by "DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
Published 09/11/2017 at 11:16
by "DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
Published 09/11/2017 at 11:16
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Shamelessly stolen from this Reddit post . Oppo, what are some of your favorite “intelligent” (or unintelligent) design features that you’ve seen in cars?
TL;DW: Honda designed the in-dash storage door in such a way to prevent it from opening when the car is on an incline, thus preventing all your stuff from falling out. The stuff inside from becoming projectiles in a rear-end accident. Source.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
09/11/2017 at 11:21, STARS: 1
But what if you’re parked on an incline and you want to get into your stuff?
"jimz" (jimz)
09/11/2017 at 11:25, STARS: 5
On Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram vehicles made in the last few decades (with an actual key,) you don’t need a code reader to read P-codes. With the key off, turn it ON-OFF-ON-OFF-ON with about a half second cadence. Any stored codes will show in the odometer area, with ‘d0nE” afterward. if there are no codes, you just get “d0nE.”
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
09/11/2017 at 11:27, STARS: 1
See my edit. It’s apparently designed for the rapid acceleration found in a rear-end collision. In the video the guy had a hard time at a couple points to get the weight to rotate into the “locked position” and had to rotate it to pretty steep angles. In a rear-end collision the weight will have no problem flipping forward and keeping the driver safe from potential projectiles found in the storage.
Its still neat, just in a different way.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/11/2017 at 11:30, STARS: 2
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
09/11/2017 at 11:30, STARS: 0
I like this one a lot. Do you think its more for the convenience of service technicians working on the car?
It seems to me the kind of person who would know this shortcut probably also has access to a code reader.
"promoted by the color red" (whenindoubtflatout)
09/11/2017 at 11:37, STARS: 1
The ND Miata has the one-touch-down feature on BOTH windows, allowing you to enjoy top-down motoring in less time.
"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
09/11/2017 at 11:39, STARS: 1
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My E46 has a rotating change holder - see shamelessly “borrowed” images above - but the armrest is just above this, and there isn’t enough clearance for the armrest to close if you leave the change holder open. You would think it would break something, but oh, no. It slides up and down - see the mechanism in the 2nd picture - so that it isn’t damaged if left open with the armrest down.
Couldn’t they have just made them not interfere? Sure, but this preserves the ergonomics of the
dynamic driver-focused cockpit driving experience ultimate machine
never mind. It’s cool though.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
09/11/2017 at 11:39, STARS: 0
That makes sense, and it’s really cool thinking.
"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
09/11/2017 at 11:41, STARS: 1
One thing Oppo does regularly is remind me of the old movies I need to rewatch.
"McMike" (mcmike)
09/11/2017 at 11:43, STARS: 0
We had a 7th gen Civic for 13 years, and never knew that door had that safety on it.
"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
09/11/2017 at 11:47, STARS: 7
BMW cupholders help you lose weight by being completely useless, thus preventing you from drinking soda while you drive.
"Svend" (svend)
09/11/2017 at 11:51, STARS: 4
Nothing too amazing on Piglet really.
Umbrellas in each of the front doors.
Ice scraper in the filler door.
"jimz" (jimz)
09/11/2017 at 11:51, STARS: 1
I guess it’s just a hold-over from the “olden days.” Back before OBD-II standardized a lot of this, every manufacturer had their own way of doing things. on GMs you’d take a piece of wire and short two pins of the ALDL connector , and it’d flash the engine/check engine light to read out two-digit fault codes. Chryslers, you’d do the key trick and it would flash the check engine light for their two-digit fault codes. I think with Ford you pretty much needed a scan tool and run the key-on-engine-off (KOEO) and key-on-engine-running (KOER) routines to get fault codes back.
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
09/11/2017 at 11:54, STARS: 0
I can’t really tell from the second picture...does the whole assembly slide down, or does just the rotating part slide down?
Either way it is very cool, and totally German. And I think you’ve hit an interesting point on contrasting design philosphies. Germans like to design complicated solutions to fix problems after the fact, from what I’ve seen. Not that its a wrong way to do things, though.
"Echo51" (echo2047)
09/11/2017 at 11:56, STARS: 0
Ford mid 90's EEC-IV supports custom tester(pre-OBD) and via the same plug a more universal “flashing light” readout. Focus mk1's (1998 and up) have OBD-2, but also support reading various sensors and faultcodes using the odo display.
http://www.fordwiki.co.uk/index.php?title=Unlock_the_dashboard_(diagnostics)
"Svend" (svend)
09/11/2017 at 12:02, STARS: 0
Similar to hidden personal options and the pedal test to get error codes on Vauxhalls and Opels.
Hidden personal options
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Pedal test Get the code and then Google ‘fault code ####’.
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On earlier Vauxhalls you had to count the number of flashes of the ‘ECU light’.
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
09/11/2017 at 12:15, STARS: 3
These are ridiculously useful. I love the umbrellas. I always forget to keep umbrellas handy in my car.
Fun story: the day of my wedding it was raining (quite hard actually), and I actually remembered to bring an umbrella with me. This was an umbrella I bought a few months prior during a different rainstorm. It was cheap and I needed something immediately. Its on of those where you push a button and it slides up and the umbrella unfolds. So I go to open it, and keep in mind this is only the second time I’ve used this umbrella, and the actual umbrella part flies off . So I’m basically just standing there with a metal stick in my hand, with a stupid look on my face, getting rained on.
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
09/11/2017 at 12:16, STARS: 0
Oh, neat. Cool to know a bit of automotive history.
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
09/11/2017 at 12:16, STARS: 1
Most useful one here.
"Svend" (svend)
09/11/2017 at 12:26, STARS: 1
Mine are similar, haven’t popped off the end though. Lol. In the last Superb, the Mk2, it only had one umbrella.
In three years of owning the car. I used the umbrellas three maybe four times.
Strangely located in the left hand rear door.
Whether the car was LHD or RHD. It makes sense to have it in the left rear door on a RHD car as rear passengers should, if being driven, sit in the rear behind the front passenger seat. The seat closest to the kerb.
"cbell04" (cbell04)
09/11/2017 at 13:00, STARS: 3
A few of my cars over the years have had the option to roll the Windows down by holding the unlock button on the key fob. Typically a short press then a long hold of the unlock would roll the Windows down as you walked up to it. Love it except the time they rolled themselves down while i was in a bar and everything inside was stolen and I got 4 inches of snow inside it..
"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
09/11/2017 at 13:01, STARS: 1
The rotating part slides down, but only when partially rotated or fully rotated. When it’s closed, it doesn’t go down, but then it doesn’t have to.
Agreed on the post-solution... it could also be viewed as, the cupholder need to be this high, the armrest this low, and blah blah there’s not enough clearance without making it awkward so let’s solve for that. Maybe that’s giving them too much credit!
"Not a Sunburst Miata" (moezsayani)
09/11/2017 at 13:05, STARS: 3
My BRZ has instant happiness mode, here are the steps:
1. find abandoned parking lot
2. crank wheel all the way to the right
3. Floor it in first gear
4. Sideways and smiling
"mazda616" (mazda616)
09/11/2017 at 14:39, STARS: 1
The 6 has a few.
There’s a button next to the back up camera that lets you pop the trunk (as long as the key fob is in your pocket) without getting in the car or getting your key fob out.
The sunroof shade automatically opens if you press the sunroof button, so you don’t have to remember to open it first.
Three clicks lane change turn signals. My favorite. You blip the turn signal stalk once and the signal will blink three times to indicate a lane change. My wife’s CX-5 does this, too.
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
09/11/2017 at 14:41, STARS: 1
I’ve always loved Mazda’s unlock buttons on the doors and trunk/hatch. Definitely a well thought out feature.
"Logansteno: Bought a VW?" (logansteno)
09/11/2017 at 16:36, STARS: 2
GMT900 Extended Cab doors can be opened essentially 180 degrees. It’s one of my favorite things on my Silverado.
