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Meh, traded my first one at 12 years and 158k miles in perfect working order. Cheapest car to maintain that anyone in my family has ever had. Still have the second one after 12 years and 120k miles, with no major issues outside of the diesel emissions nonsense. I'm fully expecting to have both that and the new one for >20 years.
lol i don't even speak from experience, i'm just jumping on the bandwagon... i also didn't make this meme but i enjoy it
good point about battery tech becoming cheaper, that's often how these things end up going
when i ordered my iMac back in 2011 there was the option to have an HDD and SSD installed at the same time, which is a great idea in theory since you can run the OS and applications off the quick SSD, and use the HDD for storage of movies and photos etc... but back in 2011 it would've been like $600 (in 2011 dollars) for a 120GB SSD, wasn't worth it to me at the time
fast forward 4-5 years later though and that same size SSD was only about $115! and because of the dual hard drive option there was just a spare unused SATA port on the back of the motherboard, so i bought the SSD and 2 friends helped me with the install, aka just held things out of the way while i plugged in the connectors lol... now i have a blazing fast iMac with a functional DVD player! the last model to still include a disc drive haha
1) QX80 - sunroof only opens/closes - doesn't tilt up. Annoying.
2) Tesla - whatever audio you were playing when you last exited the car will play upon opening any door. I have always loved this odd feature (quirk) because I'm a music lover and it's kinda cool to randomly open the back door to grab something and hear a good song start playing.
1) QX80 - sunroof only opens/closes - doesn't tilt up. Annoying.
2) Tesla - whatever audio you were playing when you last exited the car will play upon opening any door. I have always loved this odd feature (quirk) because I'm a music lover and it's kinda cool to randomly open the back door to grab something and hear a good song start playing.
Both interesting. Why can't you tilt up I wonder? I like that Tesla feature.
this is actually something i just remembered thanks to Mr. Marshall (aka Marshall Mathers), but on the E55 years 2005 and 2006 only (the 2003 and 2004 models didn't do this) the speedometer reads up to 200, however 0 - 120 reads like an ordinary 160 mph speedometer with 80 at the top center
if you look the acceleration appears to drop off sharply after 120, but it's actually just the scale changing
Another quirk found, but it's a good one. Our Tesla only activates climate to areas of the car where it knows a passenger is sitting. So if I'm the only one in the car, only the driver side AC is on. Someone gets in the backseat, it activates the rear air automatically. Someone jumps into the passenger seat, it activates passenger air. Pretty cool if you ask me.
A quirk that I'm sick of are seat belt warnings that drive you absolutely insane.
I wear my seatbelt, but I don't always put it on right away. My LX will beep for an agonizingly long amount of time, I'm not even onto the next street from my house.
Many cars are much worse, the Yukon is horrendous with the seat belt alerts. It won't shut up at all.
I lovvvvve how my SL you get seat belt flash when the engine starts, and that's it.
Putting a seatbelt on for me is so automatic I don't even think about it, so I never hear the chimes.
Right. I just don't do it right away a lot of the time. Sometimes I do it right before pulling out of my neighborhood after I get everything settled in the car like my phone etc.
A quirk that I'm sick of are seat belt warnings that drive you absolutely insane.
I wear my seatbelt, but I don't always put it on right away. My LX will beep for an agonizingly long amount of time, I'm not even onto the next street from my house.
Many cars are much worse, the Yukon is horrendous with the seat belt alerts. It won't shut up at all.
I lovvvvve how my SL you get seat belt flash when the engine starts, and that's it.
My LS430 the light doesn't stop blinking.
I coded it out of my LSs and Audis, I also removed the auto shift to park when a door is open at low speed/stopped.
I always wear it but when I have to shuffle cars around (as happens when you have a few) it's really freaking annoying hearing the "key not found" beeping, chimes, seatbelt warnings etc etc.
Take her to a track? I couldn't imagine not wearing one, I would be flying all over the car with how I drive!
This is a legitimately great idea. However there are two minor sticking points:
1. A single track day would cost right around $1k--$300 entry fee plus $700 insurance with a $20k deductible, which is still a bit rich for my blood.
2. No chance in hell she'd ever go.
I've discovered a couple of quirks on our QX80. Strangely, they all relate somehow to locking and unlocking the vehicle.
- On two separate occasions I've tried to open my gas tank (just press on the door, there is no internal button or switch) and it won't open. Today I thought it was broken and I pushed it probably 20 times. I went to open the car and when the doors unlocked, the gas tank popped open. So it occurred to me that the gas tank has a "lock" just like the doors and it can't be opened when the truck is locked. Never had a car like that. This makes sense to me though.
- I don't think I can unlock all of the doors by touching the button on the passenger door handle - it only unlocks the passenger door. Conversely, the driver door button will unlock all of the doors if I tap it twice. I'm going to ask Infiniti if this can be customized. This is an annoying quirk.
- The truck doesn't auto unlock all of the doors when you put it in park. Only when you turn the truck off. I've searched online and doesn't seem like this can be changed, but I'm going to ask Infiniti. I find this annoying as well.
What quirks does your car have?
I haven't had an Infiniti so I don't know but all those are part of features on BMWs and some others. You can set it to unlock all doors when in P. I don't like it for safety reason. So I have it off. You can set so when you open a door, it will open all doors. I don't like this for safety either. But you can set it so depending on which door you pull, it will open one or all. If you open driver's door, it will open just that. But if you open from one of other doors, it will unlock everything which makes sense. Unlike you know which brand, if you set it to driver's door only, that is it. You have to go to driver's door to open. If you you have grocery or want to be gentlemen and want to open door for your passenger, you're out of luck. You have to go to your driver's door, unlock there then long press to open others.
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