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What are the most useless options/functions in your car?

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Dancing Fire

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My wife's Lexus is 11 yrs old and we probably opened the moonroof 3X just for fun and use the navigation < 10X. The $2200 navi option is a waste of money when you have an Iphone or just buy a $150 portable Garmin navi.
 
Same here...moon roof and heated mirrors! I live in a very warm state where it rarely goes into the 30's in the winter. Usually stays in the 40s at the
coldest so those 2 options above are rarely/never used. You can open the moon roof if you like to fry!
 
The engine.
Why bother when we can cut a hole in the floor and use our feet like the Flintstones?:think:
 
Moon roof (I never open them) and wifi - the networks that come with cars don't have much signal strength where I live and I don't use it anyway.

Thread jack - my favorite features - heated seats and heated steering wheel - it's COLD where I live.
 
I also think the moonroof. I've had one in every car I've had the past 25 years. Never opened it once.

I have to deal with cold winters. I love my heated mirrors, heated steering wheel and heated seats. I wish my car had air conditioned seats for summer.
 
Cruise control, I just don't use it ever.
 
Rain sensor for wipers. Just give me good intermittents, please.

I don't use cruise control either.

My new favorite feature is the back-up cameral with proximity alert. I also like the on-board nav system, though next time I get a car I'll look for one that easily syncs with google maps or apple nav instead.
 
What I thought initially to be totally useless were the seat coolers. But when the hot flashes came I was totally 'YESS, turn on those seat coolers....' :lol:
 
I generally don't go for features, but my car has cruise control which I never use. If anything I accidentally turn it on honking the horn so it's an annoyance.
 
cruise control and wireless internet
 
My mercedes has a lighted medallion that shines on the ground at night when the doors open, I suppose it's to help you get safely in to and out of the car in dark places. I think it's silly.
 
You call a sunroof a moonroof?
 
The car

- unless it comes with a driver; most other features are inessential & few noticeable at all.
 
arkieb1 said:
You call a sunroof a moonroof?
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I think a sunroof is fully solid sliding panel. A moonroof is glass panel with or without a separate sliding solid cover.
 
Our CRV has a storage compartment in the boot and the lid is a table with fold out legs. We thought it was brilliant, never used it even once after buying the car :lol:
 
Cruise control, blue tooth (why do I want to talk on the phone with everyone anywhere near me able to hear every word of the conversation?), cigarette lighter

must haves: blind spot monitoring, back up camera, and the heated seats (ours doesn't have but the loaner car did and OMGosh they were amazing!)
 
Traction Control
Stability Control
ABS
Front/side/curtain Airbags
Simple / traffic-speed-adjusting Cruise Control
Automatic wipers
Automatic lights
Reversing beepers
Phone connectivity
Automatic self-parking
GPS-monitored (Big Brother) 'e-call'
Speed-limit monitoring (and 'Intelligent Speed Adaptation')


All these and more are pretty much unnecessary if one is driving correctly, paying attention and not treating a car like an extension of the sofa at home.

My current car has, oooh, none of the above, and has the bare minimum of impact protection. Is it more dangerous to crash in? Undoubtedly. Does it make me more aware of my driving and drive more safely/cautiously/defensively? Yup.

As someone once said, if instead of airbags there was a large metal spike coming out of the centre of the steering wheel, people would be a lot less keen to try and get in your boot on the motorway/freeway, or drive round corners faster than the speed from which they can stop in the distance they can see to be clear on their side of the road...

The arrogance and moronic behaviour of people driving to intimidate other drivers while cocooned in their air-conditioned, multi-airbagged, 2+ tonnes of SUV winds me up. Come and sit in my car, with 4mm of sheet metal and nothing else as side impact protection, your head at the same level as other vehicles' bumpers, and see how you feel when some imbecile comes towards you with what is basically a high-speed weapon...
 
I don't know what is the most useless option (I think our car is a Lexus RX330 1999 model so LOL not totally up to date re options :lol:) but I will tell you the most useful options...our heated car seats (YES in dead of winter this is a MUST for me) and our AC. In fact AC is the BEST invention ever for anything anywhere. I LOVE LOVE LOVE my AC and melt in the summer without it. NEED it desperately so that is the MOST useful option IMO.

Sorry as I know that wasn't your question though.:cheeky:
 
Calliecake said:
I also think the moonroof. I've had one in every car I've had the past 25 years. Never opened it once.

I have to deal with cold winters. I love my heated mirrors, heated steering wheel and heated seats. I wish my car had air conditioned seats for summer.
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YES me too! That would be a great option! Air conditioned seats.:appl:
 
I use my sun roof all the time. Love it! Also love my converible!
Seat heat? Can't beat that in the cold climates. Use it all the time.
Back up camera - after neck surgery this is a great feature.

Never use cruise control either.
Blue tooth? Ehh, nope.
Rain sensitive wipers...pretty cool.
 
...oops double post.
 
Donut spare tires or even worse, tire patch kits...semi useless if you are far from an open tire store.
 
Reading the manual for my new car has been on my to-do list for the past year so I'm not aware of the most useless feature just yet.
 
Fuel gauge. My tank is always empty anyway...
 
The car I have now will apply the brakes if you get too close to another car. While it is a great feature it can also be a little dangerous. A semi truck didn't see my car and I was speeding up to get out of his way and avoid an accident. The car started trying to brake. I was able to speed up but it was a little scary to feel the car starting to brake as I needed it to speed up. When I applied a lot more pressure to the accelerator it stopped the braking.

I also found it pretty much impossible to not get a sunroof. All the options are bundled together in a group.
 
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Last car had a panoramic glass roof (front to back), new car has a solid roof, which I prefer. Never opened the roof in the last car at all. New car has all the features we wanted, that's why we chose it :D
 
my current car is pretty basic, so I don't think there any features I find useless.

I so find it interesting that so many don't use their sunroof. I love mine and use it all the time. It helps that A) I live in SoCal, so the weather is very cooperative and B) it has the option to just open the back a crack, which I sometime sure when it' too hot to have the sun directly on me.
 
HI:

I have no complaints about anything in the vehicles we own. However, I recently rode in my sisters bells and whistles BMW SUV and I really disliked the heads up projection onto the windshield. I found it very distracting. My DH loves it.

cheers--Sharon
 
Cruise control
 
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