Interesting Discoveries Thread (Good or Bad)

[WayCoolJr]

But you knew it? We’re you testing it? Same deal on my last car with push button start. Anti lockout.

I had no idea...only had the car less than a week. Just surprised me when it would not lock.

 

[turboAWD]

I have previously asserted that once you move the "T" shifter into manual gate, that the engine response is the same in a given gear no matter which drive mode you are in: i.e. it was my opinion that once shifting manually, any throttle mapping in different drive modes is overridden. Well, not true.

That's totally what I expected, to be honest, when I asked you about it. I was about 99% sure of this, but was giving you time to find out about it for yourself

 

[MerlintheMad]

That's totally what I expected, to be honest, when I asked you about it. I was about 99% sure of this, but was giving you time to find out about it for yourself

Yeah. I am late to the party, in a great many things!

 

[eflyguy]

Don't know if this has been posted before, but today I went to get out of the car and my keys fell out of my pocket onto the seat with me realizing it. I tried to lock the car with the button on the door handle, but it gave a weird long beep. After the second time, i saw the keys on the driver seat, got them, and the car locked fine. Guess you can't lock the keys in the car.

Should be the same for the trunk/hatch as well. I haven't tried it on the Stinger, but I once had a rental car which came with the usual bundle of keys too big to fit comfortably in your pocket. As usual, I went to the nearest home depot and used the cutters in their steel cable/chain section to cut the cable they use to hold them together. I popped the unnecessary stuff in my luggage, and a single keyless fob in my pocket. Closed the trunk, and it popped back open. Took me a few attempts before I realized what was going on!

Removed the battery from the unneeded fob and problem was solved.

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

I had no idea...only had the car less than a week. Just surprised me when it would not lock.

I’ve had other non push button cars that sensed the key or fob and wouldn’t lock if the car was off and a locking button like on the door was pushed with the key or fob inside. Having locked myself out of my car at school back in the day and having to call mom, no cellphones, and have her come out with the second key. It’s nice to have these new-fangled gizmos smart enough to not lock us out.

 

[cncBilly]

In AU the cost of fixed price servicing for MY19 has significantly increased from MY18.
10k 28.5%
20k 17.2%
30k 21%
40k 21.6%
50k 28.5%
60k 13.6%
70k 10.9%
Overall from $3412 to $4032 or 18% for 7 years or 70k.
How much will MY20 go up?
With acknowledgement to a former member who just had 20k service completed.

I noticed the service prices at my deal went up since I bought as well. However I got the price that was posted when I purchased, at least for my first oil change.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Until this last road trip, I have always gone for my scheduled oil changes before the miles ran out. So I discovered something "new": if you are late, the reminder (when you start up) goes negative. Right now, mine shows -720 Good thing I'm going in tomorrow for an oil change. I have my service interval set at 4K miles.

 

[GenesisG70]

When you are driving the are downhill or take the accelerator off while on a flat surface the cockpit indicates you are coasting and not using gas. Awesome!

 

[MerlintheMad]

When you are driving the are downhill or take the accelerator off while on a flat surface the cockpit indicates you are coasting and not using gas. Awesome!

Are you talking about the avg mpg gauge in the LCD cluster?

 

[robz32]

No.

He is talking about the coasting feature present on the 2019 models. It shows a message on the screen whenever it is in use.

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

I may have said this before but ... senility. For the whole first year of ownership I kept finding and removing the protective tape from all sorts of different places. The hopefully last place were the two long strips of clear tape with red tabs on either side of the underside of the hatch. One day I noticed the red tab which isn’t an exact match to the car. Wow. It’s been months now since and nothing new.

Well, 9/8/19 and I’m at Supercar Sunday in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angels. It’s early and the Sun is still low in the sky. My driver door is open and I spot something shiny at the low point of the dash straight below the steering wheel column. Yup! It been months but I found another piece of protective tape. (Purchased 5/2018)

 

[MerlintheMad]

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Well, 9/8/19 and I’m at Supercar Sunday in the San Fernando Valley are of Los Angels. It’s early and the Sun is still low in the sky. My driver door is open and I spot something shiny at the low point of the dash straight below the steering wheel column. Yup! It been months but I found another piece of protective tape. (Purchased 5/2018)

Somewhere up there in this deep thread, probably I mentioned the same silly thing; iirc, either side of a year into ownership. Again, iirc, that piece under the steering wheel was the last one I found (so far ).

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

Somewhere up there in this deep thread, probably I mentioned the same silly thing; iirc, either side of a year into ownership. Again, iirc, that piece under the steering wheel was the last one I found (so far ).

I thought the long strips on the hatch were my last. Nope. Missed that from you I’d have looked earlier. It was serendipity to catch the light and shine.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I thought the long strips on the hatch were my last. Nope. Missed that from you I’d have looked earlier. It was serendipity to catch the light and shine.

Well, I just did the OC thing and went looking through here for the pic I know I took showing me peeling off the under steering wheel plastic strip: and of course it's not here, so it has to be on some other thread. But searching with "plastic tape" turns up nothing either. (stupid search app)

 

[Metalmania82]

I knowingly have some plastics through the car. And there's one somewhere around the center headrest in the back that likes to sometimes flap around

 

[Silverfox]

The Speed Limiter doesn't brake to limit your speed if going downhill and lifting off the throttle.

My previous Audi A4 would automatically brake or change to a lower gear to engine brake to stop you exceeding the speed. However, the Stinger does beep at you to warn you which, I suppose, is something.

 

[MerlintheMad]

The Speed Limiter doesn't brake to limit your speed if going downhill and lifting off the throttle.

My previous Audi A4 would automatically brake or change to a lower gear to engine brake to stop you exceeding the speed. However, the Stinger does beep at you to warn you which, I suppose, is something.

What's a "speed limiter"? The only time that I notice the car limiting speed is downhill with cruise control and it will drop into 5th gear to hold the cruise setting. Last year, I noted here that it was inconsistent: some/most of the time it would just "run away". Now, on this last road trip, it never once ran away, but always dropped into 5th gear to hold the cruise setting.

 

[Silverfox]

The Speed Limiter is the other setting you get with the Cruise button. I thought it was on all models. It does the opposite to Cruise Control. You set a speed and no matter how much you accelerate, it won't go above the speed you set. Very handy in town to prevent creeping over the speed limit. We have plenty of cameras around where I live and I've been caught a couple of times just a few miles over the limit so I've always use the Limiter in my last couple of cars and am glad the Stinger has it.

 

[MerlintheMad]

The Speed Limiter is the other setting you get with the Cruise button. I thought it was on all models. It does the opposite to Cruise Control. You set a speed and no matter how much you accelerate, it won't go above the speed you set. Very handy in town to prevent creeping over the speed limit. We have plenty of cameras around where I live and I've been caught a couple of times just a few miles over the limit so I've always use the Limiter in my last couple of cars and am glad the Stinger has it.

I didn't know about that feature. Cruise control does the same thing from the opposite end. Set it and take your foot off the gas. If you press the go pedal you know you're over the speed limit. When you let off and coast down and feel the engine engage again, you know you're back down to the speed limit. I've used cruise control many times to keep myself from creeping over the speed limit (or rather, over "under ten": I typically set cruise at nine, or sometimes eight, above the speed limit).

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

The Speed Limiter is the other setting you get with the Cruise button. I thought it was on all models. It does the opposite to Cruise Control. You set a speed and no matter how much you accelerate, it won't go above the speed you set. Very handy in town to prevent creeping over the speed limit. We have plenty of cameras around where I live and I've been caught a couple of times just a few miles over the limit so I've always use the Limiter in my last couple of cars and am glad the Stinger has it.

Maybe a U.K. feature we don’t get?