You drive your DeLorean in the rain? At night??Originally Posted by dustybarn
Posts: 4,781
My VIN: Banged your VIN'S mom
You drive your DeLorean in the rain? At night??
Location: Orlando, Florida
Posts: 2,734
My VIN: 01643
Club(s): (DCF) (DCO) (DCUK)
This by far. I love black interior cars a lot more than grey interior cars, but man do I get jealous of how much cooler they can be in the summer...
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 2,405
My VIN: 01049
Other people.
-Mike
My engine twists my frame.
1981 DeLorean, Carb LS4 swap completed
1999 Corvette, cam/headers/intake manifold, 400 rwhp
2005 Elise, stock
2016 Chevy Cruze
Location: London, ON
Posts: 691
My VIN: 17082
Club(s): (DOI)
Yeah, turn radius can be annoying. I've seen school buses make tighter turns. You just kinda get used to it.
- Devon
83 Canadian Spec - Manual, Grey, Fixed Pulls, Flat Hood
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 1,380
My VIN: 01955
Refinement in general when technically this was a premuim product. Having one now for a few years, you kind of start to see characteristics that make you go
Suspension, how it bangs and thumps. Visability. I know it's a sports car, but boy, that front right corner is hard to judge. Sausage magnet unfortunately. Turning circle, need a planet. Keeping the stainless clean. Power, just needs a touch more. Fear of something going wrong or stop working. Seatbelt buzzer. Idiots telling me that I need to convert it into a time machine and the other idiots who think they know everything about the Delorean, who have no idea other than what they have learnt from BTTF.
Good things though;
Seating position. Feeling special driving it The exterior and interior design. Huey Lewis. Sitting inside with the doors closed. Runnings costs (compared to other rare classics) and it's a Delorean!
Location: Hasselt, Belgium
Posts: 898
My VIN: 05141
On my knees cleaning those wheels with a toothbrush....
Jan
Steering with power
Location: Burnaby, BC
Posts: 466
Club(s): (PNDC)
I feel you, man. I think the same thing. I just had #3922 standing in the garage for 3 weeks and turned it on to hear it nearly stall out of idle. These are those moments where you hope that it will at least bring you home, shoudl this happen on the road. But it was working fine again after a drive around the block. I hope that my D will be mechanically sound and reliable at some stage....maybe wishful thinking.
Location: Stevens Point,WI
Posts: 2,470
My VIN: 6125
Lots of good ones already listed... The one big one that comes to my mind first is the quality of the interior pieces and how hot the interior gets when parking in the sun. I'm always in fear of the dash discoloring worse than it already is or starting to crack. The same issues exist on a lot of other 80's cars though so it's not really a DeLorean specific thing. Better interior materials and design of the dash/binnacle would have made this less of an issue.
The mild steel multi-layer welded chassis/frame is also kind of a poor design choice. The thin layers welded together is fine if the epoxy does its job and seals out water, but as soon as any cracks form and water gets in there it's like a wick that just pulls moisture in and starts rusting a lot faster than if they had used thicker sections of steel.
Heavy steering effort wasn't as noticeable for me when I first bought the car because at the time my daily driver was a '94 Civic DX that also didn't have power steering. Since then I've replaced my DD with a car that has power steering after a long winter of not driving the DeLorean that first drive takes some re-learning that you've gotta be rolling to be able to steer. The wide turning radius is also annoying especially considering how short the wheelbase is.
Location: Las Vegas
Posts: 2,503
My VIN: 6585
Idiots. That's what I dislike the most about my car. I can handle some shortcomings and just as easily accept the fact that it's a 30 year old used car. But the idiots just gnaw away and get on my nerves. Sometimes they're random jerks in parking lots and gas stations, and sometimes they're other owners. But absolute, moronic idiots are the worst thing that comes with this car.
Robert
People they come together, people they fall apart...
Posts: 4,781
My VIN: Banged your VIN'S mom
Attention. ..get over it. You bought a dream car and you expect people to not approach you?
Well if it attracts idiots...what does that say a out the people who not only are attracted to them but pay thousands of dollars to own one? I guess you could say the "idiots" are smart enough not to buy one. Idiots like them, but the really stupid people buy them.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
