The "Random Things You May Not Know About Your Car" Thread

[bmorecam]

If you open the hood and look towards the left and straight down towards the grill you will see a big yellow and white barcode sticker on the frame with a date on it. My mfg date on the door say 1/11 but on the sticker it say 1/31/11 so I guess it will help to narrow down exactly when your car was built and passed through the assembly line?

[Supercamaro64]

Originally Posted by Darth_Emma

I'm not sure if it's just me or if it happens for everyone else, but the louder I turn up the music, the faster my car goes.

thats not just on the 5th gens, that happens with mine too!!

[cmore]

Cruse light is white if not active but engaged and green if active.

The calculated MPG is about 1.7% over stated. Close enough for gov work.

[joes407]

push the window button twice to stop it immediately where you want it. when i first got the car i did the up/down up/down why is this window so damn fast method.

[joes407]

the mirror defroster button is the same as the rear window defrost button. same button defrosts both window and mirrors

[Reggicat]

Originally Posted by Jay_LHD3

+1; Using the bluetooth and my blackberry resulted in the sound being of quality!

Sometimes the "newer" technology is not always the "better" technology, depending on the application.

U need a "3.5 ground loop isolator" and that will help with the quality of the sound. It eliminates the white noise.

[jungsoo726]

Originally Posted by Michelle42780

Don't feel bad, I almost broke my nail off trying to open it when I first got it LOL

LMAO!!! i actually was stupid enough thinking it was stuck and put a knife in it to pry open. cost 70 pbucks to repair and then i found the owner manual. i suck at life

[whippetrun]

Originally Posted by calbert1999

There are ports in the trunk you can open up to allow you pass through objects like wiring or tubing. For example you can put a battery tender on the battery and pass an extension cord through the ports so you can plug it in.
You'll see these black circular covers used to close the port holes. Just pop out the black covers to reveal the port hole opening.

good tip!

[whippetrun]

Originally Posted by badapple

Is there a way to scroll the XM stations with the steering wheel controls?

No, only through the presets... I hate that also, my wife's car does not do it,
my solstice doesn't either, the only thing that does it is my 2005 Jeep Cherokee, they have 2 extra buttons compared to ours and I guess new cars.

I like to scroll through the stations too, even if they are not in my favorites.

[Markel]

Originally Posted by calbert1999

There are ports in the trunk you can open up to allow you pass through objects like wiring or tubing. For example you can put a battery tender on the battery and pass an extension cord through the ports so you can pllug it in.
You'll see these black circular covers used to close the port holes. Just pop out the black covers to reveal the port hole opening.

You were probably just using a battery tender as an example, but did you know there are charging terminals for the battery under the hood?

[2SS-11]

Originally Posted by TooCool5

Our cars have two part power window switches.
Light pressure (first click) window will stop when you let go.
Hard pressure (second click) window goes into express down all the way down.

also found that if you hard pressure you can soft push it again and the window will stop at the place where the second tap is, both up and down

[woolfman72]

Originally Posted by LolatheSlush

lol no mine is jailbroken as well... haha

UPDATE: so i tried this pandora thing, and it didn't work via blue tooth HOWEVER when i plugged the USB into it, it totally played through my speakers! and i could still scroll through stuff

Just as a side note if you get the right version of Pandora there is a hacked version that will give you unlimited skips.

[PhoenicianB]

Originally Posted by Michelle42780

I normally do the half hold thing with the blinker, so when I let off it stops. But I accidentally tapped it the other day and realized what it did, I was like "Hey, WTH?". Then tried the tap thing when changing lanes on the highway. Score! lol

For automatics; while in M mode, if you hold the up-shift button for a few seconds it goes back into S mode (no shifting in S).

Thank you, that is awesome....I did not know that but had wished there was some way of going back to "Sport" mode.

[PhoenicianB]

Originally Posted by PQ

I recently found out the car can play music through blue tooth. Common knowlege Im sure, but it was pretty cool for me.

Oh, and if you leave your turn signal on too long the car will beep.

I didn't know that ........that is sweet.