"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
05/14/2018 at 15:16 • Filed to: Meh
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"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck)
05/14/2018 at 15:16 • Filed to: Meh | 5
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Aftet eight days with this thing: I have some things to say. And some stuff.
Here we have a poverty-spec Altima. It is nearly indistinguishable from the Sentra sedan, also a common rental here. It has only 28k miles, but they’re clearly HARD miles. The front end has been scraped on curbs hundreds of times. Also: Why is the front end so damn low on such a large car? The dash already rattles at any speed over 20 mph. And it’s not an occasional noise, it is constant and loud.
It has a keyless entry, but no remote start. When you press the unlock button, the rear lights do NOT illuminate at all, nor does the car beep. The only way to tell my rental between all the other white Nissans parked together is to pop the trunk.
The turn radius is atrocious. Much worse than our unweildy Pontiac Vibe. The engine revs quickly but the speedometer struggles to comply. The fuel economy has been... bad. 23 miles per gallon. There’s lots of parts of Kauai that are low speed limits, but this is still disappointing. Blind spots aren’t shabby, but it’s deceptively long in front and back which makes tight parking a struggle for someone who is used to driving small cars like me.
Air conditioning is excellent. Backseat legroom is adequate, trunk is a good size... Humm... TLDR: It’s definitely a car...
Looking forward to getting back into my own vehicles, for sure.
Nibby
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/14/2018 at 15:19 |
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wafflesnfalafel
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/14/2018 at 15:23 |
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cvt?
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Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> wafflesnfalafel
05/14/2018 at 15:24 |
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Yep.
DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/14/2018 at 15:25 |
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I rented a 2013 Altima once.
It was...bad.
Steve in Manhattan
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/14/2018 at 15:31 |
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A CVT that is well masked, or did you get that droning effect.
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Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> Steve in Manhattan
05/14/2018 at 15:33 |
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I didn’t hate the CVT, actually. It did just fine. My buddy we vacationed with had a Focus sedan. Whatever was in that thing was God awful in comparison.
KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/14/2018 at 15:37 |
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Focus has a 6 speed Dual Clutch. Can confirm one of the worst transmissions ever, Outside certain CVTs.
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Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
05/14/2018 at 15:38 |
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When we went to the canyon, the entire way up the hill: REEEE-buhhh-REEEEEE-buhhhh. Couldn’t get past 25mph and wouldn’t stop shifting.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/14/2018 at 15:41 |
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How far they’ve fallen. Nissan used to make some of the better mid-sized cars you could be fortunate enough to receive as a rental, back when most cars of that size you might find as a rental were crap.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
05/14/2018 at 16:38 |
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Someone toasted the clutches in it. Someone drove it horribly wrong.
They barely survive shitty owners, they have no hope as rental cars...
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Steve in Manhattan
05/14/2018 at 16:41 |
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I remember driving my first car with a CVT. It was a Dodge Caliber. I only remember this because it was gutless and I got a ridiculous speeding ticket in it from the dirtbags in Phoenix (the rental cars were all marked at the time in a way the cops could see and most didn’t realize, and if he actually clocked me at that, I would have expected him to prove it could go that fast and impounded the car). You just laid into it and it would slowly increase in speed with the motor running the same speed constantly. It was the weirdest thing.
It made me pine for the driving experience in the old PT Cruisers.
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Steve in Manhattan
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
05/14/2018 at 16:51 |
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Rented a Civic CVT once, not too awful, but I’d rather have had a conventional slushbox.