Useless or Redundant features

[jarnojvv]

How about the interior carpets. No heel pad means 15k kms and my drivers side has a hole in it. And no. I dont drive with high heels on.

[fumanchu1]

Originally Posted by pfaffendorn

From what I have seen and read on this forum, the great majority of FR-S/BRZ owners are between the ages of 20 and 30, and can be expected to have pretty acute vision even if they do wear glasses. Their stance on foglights has tended to be to match the color temperature to the HID headlights, and crank up the wattage to an attention-getting level.

We more "senior members," though we may still have 20/20 acuity, sometimes need our cars to help us out a little more, and bright yellow true fog lights help a great deal. The science may be a little tedious for this post, but essentially our eyes are most sensitive to the yellow band of the spectrum, as it is the color of our sun. Fog droplets act like little floating prisms which split white light into its various colors and scatter them in front of us. The intense yellow foglights, aided by projector lenses which focus the main yellow rays while filtering out the scattered other colors, give us a better and deeper view of what's out there in the fog.

The cars come equipped with some pretty pitiful things they call "foglights", but if they're not equipping their cars with "real" foglights as I've described, I can understand why they would regard them as "useless and redundant."

But I have yellow foglights and they are useful especially where I live where wildlife is plenty and fog is everywhere in the evening and mornings.

[krayzie]

Originally Posted by Jordan Silveira

Do owners not realize that the small pocket next to the push start button on limited BRZ's is a standard JDM coin drawer/pocket. Granted I currently put my mini altoids in it at the moment it is very common to have a tiny pocket made specifically for holding change in japanese cars. The JDM coin pocket for 4th gen Preludes is actually a rare piece believe it or not.

But the extra cubby space of this coin drawer has to be for a pack of 20s.

I'm using it for my iPod Classic.

[pfaffendorn]

Not about uselessness, but this thread has been a little shaky anyway . . .

I have been upsizing my tires for a hundred years. A little more rubber on the road, rides and corners better, quieter, looks cooler and less likely to fail in the potholes. But I do allow that the designers have chosen the stock tire/wheel parameters for valid reasons, including total car weight and performance. I don't completely condemn the stock michelins like many posters do (except in a 1/4" of snow) but I still imagine net benefits for increasing the width. And with 225/40, revs per mile are almost identical, so gauges/computers aren't messed up.

Now the question: in a car so thoroughly designed for performance and handling, monkeying with tire parameters has got to change something, I and fear the change might be for the worse.

Any reflections?

Thanks to all.

[jarnojvv]

Originally Posted by pfaffendorn

Not about uselessness, but this thread has been a little shaky anyway . . .

I have been upsizing my tires for a hundred years. A little more rubber on the road, ......

Any reflections?

Thanks to all.

Running 225 45 17 in front, 215 45 17 rears. 1.9% difference, no issues, traction control MAY be a little more invasive.

[fumanchu1]

Originally Posted by Jordan Silveira

Do owners not realize that the small pocket next to the push start button on limited BRZ's is a standard JDM coin drawer/pocket. Granted I currently put my mini altoids in it at the moment it is very common to have a tiny pocket made specifically for holding change in japanese cars. The JDM coin pocket for 4th gen Preludes is actually a rare piece believe it or not.

I put change there once, I peeled out of a street and it now resides somewhere between the front seat and the trunk so I would not say it does it's job very well

[brandonblt2]

Does anyone actually use the HID leveling button in the Brz? Can't see what it's really useful for.

[SleepingPanda]

I will agree the stock fogs are a joke. I replaced them with the LED housings. When I removed the stock fog lights. I was actually a little angry at Subaru. Like really? 30k dollar car. And we can't even get a glass lens fog light? It's cheap plastic. Feels like something you'd take off a kids power wheel. And the bulb! Lol. It's basically a glorified turn signal bulb. Awful.

[SleepingPanda]

Originally Posted by brandonblt2

Does anyone actually use the HID leveling button in the Brz? Can't see what it's really useful for.

Yes. It's if you have people in the car. Or a lot of stuff in the trunk. Or if you just want to point them closer to the ground in a well lit city. to save oncoming traffics eyes. Also useful if you lower the car and it's a different level than factory. Normally the rear sits higher than the front for load. But people tend to even it out when lowering the car. It's nice just to move a knob to adjust the headlights.

[krayzie]

Originally Posted by SleepingPanda

I will agree the stock fogs are a joke. I replaced them with the LED housings. When I removed the stock fog lights. I was actually a little angry at Subaru. Like really? 30k dollar car. And we can't even get a glass lens fog light? It's cheap plastic. Feels like something you'd take off a kids power wheel. And the bulb! Lol. It's basically a glorified turn signal bulb. Awful.

Glass lens projector fogs haven't been standard equipment for like a decade now. That low power piece of shit bulb makes tree huggers happy.

30k fiat doesn't buy a lot of quality these days.

[gramicci101]

Some LED foglight bulbs make them bright and useful, so they're not a total waste.

[pfaffendorn]

Originally Posted by brandonblt2

Does anyone actually use the HID leveling button in the Brz? Can't see what it's really useful for.

Well, the manual gives the example of occasionally having a heavy load in the car, and finding the low beams pointing up in the air. Using the motors, one can lower them to normal as needed. I find it useful to adjust the beam height now and then, when I want to fine-tune the beam to see a little farther down the road but don't want to use high beam, when I'm coming over a little rise in the road and my lights go right through the windshield of an oncoming car, etc. etc. (See Sleeping Panda, above)

Not a necessity, of course, but not exactly useless, either.

[pfaffendorn]

Glass lens projector fogs haven't been standard equipment for like a decade now. That low power piece of shit bulb makes tree huggers happy.

Yes, a low power piece of shit is what the item is, and the connection with tree huggers is what?

[SleepingPanda]

Originally Posted by krayzie

Glass lens projector fogs haven't been standard equipment for like a decade now. That low power piece of shit bulb makes tree huggers happy.

30k fiat doesn't buy a lot of quality these days.

Cool. And my 20k dollar civic came with glass fogs. Plastic would be ok. But make it out of something that doesn't feel like I can squish it and break it with one hand.