Rant time...what's the worst thing about your Mustang?

[Norm Peterson]

Decent hood struts would probably add $20-$30 at production, $60+ on the showroom floor. When the manufacturers sweat nickels, $20 is cause for a high-level conference.

Betting you'd have to add the costs of hood redesign and possibly crash recertification to those numbers. The OE hood is designed to be supported at the OE places, not just anywhere.


Norm

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[ENPhoto]

I have people behind me complain that when I get on it, in front of them, it smells like their vehicle is on fire.

That's not a "worst thing" because I don't smell it.

If I had to complain about something, I do find that my left hand sticks to the steering wheel on longer drives when I go to use the turn signal. Small annoyance that one day might convince me to upgrade the wheel...or at least have it covered in a soft material.

 

[abbeynormal]

Remembered another thing that drives me mad. If you touch the temp knob on the HVAC, it turns on the whole deal; blower and all. A lot of the time I want the blower off and just want to change the (naturally) incoming air temp. Like I have in every car for 30 years. Even worse is, if you turn the temp knob too far/hard, to cold, it turns on the freaking AC. Grrrrr.

 

[MikeHTally]

Betting you'd have to add the costs of hood redesign and possibly crash recertification to those numbers. The OE hood is designed to be supported at the OE places, not just anywhere.


Norm

They mount at the OE locations. There are already places on the fender made for the struts. The struts and mounting hardware are Ford-supplied. It took longer to cut the slit in the battery cover than to attach the struts.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Another thread reminded me of the REAL worst thing. I blame traumatic amnesia from when I discovered this problem. So visor mirror doors that aren't miniature hoods are now the second worst thing.

The worst thing about my 2016 is the fact that cruise does not automatically re-engage after shifting. My 2013 Cadillac can do it. Apparently 2019 Mustangs can do it, no doubt due to death threats from customers like me (who somehow avoided the traumatic amnesia).

Its common to downshift or drive in a lower gear for a short time to be ready for fast acceleration. And with adaptive cruise traffic can slow to where you'd need or want to downshift and, of course, you need to shift back up as traffic clears. Its idiotic to force a manual resume each time you shift. And to add injury to insult, the resume button (at least with 2016 Adaptive cruise) is not reachable from normal hand position and is easy to hit another or multiple buttons when attempting to resume.

 

[florida _mel]

Few things that bug ..is even with the car new .. you get this musty odor from the AC ..with just the regular Vent on. I wish the clock had an option for military time.and the other thing that's kind of annoying is that the car is so beautiful when it just gets a little bit dirty you have to almost immediately clean it because it's just that awesome

Mine has the musty odor on start-up; but, I have 24h time.

 

[lacanteen]

Few things that bug ..is even with the car new .. you get this musty odor from the AC ..with just the regular Vent on. I wish the clock had an option for military time.and the other thing that's kind of annoying is that the car is so beautiful when it just gets a little bit dirty you have to almost immediately clean it because it's just that awesome

My 18 EB Premium has 24hour clock option.

 

[MikeHTally]

24H clock here.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

24H clock here.

Not understanding. Are you saying your 2015 doesn't have an option for 12 hour clock?

 

[MikeHTally]

Not understanding. Are you saying your 2015 doesn't have an option for 12 hour clock?

It has the option. All the clocks I have that are capable are set to "24H".

 

[slowrey]

Oh my 2019 I hate that the power and volume button aren't the same.

I like the turn to increase the volume and push to turn it off.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

It has the option. All the clocks I have that are capable are set to "24H".

Same here. So, why is having a 24 hour clock in the Mustang a "worst thing"?

Wait. Are you complaining about it NOT having a 24 hour clock? I don't recall and am too lazy to check. For sure I set it to 24 hours if that was available.

 

[MikeHTally]

Same here. So, why is having a 24 hour clock in the Mustang a "worst thing"?

Wait. Are you complaining about it NOT having a 24 hour clock? I don't recall and am too lazy to check. For sure I set it to 24 hours if that was available.

Responding to this:

Few things that bug ..is even with the car new .. you get this musty odor from the AC ..with just the regular Vent on. I wish the clock had an option for military time.and the other thing that's kind of annoying is that the car is so beautiful when it just gets a little bit dirty you have to almost immediately clean it because it's just that awesome

 

[Elvis66]

Same here. So, why is having a 24 hour clock in the Mustang a "worst thing"?

Wait. Are you complaining about it NOT having a 24 hour clock? I don't recall and am too lazy to check. For sure I set it to 24 hours if that was available.

My mistake..it does have the 24 hours

 

[Elvis66]

Responding to this:

My mistake..it has the option..take that one off the list.

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