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Not that it's any great surprise to anybody, but the Buick Skylark sucks. I can't imagine whay anybody would voluntarily buy one. Really.
I have had my rental car for just over 24 hours now, and am pining away for Friday when I get my real car back. I spent almost five minutes last night trying to figure out how to turn on the headlinghts. It was a pull knob on the dashboard, which I haven't seen on a car since I owned my 1970 VW bus. Then again, I have owned nothing but Japanese cars since then, so I'd be willing to write that off as different ergonomics. Here's a genuinely annoying feature that makes absolutely no sense: 1) None of the doors have keyed locks, you must use the keychain remote to lock and unlock the doors from the outside; 2) Locking the doors from the outside locks all of the doors, but *unlocking* the doors from the outside only unlocks the driver's door. This means that if you have, say, a child (which I have noticed that many people do), you have to leave said child standing outside the car and out of your reach while you get in the car to unlock their door. There is physically no way to unlock and open any of the passenger doors from the outside.
Oh, and did I mention the squeaky brakes? The car has fewer than 13,000 miles on it, and the brakes squeak. I could write that off to the abuse a rental car gets, but really - how sucky do the brakes have to be in the first place that even hard driving will wear them down in only 12,000 miles?
Barfed Up Icky Caramel Korn, indeed.
I have had my rental car for just over 24 hours now, and am pining away for Friday when I get my real car back. I spent almost five minutes last night trying to figure out how to turn on the headlinghts. It was a pull knob on the dashboard, which I haven't seen on a car since I owned my 1970 VW bus. Then again, I have owned nothing but Japanese cars since then, so I'd be willing to write that off as different ergonomics. Here's a genuinely annoying feature that makes absolutely no sense: 1) None of the doors have keyed locks, you must use the keychain remote to lock and unlock the doors from the outside; 2) Locking the doors from the outside locks all of the doors, but *unlocking* the doors from the outside only unlocks the driver's door. This means that if you have, say, a child (which I have noticed that many people do), you have to leave said child standing outside the car and out of your reach while you get in the car to unlock their door. There is physically no way to unlock and open any of the passenger doors from the outside.
Oh, and did I mention the squeaky brakes? The car has fewer than 13,000 miles on it, and the brakes squeak. I could write that off to the abuse a rental car gets, but really - how sucky do the brakes have to be in the first place that even hard driving will wear them down in only 12,000 miles?
Barfed Up Icky Caramel Korn, indeed.