RA Complaints Thread
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RA Complaints Thread
Tried giving someone a jump yesterday and found out that in order to gain access to our battery, you have to take off a portion of the air intake. There is a cover on top of the battery that I am thinking about removing for good. Is this a good idea? For some reason the owner's manual states to make sure the cover stays on, but I'm thinking if I ever need a jump, I really don't feel like taking off the air intake in order to hook up the battery cables. Without the cover, you can have access to positive and negative terminals without removing the air intake. Anyone else have this problem?
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Mine also has this cover, never really thought about it but I guess if you needed a jump it might be a PITA. I always keep a double sided philips and straight edge screwdriver in my car so it would take 2 seconds to get the intake snorkel off and the battery cover off.
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OFFICIAL: RA Complaints Thread
I figure I would make this thread so we can get a collabrative effort on compalints and who knows might look at them...
- Stock seats are cheap and ugly (I do not like the Recarro so I am stuck with the lesser of 2 evils)
- Weather Stripping at the front of the hood gets little crap stuck in it.
- Being tall I wish I could raise the steering wheel more, sometimes I cant see if I turn on my turn signals on.
- Aux button and not just hold down CD
- Bluetooth isn't very loud or crisp (Maybe its my iPhone)
- Auto tranny portion is great but sometimes it feels really jumpy in traffic
- RCA Cables get in the way...wish it had straight Aux jack
- For $25k and a 2010 car it should have projector lights and or HID stock.
- Chrome trim when the rest of the car has flat black?
- Wish it had more HP to compete with WRX's 265 HP.
I know I just got my car and I do love it to death...these are issues I wish they would fix for future models.
- Stock seats are cheap and ugly (I do not like the Recarro so I am stuck with the lesser of 2 evils)
- Weather Stripping at the front of the hood gets little crap stuck in it.
- Being tall I wish I could raise the steering wheel more, sometimes I cant see if I turn on my turn signals on.
- Aux button and not just hold down CD
- Bluetooth isn't very loud or crisp (Maybe its my iPhone)
- Auto tranny portion is great but sometimes it feels really jumpy in traffic
- RCA Cables get in the way...wish it had straight Aux jack
- For $25k and a 2010 car it should have projector lights and or HID stock.
- Chrome trim when the rest of the car has flat black?
- Wish it had more HP to compete with WRX's 265 HP.
I know I just got my car and I do love it to death...these are issues I wish they would fix for future models.
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very few of those are worth mentioning when you take into account you bought the car. The recaros are an amazing seat, you chose not to get them, so deal with the lousy stockers, all brands have them.
The telescopic steering wheel is the same as most mitsu cars/suv's have.
you got blue tooth but didnt get the other options your complaining you dont have? How much more was the hid's and recaros and stuff like that. Not much, in canada they are both in the base ralliart model, so obviously they arent too much more.
The chrome trim is for all those rednecks out there who think its cool. The car is marketed after young people like us, and older people who want something reliable and safe.
OMG NOT 265 CRANK HORSE POWER !!!!!.. spend the 400$ and get a tune. youll be quicker, just as safe and reliable, and have saved some doh.
end rant.
The telescopic steering wheel is the same as most mitsu cars/suv's have.
you got blue tooth but didnt get the other options your complaining you dont have? How much more was the hid's and recaros and stuff like that. Not much, in canada they are both in the base ralliart model, so obviously they arent too much more.
The chrome trim is for all those rednecks out there who think its cool. The car is marketed after young people like us, and older people who want something reliable and safe.
OMG NOT 265 CRANK HORSE POWER !!!!!.. spend the 400$ and get a tune. youll be quicker, just as safe and reliable, and have saved some doh.
end rant.
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You realize that boosting another car with your RA can void your warranty(electrical). Last thing the service manager told me before I drove off in my RA the day I bought it was never boost someone ever in the RA. If u are having electrical warranty issues 1st thing they look at is your battery terminals to see if they are all marked up from booster cables. I guess lots of people can't figure out how to do it properly and mess up their electronics.
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very few of those are worth mentioning when you take into account you bought the car. The recaros are an amazing seat, you chose not to get them, so deal with the lousy stockers, all brands have them.
The telescopic steering wheel is the same as most mitsu cars/suv's have.
you got blue tooth but didnt get the other options your complaining you dont have? How much more was the hid's and recaros and stuff like that. Not much, in canada they are both in the base ralliart model, so obviously they arent too much more.
The chrome trim is for all those rednecks out there who think its cool. The car is marketed after young people like us, and older people who want something reliable and safe.
OMG NOT 265 CRANK HORSE POWER !!!!!.. spend the 400$ and get a tune. youll be quicker, just as safe and reliable, and have saved some doh.
end rant.
The telescopic steering wheel is the same as most mitsu cars/suv's have.
you got blue tooth but didnt get the other options your complaining you dont have? How much more was the hid's and recaros and stuff like that. Not much, in canada they are both in the base ralliart model, so obviously they arent too much more.
The chrome trim is for all those rednecks out there who think its cool. The car is marketed after young people like us, and older people who want something reliable and safe.
OMG NOT 265 CRANK HORSE POWER !!!!!.. spend the 400$ and get a tune. youll be quicker, just as safe and reliable, and have saved some doh.
end rant.
The Ralliart had an option for HID's but did not see projector lights. You needed to get the Recarro package for the HID's which I don't want. If I spend 25.5k for a 2010 car I expect some things to be included.
It is nice Bluetooth is a stock option, but if it doesn't work great...then it is useless.
I don't want a tune or to mod the car I want to keep it stock and not void the warranty. With all the Ralliart's competitors it easily has the least amount of HP out of all of them.
Like I said I do love the car and it is a dream to drive...this is more of a wish list that should be standard and not to have to pay 5k extra to get.
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The seats are way nicer than my OZ so I can't say anything about then except ur right about them attracting particle and hair. To get projectors u will have to get the recaro package. And the bluetooth work fine for me, at first I didn't understand it but once I got through the manual it was all gravy.
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I've only had my RA for a month and the plastics in the interior is already starting to rattle...
I'm not sure where it's coming from but it's definitely there. Sounds like it's coming left of the driver seat but cant pinpoint where it's coming from...
I'm not sure where it's coming from but it's definitely there. Sounds like it's coming left of the driver seat but cant pinpoint where it's coming from...
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If u don't like the chrome trims and ring u can plastidip it flat black like others have done. I personally like them so I haven't done so but I did my wheels graphite gray, I hated the the stock silver.
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