#Charger quirks

"Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair)" (vicarious-chair) 01/23/2015 at 03:19 • Filed to: dodge, charger

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The dead pedal in the 15 charger sags when you put your foot on it. Cmon chrysler, where your quality inspection @?

and yes, my shoes are falling apart.

JustWaitingForAMate > Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) 01/23/2015 at 03:32

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NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) 01/23/2015 at 03:32

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That's...unfortunate. But it sounds like something they should have dealt with long before inspecting. Starting to worry a little about the "new" Chrysler.

Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) > JustWaitingForAMate 01/23/2015 at 03:37

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I re-glue my shoes. Not about the duct tape life, no matter how glamorous it seems.

Svend > Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) 01/23/2015 at 04:19

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What's that pedal for?

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Svend 01/23/2015 at 04:22

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hand brake/parking brake.

Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) > Svend 01/23/2015 at 04:28

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Parking brake.. Ey?

Svend > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/23/2015 at 04:34

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Oh, right, okay.

I've only ever known and used this system.

Three pedals, accelerator, (foot) brake and clutch with the hand brake being closer to where my hand is.

Never driven an automatic and never used a hand brake/parking brake by my foot.

Seems alien to me.

Svend > Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) 01/23/2015 at 04:36

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Only ever driven manuals and never seen or used a parking brake by my foot.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Svend 01/23/2015 at 04:45

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Oddly enough, those rarely get used and get seized up, that's why there's the electronic ones nowadays. People just put the cars in Park, and the whole car rests on a ratchet-like device inside the transmission. cars that have manual as an option have the traditional lever.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Svend 01/23/2015 at 04:57

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My truck is a 5 speed and has a floor mounted ebrake. Its really weird having 4 pedals

Svend > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 01/23/2015 at 05:38

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I've seen the electronic one on a friend's Vauxhall Astra. Her husband is forever forgetting how to operate it, he flicks it thinking it's disengaged but you have to press the brake pedal or clutch (not sure which) pedal and then flick the little. Give me a proper lever any day.

Svend > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/23/2015 at 05:48

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Yep, that looks pretty weird alright.

How do you do hill starts without a handbrake?

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Svend 01/23/2015 at 05:56

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I really swiftly ride the clutch. Its the only way.

Svend > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/23/2015 at 06:09

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That's what keeps me wary of automatics, the lack of clutch and hand brake control and I guess a floor mounted 'ebrake' would be about the same.

I can live without electric windows, cd player, sat nav, air con or remote central locking if I need to but give me a lever handbrake, a manual gearbox and three pedals and I'll be just fine.

thebigbossyboss > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/23/2015 at 06:49

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My Dad's 88 was similar I think. Do you have a bench seat? I think that's why.

E92M3 > Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) 01/23/2015 at 07:32

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Someone needs winter mats.

Mattbob > Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) 01/23/2015 at 07:57

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I think you need some winter floor mats. Your floor pan is going to be fucked.

Mattbob > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 01/23/2015 at 07:59

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my old wrangler had that setup. Doing parking brake slides in snowy lots is a real challenge.

yamahog > Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) 01/23/2015 at 08:05

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ITT: People who have no idea what "quality inspection" does.

This would mayyyybe be a PQ issue (can't tell from the photo whether you're just resting your foot or actively trying to push the dead pedal in, which, uh, ok) but then again the last time I explained perceived quality to someone here re: blank switches, they bitched that engineers should be focused on REAL stuff. Yea, we'd love to, except people keep filling CR surveys with PQ complaints about this and "too much new car smell" and "too much dirt gets on the sides when I drive down dirt roads," I shit you not.

No offense, but I'm starting to think I just need to put together a Product Development 101. Even paid auto journalists seem to have no idea how the industry works.

/rant

Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) > Mattbob 01/23/2015 at 08:08

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its a rental car; work at a rental place

Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) > yamahog 01/23/2015 at 08:12

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I didnt know how all that works. Its a rental with a couple hundred miles on it. I wasnt pressing when i noticed it. I tend to put my foot there when i get in and out of cars, and it has lots if play.

Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) > E92M3 01/23/2015 at 08:12

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Just a rental car; its where i work. So im always tinkering and internally reviewing cars.

Xazzaphonic (previously known as Vicarious-Chair) > Svend 01/23/2015 at 08:18

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Most autos have hand brakes, much nicer.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > thebigbossyboss 01/23/2015 at 12:50

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Ya, I have a 60/40 bench

The Compromiser > yamahog 01/23/2015 at 19:32

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I have a 2010. If you put some weight in it it flexes down. Gettjng in, stretching out, adjusting seated position. For actual use, it does nothing. It feels like a cardboard insert under it and it pops down to the body when pressed on. I drove a mazda with a hole under the pedal box area from my heel, so its still better than that.

and yes, I love it when the complaints come in that someone doesn't like it. Well what's wrong with it? I dont like it.It shouldn't be like that because I liked the way it was in my old car, from 10 years ago, and another company, pre-gender reassignment surgery, that my dad drove, over a puppy, three states away but he told me about when I was high. OK.....