Let’s start with seat bolsters that wear way too quickly, turn signal sounds that you can’t turn down, and sun visors that aren’t capable of blocking that spot that the sun always seems to be at!

Switched to water based, soft paint and reduced the paint thickness. Scratches easy and marginal amount of paint to polish out the scratches.

Raising prices 50% in the last 4 years. Part of it is raising prices, but the other part is only making cars with unnecessary, expensive technology (i.e. we don't need $1500 turn signals, $2500 headlights, and $3000 windshields).

Using aluminum instead of steel.

Idunno,

I'm happy with my '05 truck. It is fast, loud, and gets cruddy mileage. What's not to like?

No headlight dimmer switch on the floor. No starter button on the transmission hump above the gas pedal.

High beam switches on the steering column instead of on the floor where they belong.

(dang, not quite quick enough)

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Originally posted by xd45man:
Using aluminum instead of steel.

Particularly in transmissions.

GM when they discontinues the Buick built pushrod 3800 V6 in favor of that POS 3.6 DOHC engine.

There was a GM engineer with the 3.6L team interviewed that touted the modern DOHC concept while deriding the 3800 as being an outmoded dated pushrod engine.

Guess someone forgot to tell the LS engine team their design was outmoded and dated.

The aggravatingly stupid feature that shuts off the engine at stop lights. And my Jeep beeps the horn 3 times if I get out of it with the engine running and the key fob is in my pocket. Hate that too!

Those LED headlights. 'nuf said!

Oh I can’t believe I forgot my biggest grudge, why the hell can I not park, leave the car running, and shut off the lights? All the lights. Just who the fuck designs a car that has to announce to the world that the car is running?
Probably some nerd that never had a date and tried kissing the girl before walking her to the door.

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
No headlight dimmer switch on the floor. No starter button on the transmission hump above the gas pedal.

I had a Ford Fairlane that had a button on the floor that you pumped with your foot to squirt the washer fluid on your windshield.
The cozy wing you opened for A/C.

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Originally posted by Schmelby:
I had a Ford Fairlane that had a button on the floor that you pumped with your foot to squirt the washer fluid on your windshield.

My 68 Mustang has one of them. I like it.

All the modern shit they put on these cars and how they try to cram 10 gallons worth of shit in a 5 gallon bucket!

I don't need back up assist, lane departure, rain sensing wipers, infotainment, and many other useless features that add thousands to the vehicle.

Just give me a truck that doesn't cost $40,000+ with a V8 with no variable valve timing, power windows, AC, cruise, power locks, and a good radio. That's all I need.

I am seriously thinking about finding older 80's or 90's trucks and just rebuilding them instead of buying the new shit they put out.

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Originally posted by am94pm:


I am seriously thinking about finding older 80's or 90's trucks and just rebuilding them instead of buying the new shit they put out.

Me too. And the new cars spy on you. I want a 68-72 Chevy pickup. I read a news story, in Europe if you go over the speed limit
the gps system will automatically slow your car down. It has to be a newer car. Screw that!

My 2012 Chevy Cruze weighs almost the same as my 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee did. I can't figure out how the hell that can be?

Last year I spent a week or more with my old College room mate and his wife, and they were extolling the virtues of their SUV. Said it was the best vehicle they'd ever owned, comfortable for long trips, nice handling, great acceleration, you name it, it was great.

I thought to myself, maybe I should offer to buy it from them when they were ready to get rid of it, since they traded vehicles more frequently than most of us, but then I noticed the lane-change bells and whistles, other annoyances, and the glass dash panel, and realized how expensive it would be to replace, say, the gas gauge and everything attached to it, i.e., the whole damned thing. I kept my mouth shut.

Biodegradable insulation on the wiring that evidently has an aroma and flavor irresistible to rodents.

Lighting a stupid "Check Engine Light" for all manner of things, whether or not serious and whether or not there is any engine involvement.

Especially stupid when the wiring to that idiotic thing goes right past all manner of logic and display devices in modern cars that would be perfectly capable of showing useful information vs merely glowing.

Would displaying "You didn't put the gas cap on correctly" be all that hard?

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Thankfully I've never experienced it personally, but apparently there's a percentage of cars where the battery is now located in the wheel well, and you have to jack the car up, remove a wheel, and remove the wheel well liner in order to access it.

What a genius move.

A biggie for me is when routine maintenance is less than routine. By that I mean filters are to get at, batteries hard to even find, etc..

Yeah, check engine lights quick to come on, luckily no DMV ‘vehicle inspection’ here in WI.