What drives you the most crazy?

So what drives you the most crazy with your car? Is it the small things or the major items?

With me, it is the small stuff. I know there are big things I need and want to do down the road, but with me, it is the small stuff that drives me batty.

For example, everything has been fine on my car and it has been running great. However, on Monday of this week, I opened the passengers door and realized that the interior light did not come on. I checked the switch and it is making a good ground connection, and the drivers door switch works and the light comes on. So there is some connection problem, somewhere, that I now have to track down.

So now I am agonizing over it and I do not have time right now to go find the problem, but my mind keeps going back to the car and thinking about where the problem might be and how to fix it. I even woke up during the night thinking about it. I think it is called, being obsessed or anal retentive.

But when I have an issue like this it drives me up the wall till I get it fixed. I guess it is the engineer/designer in me.

So who else will admit to having this problem!!!

Also, does anyone know off hand where the two door switch wires connect and then run to the interior light on the center console/dash? I just do not remember? Is it behind the dash in the center? Drivers side? Passengers side?

A real pisser is that there are no two nuts exactly the same. Metric/sae. Drives me nuts. really it does.

The little stuff, I just do. The big stuff... that takes planing and the car will likely be down for a bit. With three LBCs big stuff shouldn't bother me, but when I can't drive them, I miss them.

I have that door switch problem as well.if you press the switch in with your thumb,and let the spring fire it out-the light comes on,otherwise forget it.but this actually works in your favour,because you can work on the car with the door open and not worry about the light on all the time.it must be one of the few problems which I actually like having.

That my wipers on the GT only swing 90 degrees! The passenger gets zero swipe. I feel like I need to install a third wiper on the passenger side of the car.

Have not beeen able to sort that one in all the years I have owned the car.

What drives me craziest are people who insist they need to drill holes in the crossmember! :devil:

I could not stand it anymore.

I went a checked and the door switch wires connect in directly behind the light, and somehow the passenger door switch wire had just fallen out of the connector.

One minute to fix, five minutes to try to get my hand unstuck from behind the console!!!

I find that most of my metric spanners fit nuts on my MG.right down to the oil drain plug,which from memory is 19mm size.wheel nuts are 22mm.tappet adjuster nuts are metric size,its only occasionally I have to open up my dads old whitworth socket set,crankshaft nut is whitworth.so either English cars have lots of metric nuts or the sizes are so close you wouldn't tell the difference.

Small stuff. Soooooo much effort to figure out why my damned indicators were on the blink (pun wholly intended)

Had an immediate answer when I read the topic title, but then saw the poll question included the words "about your car"

The parts that don't fit, are not like original, don't last, are poor quality. I think that is the most frustrating part of the MG hobby.

Here is a story I have told before. I had a '67 MGB GT. I bought a brand new bare head from Moss. This was back inthe '70s. I had it machined, installed new valves, springs, etc. Painted the head, made it look pretty. Installed it on my car. I used a garden hose to fill the radiator, knowing that you don't use antifreeze until you check things out. I kept adding water, and adding water, and adding water. I couldn't understand where the water was going. Car was outside as I was doing this. Finally I looked around under the car, and I saw where it was going. It was draining out through the exhaust system. Turns out there was a casting problem with the head, and the coolant was going into the exhaust. Moss did give me another head. Sometimes I think I need a new head myself, or should have my head examined for this passion with MGs.

I have owned/own several Japanese cars- Toyotas, Datsuns, Miatas, and Hondas. The parts area almost always well made and fit properly. Even knock-off ones made in China.

any person containing 2 X chromosomes....hahahahahahahahahahaha

The small stuff. It just comes up (in my experience) a lot more often than the BIG stuff. Batty, tho? No, just another darn mouth to feed with $$$ and time.

Small stuff. The big pieces have already fallen off.

Also any post that include: "What's this worth?" "Barrett-Jackson" & "HELP!" ...including this one...B-)