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[Rick]

Now I can forgive old vehicles most things, but even I recognise pointless design when it stares me in the face. Witness the A55's ignition switch, cunningly placed directly behind the steering wheel, making it awkward enough to use when the wheels are pointing straight ahead, and even worse when at an angle. Why not just put it to the right, near the wiper switch???? doh

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[peter scott]

The spare wheel in the SS Jaguar is stored horizontally beneath the boot and requires you to hinge up the compartment door to gain access. However, before you can hinge up the door you need to hinge down the rear bumper.
This is fine when the car is sitting on fully inflated tyres but with a puncture on the rear it isn't possible to hinge the bumper down because it hits the ground and also prevents you from plugging the supplied pillar jack into the
rear jacking points.

As a further bonus design feature the pillar jack has insufficient lift to get the wheels clear of the ground although in fairness to the designer this only afflicts front wheel punctures.

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention the "space saver" spare wheel. The spare wheel compartment has insufficient height to accomodate the tyre width so your spare needs to be stored deflated.

Peter

[Phil - Nottingham]

Surely when wheel isin its correct straight ahead position and not as in your pic you just poke your arm through the top half of steering wheel

Is it the wiper switch on the left?

Anyway placed centrally there it is clearly to look symetrical and neat - design over functionality a usual

Not sure what went wrong switch the 3 oddly placed switches/warning lights on the right though PO adds:roll:

On my P5 the standard fit electric washers is on the left side of the instrument pod - its clearly labled for the passenger to see but completely out of sight of the driver and MOT inspectors Drivers find it by feel.

The first models did have a non-electric floor pump and they could not find a more convenient place I suppose when the electric pump was fitted in 1962
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[Rick]

[buzzy bee]

One thing that anoys me is the horn being on the indicator stalk on the left hand side, so anoying passengers can hoot your horn when you are driving, it really pees me off.

One guy the other day hit my steering wheel trying to do the horn, I said don't do that too hard, you are hitting my air bag!

Supose this is more a rant over passengers, but there we go!

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On my classic Range Rover I have to stretch full arms length to adjust the radio
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[peter scott]

Horns on stallks are bad but when did you last use the horn? The really retrograde step was moving the dip switch onto a stalk.

Those nice floor dip switches were great. Now you have to keep a hand, that's
busy doing something else, hovering near the stalk while your left foot is doing nothing.

Peter

[Brian M]

[peter scott]

[PAUL BEAUMONT]

I thought Peter's post was a plug for an automatic!

[peter scott]

[Brian M]

[peter scott]

Oh no! I could end up with an unfortunate nick name.

[Uncle Joe]

Well, personally I like both floor mounted dipswitches, and automatics.

The thing that I dont like about cars is the fact that they all seem to have an ignition switch that must be operated by the right hand. Dont Car Designers (or designers in general) realise that there are left handed people in this world?

[ukdave2002]

UJ you should try a Stag, ignition key on the LHS, gets me every time as I try and put the key into the light switch