So, this Addblu stuff...

[stinkwheel]

[G]

[Polarbear]

[G]

I wouldn't be too bothered on a bike I don't think - but I do like having it on 4 wheels for sitting on the motorway.
And especially like the idea of radar controlled - just for when you find the car infront going that little bit slower/slightly erratically/etc.

[stinkwheel]

[Irn-Bru]

2 luxuries I couldn't do without on a car is cruise control and air con, would be the same if I had any say in the matter about my work van but nevermind. Not sure I'd use CC on a bike, probably only to faff on with stuff which would probably be dangerous so not a good influence.
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[M.C]

[Itchy]

[dydey90]

Those seatbelt warnings boil my piss. I never want a car fitted with one, but since my Mrs has a corsa with it that's older than my Astra, I think the end is nigh.
I don't have time to put my seatbelt on before I set off. Most of the time the hand brake is off and I'm reversing before the engine has settled from the startup blip.
I'll do it like my dad always did. Set off, turn off my street get up to speed on the main road and then fiddle with seatbelt. Unless it's a long trip, then I'll have to sort out my iPod first.
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[arry]

[bamt]

[stinkwheel]

[recman]

I love all the gadgets!
Who doesn't need a boot lid that will open up when you wave your foot under the rear bumper?

[Polarbear]

[recman]

If only!
I fear she's a tad too old to learn new tricks.

[M.C]

[DOS]

[stinkwheel]

[Irn-Bru]

I had a car roll across a car park into mine because the gimp (who was busy shopping whilst his car was blocking off the car park) didn't know how to use his new fancy car properly.
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[DOS]

[bluebear]

The adblue will not be injected when the cat is cold.
The injection process only takes place when conditions are met ie engine and cat are up to temperature, and when the engine is under high load

[JonB]

[stinkwheel]

In my experience, ALL car electronics are hell of a a glitchy.

It was a 50:50 which way the windows on my vito would go when you pushed the button. It also ate two ECUs.

My brand new citroen dispatch randomly resets the speed and distance units to metric and changes the language. It sometimes locks you out of the radio (sticks on stations or volumes). The touch screen in the centre console works only intermittantly, it sometimes wont respond to touches. I've occasionally seen the rev counter needle flickering up and down to itself through the window when the van is off and the doors are locked.

The alarm randomly goes off for no apparent reason, the windows sometimes wind themselves down a couple of inches when you lock the doors off the fob, and you sometimes come back to the vehicle to find the wipers in the middle of the windscreen.

So a self-releasing handbrake would come as no surprise to me at all.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[M.C]

[Irn-Bru]

Don't start me on my fiat, just ticked over 10,000 miles and it's had faulty remote central locking fixed under warranty and occasionally it starts beeping at me saying my airbag has been disabled (lovely), and yesterday it started flashing up about how hill start assist and ESC is disabled, FFS It's fine now but every now and then it just likes to remind you it's a fiat. I used to drive Iveco Daily's in my last job with the most horrible semi-auto gearbox in the world and they too were extremely flakey vans, the worst fault being the windscreen wipers would some times stop working, kind of a big deal. The other big deal was the DPF was extremely clogged up and it would randomly cut out (1 year old van used every day ~600 miles per week probably) until one day it did it on a junction and wouldn't restart plus due to the semi auto box I couldn't even use the starter to move the van so got called alsorts that day until someone eventually helped me push it.

As for electric handbrakes being idiot/fault proof, the Audi that was squashed against my car suggests otherwise Maybe they didn't engage automatically back then, not really sure how they work but it would make sense to engage when the key is removed. Just remember some day that servo and motor for the whole system will break. Plus you can't do proper handbrake turns in the snow which is a deal breaker.
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