What Are Your Pet Peeves of Daily Driving (Your FRS/86)?
 

I love this car and I love driving it everyday, but I've always got something to complain about. My morning commute is definitely not the a Sunday drive through the park to get to church. Nope, I've got anywhere from a 45-60 minute drive of 50/50 highway/city on the lovely, pot hole filled, road raging streets of Northern New Jersey. I see it all on this one commute, highway traffic, stop and go traffic, suburban, city, construction, school traffic, etc...
Here's just some of the things that bother me about daily driving (in my FRS).

-People who are in to much of hurry and think their Chevy Suburban is a Miata weaving in and out of traffic.

-Sudden no blinker lane changes

-People who cruise below the speed limit on the left lane of the highway.

-The person who beeps when the light changes green.

-THOSE MASSIVE POT HOLES THAT ARE UNAVOIDABLE

-When you hear real crickets and you think its your car.

-That one road that is just a mine field of rocks and pot holes.

-When the car behind you is on your bumper on that really steep hill.

-The snapchatter/texter whose on their phone for 5 miles.

-When you can't see over something because you are to low to the ground.

-That one driveway you can't go up without scrapping something.



These things bother me, but I rather be driving this car than anything else (I wish tanks were practical to DD). What do you guys/gals experience that bothers you while driving your 86/FRS or just driving in general?

Other drivers.

I've been hit with 2 separate pieces of road debris that damaged my car in the last couple weeks. So I'll add bits of exploded truck tires to the list of "mine field" stuff.

Also, since my daily "driving" is split between my motorcycle and my car, I also have to deal with people not seeing me and nearly merging into me almost every time I ride the bike lol.

Pretty much sums it up

/tread

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Drove behind a dump truck recently, got 2 new scratches on my hood from rocks/debris he kicked up

I have somewhere between 30 and 40. You need to drive it more!

Oh, that is not including the 30+ of rock chips I have and other miscellaneous dings and scratches. Trust me this is no garage queen. :bonk:

My favorite is the 4 inch long divot on the top of my bumper created by the flying Neon taillight assembly.
Not the lens.
Not the bracket.
Not the housing.
The whole bloody taillight.

That definitely beats my 8 inch long scratch from when someone keyed my car or my cracked windshield from a rock :bow:

I drive through all sorts of weather 15 miles each way to my main job, and do pizza delivery for side cash 1 day a week. My only qualms are still other drivers and SUVs. I just have unmitigated rage towards the 2002 Lexus RX300 that I can't explain. Maybe it's the arrogant window tint on the rear glass?

Was it in a wreck or did it literally just come off of the car? Thats wild lol

I was going down the highway at about 70 and there was this old Neon that passed me and pulled into my lane with one car between us. It had Michigan plates and was falling apart. The driver mirror was dangling from some wires, the trunk lid was crumpled and held down by a coat hanger, one wheel had a visible wobble and all in all I was amazed it could still move that fast. A bit down the road we hit a bump between the pavement and the tail light assembly flew off the car, hit the road, bounced over the car in front of me and came straight down on my bumper. It all happened like slow motion but I was boxed in and could not avoid it. I chased the car and got up beside it to signal them to pull over but took one look at the size of the 4 guys crammed in it and figured I could live with the damage so just got way ahead of them so no further parts would hit me.

Sounds like a pretty good argument for mandatory inspections lol. Seeing cars like that out on the road always scares me.

What I believe to be a lower control arm laying on the road.
Transport truck hit it and it flew up in the air. I saw it coming and managed to just about miss it but couldn't get over quite far enough. If that part of the quarter didn't flare out I would have been clear.
Picture doesn't show how deep it actually was very well and the white part at the rear is actually a cut right through the panel.

There is some nasty stuff driving around Detroit.

I get really frustrated, when in a turn lane at a light, the guy in front of me is rubbernecking my car so hard, he does not see the green arrow, and I have to honk.

Or worse, they are on their phone, and when I honk, they hold up 1 finger (Surprisingly the index) as if to say "hold on, im going to finish texting"

I mean WTF!? You are driving, pay attention!

It's ok... I must be getting old...








Oh yeah. GET OFF MY LAWN! LOL

Ya it sucks when they park on your lawn!

I hate driving it sometimes..... either people see it and you can visibly see them looking in their side mirrors and eventually slowly coming in to your lane because they're not driving well.... or they dont see it and come in to your lane like you're not there.

I have had a lot of cars, and a lot of low cars..... for being bright blue this thing is invisible.

Everyone tries to race me or ask me to do burnouts.


Pass.

I have almost that exact same crease except no idea where it came from.

I had it fixed since it cut through. Since the objects was moving and technically hit me it was comprehensive and not collision and therefore worth getting fixed.

I hate not being able to see around cars in front of me. Best practice on the highway is to be looking further ahead than the bumper in front of you, right? Absolutely impossible with the glut of crossovers , SUVs, and trucks on the road today.

I have to leave a ton of space in front of me because I'm always afraid the car in front of me is tailgating the car in front of him and could come to a sudden and expensive halt.

On the opposite end of the spectrum sometimes I can't tell that the person in front of me has miles in front of them and is just camping in the fast lane...

Large transports on the highway.
The other morning on my way into work at six am I honestly thought for a second that it had started snowing. As my headlights reflected upon what turned out to be dirt/dust in the air from a 53" dump trailer half a kilometer ahead filled to the brim with no tarp blowing shit all over the highway. :help:

- Being cut off due to how small the car is, and people more distracted by angry birds than driving.

- Getting stuck in the torque dip in the worst possible moment

Those cars were terrible lol, they might as well have been assembled with zip ties.

I'm coming up to almost 3 years of daily driving the frs. While I love it to death, I find myself wanting to obtain a more quiet and comfortable commuter car to go along side the "racecar". It's a goal of mine to daily a Lexus, not in the budget currently but is a stretch goal!

Yikes. I've had to dodge a canoe that was blocking 2 lanes of traffic on I-75 north before.... a CANOE

When people try to merge onto the highway while going 20 mph under the speed limit. Or better yet, braking on the on-ramp, even coming to a complete stop while trying to merge into traffic.

I-75 is probably one of the worst (best?) sections of highway for seeing weird crap on the road.

1) Other drivers in SUV's not seeing me

2) People that insist on racing me. It seems I'm a magnet on the freeway for almost every "hot" car that is in a 100 yard radius.

Woah, that's out of my league. Cool though! Seems like a fun project that I would watch B is for Build take on.

You got that right, I'm just glad it's not part of my daily commute. More close calls than I am comfortable with.

Can confirm

stopping and getting out.

Something else you don't want to do on I-75!

Driving at dusk on the Florida Turnpike, I came up behind a Subaru SUV with a bicycle hanging on its rear hatch. I started noticing sparks from the bicycle rubbing the road surface. I started to leave more space behind it and sure enough, the whole bicycle came flying off. Luckily with the amount of space that I had left between us, I was able to steer clear of the debris. That was one close call.

Premium gas price. 4cyl engine using 6 quarts of oil

Very first day I had the car, this happened to me. I was merging into a one-lane road, saw the truck coming and there was literally nowhere to go. I backed off as quick as I could, but ended up with two gouges in the hood. Day One.