Camaro Annoyances

[Rob3D]

Originally Posted by J-Short

Why would I have a gripe with the perfect car?

Some people ain't happy unless..... Nevermind, you know the rest.

[RIPws6]

I have some minor grievances.
Backing out of the driveway, especially at sundown, wondering if I am about to plow into a small child hiding in the huge blind spot. I WOULD back the car into the garage but my kitchen access door is too close to the tail pipe to consider that.
Seatbelt strap is worthless.
Cant refuel without some kid with a bad muffler revving up his engine really loud to get my attention when I really dont care what he is driving. Im just trying to get gas.
Loser:
"Maybe my loud car is modded beyond belief and is way faster than your Camaro, maybe my car is a heap of crap?"
I really dont care. Im trying to hear the gas nozzle click to warn me of inpending spillage...get the hell out of here! lol!

[Waste]

I have to agree with most of the stated ones here..

-Cup holders in M6, useless however is handy to hold my cell phone.
-People using the window as a handrail to get in or out.. ouch!
-Blind spots are horrible when backing up, esp with no backup cam.
-At night if you use your remote to open the trunk lid the headlights turn off immediately instead of staying on for 30-60 seconds as programmed. If you use the button on the door this does not happen from what I remember.

I'm thankful that I have a 2012 vs. 2013 and not have to deal with the hill assist 'feature'.. the messages I've seen on that one. Whew!

[jd10013]

Originally Posted by J-Short

Why would I have a gripe with the perfect car?

great car, but far from perfect. some things it does very well, some not so much.

[eymang]

...considering the little quirks, I still love this car that I forget the truck at home.

[mr_honez]

Originally Posted by eymang

...considering the little quirks, I still love this car that I forget the truck at home.

[Baba]

Originally Posted by Steve RS/SS

My biggest issue is the gas tank that drains quickly. I keep checking for a leak but still can't figure out what's going on lol

Originally Posted by Angrybird 12

Your right foot is drinking it up!!!

Osmosis

[JAX CAMARO]

The truck one is great, the only thing that has been or is going to be in my back seat is a micro fiber towel on the floor !
Oh by the way my bitch is not enough hours in the day and so on to drive her

[qcman]

Originally Posted by RIPws6

Cant refuel without some kid with a bad muffler revving up his engine really loud to get my attention when I really dont care what he is driving. Im just trying to get gas.
Loser:
"Maybe my loud car is modded beyond belief and is way faster than your Camaro, maybe my car is a heap of crap?"
I really dont care. Im trying to hear the gas nozzle click to warn me of inpending spillage...get the hell out of here! lol!

LOL that is my big gripe too. Some kid with a 4" tail pipe on a ricer revving it at me sometimes. My other gripe not with the car but with people is they think they need to slam the doors but with the auto windows dropping they close with no effort. I guess the other gripe with my Auto trans is it is always in too high of a gear & takes a fair bit of throttle to get it to kick down. The car should lowr a gear on some acceleration. I guess I'll have to give sport mode a go.... Cam

[ajp]

Using navigation from the iphone without music playing automatically.

[MBS]

when I connect my phone ,My wire always pinches when i close the console, I had to replace it twice already ,

[jd10013]

Originally Posted by MBS

when I connect my phone ,My wire always pinches when i close the console, I had to replace it twice already ,

lol. yea, that is a pretty stupid design.

[Runawayhacker]

Originally Posted by skuttduck

I have a 2010 Camaro. Plug in a USB memory stick with some music.
The radio decides to index everything and jumble up all your music so it plays alphabetically from within all the folders. This is really annoying if you have albums that are meant to be listened to start to end (Pink Floyd Dark side of the moon). You can use the radio controls to navigate to the folder and play it that way, but what a hassle.

Now if I burn the files to CD, it plays like my kenwood DNX 7120 does in the other car and how I want it.

By the way, last time I was at the dealer they said they looked for stuff to update.

Oh and is there ever going to be an option for a glovebox light, and sunglass holder?

I had a similar issue, but was able to easily solve it. I got in touch with one of the programmers for the radio (codeman71) and found out that the indexing is done when the USB device is first plugged in or if there has been any changes to the amount of data on the device (add/remove music).

As for the order of the songs, it is based on the ID3 tags of the mp3s. I was frustrated as well when a filename would be something like "Pink Floyd - Sheep", but it would either not show up or be listed under "unknown artist" on the radio. Sure enough, the ID3 tags for the mp3s were incorrect. Be sure they are all the same as well as capitalization makes a difference.

Example: Having 2 MP3s with one as "Pink Floyd" and another as "pink floyd" will make 2 separate entries for Pink Floyd on the radio.

I had an iPhone previously and it worked perfectly with the setup. I now have Android (love it), but have to use it in UMS mode to simulate a USB stick. I'm working on an app for Android to mimic the functionality of the iPhone. When the iPhone/iPod is used, the device itself is piping the music to the radio unlike the Android/USB method where the radio directly reads from the media.

Also be aware that when using a USB stick with the radio, there is a 10,000 song limit.

[Dupree878]

Originally Posted by MBS

when I connect my phone ,My wire always pinches when i close the console, I had to replace it twice already ,

I find the wire fits perfectly next to the handle and up over it so that the console doesn't pinch the wire. Able to slide it in and out a needed, too. When I go to shut the console, I just lift the wire above the release and then snap it all shut