One of my knobs broke and to this day, I can’t work out how to replace it. Where do you even buy them from??? 🙃
There was no need to ever improve upon THIS
Submitted 1 month ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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JustAPenguin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Used parts! Junkyards, eBay, whatever. Odds are you’ll be able to find a replacement unless the factory knob was super fragile or your vehicle is exceedingly rare.
If your vehicle is vaguely popular it’ll probably have a stl (think exported 3D shape) available. In that case I’ll print/mail you one assuming you’re in the US. If you’re not in the US hop over to !3DPrinting@lemmy.world and I’m sure someone will help you out.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 month ago
!printmything@lemmy.world
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Amazon, parts store, junkyard, find someone to 3D print one for you
Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Though it is functional, it is ugly.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No u
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Let me play devils advocate……
One of my cars has the hvac controls on the screen and it’s usually fine, because it is actually smart. I only need to set the temperature and it remembers that.
For example now that it’s getting cold, I almost never need to touch those controls
- I can preheat through an app (no subscription needed)
- when I start my car, the thermostat is set to 69 (heh heh) where I last left it
- the car goes through a progression: heating steering wheel and seat first, then automatically off when the cabin temperature comes up
- the glaring problem is defroster. Aside from initial heat up I don’t know a good way to switch to that while driving. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be automatic and fails or if there is a shortcut somewhere
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My car is still mainly like this.
It has a touchscreen thing but it’s only for the entertainment and it has steering wheel controls as well so there’s an alternative to using the screen while driving.
ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s true. I hate my touch screen to control airflow in my car. Every time I go to adjust it, it fucks up and I’m distracted while driving.
blady_blah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fuck that, give me a thermostat any day of the week.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I ling for the days it was two horizontal sliders. Cold to left, slide to the right the warmer you wanted. Low to the left, slight to the right for high fan. Now it’s all this digital horse shit and it takes years of me being bored at red lights to be motivated to explore all the menu drudgery on the console. Now it all has fucking wifi and tracker nonsense too.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wish more companies did this.
The larger temperature controls and the vertically, slightly curved stack make so much sense to me.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
This must be a Honda Fit interior, right? I still wish I had managed to snag one of those, but they are probably double the price of other used hatches where I am. Ah well.
DaniNatrix@leminal.space 1 month ago
I love my Fit, it’s a 2012 and a manual transmission, I will drive it for as long as I possibly can.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
2011 Fit. Great car. Got only 110k on it.
BarbudoGrande@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My 2016 doesn’t look like that. Must be a different gen.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My 2018 vehicle has intuitive tactile knobs & buttons. Easy to operate without eyes ever leaving the road. I am grateful.
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
After many such threads I’ve come to the conclusion that peak car is between 2014 and 2018.
I’m old enough to believe I’ll never have to drive something with a touch screen.
I design touch screen UI as part of my job and I can see no argument for one in a vehicle other than GPS, and for that I have my phone.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
hmm, I’ll have to look at that range for my next vehicle.
for my preferred budget, I’m looking at 2010 to 2015, but that’s mostly because they stopped making economical wagons after that point (Toyota Matrix and Hyundai Elantra Touring are what I’m looking at)
it seems like even in that year range, once you get above the low cost vehicles, they start introducing shitty tech. but I haven’t looked closely enough at things in the last 10 years to see how they’ve progressed year to year, because frankly it’s just more money than I want to spend
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
'98 and ain’t selling
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have this and I will not change.
unfnknblvbl@kbin.earth 1 month ago
my '93 MR2 has buttons and a slider. Perfection.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh, there is. I love having a set of controls separate from the passenger side.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 month ago
Oh Look at Mr fancy pants here with his working heater in his reasonable priced car!
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Was it?
I love auto settings, it means much less fiddling/interaction.
padook@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I bitch about this every time I’m drive anything but my old truck that still has these!
Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I love automatic AC, but I sadly share cars with people who crank the temperature down to below 65*F the second they get into a hot car.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Add dual climate control and then I’m with you.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Fat disagree. No way. Nope. I have cooling seats in 105 degree weather. Ain’t nothing like my balls having a cooking time on the commute home.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
With the old style set up I just popped a small ice bag under them
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Is this post full of boomers? Cause it reads like it’s full on Boomer Town here.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
More like complaining about features no one asked for.
Tactile controls are superior, because they can be used without distraction, and the chance of user error is lower.
Besides, they involve less circuitry and are therefore much more reliable.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I’m not wealthy enough to own a car that has anything newer than this lmao
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
My dacia spring has it exactly like that 😁
You feel how you physically move the airways by rotating the wheel where you choose the air coming out
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s -5C/23F outside, you hop in the car, winter boots and thermal layers. Your climate control’s lowest setting is 16C/61F. You have two options: personal sweaty sauna or drive in your winter jacket with frozen hands.
Other options: blast heat with windows down. Full AC, just get it over with.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I always just freeze while the car warms up. Driving with a jacket on is an absolute no-go. I see so many people do it and I don’t understand how, it’s restrictive and you will inevitably start to bake when the sun hits you.
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s more difficult to take thermals off/on for a regular car ride. Just let me set temps down to 5C or something.
Mobiletuck@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have that heater/AC unit
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My vw passat has that, but the temp control maintains the temperature, so straight up is 72°f
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Never letting go of it.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I should do a video on the bad UX in the Mach E.
33550336@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I got similar in my pre-lift BMW E46 and I love it. I had also post-lift E46 with buttons for AC, but I prefer the knobs since no need to look at it while driving.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 month ago
You can take my automatic climate control from my cold dead hands. Fuck this!
caboose2006@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, just make them more robust and maybe add more steps between settings.
fodor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s really interesting that I agree with you, but so many people insist that they’re new and fancy tools are somehow making their lives significantly better. And obviously it’s an opinion question, it’s not like they’re lying, but I just don’t see the value that many of them do.
blarth@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
My car has climate control. I set it to 72 degrees once a long time ago and rarely have touched it since.
The fascination with dumb controls in a car is odd to me. It seems like people overshoot the “I want physical controls I can feel my way around without looking” and get into “give me the Flintstones car” lately.