Quirks of Your Vehicle

[mauvais]

That's by design but not all cars do that. Some you can push a button on the ignition barrel and turn the key backwards. No doubt there's other ways too especially with all-electric stuff.

 

[danski]

My previous two VW Caddys have not had a solid bulkhead. My current one does and as a result I have been getting lots of condensation in the back. Smells fusty too.
Think I will drill some ventilation holes on bulkhead above driver and passenger to hopefully allow some airflow.
Failing that, I suppose one of those spinny vent things on top would solve it.

 

[hash tag]

The parking lights thing is somethig which goes back a long way, it is nothing new or particularly quirky. A saftey feature.

 

[dessiato]

Mine decided that the interior light wasn’t going to turn off. I pulled bulbs out in the end because there was no obvious reason for them not to work properly.

 

[Spymaster]

On my Ford Portacabin, If you leave the indicators on when turning the engine off (with a push-button as it is these days) it puts the side (parking) lights on. No idea if this is a feature by design or not. Also no idea how you would usually put parking lights on, being a garage owner.

Quite a few cars do, or did. If you indicated right they would leave the right parking lights on. Indicate left they leave the left on. So if you parked on the left side of a road at night you could leave the right side lit and vice versa without leaving them all on and draining the battery more than you had to. Haven’t seen it for years though.

 

[dylanredefined]

Mine has four gearsticks but I normally only use two of them on the road.

Also it has heater plugs which have to be energised for 20 seconds before you start it cold.

And it has a small pinhole in the clutch slave cylinder seal (which is a bastard to get to and replace so I have to keep topping it up with cheapo clutch fluid every 200 miles or so.

1/8th of my exaust pipe is made out of Stella cans.

The circuit diagram doesn't show a heater motor as I think that it was an optional extra.

I knew it would be a landrover as soon as I read that. Either let you drive forever or catch fire and explosively disassemble as you drive out the garage (cleaning engine with paraffin and filling radiator with oil probably didn't helped it was the army)

 

[StoneRoad]

Current peugot 206 requires two keys, one to get in, the other for the ignition.
At some point I will sort it.

 

[polly]

Ooh. My Citroen go kart is held together by quirks.

When you go up a big hill you have to turn the heater off or it smells alarmingly of burning.
The boot never locks first time, always locks second time.
You can't fill the tank more than halfway or it leaks petrol (that's more of an urgent problem than a quirk I suppose).
The rear demister sometimes works if you bash/wobble the relay. Most of the time it just doesn't work though.
This one is more of an Easter Egg for any future buyer (obviously if such a person exists they will be stripping it): the bit of the stereo that you don't see, ie the back bit, is covered in my blood from its slightly fraught installation.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Current peugot 206 requires two keys, one to get in, the other for the ignition.
At some point I will sort it.

No you won't

 

[StoneRoad]

No you won't

Well, not personally !

 

[Saul Goodman]

You can't fill the tank more than halfway or it leaks petrol (that's more of an urgent problem than a quirk I suppose).

exploding American cars aside... That's something you should get sorted ASAP. It sounds like the seam around the middle of the tank is leaking. If it leaks onto a hot exhaust, it could get a bit flamey.

 

[polly]

exploding American cars aside... That's something you should get sorted ASAP. It sounds like the seam around the middle of the tank is leaking. If it leaks onto a hot exhaust, it could get a bit flamey.

Yeah, I know you're right. There was a leak that was patched so I'm assuming it's that again. I'm just completely skint. And depressed enough not to care if I die in a ball of fire My kids probably don't deserve to though. Thanks for the nudge.

eta booked it to go in tomorrow. Need a fucking loyalty card for the garage

 

[hash tag]

Lamborgini's are good at catching fire Why do Lamborghinis catch fire? We explain

 

[moose]

Happily, we are now in Central Locking Month, where my car spontaneously reverts to locking the correct manner, with the fob, rather than the dodgy keys.

 

[hash tag]

Secrets revealed, No. 2 the indicator that shows which side of the car that the filler cap is on Secrets you may not know about your car
Go past the end of this; things hidden in your car. I bet I once sold one of my cortina's with a key in a magnet holder tucked under a front wheel arch.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

The little screen between the counters

on my Mondeo sometimes collapses to a thick red line. You can just make out whatever it would be showing but all in a tiny area. Its as if somebody has turned off its vertical control. It does this on a random basis for no apparent reason. Often it seems to know when I actually do need to know how many km Ive got left in the tank.

 

[hash tag]

Not quirks of your car but a quirky car. Car SOS recently restored a '68 DS.
Amazing looks, hydraulic suspension we know. 1968, swivelling headlights,
column gear change looked a bit quirky, no pedal for foot brake but a nipple...
I am sure there are many more oddities about these great cars.

Citroën DS - Wikipedia

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