On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sure, here's my list from my Ford. It's a Focus, though, not a Fiesta: > > • Front seats recline with dial: cannot be moved quickly. > • Cannot lock doors from inside when leaving car. When trying to > manually lock with the driver's door open, the doors automatically > unlock. Apparently this is a case of Microsoft-type engineering: the > car assumes that the user is an idiot and prone to locking his keys in > the car. Thus, the car can only be locked with the key, from outside. > Forget the fact that there are many valid reasons for locking the > doors with the driver's door still open. I often have many packages to > carry, so it's easiest for me to lock the doors, grab the packages, > and then shut the door with my foot. Not with the Ford Focus. With the > Ford Focus, one can never carry two armloads of packages away from the > car. One must always leave a hand free to lock the doors. > • When the passenger||driver puts the passenger window down, and the > driver||passenger pushes the button after him, the window stops going > down. > • The radio's volume knob is so shallow and slippery that it is > impossible to operate. Also, pressing CD || Radio does not turn the > radio on. This is in contrast to the UI of the air conditioning unit, > in which any button will start it. Even "off". > • The trunk is so small that the baby stroller would not fit until I > ripped the plastic moulding off. The light is tucked away in the far > right corner, and does not illuminate the middle of the trunk even > when the trunk is empty. > • No map lights in the back! No lights at all in the back! > • The gas gauge was strategically placed behind the steering wheel. > There is no compromise between comfortable seating position and a > visible gas gauge. Same for the temp gauge, the tach between 3000 and > 5000 RPM, and the speedometer between 90 and 150 KPH. > • The trunk must be slammed down to close. Even then, it often seems > closed when it is not. > • The trunk release is electric only. No manual override. How are you > going to open that when the battery dies? I hope that you don't keep > your jumper cables in the trunk... > • Huge glove compartment. Too bad it's one dimensional. It seems > deeper than my arm is long, yet so narrow that one's fist barely gets > in. Yes, I'm exaggerating here, but the glove compartment really seems > to have been designed by some burrowing creature. To make matters > worse, it seems to go in the up direction, so every time it is opened > the contents spill out onto the passenger's feet. > • The stiff plastic lanyard on the filler cap is too short. The cap > must be twisted _just_right_ so that the cap hangs on the loop and > does not drip gas on the paint. That's difficult for those of us with > manual disabilities. > • The fuel filler door cannot be opened when the doors are locked, nor > can it be closed when the doors are locked! This means that one must > refuel with the doors unlocked, which is a potential security hazard. > • Need the key to open the engine lid. That makes a lot of problems: > 1) One cannot open the lid with the engine running without a spare > key. 2) One cannot open the lid with one hand. One hand must be > twisting the key while the other hand lifts. > • Washer fluid: The washer fluid reservoir was probably the most > over-engineered component in any Ford vehicle. It sits inside the > passenger side fender, completely hidden from view. This presents > several challenges to those tasked with maintaining the vehicle. For > one, there is no way to determine how much fluid is inside the > reservoir. Secondly, in order to replenish the supply, fluid is poured > down a pipe with such a sharp bend, so close to the mouth, that all > fluid poured in immediately splashes out. Liquid must be poured in at > about the rate one would fill an ice cube tray. Without knowing if it > will be 100 ml, a full liter, or maybe five. As the liquid splashes in > all directions at the (unexpected) moment that the reservoir is full, > either panther-like reflexes are required, or an apron. > • The vehicle is very, very loud. I know that this is not a luxury > car, and I know that instead of a timing belt it has a durable timing > chain, however the vehicle is unacceptable noisy. At highway speeds, > the passengers must scream at each other to be heard. At rest and > idle, the exhaust is so loud that it too disturbs conversation near > the trunk. > • The turn signals have a feature where a light tap on the stalk sets > the signal to flash three times. There is no option to disable this > feature, and no way to stop the blinking once it starts. At 100 KPH > (60 MPH) those three flashes mean that I'm signalling for about 15 > car-lengths of distance. That means that one must often signal left > when one intends to travel right, and vice-versa. > • The power window switch has two operational positions: a light tap > for manually guiding the window up or down, and a hard tap for full > close or open. Well, that is an idealization. In reality, there is so > little difference between the pressures needed that manual guidance is > impossible. The driver must take his eyes off the road to stop the > full close / open procedure should he desire an intermediate position. > • The air conditioning vents are shaped like whistle. Guess what sound > they make. > • The CD play has no anti skip, in fact, it skips constantly. > • The rear view mirror is placed too low: it obscures when making > right turns on accents and descents. I live on a mountain. Everything > is an accent or a decent. > > > Dude, that's [sadly?[ one of the most hilarious texts I've read in my life! :) God is in the small details... If you wrote this - You rock! :) -- Why waste your time finding the news, if the news can find you? http://mivzakim.net - YOUR cup of tea newsflashes!
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