4.5-5k RPM
>Speedometer is only 85mph.
Also rear doors have ashtrays.

What car?

Passenger seat folds to a practical table (or a rear seat foot-rest)

My car has this electronic toll collection thing which has a Japanese woman say something every time I turn the car on. It's pretty cool.

Tata Nano?

>all four window controls in centre console
>Only the rear doors have window controls on them
>front windows have automatic down that works half the time but not up
>It's a $40,000 sedan made from 2011
Also
>No fuel lid release button
>Press the lid to open it

>tata nano
>100mph
ha

Made in not from

i use my index and thumb to turn the wittle tiny steery stick :3

No, it is not a Tata Nano.
Hint:
The engine design came from Daihatsu

Is this by any chance a Holden/Commodore? They're the only cars I've seen with something as retarded as window controls in the centre.

Yup, VE Commodore

Skoda?

Radio antennae can be removed and used to slimjim the door open incase you lock the keys in it

Get your tracking fixed m8

Nothing I can think of on my current car, but on my old car, the only way to open the boot was a button on the keyfob. There were no buttons or switches anywhere inside or outside the car to open it.

I have a shitty early 2000s DVD player to watch movies in the back seat so my future children can watch. Otherwise it's a shitty 2003 Ford Expedition SUV

Well that's a new one.

it werks

whenever I try to unlock it through the door instead of on the fob, the car alarm will go off

u-joint.

Clunking is either your u-joint or your cv joints

V-tec kicks in at 5800rpm
Weights 967kg
Makes 558hp
Daily driver for work
Ethanol 0.68cents of euro per litter life is good

MK5 Fiesta hue edition:
>powersteering
>air conditioning
>electric locks
>FRONT electric windows

>no ABS or airbags
>crank rear windows
>manual side mirrors
>electric trunk release, both in keyfob and dash
>driver interior doorhandle locks and unlocks all doors, no button for it
>height adjustable driver seat
>one touch window down only, driver only
>5spd manual, grinds 3rd sometimes
>shifter right next to hand
>1 liter zetec 4 banger, 70 hp on alcohol
> s e v e n t e e n seconds to 100km/h
pedals have pefect weight
I love that shitbox.

2004 lancer

There is a secret compartment at the very bottom of the trim pannel to the right of the steering wheel that absolutely perfectly holds a 25 pack of cigs

Cupholder inserts for different cup sizes.

plug in obd2 to turn on the radio without key.
also it makes the abs light turn on afterwards :S

My e36 has this (doesn't work anymore though)

No, bmw. Skoda has it too?

You can find replacements online real cheap. I discovered it when I was changing spark plugs late at night. I’ve never been more thankful for such a small feature in my life than in that moment.

>cup holders take a good 25 seconds to deploy after I click them, gets even worse in the cold
>they are useless anyway, since they grip the cup about an inch and a half from the bottom. I have do doubt I can flip them with turning
>leather seat makes a very strange sounds with one of my jeans but not the other pairs
>late enough to have a built in 90s GPS which still works pretty well, but seems not to like the cold very much and becomes slower
>Early enough not to be a nanny about headlights or seat belts
>not sure if it counts as a quirk, but the rims look much better when they are a little dirty than when they are perfectly clean
>brakes squeal and squeak like masochistic slav
>motherfucking orange lighting on the center console
>Gearstick knob has background lighting in orange, big emblem in the center
>leather and wood door panels
>pearlescent black-blue-purple paint
>split folding rear seats, with "ski-pocket"

She is such a bitch sometimes but I still love her

Early 00s volvo?

What kind of tach is that?

Clean maf?

ok so what youre saying is.. you havent adjusted your clutch bite point. heated seats arent buggy thats a feature,
polish your damn headlight assys
adjust your brakes or get new shoes for the parking brake
how much do gas struts cost? 20 bucks each? come the fuck on.

balance your wheels and get an alignment bruh.

2007 Ford focus S, no power windows, doors or mirrors. No abs, which actually caused me to hit a guardrail Saturday. Our 03 taurus has fucking abs (and pwr locks, windows, mirrors) and it's the base model.

>window controls in center console
Nah, they did it on my car too.
Idiots.

The front suspension will pop when you go to fill lock at a stop.
If you want to turn it off before it's warmed up you have to rev it to 3000rpms and turn it off pressing the gas the whole time or else it'll flood.

>open driver door
>Dome lights turn on
>Open right rear door
>Dome lights turn off
>Open passenger door
>Dome light turns on

>Hard left turn
>Rear speakers stop working

>Turn key to start engine
>Motor cranks, but engine won't start
>Release the key
>Engine comes to life

Cool, my mom's Liberty does that.

I think a lot cars with factory alarms do that.

It does this super cool thing where it blows a massive fuse leaving me with no lights or gauge cluster if I start it with the driver-side door open.

No really, it's super cool and doesn't make me want to hang myself on the reg

>Side skirts were starting to bubble rust
>Try to kick rust out so I can Bondo it
>Side skirt crunches and crumbles instead of acting how metal should
>wtf.mp4
>Take a closer look
>Side skirt is made of expanding foam
>Peel away more paint and foam
>Tools fall out
>Fucking wrenches and screwdrivers
>Pull out crumbled up newspaper from 2005
>mfw the side skirt had rusted out on one of the previous owners, so they "fixed" it with foam.
>The tools were in there so a magnet would stick due to the metal, therefore not failing the magnet test during the state inspection
>mfw free tools

12v power outlet

STI badge in the console lights up with the dash lights

It goes through a cv axle every 6 months

The cd drive is in the trunk but there is a casette tape port on the dash

The gas cutoff is quite violent when you start coasting

Is she your waifu

Boi wtf

What car?

base model with bluetooth but no cd player?

I believe E34s did that too. Or at least they had some control that's usually on the door on the center console instead.

>buys ricer tach
>can't fix his speedo cable

nigger

Benz?

Roadtrek 190 camper van

>built in Nova Scotia in the 90's
>has an odometer in KPH
>interior uses all screws with the square head fittings. (I don't know why I've never encountered these before, the design seems great)
>has a shower in it and a hot water heater which is cool for a vehicle that old.
>has a little joystick that you can push to wherever you want the sound directed but one of the rear speakers didn't work so I took it out
>has long push buttons and levers for all the A/C heat settings, half of which don't work.
>Driver mirror has been replaced with non-power mirror.
>Seats swivel around and have lumbar adjustments but don't recline.
>I took out the rear seats because I didn't need them.
>Fuel gauge is broken
>no tachometer
>stove goes from zero to full in between the second and third hashmarks
>exhaust for generator is just dangling unsecured
>still uses grease fittings
>solar panel only charges rear battery so you have to plug it in when not in use to maintain starting battery
>more cranking amps on rear battery than starting battery
>bed turns into dual couches with option for table inbetween
>5.9L engine but only makes 150HP
>awning is gone and one of the mounts is missing and one of the other mounts is loose
>engine squeaks sometimes

It's a pile of shit but I love it.

You mean a cigarette lighter or does it have an inverter?

>interior uses all screws with the square head fittings. (I don't know why I've never encountered these before, the design seems great)
Called Robertson, invented by a Canadian, and yes they're great.

looks comfy

I mean it literally has an outlet to plug shit into

The front and rear alloys are noticably different from each other.

How many watts can it handle?

100. I'm not an electrician and never bothered to learn much about this subject. Also as you can probably see I meant 115v, not 12v. I do have two 12v cigarette lighters though

>can't remove key without shifting into reverse, which is how it was designed
>Cup holders are directly behind the shifter
>Cup holders barely hold cups in them. Only good for gatorade bottles

this cupholder that is only good for holding cans and will tip anything taller than a water bottle

>2005 Mustang GT
>Radio has feature that when you drive faster, volume is turned up
>Whenever a secondary gauge is in a danger parameter (overheat, extreme low fuel, low voltage etc) the backlighting on that gauge will turn red.
>Hold unlock on key fob to lower windows.

>Radio has feature that when you drive faster, volume is turned up
>Hold unlock on key fob to lower windows.
both of these are fairly common

Jeep Wrangler JK.

>W124 Mercedes Benz

Asymmetrical side mirrors
One windshield-wiper instead of two
Small useless sun-visor on top of the rear view mirror
Car has 4 air-vents 2 in the middle and one on each side, cool air only comes from the middle ones and hot air only on the side ones
There is a button to lower the headrests of rear seats (For what purpose?)
There is a "missing" tail light bulb in the passenger's side
You can open the hood all the way up but only if you fuck around with small hinges requiring you to walk around the other side of the car at least once to get both of them in the open position
Pneumatic central locking system.
While not specific to W124 I fucking hate the pedal operated parking brake (Seriously WHY is this a thing again?)

Nice 1krfe son

THIS is a 2012 Jeep Liberty.

Unique features:
Fold-flat front passenger seat with built-in tray
Brake lock differential (When off road, uses the brakes to send power to the wheel with the most traction)
Sky Slider (Soft, retractable roof panel)
Reversible, spillproof rear cargo tray
Active head restraints (Deploy forward in a rear collision to reduce whiplash)

Quirks:
The headlights were designed disproportionately large to make the vehicle appear smaller.
The hood is extremely heavy and the hood prop bends slightly from the weight.
Unlike the front door latches, the rear door latches don't make a click sound when opened.
The bumpers extend several inches past the front and rear of the body. The designers realized this would create an easily scratchable surface when loading things into the cargo bay, so they put an unpainted plastic plate over the top of it with a grippy textured surface.
The belt line is completely flat, giving the rear passengers equal amount of visibility out the sides as the front passengers.
The back seats have slightly more headroom than the front seats.

If I stall the abs light comes on when I restart the engine

The circumstances of my cars creation is a fucking quirk

>be GM in 2005
>fully own saab
>have a partial stake in owning subaru
>make saab redesign a subaru impreza to make it fit in with the saab design language
>Tell subaru to make it
>Only sell it in america and canada

Saab 9-2x
only about 10500 were made in total

The brake lights and turn signals and controlled by a cluster of relays and diodes stuffed into an altoids box under the dash.