What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[JethroB]

Here’s one just today.

Traveling in the right lane today and another driver comes up from behind in the left lane as if to pass me. Nope. She decides to pace me even with my rear quarter panel in my almost blind spot. I slow a bit, so does she. I speed up 5 mph so does she.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I want to be by myself on the roads, but many (most?) people are herd animals.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

Here’s one just today.

Traveling in the right lane today and another driver comes up from behind in the left lane as if to pass me. Nope. She decides to pace me even with my rear quarter panel in my almost blind spot. I slow a bit, so does she. I speed up 5 mph so does she.

I would speed up and move in front of them then

 

[Jstpssng]

I had three auto hubs fail in less than five years, on my 1995 Chevy 1500. According to a mechanic buddy at the time, they were a common failure.

But I had zero failures on my 2005 , and so far on my 2015 pickups, both various flavors of Daimler-Dodge/Ram. So either the tech has improved, or it was just a Chevy thing. Only buying one new pickup every 10 years, it's hard to really draw conclusions on one brand versus another, tech changes so much over the course of a decade.

'95 GM trucks didn't have hubs per se. Rather, they had CV shafts which turn constantly and a vacuum switch in the front end which engaged/disengaged a little sleeve which connected the front end together. It's an altogether different front end and the main components are still on most truck based 4x4 vehicles today.

 

[WinterDeere]

You're right on the CV shafts always turning, these had independent front ends, and the solenoid was mounted to the differential. But I remember these being fully-electric solenoids, not vacuum actuated.

 

[Jstpssng]

You're right on the CV shafts always turning, these had independent front ends, and the solenoid was mounted to the differential. But I remember these being fully-electric solenoids, not vacuum actuated.

I remember something about those, also. It was my first Dakota (91) which had the vacuum lines. I got stranded so many times when it wouldn't engage that I finally took my air compressor, engaged the front end and blocked the lines off.
My '93 Dakota came from the factory like that.

I blew up the front spyder gears in each of those.

 

[Jstpssng]

Today was a big pet peeve. I'm in a check out line... the guy in-front of me thought that the item he was buying was on sale in a recent flyer. It was not, he must have remembered an older flyer. Yet, he and the poor clerk involved, went page by page in a 12 page flyer looking for this discount........ AT THE CHECK OUT. I just had to start laughing, cause it was like some sort of Monty Python skit playing out in front of me.

Then there's the woman who stands there watching the clerk run her cart of groceries through, watches her bag them and THEN decides to dig out her check book and start writing a check. Is paying for them really such a surprise?

One of my big peeves is that so many convenience stores don't even make prices available. I often will leave without getting what I went in for. On the other hand prices at the local small town grocery store often don't match what rings up. I once spent 2p minutes arguing with the clerk over 60 cents. (No manager.) It was obviously wrong, all that she had to do was look at the receipt but she didn't believe me; so dug out a calculator and started adding things up. Somebody would come and she would ring them up and start over again. Finally I gave up.

A week later she gave me back 10 dollars too much. I was out the door and up the road before I realized it... I had a hard time convincing myself to go back.

 

[WinterDeere]

Then there's the woman who stands there watching the clerk run her cart of groceries through, watches her bag them and THEN decides to dig out her check book and start writing a check. Is paying for them really such a surprise?

My wife doesn't pay with checks, but does always seem unprepared to hop out of the vehicle when we arrive at our destination. It's as if she didn't know where we were going, and is somehow surprised when we arrive. I was the one driving, and yet I'm the one standing outside the car and ready to go, while waiting for her to put her crap back in her purse, get her jacket on, and get out of the car.

 

[jjeff]

Despite a previous ranting peeve of mine I completely overlooked push button shifting mechanisms for automatic transmissions have been around longer than me.

 

[WinterDeere]

I remember some of the old Chrysler products when I was a kid had them. But cars back then had no standard for the order of gearing, many did not follow the "P R N D L" ordering we take for granted today. Crazy, but some of them had reverse after low, as in "P N D L R".

People have argued whether the safety standards are actually the reasoning behind the demise of that old Chrysler push button system, or just coincidence that it disappeared at the same time the standards were released.

Automotive History: The Mysterious Disappearance of the Chrysler Pushbutton Automatic - A Government Conspiracy? - Curbside Classic

(first posted 12/8/2017) The sudden disappearance of the pushbutton transmission on Chrysler Corporation vehicles at the end of the 1964 model year has resulted in a lot of […]

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