What is some of your Pet Peeve's

   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #531  
Batteries NOT included…

followed by Batteries not meant to be easily replaced!
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #532  
No CD player. They give you every conceivable connectivity.
I'm a dinosaur driving a dinosaur vehicle. I want my CD player.
I didn't spend hours burning mixed CDs for nothing.
A new truck costs north of $70k, they can't add my CD player? Or at least make it an option.

I also can't stand the dials for shifting the auto tranny. Even if it's only cosmetic I want to be able to rest my right hand on the shifter.
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #533  
I’m with you… I have a box of 8 tracks I can only play in my 68 Mustang and tons of cassettes I can only play in my 85 van…
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #534  
No CD player. They give you every conceivable connectivity.
I'm a dinosaur driving a dinosaur vehicle. I want my CD player.
I didn't spend hours burning mixed CDs for nothing.
A new truck costs north of $70k, they can't add my CD player? Or at least make it an option.

I also can't stand the dials for shifting the auto tranny. Even if it's only cosmetic I want to be able to rest my right hand on the shifter.
I really dislike the electronic 4wd shift for several reasons. 1st, it's slow- depending on the brand it takes 15-30 seconds to shift. Often I need it for less time than that but if you suddenly find yourself sliding, you will be in the ditch before the front kicks in. I also am constantly engaging it by accident; in my Colorado when I am reaching for the headlights, or brushing the knob with my knee when I get in.
In the Tundra I reach to turn down the defrost fan but shift into 4wd instead.
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #535  
It's a compromise. The number of features available today would be between confusing and impossible to arrange through buttons.
I dunno. My girlfriend's Porsche Macan must've had two dozen switches in the center console, and maybe 10 on the door.

Once learning which one did what they could be operated by feel, in theory anyway, without having to look at them.

Now those rotary dials for shifting are just plain evil. And push buttons or dials for a transfer case aren't much better. There's a reason I order my 4WD vehicles with the standard lever if possible.

But in these days of packaging options, as much as I would've liked to have a heated steering wheel, the only way to get it in my Ram 3500 was with a touch screen. Yep, decided I'd rather freeze a bit every now and then than have to deal with a friggin' touch screen every time I drive it.
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #536  
No CD player. They give you every conceivable connectivity.
I'm a dinosaur driving a dinosaur vehicle. I want my CD player.
I didn't spend hours burning mixed CDs for nothing.
A new truck costs north of $70k, they can't add my CD player? Or at least make it an option.

I also can't stand the dials for shifting the auto tranny. Even if it's only cosmetic I want to be able to rest my right hand on the shifter.
I guess I'm lucky. My 2001 silverado has a CD player and cassette player.
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #538  
Was there even an internet in 2001!?!
I've been on it since 1993, and many thousands preceded me.

Now those rotary dials for shifting are just plain evil.
Agreed. I managed to drive for more than 25 years without ever accidentally slamming a moving vehicle from drive to reverse or park... until they put an effing second volume knob in the truck, and tied it to my transmission. :oops:
 
   / What is some of your Pet Peeve's #539  
No CD player. They give you every conceivable connectivity.
Holy crap. Why not hold out for 8-track, at that point?

Don't fight it, massey! If there's one thing I absolutely adore about every new vehicle, it's that little SD card slot, that holds an easy 80,000 tunes with voice control accessibility.
 

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