The Car Thread
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So I have a haunted car...
The touchscreen has a fault where it will just randomly scroll through the menus, change settings, music, radio stations etc, its like.someone is sat there pressing everything.non stop . Fave is when it decides I don't want cold air in the car, what I want is the hottest air possible on the highest fan speed. Once it kicks off, I have zero control of anything on that screen, I can't even turn it off.
Sat Nav had a freak out and last week it was showing me the map of Greenland. Not at all helpful when driving through Shropshire.
So today my car has been in. Baffled the good folk there and then someone in Morocco connected to the car, downloaded all the data and will now spend the next 2 days or so looking at that data to find the fault..
The touchscreen has a fault where it will just randomly scroll through the menus, change settings, music, radio stations etc, its like.someone is sat there pressing everything.non stop . Fave is when it decides I don't want cold air in the car, what I want is the hottest air possible on the highest fan speed. Once it kicks off, I have zero control of anything on that screen, I can't even turn it off.
Sat Nav had a freak out and last week it was showing me the map of Greenland. Not at all helpful when driving through Shropshire.
So today my car has been in. Baffled the good folk there and then someone in Morocco connected to the car, downloaded all the data and will now spend the next 2 days or so looking at that data to find the fault..
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And I get pissed when my touchscreen randomly changes to French, every few months. That would blow my mind.
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Call it Christine. You know you want to.
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Would piss my sister off....so its a possible.
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Totally agree tbh. Only did it to wind her up
.I don't like machines of any sort being feminised as if they are 'temperamental'.
Machines if set up, maintained and serviced correctly, do what they are supposed to do.
Agnetha gets serviced regularly.
Car headrests?
Never been able to get the angle quite right but a long journey recently was a figurative and literal pain in the neck causing some real neck and shoulder issues. Seems this is a quite a significant problem as legislation changes (US driven I think) mean the angle between the headrest and back/shoulder part of the seat has to be within certain parameters, which effectively ensures the headrest is closer to the head at all times which reduces whiplash injuries in the event of an accident.
I spoke with the main dealer who gave the argument-nullifying ‘for your safety’ lecture, with the corporate ‘most customers find they can adjust to the ideal setting’ bollocks’ thrown in for good measure. But a quick Google shows this is a big problem and across lots of different manufacturers too. By no means all models have this issue so it can be done, but there’s loads of talk from people with no option other than to change their cars which seems madness for the sake of a headrest angle and it’s not something that seemed like a big deal in the showroom or on a ten minute test drive.
So, guaranteed neck pain if you don’t have an accident but at least you’ll have reduced whiplash if you do. World’s gone mad mate.
Driver’s seat correct for back but thrusting neck forward, passenger seat reclined to help neck but seat way too reclined (angle between x and y same anyway):
Riser bar only goes straight up or down, no angle change:
How long before you’re at the chiropractor with a driving position like that?:
I think they call it progress but legislation is becoming very hard work. Any more of this and I’m jacking it all in and getting one of those ULEZ exempt, MOT exempt, road tax exempt 2CV’s where you can even take the bloody seats out and use them for a picnic!
Never been able to get the angle quite right but a long journey recently was a figurative and literal pain in the neck causing some real neck and shoulder issues. Seems this is a quite a significant problem as legislation changes (US driven I think) mean the angle between the headrest and back/shoulder part of the seat has to be within certain parameters, which effectively ensures the headrest is closer to the head at all times which reduces whiplash injuries in the event of an accident.
I spoke with the main dealer who gave the argument-nullifying ‘for your safety’ lecture, with the corporate ‘most customers find they can adjust to the ideal setting’ bollocks’ thrown in for good measure. But a quick Google shows this is a big problem and across lots of different manufacturers too. By no means all models have this issue so it can be done, but there’s loads of talk from people with no option other than to change their cars which seems madness for the sake of a headrest angle and it’s not something that seemed like a big deal in the showroom or on a ten minute test drive.
So, guaranteed neck pain if you don’t have an accident but at least you’ll have reduced whiplash if you do. World’s gone mad mate.
Driver’s seat correct for back but thrusting neck forward, passenger seat reclined to help neck but seat way too reclined (angle between x and y same anyway):
Riser bar only goes straight up or down, no angle change:
How long before you’re at the chiropractor with a driving position like that?:
I think they call it progress but legislation is becoming very hard work. Any more of this and I’m jacking it all in and getting one of those ULEZ exempt, MOT exempt, road tax exempt 2CV’s where you can even take the bloody seats out and use them for a picnic!
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They look incredibly uncomfortable if there's no adjustment backwards/forwards
Yep.
Been reading about people who’ve straightened the curved part of the riser bar but you risk knackering the mechanism and you’d kiss goodbye to any warranty, and lord knows what would happen in the event of a claim in an accident.
Didn’t realise it was becoming an issue, but even seen images of people with other makes and models who’ve taken the thing out and turned it round the other way, and read about one guy who upgraded to a newer version of the same car, had significant neck and shoulder issues and ended up retro-fitting the older seats to his new car!
Been reading about people who’ve straightened the curved part of the riser bar but you risk knackering the mechanism and you’d kiss goodbye to any warranty, and lord knows what would happen in the event of a claim in an accident.
Didn’t realise it was becoming an issue, but even seen images of people with other makes and models who’ve taken the thing out and turned it round the other way, and read about one guy who upgraded to a newer version of the same car, had significant neck and shoulder issues and ended up retro-fitting the older seats to his new car!
I can’t unsee that now.
Even worse is anyone that sits in it is going to look like they’re being rogered by a crash test tummy.
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I'd be tempted to taking it right out, turning it round and putting it in back to front. The angle of those chrome rods looks about right...
On one of the owners forums it’s recommended to push the headrest itself with force back down the angled part of the rod as much as possible which helps it to tuck in and change the angle. That bit of the mechanism isn’t motorised so you can force it back and max it out to increase the angle between back and neck which has made it much, much more comfortable. Just that few degrees has tipped the scales and made it bearable.
It’s all part of the changing legislation and safety drive to essentially have the headrest ‘almost’ touching at all times - which sounds sensible enough but a bit of Googling reveals the extent of the difficulties a lot of people are experiencing and across a whole range of different manufacturers too. The reversing of the headrest is much more common than I realised. Crazy when it’s come to that.
It’s all part of the changing legislation and safety drive to essentially have the headrest ‘almost’ touching at all times - which sounds sensible enough but a bit of Googling reveals the extent of the difficulties a lot of people are experiencing and across a whole range of different manufacturers too. The reversing of the headrest is much more common than I realised. Crazy when it’s come to that.
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Can we keep the insurance company out of it?
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FFS...
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