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    Biggest pet peeve of the Mirage? (Annoyances)

    What is your biggest pet peeve of the mirage?

    Mine is the jumbo-tron mirrors.

    (I still have my passenger mirror removed)
    Maybe it's because I'm used to tinted windows, but the headlights of other cars really shine into the car and blind me. My driver mirror is intentionally missadjusted (still usable) and rear view stays on "night" setting

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    Mine is the horrific, proprietary, dealership-only, pain-in-the-ass TPMS system. Other manufacturers have systems that are soooooo simple and user-friendly. Why do any and all Mirage TPMS settings, adjustments, and programming procedures have to be buried in the software of a $3,500 dealership scan tool??


    Gotta either spend hundreds of dollars or stare at that damned warning light for 1/3 of the year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobrajet View Post
    Mine is the horrific, proprietary, dealership-only, pain-in-the-ass TPMS system. Other manufacturers have systems that are soooooo simple and user-friendly. Why do any and all Mirage TPMS settings, adjustments, and programming procedures have to be buried in the software of a $3,500 dealership scan tool??


    Gotta either spend hundreds of dollars or stare at that damned warning light for 1/3 of the year.
    Had to have mine reset the first full week I owned the car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobrajet View Post
    Mine is the horrific, proprietary, dealership-only, pain-in-the-ass TPMS system. Other manufacturers have systems that are soooooo simple and user-friendly. Why do any and all Mirage TPMS settings, adjustments, and programming procedures have to be buried in the software of a $3,500 dealership scan tool??


    Gotta either spend hundreds of dollars or stare at that damned warning light for 1/3 of the year.
    I assume you're speaking about Snow Tires? I know that Samsclub does tire swaps with the TPMS for like $40.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobrajet View Post
    Mine is the horrific, proprietary, dealership-only, pain-in-the-ass TPMS system. Other manufacturers have systems that are soooooo simple and user-friendly. Why do any and all Mirage TPMS settings, adjustments, and programming procedures have to be buried in the software of a $3,500 dealership scan tool??


    Gotta either spend hundreds of dollars or stare at that damned warning light for 1/3 of the year.
    I agree, plus many other electronic crap that is so damn expensive to fix. It's supposed to be an economy car not a Lexus.

    I'd like to get rid of:

    Electric door locks and windows

    $400 smart key

    Air bag sensors: mine just went out. Luckily it was still under warranty. I wonder how much that would've cost?

    TPMS

    Smart AC

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    Dark interior. Even after replacing with an LED bulb, the one small light is inadequate.

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    The too large driver side windshield wiper and the never quite dry overlap area at bottom of windshield.
    When using expensive wiper blades with one piece flexible bodies they catch enough wind to lift reducing effectiveness.
    Will weld for beer.

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    The passenger side wiper sticking up in it's odd position.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Mullet View Post
    The passenger side wiper sticking up in it's odd position.
    I put a wiper arm from a late 80s or early 90s imprezza on mine for that reason. (same splines) It does miss a little bit of what the angled one gets, maybe 1-1/2" longer wiper would be equal or 3/4" longer arm.

    It took some fanagling to get everything setup and work well honestly -- Just changing the wiper angles and which spline, but it was worth it overall.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Mullet View Post
    The passenger side wiper sticking up in it's odd position.
    HA! Never noticed it until you mentioned it! It does kind of stick out.

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