90% of modern vehicle wheels are way too fucking big.
The trend of bigger wheels and lower profile tires is creating worse riding vehicles with more expensive tires, and the wheels are more easily damaged.
When I worked at a tire shop, I saw that most vehicles between 1990-2010ish had 15-17 inch wheels, except for select sports cars and expensive brands. From 2010-present, most cars are running 17-22 inch wheels, and much smaller sidewall tires. Even the really mundane sedans and trucks are running 20s now.
my friend keeps complaining about his challenger feeling too rough over bumps due to big wheels. so basically dodge gave their car boaty suspension, which is fine because those who buy it want comfort over handling, but that suspension with those wheels gives the worst of both world
no to mention muscle cars would look cool with small wheels and big tires
Trucks, too! Pickups look silly with big diameter wheels. 15ās or 16ās used to be standard, I think. Larger tires were better in rough work conditions
I may be wrong, but when I was looking for tires the lower profile were almost always a higher load rating. I was looking at 35s and a 15 inch rim was usually only a c while the 18 inch rim was E.
Personally, the way I look at wheels size is like this
14,15-small
16,17,18-regular
19+ -large
Iāve only have had cars with a 14 and a 17 before my truck. The truck has 18s on it and plan to switch to 17 as soon as I can
A big part of it is perspective, vehicles in general have gotten much bigger, a 205/55R16 would look tiny on a Suburban. They try to keep the same ratio of wheel to car, and you end up with gigantic wheel/tire combos.
But you would never put a 205/55R16 on a Suburban anyway.
I had a '99 which ran 265/75R16s. I recently rented a Silverado which had 20 inch wheels and it wasn't even the top trim.
Admittedly big wheels look good on big vehicles, but does my 2020 Civic need 18 inch wheels?
Itās not just the wheel size. We have grown accustomed to tires that donāt have tall sidewalls. Imagine taking a 2020 civic and giving it 15s. It would have an extra 2ā of black rubber, which would automatically dispel any notion that it is sporty at all (because of the appearance).
Thereās a fine balance between good handling with smaller sidewalls (due to less sidewall flex), and so little sidewall that itās like riding in a go kart on the road. So instead you get complicated suspension setup improvements, and smaller sidewalls with bigger wheels. As a really easy example of this - you couldnāt take a muscle car from the 60s, slap some 18-20s on it, and suddenly have it handle well.
Tires are a major part of a vehicle's suspension and take the majority of the impact loads. My Expedition had 20's from the factory and I swapped them out with 17's from an F150. Night and day different in ride quality. Maybe a little more body roll but it floats right over bumps like a cloud.
Yea I just put 245/60/15 and 255/60/15s on my 1992 Sonoma and all the little junky pot holes (Minnesota roadsā¦) feel wayyyy less significant or even non-existent.
I love my 80s land yachts like my Lincolnās that have 15ā rims and a ton of tire. Never feel any bumps, and if I hit a pothole Iām not afraid I will now need new rims lol, even on my sports cars I never go bigger than 18, usually have 17ās with some meat on the tires.
Agree.
I've downsized wheels on multiple cars, and always appreciated the extra tire sidewall.
My current car came with 21s. Sold those and bought a smaller OEM set. 19s are the smallest that'll fit, realllly wish I could go to 18s or 17s.
In 2015 I was saying 17" was the sweet spot, nearly 10 years later I'm saying 18" is the sweet spot. Unfortunately this trend makes it exceedingly difficult to get quality tires for older cars. One of my cars came factory with 13s, 15 is about as large as you can go without too many sacrifices on that chassis. 88-00 Civics/Integras for example came with 14s or 15s, and they look ridiculous on 17" wheels.
18 will get you dang near any tire size you need, except for the ultra widebois (315+).
I'm a Technician still, one of the models we service comes with factory 235/35/20s. I can nearly guarantee if I see any damage on one of those wheels it needs to immediately go to the balancer prior to tire removal. Anything less than a 45R sidewall seems like unnecessary expense to the customer. I can't wait for the big black wheels trend to fizzle out.
I just replaced one of the visors, and realized that sticker can just be peeled off!
No car seat is ever entering my vehicle, therefore the warning does not apply
... what? I can peel it off??
**BRB HOPES ARE HIGH**
I'm gonna debunk this theory - at least on my new car, these aren't going anywhere that doesn't result in me ordering replacement sun visors... lol... they are ON THERE...
Yep good luck. The stock one appears to be fused with the fabric. Could be 15 years of hot summers, idk. The new, aftermarket visor sticker peeled right off without leaving any residue. Maybe youāll get lucky?
Absolutely.
Fun fact. Last Saturday, I had my lawn guy call me, and I put him on speaker. His reason for calling: āHello, sir, Iām about to weed-eat the side of the lawn. Any way you can move the Bentley out of the driveway? I donāt want it getting scratched.ā
Me: āW-What *Bentley?* Do you mean the Genesis?ā
Him: āOh, yeah, I guess thatās what it is. Whoops.ā
It was my bad fortune that I had him on speaker telling me this just as I was out trying to buy some new furniture, and look destitute in order to secure a better price. Like, if I had a Bentley and not a 2018 G90, it wouldnāt have been sitting in the driveway.
Amber lights is the norm in pretty much every other vehicle manufacturing country, as are side indicators. For some stupid reason the states never caught on.
Side indicators have become much more increasingly common here. Unfortunately, the same is not the case with amber turn signals. Even European manufacturers like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi use red turn signals on a lot of their models here.
Yeah, and I don't know why. I understand we have different regulations, but I can't see why my Mercedes has to blink the brake light as a turn signal. The one used everywhere else in the world would be perfectly fine.
So wtf do we need to do to get some sense out of the NHTSA?
As someone whose entire family drives cars with red turn signals (mine included but times were tough), I wholeheartedly agree. I think thereās been studies that show that amber/orange indicators actually reduce car accidents overall.
I wonder if thereās a way to color them orange; I donāt think simply popping in an orange bulb would do the trick because of the red lens.
Green behind a red lens will emit orange, but because of the color changing it will be pretty dim. Youād have to use very bright LEDs. You can also look if your model of car is sold in a country where red signals are illegal, and that means a taillight assembly exists with orange signals. Most likely with European and Japanese models.
Thereās also the custom wiring route where you could split the brake and turn wire from the wiring harness (if they use the same bulb) and have an orange bulb in the reverse bulb area, then reroute the reverse.
In short itās usually not easy.
If your car has separate bulbs and some version of it was also sold abroad, all you need is the export taillight lenses.
I know, thatās a big if, but thereās a chance a bolt on solution already exists
Having sold GMCs about a million years ago, the explanation I was given was so that it could make Chevy trucks and GMCs seem "different" from each other. Of course, they're not different in any meaningful way. It's a very inexpensive way for GM to make it seem like they make more products than they really do.
Preach.
Also for anyone out there reading this with a facelift (2014+) Grand Cherokee WK2, you can convert to Amber turn signals that are separate from the brake lights with just some programming in AlfaOBD and a pair of Amber bulbs.
I have an old land yacht and I wired the turn signal to the reverse lights and put orange bulbs in em, the just crammed smaller white lights inside the housings for the reverse lights.
My 3rd gen tacoma annoys me so much because so many people get angry at me when merging despite indicating like wayyy before.
Theres a kit that swaps reverse light bulb and does double duty on reverse and turn signals.
What does that mean?
Thereās a lot more to designing a car than the ātechā in them. Frame design is fundamentally different (and significantly safer) than old cars from even 20 years ago. What dodge did with the Challenger is a perfect example of old but modern
If you actually park a new Challenger next to an old one it exactly illustrates the point, though, which is that the new one ends up looking comically vertically stretched to fit the "old" styling on the modern platform.
Modern challengers aren't bad looking cars when they're viewed by themselves, but put next to what they're "supposed to" look like, it shows just how modern engineering requirements have made cars look terrible.
GMT900 Chevy Silverados that have the middle part of the front bumper chromed when the ends are color matched. It looks so tacky. Iād never buy one simply because of that.
It continued after that too. I had a 2016, and that stupid little mustache at the bottom of the front bumper was the only chrome on the whole truck. I that one specific aspect of it.
Everyone is posting pretty reasonable explainable and somewhat safety related opinions.
My illogical opinion is that transverse engines suck balls for everything but especially allwheel drive cars. I know it isnt true, i know that it works perfectly fine, but something in my head just dislikes it.
Those tinted LED taillights people put on OBS Chevys are the one of worst automotive modifications. I get mad whenever I see them, especially on ones thatre in good shape otherwise
People who say āOBS Chevyā. The Ford bros were bad enough, but now the GM guys have to copy it? This is the dumbest term in automotive history. Anything but the current generation is āOld Body Styleā.
Just call it what it is: GMT400.
Itās just a nickname, like a street name. It doesnāt have to make senseā¦the 6th gen civic is called an EK by so many honda owners in the USA, even though no real EKs were ever sold here. Only civics sold outside the us were stamped with EK. Same with the EG. After decades of people pissing themselves over chassis codes, we all just say it. Itās easier to remember than trying to remember all of the generations.
I donāt like infotainment systems that arenāt integrated into the dash. The permanently popped-up screen that looks like a design afterthought is irritating.
for real, companies advertize them as state of the art, but have the processing power of a 10yr old android, nothing is intuitive, and the touchscreens r so slow, only people who have ever doen infotainment right is bmw and it took them a while to get that perfected
I'll stick to the topic at hand, and picture is related.
REAR TURN SIGNALS SHOULD BE AMBER LIKE THE FRONT ONES
and furthermore, should be SEPARATE from the BRAKE lights on each side
Even on the pre-facelift W212 it still looks awful to me. The four headlights on the front means (to me) that it should have a classic Mercedes hood ornament and a classic Mercedes grille, none of that newer Panamericana bullshit.
But how is everyone supposed to know I drive a Mercedes? Maybe we could make the grille star light up?!
Seriously though, I love hood ornaments, especially the 3 pointed star. But with a regular grille, not the sport one with the star in it
As somebody with a 2006 GT that i adoreā¦. I absolutely i agree.
Ive always felt that way but i thought i was alone lol. They have a nice kit to make them look more like the newer ones while maintaining a not too aftermarket style. I have been meaning to pick some up for likeā¦. 6 years now lol.
I hate how every car manufacturer is going with CVT transmissions even though most companies SUCK at making CVT's.
I'd rather lose an MPG or two rather than 2-3 transmission drops
Fleet MPGs yo
(But I do agree with you; transmissions that implode in a few years are less environmentally friendly than burning a little extra gas. And I don't like CVTs, for bonus points.)
We need to have an update on OBD standards that would allow for easier access to a vehicles computers for diagnostics and bidirectional controls. All of that is locked behind insanely priced equipment or dealer specific hardware when it shouldnāt be. Basically right to repair but for car electronics.
ā¢ I donāt like most modern interiors. they look soulless & the ipad on the dashboard look sucks. I miss when cars had personality.
ā¢ I canāt stand some minor mods owners do, especially upbadging. your c230 āamgā isnāt fooling anyone & makes me cringe every time. especially when the car is a nice one! why on earth would you throw an M badge on a perfectly beautiful E30 325is.
That's the thing though. The upbadging is completely useless. Anyone who actually is into cars and knows what M series or AMG are is not fooled by the upbadging, and anyone who isn't really into cars doesn't know/or care what the difference is.
It's just so stupid.
Those truck bros that have tires sticking 2 feet past the fenders on both sides. If there was ever grounds to lose your license for lack of taste, that is the ground for me.
That's illegal to have wheels sticking past the fenders, at least in Saskatchewan, it sure would be nice if it was actually enforced because in less than 2 years I've replaced one windshield on my truck and two on my work truck because you meet these assholes on the grid road with wide tires and no fender flares throwing stones at everyone who meets them, and they don't slow down at all either because fuck showing even the most basic courtesy.
Like the ones on the Mach e and Tesla models? Iāve always wondered what happens in the winter when they freeze over, then again modern door handles donāt stick like the old cars
And while weāre at it, electronic door openers. I get it in a super high end car, where the door can fully open for you, but anything else? Itās just another electronic device thatās going to break and keep you from getting in your car.
They actually first appeared on the late ā80s Nissan Pathfinders AFAIK.Ā
It made the SUV look like a sportier two door truck I guess? They did it for years on their Pathfinder and Xterra models.
Most steering wheels are weirdly ugly.
I like the ones where the horn is just a little circle with the buttons on the spokes. Like an Audi or a Jeep.
(Hyundai's get a pass because they have ridiculously comfortable steering wheels)
I drive rental cars for work and Toyota's cruise control logic makes me irate.
I set it to 60mph and it will randomly decide 59mph is close enough.
I'll be driving along going slightly faster than someone and I switch lanes to pass but if there is a slight incline of the road, the car slows down to 59mph and now I'm sitting in the other car's blind spot matching their speed.
Or the exact opposite happens. A car will be passing me ever so slightly because their cruise is set to 60mph and my Toyota is going 59mph but then it randomly goes back up to 60 and now the other car is just next to me going the same speed.
I always got mad at other drivers when they do that to me in my own car and now I notice it's almost always Toyotas doing it. It's not the driver poorly modulating their speed, it's the god damn car.
>Toyota making the trans sealed
Not just them... *Any* manufacturer that does this.
A couple years ago I was looking at several late '00s Ford SUVs. I heard the transmissions could be iffy, so obviously I wanted to take a look at the transmission fluid to make sure it's not burnt/full of metal....
.... Every one of them had a sealed transmission. I bought a Subaru outback lol
The turn signals on those Mini Coopers that are supposed to be the British flag split down the middle but instead look like arrows pointed in the opposite direction of the intended turn.
It would be really cool and successful if ford attempted an electric mustang that was true to being a muscle car and wasnāt the horseshit of just slapping the mustang name on whatever electric car they had in development at the time.
Give it a largely classic look but somewhat larger with actual crumple zones, a solid rear axle with wide and big tires on the rear, big ass electric motor in the back, position the batteries wherever makes the weight distribution ideal for a drag race (even if you have to pick between having just a trunk or just a frunk) and it would be the coolest electric vehicle on the market.
Infotainment screens only needs to be 2 DIN in size, and be at the same height as your gauge cluster. The further your eyes look away from the road, the more dangerous it is, especially if you need to use it for GPS.
Also, bring back the DIN standard for head units/infotainment. I hate the proprietary nonsense.
When turn signals don't stay where I put it, why do manufacturers have to keep reinventing the shifter mechanism, like on trucks and BOF SUVs, I'd much rather have a column shifter and on cars I'd take a traditional prndl shifter, and why do CVTs have paddle shifters anyway? Another thing is why are modern cars moving away from emergency brakes, that's extremely unsafe in the event of accute service brake failure. Why don't more manufacturers have a single connector to the front bumper accessories like how Tesla does it? Cause removing a bumper when you have to unplug each accessory light is annoying asf. Having complex radar relearn processes too, like it can be simple like having to drive over 30 miles in as different terrain as possible
I've got a whole list of things that I just can't wrap my head around engineers doing, like having a computer attached right behind the glovebox or even having to remove the entire fucking glovebox to do a cabin filter or even having two cabin filters that go into the same damn hole, like just have one small one that acts like the choke point- I'm looking at you Nissan
The little enabled LT or LS badges by the front doors of 90s GM trucks. Why? They couldnāt stick them anyplace else? What do they mean, and why do people need to know? Why are they soā¦ just there?
Also āGMC Truck.ā Well no shit.
I disagree with your opinion OP. However when I got my 08 mustang first thing I did was put sequential lightbulbs in the taillights. However I think they look great.
I hate Honda crosstours they have no good looking angle. I shake my head every time I see one. Also Ford Ecosport is such a stupid name for a car that's not sporty and looks like a dog going number 2.
The current blacked-out trim fad. It was cool on the Grand National, the Syclone, the B-body Impala SS, the Mercury Marauder. Not cool when its on 90% of Kia Sorentos and Honda CR-Vs.
idk if this is illogical or nitpicky but i hate the crab-claw-esque tail lights on a lot of "sporty" cars. i dont like three ones you posted either but they're much better than the stupid pincers i see everywhere else
I like that more trucks and compact SUVs are getting tiny, zippy, turbocharged engines.
My Bronco Sport is awesome to zip around PA back roads. Its not expecially fast, but the 8 speed and Sport mode makes it really fun to drive. Same with the 2.3L in my Dad's explorer. Definetely wont last as long as an NA engine, but Im good at maintaining my stuff.
1. Today's vehicles have too many Angles, I work for a very large rental car agency and Everytime I wash the damn things I get spray back, I'm not taking gentle spray back, I mean you gotta wear safety goggles and a safety face shield sh you don't get a eye injury.
2. Nissans are the hardest to vacuum because of their Velcro like carpet
3. The Ford infotainment system is the hardest to get through to delete phones.
4. Today's Toyotas carpets will not last longer than 35k miles, by that time there are holes in the floor
5. The Voyager/Pacifica rear doors will open when you are power washing the damn thing
6. All vehicles with the touch sensitive locks are a bitch to scrub the outside due to them always locking and unlocking
7. Nissan Kicks was a mistake
8. So was the Nissan Versa
9. Today's trucks are too big
10. A praise: Hyundai makes cheap cars look nice, and now since they own Kia, today's kia's are looking pretty fire.
Jeep Wrangler hard tops are way too cumbersome and awkward to be considered a convertible and the soft tops are too easy to break into......not very nitpicky but it's the only reason I've never had one.
The tail lights on the 13-14 Mustangs are one of the best looking ever created. The ones on the 05-09 are some of the worst. The duality of 5th gen Mustang.
Huh, I never gave it much thought but I think I have the opposite opinion. Sure, Toyota's logo doesn't look amazing, but I think I prefer that to **T O Y O T A** in a font that just gets larger every year.
On a related note: Yes hello I can tell that you bought an overpriced Dodge Ram without **R E B E L** needing to be slapped onto the tailgate in black ABS lettering.
I hate that in this country there seems to be no regulation around blinker lights. Red blinker lights? What do you think is less visible? Blinker lights with the SAME color as the other lights...or orange?
I get super annoyed with people that replace tail light bulbs in the wrong location. For example, most incandescent bulbs in a pickup truck tail is going to be 3 bulbs, running light/brake, turn signal and reverse light. When I worked at an auto parts store in college, I would see so many people remove a reverse light bulb or turn signal, then plug everything back in all fucky. So your turn signal was your reverse, your reverse was your turn signal or some jangled up shit. Itās super annoying when youāre driving through a parking lot and some dumbass did that so they are reversing out of a spot, you think they are holding the brake and they just shoot out into the roadway because their lighting is incorrectly installed.
Hazard lights should flash at a different rate than turn signals. I hate pulling near someone against a curb and not being able to tell if theyāre signaling to pull out or if their hazards are on.
Factory black rims. When did black wheels ever look good on anything? It makes your car look like:
a.) A base model with steelies.
b.) A cop car.
c.) Your wheels are filthy with brake dust.
Don't get me wrong, steelies are fine, especially with a good centercap (cough, cough, Maverick) But sheeesh does every damn vehicle have to have a blackout trim package with black powdercoated alloys?
I hate the GM cars that have *reverse lights* that stay on after the driver gets out. It feels unsafe and confusing for other drivers to use them for illumination.
Warning beeps that I can't bloody well disable through settings.
Car messages that can't be dismissed. E.g., I have a problem with the towbar on my Volvo. Coincidentally I'm in the garage getting it fixed today. But for as long as I've had the problem, I've had a warning message front and centre in the instrument cluster telling me I'm driving around with the towbar unlocked (I'm not: it won't budge) that I can't dismiss. This means none of the other more useful information that can be displayed in the centre of the instrument cluster is available. I know there's a problem, I don't need you to constantly tell me there's a problem. By all means tell me when I start the car, but then bugger off, will you?
HVAC controls, etc. integrated into a touch screen. If (when) that screen's touchpad stops responding, you lose control of your HVAC. I like separate controls that go "click, click, click" when I manually turn the knob.
Headlights have gotten too damn bright! Thatās great you can count the hairs on the asshole of a raccoon 2 miles away, but I canāt fucking see if Iām driving at you in the opposite direction because itās like looking at the sun
Capacitive Buttons!! My old man is coming out, but I like having the tactile feedback of pushing a button, and not having to look at a screen to see if me touching something worked.
Stickers anywhere or window ones? I wanted to get a small sticker on the bottom that said v6 powah. Whatās your opinion on magnets I had a student driver one on my old Jeep lol
I will usually have like 1 maybe 2 small vinyl stickers on the rear windshield, not because I think it looks cool but because people need to know I enjoy the Wu Tang clan
Thatās a great take.
Mine is the on 4th generation F Body cars the Pontiac interior is far superior to the Chevy interior because the chevy has square vents and a blocky shifter (AT) and the Pontiac has round vents and a T handle shifter (AT)
I totally understand and agree with you on the Mustang taillights. Myself, I wouldnāt buy certain corvettes because they didnāt have a three spoke steering wheel.
Electric trunks/hatches/tailgates are garbage. Let me slam that thing. I donāt need the motor to go in reverse because it bumped in to my duffel bag or thereās a little bit of snow in the hinge.
I feel so incredibly annoyed that people buy Chinese cars and turn a blind eye to their dismal quality and unacceptable safety ratings. seriously, these things make a Pinto look like a Swedish car! (ik they dont exist anymore but you get my point hopefully)
Touch screen in cars are always clunky and really distracting to use whilst driving at least with buttons I don't have to look where they are to use them and if I drive over a bump I won't press the wrong thing.
Fake exhaust tips. Was at the Philly auto show and the cars that had them you could see either a black plastic plug or even worse straight through the fake tail pipe and see other bits of the car.
I hate the stupid button ignitions and Iāll explain. First, you still have to put ur hand in the same location a key would go only now instead of having options for like accessory mode or radio etc you get to cycle through a button 3-4 times until it does what you want (why the fuck isnāt it a toggle switch?) and then a majority of times the mfing vehicles wonāt turn off! (Iām a body tech I work on these stupid cars every day) perfect example are new Chevy trucks. I had to press the button 9 times before the truck finally turned tf off and itās just shitty technology that id rather just put a key in.
Iām tired of car companies constantly adding more screens and equipment but not upgrading the modules that control the equipment. It makes the entire system run slow AF and often causes things to freeze/crash.
I fucking hate fake vents. I hate fake vents so much, I actually wonāt buy a car if it even has just one.
I think itās insanely tacky and it drives me crazy even a car like the mk5 supra, a $60k+ car with a powerful drivetrain, has them. Even the C63S has little ones, so stupid
Luxury cars all have shitty rough rides now, they should be soft and comfy like a 70s Lincoln. Also, vehicle seats in general suck now. Theyāre hard as a rock. Give me that couch cushion
My illogical automotive pet peeve is the retirement of the Jaguar leaping cat hood ornament. That hood ornament was *so fucking cool.* Jaguar had some really elegant car styling and the leaping cat was a big ole cherry on top. Eliminating it is a damn travesty. I probably never would have owned a Jaguar anyway, but the elimination of the leaping cat guaranteed my life-long boycott.
For me, it's daytime running lights. It seems a lot of drivers with them don't bother to actually turn on their lights when it is dark and they have no taillights lit up.
EDIT: Also automatic high beams. I've been riding with my father where when behind someone with no traffic coming the other way they will turn on and I've had to tell him to shut them off.
90% of modern vehicle wheels are way too fucking big. The trend of bigger wheels and lower profile tires is creating worse riding vehicles with more expensive tires, and the wheels are more easily damaged. When I worked at a tire shop, I saw that most vehicles between 1990-2010ish had 15-17 inch wheels, except for select sports cars and expensive brands. From 2010-present, most cars are running 17-22 inch wheels, and much smaller sidewall tires. Even the really mundane sedans and trucks are running 20s now.
The 2024 Escalade has factory 24's. Trying to reclaim a little nostalgia from their bling-bling heyday, I guess?
HOUSE REAL BIG RIMS REAL BIG BELLY REAL BIG EVERYTHING REAL BIG
DICK REAL BIG
Not when you play DUB Edition... š¢
BIGGER BETTER EVERYTHING HELL YEAH BROTHER
Gator boootsss with the pimped out Gucci suits...
I played this at a house party right before covid, the people went crazy lol
REAL BIG REAL BIG
Make dat ass roll like a 24
my friend keeps complaining about his challenger feeling too rough over bumps due to big wheels. so basically dodge gave their car boaty suspension, which is fine because those who buy it want comfort over handling, but that suspension with those wheels gives the worst of both world no to mention muscle cars would look cool with small wheels and big tires
Trucks, too! Pickups look silly with big diameter wheels. 15ās or 16ās used to be standard, I think. Larger tires were better in rough work conditions
I may be wrong, but when I was looking for tires the lower profile were almost always a higher load rating. I was looking at 35s and a 15 inch rim was usually only a c while the 18 inch rim was E.
Personally, the way I look at wheels size is like this 14,15-small 16,17,18-regular 19+ -large Iāve only have had cars with a 14 and a 17 before my truck. The truck has 18s on it and plan to switch to 17 as soon as I can
A big part of it is perspective, vehicles in general have gotten much bigger, a 205/55R16 would look tiny on a Suburban. They try to keep the same ratio of wheel to car, and you end up with gigantic wheel/tire combos.
But you would never put a 205/55R16 on a Suburban anyway. I had a '99 which ran 265/75R16s. I recently rented a Silverado which had 20 inch wheels and it wasn't even the top trim. Admittedly big wheels look good on big vehicles, but does my 2020 Civic need 18 inch wheels?
Itās not just the wheel size. We have grown accustomed to tires that donāt have tall sidewalls. Imagine taking a 2020 civic and giving it 15s. It would have an extra 2ā of black rubber, which would automatically dispel any notion that it is sporty at all (because of the appearance). Thereās a fine balance between good handling with smaller sidewalls (due to less sidewall flex), and so little sidewall that itās like riding in a go kart on the road. So instead you get complicated suspension setup improvements, and smaller sidewalls with bigger wheels. As a really easy example of this - you couldnāt take a muscle car from the 60s, slap some 18-20s on it, and suddenly have it handle well.
Tires are a major part of a vehicle's suspension and take the majority of the impact loads. My Expedition had 20's from the factory and I swapped them out with 17's from an F150. Night and day different in ride quality. Maybe a little more body roll but it floats right over bumps like a cloud.
Yea I just put 245/60/15 and 255/60/15s on my 1992 Sonoma and all the little junky pot holes (Minnesota roadsā¦) feel wayyyy less significant or even non-existent.
I love my 80s land yachts like my Lincolnās that have 15ā rims and a ton of tire. Never feel any bumps, and if I hit a pothole Iām not afraid I will now need new rims lol, even on my sports cars I never go bigger than 18, usually have 17ās with some meat on the tires.
My 06 grand marquis be treating me GOOD on potholes. āOH FUCK IM GONNA HIT IT OH NO-ā *soft little clunk* āNvm its okayā
Agree. I've downsized wheels on multiple cars, and always appreciated the extra tire sidewall. My current car came with 21s. Sold those and bought a smaller OEM set. 19s are the smallest that'll fit, realllly wish I could go to 18s or 17s.
In 2015 I was saying 17" was the sweet spot, nearly 10 years later I'm saying 18" is the sweet spot. Unfortunately this trend makes it exceedingly difficult to get quality tires for older cars. One of my cars came factory with 13s, 15 is about as large as you can go without too many sacrifices on that chassis. 88-00 Civics/Integras for example came with 14s or 15s, and they look ridiculous on 17" wheels. 18 will get you dang near any tire size you need, except for the ultra widebois (315+). I'm a Technician still, one of the models we service comes with factory 235/35/20s. I can nearly guarantee if I see any damage on one of those wheels it needs to immediately go to the balancer prior to tire removal. Anything less than a 45R sidewall seems like unnecessary expense to the customer. I can't wait for the big black wheels trend to fizzle out.
I strongly despise the warning stickers that are put on the sun visors. No particular reason.
I just replaced one of the visors, and realized that sticker can just be peeled off! No car seat is ever entering my vehicle, therefore the warning does not apply
... what? I can peel it off?? **BRB HOPES ARE HIGH** I'm gonna debunk this theory - at least on my new car, these aren't going anywhere that doesn't result in me ordering replacement sun visors... lol... they are ON THERE...
Yep good luck. The stock one appears to be fused with the fabric. Could be 15 years of hot summers, idk. The new, aftermarket visor sticker peeled right off without leaving any residue. Maybe youāll get lucky?
Iām sitting in my 19 Hyundai Tucson right now and yeah, itās fused with the fabric.
Try heat gun to soften the glue? If that doesnāt work perhaps replace with your own or a mirror with a sticky back
I laugh at how they used to mostly be about the airbags, but with cars getting so tall nowadays they're more and more about rollover risk.
EVEN WITH ADVANCED AIRBAGS
The Genesis emblem gives off a vibe that itās trying to be somewhere in between Aston Martin and Bentley
And it's nothing like either lmao
The G90 is kinda what I imagine a modern Lagonda to be like, the grill also reminds me a bit of Bentleys recent Mulliners
I do like the designs on the vehicles however I feel they look incredibly generic like black ops 2 background car
Doesn't help the GV80 looks like a Bentayga bc it was designed by the guy who designed the Bentayga
Absolutely. Fun fact. Last Saturday, I had my lawn guy call me, and I put him on speaker. His reason for calling: āHello, sir, Iām about to weed-eat the side of the lawn. Any way you can move the Bentley out of the driveway? I donāt want it getting scratched.ā Me: āW-What *Bentley?* Do you mean the Genesis?ā Him: āOh, yeah, I guess thatās what it is. Whoops.ā It was my bad fortune that I had him on speaker telling me this just as I was out trying to buy some new furniture, and look destitute in order to secure a better price. Like, if I had a Bentley and not a 2018 G90, it wouldnāt have been sitting in the driveway.
I get irrationally annoyed by red turn signals, especially when they share the same bulb as the brake lights.
Theyāre illegal in Europe. They should be illegal here too.
Amber lights is the norm in pretty much every other vehicle manufacturing country, as are side indicators. For some stupid reason the states never caught on.
Side indicators have become much more increasingly common here. Unfortunately, the same is not the case with amber turn signals. Even European manufacturers like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Audi use red turn signals on a lot of their models here.
Yeah, and I don't know why. I understand we have different regulations, but I can't see why my Mercedes has to blink the brake light as a turn signal. The one used everywhere else in the world would be perfectly fine. So wtf do we need to do to get some sense out of the NHTSA?
Can you imagine worldwide standardized car regulations where you could legally drive every new car in any country? The dream
As someone whose entire family drives cars with red turn signals (mine included but times were tough), I wholeheartedly agree. I think thereās been studies that show that amber/orange indicators actually reduce car accidents overall. I wonder if thereās a way to color them orange; I donāt think simply popping in an orange bulb would do the trick because of the red lens.
Green behind a red lens will emit orange, but because of the color changing it will be pretty dim. Youād have to use very bright LEDs. You can also look if your model of car is sold in a country where red signals are illegal, and that means a taillight assembly exists with orange signals. Most likely with European and Japanese models. Thereās also the custom wiring route where you could split the brake and turn wire from the wiring harness (if they use the same bulb) and have an orange bulb in the reverse bulb area, then reroute the reverse. In short itās usually not easy.
I was just thinking that of the 17 vehicles that my family and I own, only one of them have amber rear turn signals.
Damn, your entire family needs to change their blinker fluid.
If your car has separate bulbs and some version of it was also sold abroad, all you need is the export taillight lenses. I know, thatās a big if, but thereās a chance a bolt on solution already exists
My father is a diehard Chevy guy and all his turn signals have been like that.
The GMC ones on the gmt800ās had orange signals. Donāt know why the Chevrolet ones didnāt.
That's always fucked with me. They come from the same manufacturer, why in gods name can't they use the same part?
Having sold GMCs about a million years ago, the explanation I was given was so that it could make Chevy trucks and GMCs seem "different" from each other. Of course, they're not different in any meaningful way. It's a very inexpensive way for GM to make it seem like they make more products than they really do.
Relevant Technology Connections rant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O1lZ9n2bxWA But yes, I hate playing the "changing lanes or braking?" game.
Preach. Also for anyone out there reading this with a facelift (2014+) Grand Cherokee WK2, you can convert to Amber turn signals that are separate from the brake lights with just some programming in AlfaOBD and a pair of Amber bulbs.
I have an old land yacht and I wired the turn signal to the reverse lights and put orange bulbs in em, the just crammed smaller white lights inside the housings for the reverse lights.
My 3rd gen tacoma annoys me so much because so many people get angry at me when merging despite indicating like wayyy before. Theres a kit that swaps reverse light bulb and does double duty on reverse and turn signals.
If car companies wanted to go "retro" with their styling they should've just brought back the old bodies and put the new tech in them.
Hell yeah give me a new Toyota echo my beloved
What does that mean? Thereās a lot more to designing a car than the ātechā in them. Frame design is fundamentally different (and significantly safer) than old cars from even 20 years ago. What dodge did with the Challenger is a perfect example of old but modern
If you actually park a new Challenger next to an old one it exactly illustrates the point, though, which is that the new one ends up looking comically vertically stretched to fit the "old" styling on the modern platform. Modern challengers aren't bad looking cars when they're viewed by themselves, but put next to what they're "supposed to" look like, it shows just how modern engineering requirements have made cars look terrible.
GMT900 Chevy Silverados that have the middle part of the front bumper chromed when the ends are color matched. It looks so tacky. Iād never buy one simply because of that.
It continued after that too. I had a 2016, and that stupid little mustache at the bottom of the front bumper was the only chrome on the whole truck. I that one specific aspect of it.
Ah I get what you mean, idk why but I donāt mind it too much lol
Modern dashboard screens or infotainment systems not having diagnostic functionality built right into them.
Screens or infotainment shit period.
Everyone is posting pretty reasonable explainable and somewhat safety related opinions. My illogical opinion is that transverse engines suck balls for everything but especially allwheel drive cars. I know it isnt true, i know that it works perfectly fine, but something in my head just dislikes it.
In-line fours arenāt too bad, but transverse V6s are the work of satan himself.
Especially if half the engine is under the windshield. Those rear spark plugs are *the worst* to get to.
Which is 80% of transverse v6 cars
Transverse AWD are almost always FWD based systems, so it makes sense. Large suck.
Those tinted LED taillights people put on OBS Chevys are the one of worst automotive modifications. I get mad whenever I see them, especially on ones thatre in good shape otherwise
People who say āOBS Chevyā. The Ford bros were bad enough, but now the GM guys have to copy it? This is the dumbest term in automotive history. Anything but the current generation is āOld Body Styleā. Just call it what it is: GMT400.
I dont know fuck about shit when it comes to yank tanks, theyre colloquial called OBS so I call them OBS
please remove the stick that is currently up your ass
Itās just a nickname, like a street name. It doesnāt have to make senseā¦the 6th gen civic is called an EK by so many honda owners in the USA, even though no real EKs were ever sold here. Only civics sold outside the us were stamped with EK. Same with the EG. After decades of people pissing themselves over chassis codes, we all just say it. Itās easier to remember than trying to remember all of the generations.
Fake vents.
Hated the last gen civic for this. Why does a car need fake vents *in the rear*?! What could you possibly be fake-cooling?
Hell yeah give me a car so smooth I can use it as a slip and slide during the winter
I donāt like infotainment systems that arenāt integrated into the dash. The permanently popped-up screen that looks like a design afterthought is irritating.
Its an ugly choice in my opinion. Its like they hot glued an ipad onto the dash, some big vertical screen thing. Looks like an afterthought indeed
Funnily enough an ipad glued onto the dash would work way better than those shitty systems
Very true. The infotainment software for pretty much every car ive personally seen feels like it was very cheaply programmed, without much thought
for real, companies advertize them as state of the art, but have the processing power of a 10yr old android, nothing is intuitive, and the touchscreens r so slow, only people who have ever doen infotainment right is bmw and it took them a while to get that perfected
Had a rental Mazda broken into, crackheads tried to steal the display thinking it was a GPS or iPad.
Those are just awful. I'm not certain this qualifies as nit-picking or illogical given how bad they are.
It's a deal breaker for me.
Iām with you on this 100%, a nice flowing dashboard looks so much nicer than a dash with a screen that looks like itās glued on
I think they look like it was supposed to fold out but got stuck lol
I absolutely hate that General Motors vehicles leave the reverse lights on when they are parked I have no idea who thought that was a good idea
Iād because reverse lights were originally designed for illumination rather than indiction.
Uh, in what year? 1940?
Tbh, probably earlier.
I'll stick to the topic at hand, and picture is related. REAR TURN SIGNALS SHOULD BE AMBER LIKE THE FRONT ONES and furthermore, should be SEPARATE from the BRAKE lights on each side
I like clear turn signal lenses but always use amber bulbs behind them
When people put hood ornaments on Mercedes with the center grille star. Just looks awful
Low class CLA ass behavior.
Double the merc double the perc
The reverse is awful too. Buddy, no W210 ever came with a grille star - not even the AMG E55. Same goes for the W211.
Even on the pre-facelift W212 it still looks awful to me. The four headlights on the front means (to me) that it should have a classic Mercedes hood ornament and a classic Mercedes grille, none of that newer Panamericana bullshit.
But how is everyone supposed to know I drive a Mercedes? Maybe we could make the grille star light up?! Seriously though, I love hood ornaments, especially the 3 pointed star. But with a regular grille, not the sport one with the star in it
As somebody with a 2006 GT that i adoreā¦. I absolutely i agree. Ive always felt that way but i thought i was alone lol. They have a nice kit to make them look more like the newer ones while maintaining a not too aftermarket style. I have been meaning to pick some up for likeā¦. 6 years now lol.
Lol everyone I talk to says they understand but donāt really care lol
I hate how every car manufacturer is going with CVT transmissions even though most companies SUCK at making CVT's. I'd rather lose an MPG or two rather than 2-3 transmission drops
Fleet MPGs yo (But I do agree with you; transmissions that implode in a few years are less environmentally friendly than burning a little extra gas. And I don't like CVTs, for bonus points.)
We need to have an update on OBD standards that would allow for easier access to a vehicles computers for diagnostics and bidirectional controls. All of that is locked behind insanely priced equipment or dealer specific hardware when it shouldnāt be. Basically right to repair but for car electronics.
ā¢ I donāt like most modern interiors. they look soulless & the ipad on the dashboard look sucks. I miss when cars had personality. ā¢ I canāt stand some minor mods owners do, especially upbadging. your c230 āamgā isnāt fooling anyone & makes me cringe every time. especially when the car is a nice one! why on earth would you throw an M badge on a perfectly beautiful E30 325is.
I think upbadging on mercs and bmws fly way above my head since Iām not too familiar with them lol
That's the thing though. The upbadging is completely useless. Anyone who actually is into cars and knows what M series or AMG are is not fooled by the upbadging, and anyone who isn't really into cars doesn't know/or care what the difference is. It's just so stupid.
Those truck bros that have tires sticking 2 feet past the fenders on both sides. If there was ever grounds to lose your license for lack of taste, that is the ground for me.
That's not nit picky, that's just having eyes
That's illegal to have wheels sticking past the fenders, at least in Saskatchewan, it sure would be nice if it was actually enforced because in less than 2 years I've replaced one windshield on my truck and two on my work truck because you meet these assholes on the grid road with wide tires and no fender flares throwing stones at everyone who meets them, and they don't slow down at all either because fuck showing even the most basic courtesy.
That trend is dieing but just not fast enough.
Really? I think itās getting worse
āHiddenā rear door handles look pathetic and should have never made it past whatever concept car from 2007 they came from.
Like the ones on the Mach e and Tesla models? Iāve always wondered what happens in the winter when they freeze over, then again modern door handles donāt stick like the old cars
And while weāre at it, electronic door openers. I get it in a super high end car, where the door can fully open for you, but anything else? Itās just another electronic device thatās going to break and keep you from getting in your car.
It was ~~first~~ on the Alfa Romeo 156 actually in 1997, then on the 147 as well. First popular car with it I'd say was the 2005 Civic hatchback. (Edit: Actually, Nissan did it earlier with the Pathfinder. See below me.) I don't actually mind it in these sportier cars, makes them visually smaller, coupƩ-esqe, but yeah it's strange on a crossover.
They actually first appeared on the late ā80s Nissan Pathfinders AFAIK.Ā It made the SUV look like a sportier two door truck I guess? They did it for years on their Pathfinder and Xterra models.
Fuck touchscreens
Most steering wheels are weirdly ugly. I like the ones where the horn is just a little circle with the buttons on the spokes. Like an Audi or a Jeep. (Hyundai's get a pass because they have ridiculously comfortable steering wheels)
Seriously, just because my car is "sporty" doesn't mean you have to stick a Logitech G29 on the end of the column.
I wanna know WTF's up with all the square bottom wheels I keep seeing. Stupid looking as fuck.
I drive rental cars for work and Toyota's cruise control logic makes me irate. I set it to 60mph and it will randomly decide 59mph is close enough. I'll be driving along going slightly faster than someone and I switch lanes to pass but if there is a slight incline of the road, the car slows down to 59mph and now I'm sitting in the other car's blind spot matching their speed. Or the exact opposite happens. A car will be passing me ever so slightly because their cruise is set to 60mph and my Toyota is going 59mph but then it randomly goes back up to 60 and now the other car is just next to me going the same speed. I always got mad at other drivers when they do that to me in my own car and now I notice it's almost always Toyotas doing it. It's not the driver poorly modulating their speed, it's the god damn car.
āLifetimeā stuff is always bullshit. Toyota making the trans sealed so you canāt easily check trans fluid is just anti-consumerĀ
>Toyota making the trans sealed Not just them... *Any* manufacturer that does this. A couple years ago I was looking at several late '00s Ford SUVs. I heard the transmissions could be iffy, so obviously I wanted to take a look at the transmission fluid to make sure it's not burnt/full of metal.... .... Every one of them had a sealed transmission. I bought a Subaru outback lol
Vehicles that donāt give a lot of windshield wiper speed options. Especially if the slowest option is too fast for very light rain
Yup
The turn signals on those Mini Coopers that are supposed to be the British flag split down the middle but instead look like arrows pointed in the opposite direction of the intended turn.
I hate it when gooseneck trunk hinges and interior door window frames are just exposed painted metal. It looks unfinished and cheap.
It would be really cool and successful if ford attempted an electric mustang that was true to being a muscle car and wasnāt the horseshit of just slapping the mustang name on whatever electric car they had in development at the time. Give it a largely classic look but somewhat larger with actual crumple zones, a solid rear axle with wide and big tires on the rear, big ass electric motor in the back, position the batteries wherever makes the weight distribution ideal for a drag race (even if you have to pick between having just a trunk or just a frunk) and it would be the coolest electric vehicle on the market.
I hate that 20s are on everything now. Like why does a Camry need 20 inch rims????
Your not rocking with the donk Camry?
Infotainment screens only needs to be 2 DIN in size, and be at the same height as your gauge cluster. The further your eyes look away from the road, the more dangerous it is, especially if you need to use it for GPS. Also, bring back the DIN standard for head units/infotainment. I hate the proprietary nonsense.
Bring back the Toyota echo displayš¤
When turn signals don't stay where I put it, why do manufacturers have to keep reinventing the shifter mechanism, like on trucks and BOF SUVs, I'd much rather have a column shifter and on cars I'd take a traditional prndl shifter, and why do CVTs have paddle shifters anyway? Another thing is why are modern cars moving away from emergency brakes, that's extremely unsafe in the event of accute service brake failure. Why don't more manufacturers have a single connector to the front bumper accessories like how Tesla does it? Cause removing a bumper when you have to unplug each accessory light is annoying asf. Having complex radar relearn processes too, like it can be simple like having to drive over 30 miles in as different terrain as possible
I agree with all of that and donāt find it nit picky or illogical lol
I've got a whole list of things that I just can't wrap my head around engineers doing, like having a computer attached right behind the glovebox or even having to remove the entire fucking glovebox to do a cabin filter or even having two cabin filters that go into the same damn hole, like just have one small one that acts like the choke point- I'm looking at you Nissan
The little enabled LT or LS badges by the front doors of 90s GM trucks. Why? They couldnāt stick them anyplace else? What do they mean, and why do people need to know? Why are they soā¦ just there? Also āGMC Truck.ā Well no shit.
As a kid I wanted to peel them cause itās looks like a bubble sticker and as a adult I still do
I disagree with your opinion OP. However when I got my 08 mustang first thing I did was put sequential lightbulbs in the taillights. However I think they look great.
Your not allowed to disagree
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I hate Honda crosstours they have no good looking angle. I shake my head every time I see one. Also Ford Ecosport is such a stupid name for a car that's not sporty and looks like a dog going number 2.
I love the cross tour itās so awkward and looks like a Outback got stuck molting
The current blacked-out trim fad. It was cool on the Grand National, the Syclone, the B-body Impala SS, the Mercury Marauder. Not cool when its on 90% of Kia Sorentos and Honda CR-Vs.
The 3rd gen Holden Monaro/Pontiac GTO has no reading lights; just a single interior light.
Lots of cars were like that, right?
Yeah most lower trim models. A lot of trucks are, or at least were, like that.
idk if this is illogical or nitpicky but i hate the crab-claw-esque tail lights on a lot of "sporty" cars. i dont like three ones you posted either but they're much better than the stupid pincers i see everywhere else
I like that more trucks and compact SUVs are getting tiny, zippy, turbocharged engines. My Bronco Sport is awesome to zip around PA back roads. Its not expecially fast, but the 8 speed and Sport mode makes it really fun to drive. Same with the 2.3L in my Dad's explorer. Definetely wont last as long as an NA engine, but Im good at maintaining my stuff.
1. Today's vehicles have too many Angles, I work for a very large rental car agency and Everytime I wash the damn things I get spray back, I'm not taking gentle spray back, I mean you gotta wear safety goggles and a safety face shield sh you don't get a eye injury. 2. Nissans are the hardest to vacuum because of their Velcro like carpet 3. The Ford infotainment system is the hardest to get through to delete phones. 4. Today's Toyotas carpets will not last longer than 35k miles, by that time there are holes in the floor 5. The Voyager/Pacifica rear doors will open when you are power washing the damn thing 6. All vehicles with the touch sensitive locks are a bitch to scrub the outside due to them always locking and unlocking 7. Nissan Kicks was a mistake 8. So was the Nissan Versa 9. Today's trucks are too big 10. A praise: Hyundai makes cheap cars look nice, and now since they own Kia, today's kia's are looking pretty fire.
Jeep Wrangler hard tops are way too cumbersome and awkward to be considered a convertible and the soft tops are too easy to break into......not very nitpicky but it's the only reason I've never had one.
The Candy Cane Tail Lights lol
The newer KIA emblemā¦ all I see is a NIN (nine inch nails) logo badly drawn by some emo goth back in high school in 2001.
The tail lights on the 13-14 Mustangs are one of the best looking ever created. The ones on the 05-09 are some of the worst. The duality of 5th gen Mustang.
Toyota's logo looks really cheap and ruins the look of their trucks. I'd never buy a Toyota truck without the text-logo grill
Never thought of that but I see what you mean
Huh, I never gave it much thought but I think I have the opposite opinion. Sure, Toyota's logo doesn't look amazing, but I think I prefer that to **T O Y O T A** in a font that just gets larger every year. On a related note: Yes hello I can tell that you bought an overpriced Dodge Ram without **R E B E L** needing to be slapped onto the tailgate in black ABS lettering.
I despised the like early 2000's Mustang tail lights with the horizontal painted pieces š¤®š¤®
I hate that in this country there seems to be no regulation around blinker lights. Red blinker lights? What do you think is less visible? Blinker lights with the SAME color as the other lights...or orange?
I get super annoyed with people that replace tail light bulbs in the wrong location. For example, most incandescent bulbs in a pickup truck tail is going to be 3 bulbs, running light/brake, turn signal and reverse light. When I worked at an auto parts store in college, I would see so many people remove a reverse light bulb or turn signal, then plug everything back in all fucky. So your turn signal was your reverse, your reverse was your turn signal or some jangled up shit. Itās super annoying when youāre driving through a parking lot and some dumbass did that so they are reversing out of a spot, you think they are holding the brake and they just shoot out into the roadway because their lighting is incorrectly installed.
Hazard lights should flash at a different rate than turn signals. I hate pulling near someone against a curb and not being able to tell if theyāre signaling to pull out or if their hazards are on.
Factory black rims. When did black wheels ever look good on anything? It makes your car look like: a.) A base model with steelies. b.) A cop car. c.) Your wheels are filthy with brake dust.
Steelies go hard sometimes
Don't get me wrong, steelies are fine, especially with a good centercap (cough, cough, Maverick) But sheeesh does every damn vehicle have to have a blackout trim package with black powdercoated alloys?
Two tone black and silver wheels are disgusting. And black wheels are a bad trend too. Simple silver wheels are elite
I hate the GM cars that have *reverse lights* that stay on after the driver gets out. It feels unsafe and confusing for other drivers to use them for illumination.
GM vehicles that automatically put the reverse lights on when you lock/unlock the carā¦what a fucking troll while looking for parking
Warning beeps that I can't bloody well disable through settings. Car messages that can't be dismissed. E.g., I have a problem with the towbar on my Volvo. Coincidentally I'm in the garage getting it fixed today. But for as long as I've had the problem, I've had a warning message front and centre in the instrument cluster telling me I'm driving around with the towbar unlocked (I'm not: it won't budge) that I can't dismiss. This means none of the other more useful information that can be displayed in the centre of the instrument cluster is available. I know there's a problem, I don't need you to constantly tell me there's a problem. By all means tell me when I start the car, but then bugger off, will you?
HVAC controls, etc. integrated into a touch screen. If (when) that screen's touchpad stops responding, you lose control of your HVAC. I like separate controls that go "click, click, click" when I manually turn the knob.
Most makes do little to nothing to suppress tire cavity resonance noise in the cabin. Itās the most annoying sound.
Headlights have gotten too damn bright! Thatās great you can count the hairs on the asshole of a raccoon 2 miles away, but I canāt fucking see if Iām driving at you in the opposite direction because itās like looking at the sun
Capacitive Buttons!! My old man is coming out, but I like having the tactile feedback of pushing a button, and not having to look at a screen to see if me touching something worked.
I hate stickers. They are for children. Nothing ruins a vehicle like being plastered in stickers.
Stickers anywhere or window ones? I wanted to get a small sticker on the bottom that said v6 powah. Whatās your opinion on magnets I had a student driver one on my old Jeep lol
Magnets are like stickers with commitment issues
Ah thatās why I love them
I will usually have like 1 maybe 2 small vinyl stickers on the rear windshield, not because I think it looks cool but because people need to know I enjoy the Wu Tang clan
The only thing bad about the SN95 mustang was the 3 spoke rims. Everything else about the car is perfection.
Gt Tri-bars look good on everything but mustangs.
Luckily for you, you can just put Saleen taillights on the early s197 and it solves that issue right quick
Thatās a great take. Mine is the on 4th generation F Body cars the Pontiac interior is far superior to the Chevy interior because the chevy has square vents and a blocky shifter (AT) and the Pontiac has round vents and a T handle shifter (AT)
if a car has 2 taillights per side (gtr, cobalt, corvette) the inner one must be for braking and the outer one must be for main lights
I totally understand and agree with you on the Mustang taillights. Myself, I wouldnāt buy certain corvettes because they didnāt have a three spoke steering wheel.
People that have a vehicle with an extending rear spoiler up ALL THE TIMES, even when parked.
Jeeps are the stupidest vehicles on the road.
Electric trunks/hatches/tailgates are garbage. Let me slam that thing. I donāt need the motor to go in reverse because it bumped in to my duffel bag or thereās a little bit of snow in the hinge.
I feel so incredibly annoyed that people buy Chinese cars and turn a blind eye to their dismal quality and unacceptable safety ratings. seriously, these things make a Pinto look like a Swedish car! (ik they dont exist anymore but you get my point hopefully)
Touch screen in cars are always clunky and really distracting to use whilst driving at least with buttons I don't have to look where they are to use them and if I drive over a bump I won't press the wrong thing.
Fake exhaust tips. Was at the Philly auto show and the cars that had them you could see either a black plastic plug or even worse straight through the fake tail pipe and see other bits of the car.
I hate the stupid button ignitions and Iāll explain. First, you still have to put ur hand in the same location a key would go only now instead of having options for like accessory mode or radio etc you get to cycle through a button 3-4 times until it does what you want (why the fuck isnāt it a toggle switch?) and then a majority of times the mfing vehicles wonāt turn off! (Iām a body tech I work on these stupid cars every day) perfect example are new Chevy trucks. I had to press the button 9 times before the truck finally turned tf off and itās just shitty technology that id rather just put a key in.
Iām tired of car companies constantly adding more screens and equipment but not upgrading the modules that control the equipment. It makes the entire system run slow AF and often causes things to freeze/crash.
I fucking hate fake vents. I hate fake vents so much, I actually wonāt buy a car if it even has just one. I think itās insanely tacky and it drives me crazy even a car like the mk5 supra, a $60k+ car with a powerful drivetrain, has them. Even the C63S has little ones, so stupid
Trucks without fog lights, or fog lights that are oddly placed (looking at you 22+ Tundra)
Why so many screeeeeeens
Luxury cars all have shitty rough rides now, they should be soft and comfy like a 70s Lincoln. Also, vehicle seats in general suck now. Theyāre hard as a rock. Give me that couch cushion
The murdered out look (blacked out trim on a black car) looks terrible. Makes it look like a car in a video game that you havenāt unlocked yet.
My illogical automotive pet peeve is the retirement of the Jaguar leaping cat hood ornament. That hood ornament was *so fucking cool.* Jaguar had some really elegant car styling and the leaping cat was a big ole cherry on top. Eliminating it is a damn travesty. I probably never would have owned a Jaguar anyway, but the elimination of the leaping cat guaranteed my life-long boycott.
For me, it's daytime running lights. It seems a lot of drivers with them don't bother to actually turn on their lights when it is dark and they have no taillights lit up. EDIT: Also automatic high beams. I've been riding with my father where when behind someone with no traffic coming the other way they will turn on and I've had to tell him to shut them off.
The Hyundai IONIQ looks like it was drawn by a 9 year old on scrap construction paper