It’s for “manual” shifting and lets you up- or down-shift an automatic transmission in a similar way to how the old “3-2-1” used to let you force the tranny into those gears (or lower). Typically you slide the shifter into the “M” slot and then momentarily move it up/down to shift up/down.
It has processing to ensure that you don’t do something truly destructive to the engine, but for the most part it serves it’s purpose(s) quite well.
Thank-you.
So the P-R-N-D are still there and work as you would expect them to?
Yes, the main shifter went P-R-N-D-M, there was a small +/- button on the side of the shifter.
Minor complaint, but the blower was like my personal car, where a little nudge of the dial takes it from “is that on?” to “blow your hat off”.
One of the things I did like was that the cruise control read out the exact mph that is was set at and tapping the button changed it exactly 1 mph, and that it could be set at speeds as low as 35 mph. Also the center console was big enough for my Nagalene water jug. I also liked that it had amber rear turn signals, unlike most cars nowdays.
I looked at all of them and didn’t see any of those.
have your eyes checked. See the seam running back from the headlamp assembly? That’s where the fascia ends and the fender begins. The fascia does not go all the way back to the doors. It can’t, because there’s a wheel in the way.
it doesn’t even do this on the 2008+ Sebring which you erroneously linked to.
Meh, I see what you mean.
But I didn’t erroneously link - the year wasn’t specified. That’s just what Google returns on a general chrysler sebring search for images.
I only looked at the thumbnails of the images, not the expanded images, and on the silver colored one you can’t see a seam until you make the image full size.
I still do remember there being a model out there with some kind of ridiculous fender/bumper design that also required removal of body parts to access the battery. Obviously my mind conflated the two and ended up seeing what it wanted to see.
my bad, I saw 1996 and Sebring in curlcoat’s post and forgot that they were two different instances.
I realize it’s the pit and all, but as an engineer it rustles my jimmies when someone calls something “stupid design” yet they don’t even know what the design is.
same car. The JA/JX/JR versions of the “cloud” cars have the battery behind the left front wheel.
Don’t really see the issue, though. The battery is something you might have to pay attention to every 6 years or so.
I’m sorry to hear that.
Actually, 2008 would have been close since that’s the year it happened.
This is silly. Whether or not there is a seam there on some or all of the cars makes no difference to the fact that it took very little to rip the front end off of that car. We had rented a Sebring the year before, in Washington, and it was a nice car. This one in Penn, was a piece of shit even before the rippage. Same rental company, so maybe they just aren’t as good with their cars on the East coast, or the drivers are harder on them, or whatever. As usual with this board, an offhand comment was made and the vultures have attacked, but I simply have no other facts for you as it was over four years ago and I no longer have any photos - the only one I have was pre-rippage and doesn’t show the front of the car.
So does this mean you are a “captive” of your automobile?
Better than being a captive of love.
I’m sure the Captiva is a total piece of shit, but your complaints are lame.
That “M -/+” shifter design is superior to the old method, has been around for at least a decade, and can be figured out in about 10 seconds by any reasonable person. If you had to look at the manual to figure it out, that’s sort of pathetic.
As lame as it is, this is the most reasonable of your complaints. The others are worse.
Yes, it is a glorified minivan that does not have the exact same control configuration as your Grand Cherokee, and therefore you had to spend 1-2 minutes figuring out the controls. Just like every other person who’s ever rented a car since forever. So what?