Experts have called the most useless options in auto

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Эксперты назвали самые бесполезные опции в автоMany car options promise to the owner of the car a lot of benefits and advantages.

For example, the system Start/Stop promises savings of gasoline and reduction of harmful emissions. But “driving” saw the side of the coin.

1. Start/stop

On paper, the “Start/stop” really looks appetizing. Drive up to traffic lights, stop on red: motor off quickly, saving fuel personal and public oxygen. Release brake — the engine quickly wakes up.
Theoretically, the value of unspent gasoline is constantly deposited in your pocket. And the consciousness of caring for the environment unwittingly elevates you above the unworthy individuals, spoiling the air with their pistons. In this intelligent system constantly monitors the battery voltage and, if necessary, returning the engine to the generator to life. In General, everything is thought out.

Or does it? Here is an excerpt from beetwasher forum:

“There was a need with the intersection to hurry to get out — so I was a little on the side turned due to stop-start. Maybe the option normal for a quiet car but not a BMW. They’ll get to the dealer and shut off already. (gonzalis)”

Indeed, the questions to Start/footsteps began to appear long ago. A few years ago, journalists from the German AutoBild took the test 15 cars with Start/Stop and decided to measure the delay starting from the traffic light. It turned out that many start-stop cars frankly are “asleep” at the crossroads, losing to one and a half seconds, and even more. Of course, you can not pay no attention to it — say, early lift the foot off the brake, but the catch is that the owners of newfangled options, no such deterioration in the dynamics were not warned.

However, it’s nothing. Much more interesting, saves whether the “Start/stop” our money. Manufacturers often hinted as much as 10% of the winnings, but the actual measurements on the Volkswagen Passat 2.0 TDI, the difference was… 0.1 l/100 km! Those who do not believe, I invite you to walk the link. Contrast this “savings” terms Malopolska city will have less than percent. A simple calculation — suppose, even, that the hourly fuel consumption of the car is 1 l/h. we Translate this into rubles, and second — with the price of gasoline is 45 RUB per liter RUB get 45/HR, or 75 kop./min., or 1.25./s. is more Convenient to consider the moments he stood on the red-minute — saved 75 cents. 10 minutes have 7.50 net profit. Is it worth the candle game?

Of course, pennies are still money. But the most annoying is that the movement in valobasha jam of the economic calculations will have to be removed. The starter will begin to twitch convulsively, not knowing what he should do. The same reaction will be from the battery: when you increase the number of launches of commercials in just 20 (or even 100!) compared to the “old times” they will be very bad. And the generator will have to recharge the battery, taking the energy from the same gas tank — where else? Separate conversation about the catalyst, which by definition must constantly be hot. That is why the momentary penny wins will be required to fully recoup your pocket: hundreds of starts per hour can not go in vain.

In General, is it any wonder that owners try to deactivate harmful “Start/stop”? But the price of a purchased machine it has already entered…

2. Keyless entry

Come to my car, and she happily “wagging the tail” snaps, clicks and flashes lights. No keys, no key chains with buttons — you have already recognized about the master, because you have in your pocket the e-label. This is the Keyless entry — very convenient, it would seem that the option.

Convenient, no doubt. But just wanted to ask: do not start your machine to wag his tail in front of someone else?

Alas — I’ll start! If theft (or theft from inside) of a conventional machine rogue requires a certain qualification (master keys, code-grabbers and other wisdom), the opening Keyless car can be carried out using the “errand boys”. How it’s done, said almost all media, and “driving” were the instigators. In a nutshell recall the algorithm: a naive owner who came to the supermarket, go shopping, followed by a couple of feet stomping hijacker with the repeater in the bag. Label, roughly speaking foolishly takes him for a car… as soon As they are removed to a respectful distance from the car, the hijacker sends a signal to his colleague. He in one motion opens the vehicle via the second repeater unit, camouflaged, for example, under a walkie-talkie, let the engine and drives away. The relationship with this label is the machine, losing it never stops.

The real antidote against this theft no. Owners are advised to hide their labels in metallic cozies, to install additional anti theft protection and other wisdom-killing in the Bud the very idea of Keyless entry. And Vaska listens, Yes eats. sorry, that option is alive and well.

3. Low-profile tires

This is often called rubber tape on the wheels: it was too serious it looks. However, the owners of such cars are of a different opinion: they say, looks aggressive, cool, etc. And, of course, on the track, the owner of such a machine immediately “tear” all remaining…
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No doubt the hard wheel rolls better, without wasting energy on the deformation of the thin tyres, it allows for so-called pristavki not podumyval sideways — in General, behaves like a sport. But this is not the whole truth.

About a comfortable ride forget: actually you brought the car to the cart and therefore will feel with all my being, every speck on the road. With each bump in the road may be the last in the life of the wheel, a hernia, a cracked disk, and other delights. The suspension will go into a state of endless stress for which it was never intended. It will increase noise drive: hard wheel just has to make noise stronger soft. And all of the cons refer specifically to the asphalt and other smooth surfaces: off road with these wheels is better not to go at all.

4. Panoramic roof

The main advantage of the car with a panoramic roof — spectacular appearance plus feel of the space: it does not take away. Above you, soaring vultures, eagles and crows in the sky the sun is shining, and at night burn the stars of the southern cross, or, say, Tau Ceti.
Now come back down to Earth… And then it turns out that these birds not only fly, but, excuse me, crap. And often just on the roof. But one thing, when sitting in the car, you don’t see that — and quite another when the waste products of blocking you southern Cross and all the rest. And if the hatch was open, you can get a really embarrassing situation…
From the birds to the sun. In the heat of the cabin, converted into a greenhouse, to warm up so that immediately want to use public transport. System climate control not too fond of “panorama”: in winter it is always freezing and in the summer — on the contrary: the a / C will work to the limit. Besides, to be in the sun not pleasant: a metal roof will seem like Paradise. But even in cool weather, not everyone wants to sit constantly in a kind of “fishbowl” in which you look from top to bus drivers and all sorts of trucks.

5. LEDs

Some manufacturers offer LED rear-lights as an option, and often the owners themselves are plotting a “tuning”, replacing incandescent bulbs with semiconductors. The purpose can be guessed easily: modern, cool, reliable and light up the lights a little faster than incandescent bulbs. About money in such cases usually do not think. But whether these lamps other cons, except for their prices?

The first disadvantage can be called frivolous: the owner of the car almost never sees, as his burning lights. Therefore, we can say that he actually spent the money “for somebody else”… But “uncle” is unhappy: indeed, in practice, LED rear optics, many think too bright, blinding. But the main disadvantage of such optics — low maintainability. Moreover, LEDs generally do not change alone — they connect to the battery, not directly, but through an electronic unit, which can also sandwich. And if before repair the tail light was often reduced to a primitive replacement of light bulbs, now will not work: it will be much easier to replace the lamp Assembly. If I’ll find it on sale, of course.

Led head optics today, which is called taxis: it is good, expensive and “cool”. But the rear lights used to led a long time — and not only on expensive cars.

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