Sport mode
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^ I would be SUPER annoyed if the dealership badging extended to my splash screen and wallpaper hehehe. ![[idea]](/images/smilies/icon_smile_idea.gif "Idea! [idea]")
They weren't on there went I initially looked at the car but when they rolled it out, they had that crap on the bumper. First thing I did was remove the stickers.
@ Silence323b - The button for Sport mode is beneath the HVAC controls, above the cubby hole. It doesn't do what you might assume though; has no impact on power output. It just reduces some of the nannying for the throttle and steering inputs. Touching it supposedly makes traction control a little less sensitive. Holding it supposedly turns traction control off completely. Some have complained that it doesn't turn off torque vectoring, which uses yaw sensors and individual wheel braking to influence vehicle weight shift in/out of a turn. (https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/symptoms-of-a-bad-or-failing-yaw-rate-sensor) Don't recall whether it fiddles with ABS, but I would assume a big fat NO on that.
They weren't on there went I initially looked at the car but when they rolled it out, they had that crap on the bumper. First thing I did was remove the stickers. @ Silence323b - The button for Sport mode is beneath the HVAC controls, above the cubby hole. It doesn't do what you might assume though; has no impact on power output. It just reduces some of the nannying for the throttle and steering inputs. Touching it supposedly makes traction control a little less sensitive. Holding it supposedly turns traction control off completely. Some have complained that it doesn't turn off torque vectoring, which uses yaw sensors and individual wheel braking to influence vehicle weight shift in/out of a turn. (https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/symptoms-of-a-bad-or-failing-yaw-rate-sensor) Don't recall whether it fiddles with ABS, but I would assume a big fat NO on that.
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^ I would be SUPER annoyed if the dealership badging extended to my splash screen and wallpaper hehehe. They weren't on there went I initially looked at the car but when they rolled it out, they had that crap on the bumper. First thing I did was remove the stickers.
@ Silence323b - The button for Sport mode is beneath the HVAC controls, above the cubby hole. It doesn't do what you might assume though; has no impact on power output. It just reduces some of the nannying for the throttle and steering inputs. Touching it supposedly makes traction control a little less sensitive. Holding it supposedly turns traction control off completely. Some have complained that it doesn't turn off torque vectoring, which uses yaw sensors and individual wheel braking to influence vehicle weight shift in/out of a turn. (https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/symptoms-of-a-bad-or-failing-yaw-rate-sensor) Don't recall whether it fiddles with ABS, but I would assume a big fat NO on that.
They weren't on there went I initially looked at the car but when they rolled it out, they had that crap on the bumper. First thing I did was remove the stickers. @ Silence323b - The button for Sport mode is beneath the HVAC controls, above the cubby hole. It doesn't do what you might assume though; has no impact on power output. It just reduces some of the nannying for the throttle and steering inputs. Touching it supposedly makes traction control a little less sensitive. Holding it supposedly turns traction control off completely. Some have complained that it doesn't turn off torque vectoring, which uses yaw sensors and individual wheel braking to influence vehicle weight shift in/out of a turn. (https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/symptoms-of-a-bad-or-failing-yaw-rate-sensor) Don't recall whether it fiddles with ABS, but I would assume a big fat NO on that.
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Yes, well this is the very LAST car (IF I ever buy another new car at all) I will purchase from that franchise, TOTAL ripoffs on the OTD price as compared to what others on here paid for the same exact ordered base FiST. ![[mad]](/images/smilies/mad.png "Mad [mad]")
IF I did not so desperately need the car at the time of delivery, and had ANY way to get down to Baltimore VERY quickly (like the same day at dinnertime) then, I would have told Beans to stuff it, and gone to Koons Ford and taken the same exact car off of their lot (they had about 7 of them at the time!) for almost $3.5K LESS than what I paid, OTD.
IF I did not so desperately need the car at the time of delivery, and had ANY way to get down to Baltimore VERY quickly (like the same day at dinnertime) then, I would have told Beans to stuff it, and gone to Koons Ford and taken the same exact car off of their lot (they had about 7 of them at the time!) for almost $3.5K LESS than what I paid, OTD.
Yes, well this is the very LAST car (IF I ever buy another new car at all) I will purchase from that franchise, TOTAL ripoffs on the OTD price as compared to what others on here paid for the same exact ordered base FiST.
IF I did not so desperately need the car at the time of delivery, and had ANY way to get down to Baltimore VERY quickly (like the same day at dinnertime) then, I would have told Beans to stuff it, and gone to Koons Ford and taken the same exact car off of their lot (they had about 7 of them at the time!) for almost $3.5K LESS than what I paid, OTD.
IF I did not so desperately need the car at the time of delivery, and had ANY way to get down to Baltimore VERY quickly (like the same day at dinnertime) then, I would have told Beans to stuff it, and gone to Koons Ford and taken the same exact car off of their lot (they had about 7 of them at the time!) for almost $3.5K LESS than what I paid, OTD.
I shopped around to find the 2017 Orange Spice I bought in August, and found a fair deal at a dealer about 30 miles from home. They are out in the country and sell mostly trucks to locals, but they had what I was looking for in a FiST, even though the dealership looked like it was built about 50 years ago, and half of its lot was unpaved. I asked them not to put a dealership emblem on, and they didn't--they just put a license plate frame which came right off. So I thought wow--what a great buying experience. Until I got home and removed the factory mats to install the rubber mats I had waiting at the house. Under the front mats were large smears of dried mud, that the PDI guy just threw the mats over to cover. WTF??? When I called to tell them, they called me back to say the guy there admitted it, and they, of course, apologized. They asked me to bring it back so they could clean it up. Yeah, right. They offered me a free oil change. Sure--to be done by the same lazy jerk who prepped my car? Again, no thanks. It is frustrating going through this stuff with a brand new car.
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