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What were they thinking with these window buttons?!
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32 responses to “What were they thinking with these window buttons?!”
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Bo to jest VW tak na prawdę
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Nooooo!!! It’s a carryover from the ID4. Funny thing is the ID3 facelift has already gone back to 4 buttons
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No it’s not
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No it hasn’t. They retained the two button headache.
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But Ford don’t make ID3 or 4!
You VDG clowns need to keep up with the facts!
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100% a vw switch
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VW and Ford are teaming up on multiple cars. Unbelievable that they are allowed to, should be stopped by the EU and the Federal Trade Commission.
But at last Hitler and Ford get to work together and not just admire each other.
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Yep. This comes from the MEB platform from VW. ID3, ID4, ID7, Cupra Born, and this EV Ford Explorer (which is basically a VW) have it
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Simple, it’s cheaper. A lot of car manufacturers simply don’t care about their customers’ comfort or safety.
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Ford pinto?
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Ford have always been super stingy with putting rear electric windows in their cars. There are top of the range, more than £20k when new, five door Focus ST3’s out there with manual rear windows. Sounds stupid but it would be a deal breaker for me. It’s a TOTR car, not a Yugo.
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@@PhilbyFavourites ahaha my Mum had one in the mid 90’s and even though it was only about 10 years old, my Dad bought it for £500
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Why not?
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As an automotive engineer, I can tell you all this annoying touch stuff is done for one reason and one reason only. Cost. The more you can cram into capacitive or resitive touch buttoms (or even better, screen) the cheaper it is. The fact that people prefer mechanical buttons isn’t lost on us. If the reduction in cost is high enough to counter the small hit in customer dissatisfaction, it will be pushed through.
All automakers are guilty of this from GM/Ford with Cue/MyFordTouch to Honda and their removal of the volume knob on the 10th generation Civic to VW with their recent Golf/iD products. Even cars were seemingly cost is almost of no concern (think Ferrari Roma or Porsche Cayenne) there is touch buttons everywhere. There is always back and forths when automakes push a little to hard with it and pull back for a period of time, but the general trend is still towards touch as time goes on. If someone else does it (Tesla) and undercuts you in price or shows massive margins, the industry is forced to follow.
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Even more ironic that „cheap“ brands like Hyundai still manage to build mechanical buttons. Almost as if they try to make good cars
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@@lepuluke Hyundai is guilty of this too. Their subsidiary Kia you have to toggle between HVAC and radio touch controls for many of their vehicles. Cleverly sharing the knob for both functions. While I like this clever design, initial customer impressions and general response to this cost saving measure hasn’t been well recieved.
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Claim that this is done only for the cost reduction is simply wrong. This is simply a better design. It mostly prevents accidentally opening the rear windows, which I sometimes do on a 4 button setup. This is a simpler and more useful design.
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@@SelmanYasirSezgin I would never considered anything that doesn’t provide direct feedback and tactility to be a better design. Even the youngest of children can figure how things work though those simple interactions as they feel the most natural.
Instead you may be lowering your rear windows with accidentally touches. In addition, even when you intend to press it you will shift your eyes for the LED feedback to verify you’re touching the correct area. The number one customer complaint and frustration regarding touch inputs is needing to shift your visual focus on it and not feeling confident on the feedback purely from feel.
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They lost me as a long time customer.
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Can we talk about the loudest windows in the history of the world???
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It probably saves them 2 cents. American vehicles are pitiful. If it wasn’t for the government bail outs they would all be out of business
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It’s a shame they went the whole hog basing it on the VW ID.3/.4 platform.
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That’s smart. Honestly, there’s no need for 4 switches. Sure, it’s “cheaper,” but I actually prefer this.
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Really good idea.
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Definitely a leftover from VW
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Basically never use rear windows… This is clean
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My old 2005 Opel Vectra had those, took me 1 day to get used to them. Never saw them again until the ID.4 came out.
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Kinda reminds me about the Audi I drove today. I havent been able to find out where or how to adjust the volume on the touch screen part. I found it on the steering wheel, which is great when you driving
However, not so great if you holding at like a parking lot, and your passanger needs to make a phone call. You cant turn the volume down on the steering wheel as you already turned your engine off to be ready to get out
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Someone’s in the new Ford Explorer
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See also Volkswagen ID 4….
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Thats cheap as hell. I prefer each window to have their own separate button versus this.
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