Interesting Discoveries Thread (Good or Bad)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU WASHED IT IN A CARWASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep. Chassis spray, for salt: it's the only way. Later, a full detail will restore any damage done to the clear coat; wax and ceramic, etc. Afraid there is no other way. Leaving accumulated saline all over the bottom of the car is far more deadly than temporarily marred beauty. So far, I haven't seen a thing that looks like deteriorating or damaged clear coat. It's easier on a Silky Silver than it would be on a Deep Chroma Blue or Aurora Black or Panthera Metal, i.e. dark colors.
 
Not sure if it’s been mentioned before but after nearly 8500km of driving my Stinger, I’ve just realised that the dynamic headlights aren’t dynamic when the high beam is activated. They stop the bendy thing on corners and just fix on one point like regular headlights
 
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Not sure if it’s been mentioned before but after nearly 8500km of driving my Stinger, I’ve just realised that the dynamic headlights aren’t dynamic when the high beam is activated. They stop the bendy thing on corners and just fix on one point like regular headlights

They shouldn't be needed - my high beams light up both sides off (not of) the road much wider than the DBL ever goes.
 
Not sure if it’s been mentioned before but after nearly 8500km of driving my Stinger, I’ve just realised that the dynamic headlights aren’t dynamic when the high beam is activated. They stop the bendy thing on corners and just fix on one point like regular headlights
I tell you if i saw a set of high beams i would be totally fixated too. Lol
 
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Discovered this after a lot of head scratching and going through the manual:
To turn the heating on for your side-view mirrors (if equipped), you have to turn on the Rear Window Defrost.

At work I park my car in the open but under a structure, so I don't get snow; therefore I use the ice-scraper to take off the ice in the back but my side-view mirrors were always iced up. No more ice-ice baby for me now!:p
 
Discovered this after a lot of head scratching and going through the manual:
To turn the heating on for your side-view mirrors (if equipped), you have to turn on the Rear Window Defrost.

At work I park my car in the open but under a structure, so I don't get snow; therefore I use the ice-scraper to take off the ice in the back but my side-view mirrors were always iced up. No more ice-ice baby for me now!:p
Set it up in the UVO app, and use remote start. Only thing that sucks you can’t turn on the heated and cooled seats.
 

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Well this is probably only of interest to those of you who have the UVO app, live in really cold climates and have a block heater in your car.

As it was bitterly cold last night (-36F dropping to -42F by morning), I decided it was finally time to break down and actually plug in the block heater in my car. Unfortunately, unlike most of the new cars that have an receptacle for the block heater cord mounted in the front fascia of the car, the Stinger just has the cord with the receptacle coiled up under the hood. Given the temperature last night, I didn't really feel like spending time looking for a way to route the cord through the fascia somewhere, so, I just left the hood ajar and fed it out that way.

I found out this morning, that the UVO remote start won't work if your hood is not fully closed. Nice time to discover that. Car still started fine, I just had to walk out to the car to start it.
 
Well this is probably only of interest to those of you who have the UVO app, live in really cold climates and have a block heater in your car.

As it was bitterly cold last night (-36F dropping to -42F by morning), I decided it was finally time to break down and actually plug in the block heater in my car. Unfortunately, unlike most of the new cars that have an receptacle for the block heater cord mounted in the front fascia of the car, the Stinger just has the cord with the receptacle coiled up under the hood. Given the temperature last night, I didn't really feel like spending time looking for a way to route the cord through the fascia somewhere, so, I just left the hood ajar and fed it out that way.

I found out this morning, that the UVO remote start won't work if your hood is not fully closed. Nice time to discover that. Car still started fine, I just had to walk out to the car to start it.
Yeah, I found that 3 weeks(should have posted it). I have to move my heater cord to the lower grill.
 
This may be very trivial to most - the Stinger is my first car with a speed limiter function. The opposite of cruise control - set a limit, no matter how naughty your right foot gets, no speeding tickets! I actually find the limiter more useful than the cruise, lol. I don't have smart cruise control by the way.

I don't know if this is just me, but for example, set the limiter to 100kph and on eco mode. It feels like I get better fuel consumption than using the cruise control. Plus, before I moved to Korea, I got speeding tickets from almost all countries in continental Europe. This is such a heaven-sent.

How do you activate this? I have a GT with adaptive cruise.
 
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It's not available in AUS.
 
Yes, for most people, most of the time. You'd laugh to see the predicament that some cars are in. My favorite memory is from the winter of '94 (iirc, could be off by a year either way), when we had two plus feet on our front lawn, for the first time in my entire life here in the Valley. Deepest snow drop I've ever experienced. Cars on the street were completely buried; just humps of snow in the general depth. People were digging out for hours. Days later, there were still humps where cars were buried; their owners just didn't have the gumption to bother. The city came around and posted warnings to get the cars off the damned street so the plows could get them cleared. Many of those buried cars had plows go around them and fines were issued and some damage done, so I heard (did not see any myself).

Then, a couple of years ago (or maybe it was even last year), up Michigan way, I saw video of the five feet snow drop in less than 24 hours; and I realized that my singular memory of "deep snow" was just a doodle.
What's the topic of this thread? "Stinger, interesting-discoveries..?" There are some, some where!
Although weather is interesting too!
 
The hatch is firbeglass (composit). Found out when I replaced the rear badge.
The hatch (boot lid over here) is metal, the part the Kia badge sits on is composite. Put a magnet on both and you will feel the difference.
 
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I was under the impression it was all high strength steel? Maybe the hatch is aluminum to save weight for the struts to lift?

The hatch (boot lid over here) is metal, the part the Kia badge sits on is composite. Put a magnet on both and you will feel the difference.

The boot lid is fibreglass. The strip at the top of the rear glass (frame part) is indeed steel. The rear spoiler, tail panel, rear apron are all composit (fibreglass). Ditto front apron. Rear wings are steel.
None-the-less, I used a magnet to confirm, just for you.
Too much time on my hands!
 
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The boot lid is fibreglass. The strip at the top of the rear glass (frame part) is indeed steel. The rear spoiler, tail panel, rear apron are all composit (fibreglass). Ditto front apron. Rear wings are steel.
None-the-less, I used a magnet to confirm, just for you.
Too much time on my hands!
I don't know what "rear wings" are?
The entire frame of the hatch lid is steel. The "facia" below the hatch window (forming the "spoiler") and the entire rear of the hatch lid are non metallic. I wouldn't know what the material is; fiberglass, plastic, composite, whatever.
 
I don't know what "rear wings" are?
The entire frame of the hatch lid is steel. The "facia" below the hatch window (forming the "spoiler") and the entire rear of the hatch lid are non metallic. I wouldn't know what the material is; fiberglass, plastic, composite, whatever.
You are right. The frame is steel, as I said. the rest is semantics, UK "tomahtoes", US "tomaytoes". UK wing = US fender. Facia is interior dashboard. The horizontal panel below the Stinger glass, serves as a spoiler is glassfibre. The panel below that, tail section, the rest of the boot lid/hatch is also glass fiber-reinforced plastic, often called composite here in the UK. Intersting!
 
You are right. The frame is steel, as I said. the rest is semantics, UK "tomahtoes", US "tomaytoes". UK wing = US fender. Facia is interior dashboard. The horizontal panel below the Stinger glass, serves as a spoiler is glassfibre. The panel below that, tail section, the rest of the boot lid/hatch is also glass fiber-reinforced plastic, often called composite here in the UK. Intersting!
Excellent response: the single most educational bit of text I've enjoyed all day! :D I didn't know what else to call the outer plastic panels in the back. They are clearly not "body panels" in the steel sense; the steel lies beneath. I won't misuse "facia" again. Thank you. :)
 
My discovery today returns to the sound system. I have played a particular CD many, many times on the Stinger's USB sourced music feature. The titles of each track appear at the top of the screen for c. five seconds. Finally, after nearly eleven months, it sunk in: the track names/titles were wrong. I went to my computer Music and looked; sure enough, the original rip had the "Names" wrong; and the corresponding "Titles" were alike wrong. WTH!? I went and grabbed the CD and looked at the track list: it differed markedly from the "Names" on the ripped tracks; and ergo the USB copy I use in the car. So, being quite OC about things like this if I can change them, I laboriously renamed each of the 18 tracks to match the CD track titles/names. By doing so, I only changed the "Names", not the corresponding "Titles", which remain wrong (why, will forever remain a mystery; this is the only time in the history of CDs that I have seen this particular fubar). I took the USB with the new names to my car and used "List" to select the first track and away we go. A bit later I pushed the righthand media knob and watched the currently playing track title/name appear at the top of the screen: it was WRONG!? STILL!? The car's computerized media sorting was taking over all my hard work and ruining it. I pushed the "Media" button and sure enough, the wrong track title/name was showing; I pushed "List" and the showing track playing was my edited renaming. All the tracks above and below in the "List" are my renamed tracks. Cool, I guess. At least if I want to show the correct names of the tracks, I just have to bring up "List" and there they are: the rest of the naming protocol remains the domain of the media machine.
 
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