The Official Car-Related Shit That No One Cares About, Thread

[EvoFire]

Originally Posted by 68style

Funny you mention this, my 2021 C43 was dead silent since I got it, but then suddenly a few weeks ago developed an annoying creak over bumps… I drove around for awhile on Calgary’s shitty ass pavement holding various panels until I figured out where it was coming from to the bottom right of the clock.

Took the dash apart and put a couple of foam pieces i had laying around in and back together and it’s all silent again!

I love the interior of this car though, every time I pick up non-car enthusiast people they all go “Wow this is such a nice car” which never happens with anything else I’ve ever owned. Everything is very satisfying to use on it… the only thing I dislike are the button blanks (I got over it) and that the screen isn’t a touch interface.

I missed your message. I would almost say not having a touch screen is a blessing, as the fingerprints on the inlaw's X1 touch screen drives me nuts. And the new BMW interface HAS to be operated as a touchscreen and I hate it.

As for the creaky MB interiors, it seems to be most isolated to that generation of cars. The subsequent redesign seems to have mostly solved them.

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Originally Posted by EvoFire

Here comes the rant, why does a seat back on a entry level luxury vehicle have to be so fucking complicated? Or am I just that peasant driving my peasant BMWs and don't think to automate that?

I am even more of a peasant but that's way overcomplicated and adding far too many points of failure for no reason. At least it failed when you were just setting up car seats, if that happened when you were out and needed all the seats you'd be screwed.