For those of you that have a Camaro what is the thing that you most hate (rattles, performance, paint, fit to finish ect.)? My 96 Z28 was a rattle trap and it wasn't very dependable.

 

On my 99 Z28..

I wish it had a bigger rear end, like the 8.5" instead of the 7.6", just for a little more piece of mind.

Window motors sound like they are laboring

Interior I can live with, although when the car is very cold, and the heater is very hot, the bessels, *****, and stuff on the center dash and ***** squeek alot while driving down bumpy roads... It would have been nice if they could cover the exposed screwheads though at least.. I think I blew out one of my rear speakers/knocked it loose, when I play some songs loudly..

My gf always complains about the passanger cat hump.

I like the front looks, but I don't like the overhang.. but not sure how to get best of both worlds..


Besides that, I'm happy with my car.... mods are SFC's, front pads and rotors, exhaust and airlid (my stock one's neck ripped), shifter, 35 mm front roll bar, bilstien hd shocks valved by sam, and my 2nd 10 bolt, now with a T2R (which is awesome).. The suspension mods IMO really made the car fun to drive while still keeping it comfortable..

 

Probably the hump where the catalytic converters used to be. I'm not in the passenger side that much, but when I am I hate it, and I hate hearing about it from passengers. There's absolutely no excuse for it being there.

 

I forgot about the cat hump. Thats a good one.

 

why didn't they get rid of the cat hump in the LS1 cars? there is nothing under there anymore right?

THe auto express down on the power windows doesn't work as good as my Grand Prix, you really have to push it harder and hold it longer. THe power streering also doesn't turn as easy as my GP. pre-2000 streering wheel is better than the 2000-2002

My biggest complaint is that they don't make them anymore

 

1) i still have payments on it 2) it's stock.

 

This list took a while to come up with...

On my '87:

- Van Nuys paint
- Giant b-pillar blind spots
- Fuel pump replacement requires removal of whole rear suspension
- Should've come with sub-frame connectors
- The high-back seats should have the headrest adjustable
- MacPherson front suspension sucks
- No decent manual transmission (fixed in the new cars already)
- No room for a full-size spare
- Back seat is way too small (some compact econoboxes have more room!)
- Seats sometimes rub against the center console
- The seatbelt mechanism where the belt feeds from both the lap and the shoulder seems a little iffy to me.
- Need better heating for the footwells
- Hood is *WAY* too heavy (although they can make up for this by giving me enough performance and reliability to make sure I never need to pull an engine out)

 

shouldn't this be in the lounge???

 

Yes.

another complaint:
The 4 gen is big car but yet it has a smaller interior than a caviliar, I'd like to see this fixed on the 5th Gen. Cavi/Civic size back seat would be nice.

 

I took this as a means to discuss things we'd like to see fixed in the next-generation car, should anybody important be listening in on this thread.

 

When I had a Camaro, this is what I hated the most (ranked from most to least annoying).

• The car was just too big. The interior size was fine, but the exterior dimensions were just too large. The doors were so long, that you could barely exit the car in an urban environment.
• Engine was difficult to access (under windshield).
• General poor engineering - Squeaks and rattles, interior materials, fit and finish, car leaked (didn't even have T-Tops).
• Overall reliability was not that great.

 

1. Cat hump

2. Interior dash panels are terribly designed

3. Panel next to passenger backseat is pulling off a little

4. Car is massive and WAY to heavy

5. Engine under cowl

6. The headlights SUCK

7. Optispark

8. Window motors are slow and I have to push the windows the last 1/4" when they reach the weather stripping because the window motors arent strong enough to do that

With all that BS going on with my 4th gen, I love it more than anything .

 

That was the idea I had. Sorry I'm new to this.

 

seats
cat hump
visibility
window motors

 

One thing I learned from this thread is that I am grateful for my crank-em-downs now.