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Nominations for the most irritating Gen 4 switchgear go to:......
- Dorsetdumpling
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: The light knob which has an ‘auto’ and ‘manual’ headlamp setting for dip/main beam. If you have a crisis of confidence in the auto system, and decide to take manual control, switching from one to the other takes you through the ‘sidelight’ setting which plunges you into partial darkness as you drive.
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Dorsetdumpling wrote: A): The rear wash wipe knob which has a ‘wash but no wipe’ setting which sends a stream of water straight down the rear window. By the time you click the knob to the ‘wipe’ setting, past the ‘off’ setting, the water has all run off.
Can't say as I've noticed tbh.
The light knob which has an ‘auto’ and ‘manual’ headlamp setting for dip/main beam. If you have a crisis of confidence in the auto system, and decide to take manual control, switching from one to the other takes you through the ‘sidelight’ setting which plunges you into partial darkness as you drive.
Yes, if I'd designed it, you would turn the switch one way for "atomic= like radioactive decay- completely at random" and the other way for side & head, with OFF as the second position. It is the same in the
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- The bank of switches for the TLAs down on the right where I cannot see them unless I crouch under the dash.
The stupid placement of the window switches.
Every car I've driven, apart from a Talbot Samba, had the switches on the door, it is the correct/natural place- where I expect to find them, not in the middle with identical switches that don't seem to do anything.
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"You just get used to it" is no excuse for poor design, and speaking of which...
Rain gutters - why no drains at the rear? Rain just sits on the roof and gurgles at medium speeds. Chris
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One of the last 200ish of the gen3s, probably.
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Temeraire (2018 quasar grey automatic)
One of the last 200ish of the gen3s, probably.
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CC Baxter wrote: I think the reasoning for wipers on the outside is that vision takes priority over signalling. You can signal early or late but you need to see now.
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I do believe that Europe has the wipers on the right, and they drive on the wrong side of the road so that rather shoots that theory down
I think the speedo should be on the left, and the indicators on the right, like in the old one tbh, but I think Suzuki went all Euro when they bought in the VVT and swapped everything over then.
You might ask why I bought a Gen4 if there is so much to criticise- well really I wanted to get the last of the Gen 3 at a knockdown price, but the prices shot up not down. Keeping the old one wasn't really worth it as it won't last another 20 years, and I wanted an auto.
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Dorsetdumpling wrote: A): The rear wash wipe knob which has a ‘wash but no wipe’ setting which sends a stream of water straight down the rear window. By the time you click the knob to the ‘wipe’ setting, past the ‘off’ setting, the water has all run off.
There are two wash positions. As you say turn know down for wash only, turn back up past Off and onto wipe, then turn up again and hold to wash and wipe. This top position is a self return.
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The rear washer switch is daft. A very useless wash only and no intermittent.
The other useless thing is the ESP off button. It turns back on at 30kph, which is a waste of time. The ESP doesn't do much below 30kph anyway.
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(No doubt the USA drive on the wrong side for a similar reason to to with the burning the Whitehouse and the Soaking of the Tea incident)
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