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Hey everybody! At long last here is the General Car Conversation Thread, please review the guidelines above and enjoy!

What did everybody do to their cars today?

Opened the sunroof on my car today as I drove into work.

I almost did the same thing today, I had to drive out to Annapolis to look at a property and being on and off the phone I would have had to keep closing it. Beautiful day here today.

‘So. Something I like about my Matrix, Corolla and 21 4R is that there a TWO buttons for the roof. One for the tilt part. One for the open part. Both separate. My 04 has one button that does double duty. Just something I don’t like

What does your Mercedes have or your Pacifier?

The Mercedes has two buttons but one is just for the rear sunshade which is kind of odd. The Pacifica has one for the sunshade and one for the glass. I like the two buttons for tilt/slide also

Strange. At leas the buttons aren’t embedded on the infotainment screen or something

On the Tundra and the GS, it's two separate switches (one for tilt, one for sliding) but I think I would prefer one.

On the Highlander, the pano roof has a combo type switch for the tilt and slide function. Push it in for tilt, or pull it back/forward for sliding. It's very intuitive and easy to use. It has a separate for/aft switch for the power roof sunshade. I do like that.

Oh that's coming. Trust me. I'm sure some brilliant executive out there thought of burying it in some screen.

On the new Mercedes cars they are gesture controlled...so there are no buttons

Oh jeez. What do you do to open the roof? Lol

You swipe your hand backwards

Replaced the front brakes on the Q7 yesterday. $800 for parts, but I'll never have to pay for it again (FCP Euro FTW!), and even if that wasn't the case, it still beats $1500 at the dealer.

What?!?!?! Gesture control only, no physical buttons?!?! That is just stupid, I shut down the gesture nonsense in my BMWs right away, at least they have buttons.

Wow thats great! I have heard about FCP Euro from the MB forums also...thats a great deal. They sell the magic vision control wiper blades too, $200 at the dealer, FCP sells them for $175 with lifetime replacements!