What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[jjeff]

Both my truck and my wifes car have a little cover on the shifter to override the transmission.
Not sure most people know that, it is not marked .

Amd a

If the battery is dead can you still put the car in neutral to roll it?

Yes on manually shifted automatic transmissions pull that little square cover and I used to be able to use a pen to depress hidden button to override the transmission lock however Not on electronic push buttons or dials especially when it's having pretty major electronic problems in my previous experience. There was no override on earlier 7 series beemers, nor was I a mobile ASE master car mechanic.

 

[jjeff]

On foreign cars? I’ve never seen any on any car.

I guess it depends, definitely took the guess work out of breaking stuff and made my job easier 15 yrs ago. My current foreign compact beater doesn't have one but does have secure places to hook on underneath.

 

[kenmbz]

I guess it depends, definitely took the guess work out of breaking stuff and made my job easier 15 yrs ago. My current foreign compact beater doesn't have one but does have secure places to hook on underneath.

On the wifes BMW , little squares on front/rear bumper and a hook in the trunk toolbox.

 

[Oaktree]

And on smaller unibodies a small plastic cover over a threaded steel hole on your bumper, to screw in a eye bolt usually stored with the spare, anyways folks should make sure it's used to pull your car out of a ditch instead of hooking a winch to more fragile under built A and control arms. From my experiences.

Don't think I've ever seen that, but so few new cars today have an easily accessible place to attach a tow strap that won't cause damage. Not sure I'd want to try pulling on a bumper on a modern vehicle though.

If the battery is dead can you still put the car in neutral to roll it?

No idea. Never had to do it.

 

[Jstpssng]

. To get out of a truck in the middle of winter or other questionable traction
area's to lock the hubs was a bit of a peeve of mine

I can say from almost 8 yrs of driving a gm truck I've never once had a problem with the transfer case or the auto hubs locking,

When I had locking hubs they were in much of the winter, unless I was doing a lot of highway driving. Yet that was a completely different system than what most vehicles have now. The latter have CV shafts rather than drive shafts in the front end which are always turning. True off readers don't like them because often the differential is lower than the cv shafts.

 

[not2old]

I guess it depends, definitely took the guess work out of breaking stuff and made my job easier 15 yrs ago. My current foreign compact beater doesn't have one but does have secure places to hook on underneath.

I have a number of these towing eyes from all the Volvos I have, They also fit my 2014 CTS-V coupe.

 

[WinterDeere]

On foreign cars? I’ve never seen any on any car.

Yeah, it was a European standard dating back probably 30 years. I've always noticed them on all of our European cars. Not consistently found on American cars, though.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I was like that with manually locking hubs until I finally got a truck that wasn't.

I much prefer manual hubs. It's usually relatively easy to predict when it'd be nice to have them locked in advance.

After all, leaving them locked is no worse than on vehicles that didn't have any kind of locking hubs or CAD setup.

And speaking of CAD, since the manufacturers don't mind that the spider gears are getting one heck of a workout when one axle shaft is disconnected, I've adopted a similar strategy with my M1008 (a live axle GM 1-ton, basically).

Being lazy, I leave the right hub locked, allowing 2WD LO, then it's only three steps to lock the left one when I need 4WD.

 

[not2old]

I ordered my truck in 1990 with manual hubs because I'd heard that some auto hubs were unreliable. I've had to replace one hub years ago and don't know of anybody that had replaced any auto hubs. So sometimes progress isn't bad?????

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I've got stuck a few times due to auto hubs not engaging until the rear tires had turned enough to make them engage...at which point it was too late.

To me, auto hubs are like rain sensitive wipers. If I can't perform the simple task of locking the hubs, or can't tell when it's raining, I have no business driving.

Okay, if I end up in a wheelchair and have hand controls in the vehicle, auto hubs or CAD may be acceptable. But then I'd prefer no axle disconnects whatsoever since fixing the problem would be tricky at that point.