"E.T's Bicycle" (gatorjjh)
10/15/2014 at 21:08 • Filed to: None
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"E.T's Bicycle" (gatorjjh)
10/15/2014 at 21:08 • Filed to: None | 0
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I have a Dodge Dart as a rental car right now, and a couple this have been getting on my nerves. Its mainly design flaws that could easily have been fixed.
First up is the digital speedometer. Always a nice bonus feature to have as an option on the dash display. Except the designers couldn't get the spacing of the digits correct. Every time the last digit is a 1, the first digits shifts over a few pixels because the 1 isn't as wide as the other number. So going from 30 to 31 mph the 3 moves over a bit. Same thing happens to a lesser extent when a 4 is the last digit. This is just poor attention to detail, and an annoying movement on the dash that gets my attention.
Next up is the sun visor latch. Every car I can think of has a one piece latch the visor snaps into. Basically fail proof.
But Dodge came up with a latch, and then a cover to go around the latch. And just guess what happens. There is enough of a gap between the two that while attempting to push the visor into the latch, you can instead land in the gap and just snap off the cover. And this is what happened the first time I used the visor. (above are the unbroken passenger latch, and the now broken drivers side cover)
And yes this are nit picky things, but they should have never made it into a modern production car.
Rico
> E.T's Bicycle
10/15/2014 at 21:58 |
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Why the shit isn't this just one solid piece???
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Rico
> E.T's Bicycle
10/15/2014 at 22:02 |
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I try not to be OCD about this stuff but why couldn't they line the 20 up with the line?
It looks like every other number was able to be lined up even on the Tach but the 20 looks completely off.
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E.T's Bicycle
> Rico
10/15/2014 at 22:05 |
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I'm with you on this. The analog speedo is just as poorly designed with too many lines and colors to make it easily readable at a glance. That was why I was using the digital, until it too annoyed the hell out of me.
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E.T's Bicycle
> Rico
10/15/2014 at 22:06 |
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You are preaching to the choir my friend.
The Compromiser
> E.T's Bicycle
10/15/2014 at 23:17 |
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Not an excuse but this car was really the first one post Fiat buyout. They brought a lot of their ideas in and applied their design standard. Because it is based on a Fiat group product, they drank the kool aid. I would bet the overdesigned visor clip is from that.