Is there anything about your car that you hate?

Is there anything about any of your cars that you hate, but not enough to justify getting rid of it?

I'll start. My Sentra's steering wheel is about two inches to the left of being centered with my chest. If I sit centered in the seat, the logo in the center of the wheel is not even with my sternum. It drives me bonkers, however I usually wind up sitting not centered in the seat, not even noticing. The downside is it has flattened the side bolsters in the seat, to the point that tonight while placing pizza in the passenger seat, my side hit the bar frame inside the seat, hurting the hell out of my kidneys.

Other than that, I still love it.

That it's not a 2012 Boss 302 Mustang.

I hate that it doesn't run and the clutch slave I ordered is defective and I have to wait for a new one.

cup holders in a T100 completely cover the climate controls. But the thing gets 14.5MPG while towing a race car. Can't complain too much.

Other than my BMW is returning to the earth?

The second gear synchro...or lack thereof

In reply to BoostedBrandon:
The non-centered wheel is a peeve of mine as well. I hate when cars are like that.

I hate these driver's seats in new cars where the seats can manually be raised. It is not the raise option itself that bothers me but that when raising the seat they seem to raise only from the rear which results in a seat tilted forward. Therefore it is not as much a raise feature but a tilt forward feature.

Lack of leg room. 1-2" more would be perfect.

2000 Mustang GT. The seats are crap! I need to get new ones, but its not high on the list.

None of them run right now. I kind of hate that.

Gas mileage, sub 20mpg, and right now needing a set of plug wires, misses at off idle all the way to 3k.

My N/A FC RX-7 radiates stupid amounts of heat from the transmission tunnel. I would lose a gallon or more of sweat on a hot day. I'm definitely adding some heat shielding to the transmission tunnel of my turbo RX-7 once I swap in a new engine, weight penalty be damned.

Not much... Which is why I've put up with a '03 VW for 278k miles. The main annoyance is the stereo, and since how it talks to the computers in the rest of the car, replacing it it is tricky providing you wish to keep the steering wheel controls (and I do).

In theory, I could complain about the lack of power, but it's a 90 hp diesel. I knew the drawbacks when I bought it. 50 mpg eases that a bit.

Mostly that I blew the engine up, that's what's bothering me. At least it was on a road course, so I had fun doing it.

I'm hoping it won't be too expensive and the top end with my JWT cams will be ok (NX2000 with an SR20DET).

I haven't cracked it open yet to see what's up.

I love and hate the fact that there's still so much left to do to the datsun before I'll even get to drive it for the first time
and I occasionally hate the manual doors and windows in the kia, but not very often. I've got satellite radio, bluetooth, comfort, reliability, and 30ish mpg to make up for that.

The slow throttle response of my SVT Focus is a bit annoying.

I'm not so pleased that:

• The Sprite needs the interior/wiring/brake plumbing finished then sorted/fettled/debugged.
• The Radical needs a header fabricated for the Hayabusa swap as well as being completely rewired and plumbed, sorted and set-up.
• The M3 is a great track car which makes it a sh1tty street car. 'Nuff said.
• The Tacoma - my ever ready garbage scow has a clunk over lumpy pavement and a sporadic CEL related to TPS.
• Wife's A4 has needed a new outboard CV joint since it came back from having a really good shop charge crazy money to completely berkeley up the perfectly good ones that were on the car.

On the other hand, all the cars I haven't bought...Have ~no problems at all!~

My seatbelts in my XJ Cherokee are too short.

I cant keep sexy women away from the Fusion! (kidding)

I dont like the turn signal stalk. It is too far to reach while my hand is on the wheel and unless you are 100% straight down or up, you end up flashing your brights to people.

10 AE Miata:

I hate that it doesn't have a tilt wheel.
I hate that the seats sit so tall.
I hate that the car has 6 gears, and yet I'm buzzing along at 4000 RPM at 70MPH.
I hate that the gas mileage can't break 30 on the highway on a regular basis.

About 20% of the time, I wish that it was bigger, but I don't hate that about it. Just the fact that I can't have two cars right now.

1961 Lincoln Continental

• The fact that it needs body work and isnt finished, and can't be worked on properly until summer.
• Steering wheel is pretty close to the bench seat, its absolutely silly, they changed it the next year.

NA Miata

• Im too tall
• Short 5th gear
• Drinks in cupholder get in way of shifting

I hate that my Cherokee is falling apart but still runs as well as it does, and I hate that I have to order any "good" parts for my Astra from Europe.

I predominantly hate that my car only cries out for money when the well is dry, which it usually is. And it's never a cheap part that fails. It's typically something weird that RockAuto doesn't sell, so I have to fly to an ancient village outside Tokyo to purchase my new Intergalactic Interface from a secretive wise man at a cost of seven live chickens, my daughter's hand in marriage, and a box of Dairy Queen Dilly Bars. Yeah. Try keeping those cold in your carry on.

Terminal rust.

ValuePack wrote: I predominantly hate that my car only cries out for money when the well is dry, which it usually is. And it's never a cheap part that fails. It's typically something weird that RockAuto doesn't sell, so I have to fly to an ancient village outside Tokyo to purchase my new Intergalactic Interface from a secretive wise man at a cost of seven live chickens, my daughter's hand in marriage, and a box of Dairy Queen Dilly Bars. Yeah. Try keeping *those* cold in your carry on.

It's posts like that that make me love this website.

I <3 GRM