Another thing that makes me appreciate my Seven

[xflow7]

My girlfriend is moving to Vermont and wants to put snows on her car ('09 Accord Coupe). I support this, being a firm believer in proper snow tires.

 

I advised her early on to chump up and buy a set of steel rims and have them permanently mounted so as not to pay out the nose for a mount and balance twice a year.

 

Thing is now all cars have Tire Pressure Monitoring which of course won't function without sensors on the wheels. Normally I wouldn't worry about the damn light being on from November to March, but evidently on Hondas if the TPMS is non-functioning then the car makes it impossible to manually disable the stability/traction control.

 

Now, that is downright irritating because my experience with traction control in winter is that sometimes when it's really slippery you do much better turning it off. But now that won't be possible unless she chumps up a couple hundred bucks for 4 new sensors plus re-syncing with the computer. Plus, I've seen at least one comment from someone saying their insurance company told them they wouldn't be covered in an accident if TPMS was disabled. :cuss:

 

For all their charms, modern cars can be really damn annoying. I hate it when a basically good idea (tire pressure monitoring) gets implemented in a way that just makes me resent it.

[Boxologist]

2nd'd. another little nusance that points me to swapping my 15 yr old subaru w/ a recent drivetrain as opposed to getting a new STi. the cars aer being dumbed down to teh level of teh drivers exams!

[slngsht]

You can always let her take the 7 when it snows