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An anonymous tipster sent us this photo of a car on the floor of the New York Auto Show. The buttons for the door locks and windows are installed upside down. Guess the car and we’ll send you some swag.
Contest closes at 11:59 tonight.
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Those are FCA switches.
My guess is either Renegade or 200.
If I had to narrow it down to one, I’d go 200.
You’re good! They installed the entire switch panel backwards.
Yep — the little cubby/handle is supposed to be in front of the switches.
That my friends, is from the Grand Cherokee.
I don’t think it’s the 200, because from that angle the door pull would be in the way as well. It’s situated directly above the switches.
Agreed
The silver of the handle is barely visible on the corner of the pic.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/z/Ok4AAOSwQJhUgBOt/$_4.JPG
It’s a 200.
Must…resist… FCA quality jab!
C’mon just one “Probably assembled by on of them weed smoking FCA employees” joke?
Dodge Dart
Yep, definitely a Dodge Dart.
Yeah, I was gonna say Dart also.
Good eye everyone that’s saying its FCA.
Look closely at the bottom of the door trim and compare to the 200.
It’s not a Dart. You’d see the door pull extending over on the LH side of the photo shadowing the end of the switch.
I want to say they’re VAG switches? VW Passat?
VAG switches are by the doorhandle and its a single lock switch on a rocker
I appreciate that VW put the electronic switches on all four doors—in my car, at least, because my friend has a Jetta SE which doesn’t have them on the rear doors—and that the lock icons glow orange when the doors are locked. It’s classy, IMO.
Until the s**t breaks, that is, because it’s VW.
Haha at least yours are electric instead of the vacuum actuated locks in my S4
I have to agree it’s a 200.
Installed wrong or sabotage? Hard to say. I recall a recent story …
“A top LG executive is being sued by Samsung for allegedly vandalizing the company’s washing machines ahead of a trade show.”
This is the same FCA that ships Wranglers with mismatched fenders.
They can probably be removed without tools just by pulling up properly, so a stranger who sat in the car could be having a bit of a laugh. At the Vancouver auto show they remove all the shift knobs and loose HVAC controls because apparently morons steal them. One manufacturer taped over all the fluid reservoirs on cars with open hoods this year because of problems with people pouring drinks into them.
Iodide’s a good un cause it burns thru all the gaskets.
Same for Seattle. I went once and I thought at first someone (kids?) had gone through all the cars and removed anything that clould be removed without tools (HVAC knobs, center caps, etc). Then I realized that it was likely done beforehand by the presenters to prevent that very thing.
Then I, a 17 year old who’d never changed his own oil at that point, had to explain to 12 gathered old timers why the 4.6L V-8 in the (new for 1998 iirc) Continental we were admiring didnt have a distributor cap (or a distributor at all for that matter). I almost brought up the fact that the car was FWD, but I didnt want to incite brawl.
Dodge Grand Caravan or Chrysler Town and Country.
I’m going to go with the Cherokee, based on the body color showing at the top of the door. (Besides, someone else already guessed the Dart.)
Also betting on on the 200.
How about the Hellcat?
Maybe the switches are right and the photo was taken backwards?
Scion iM
1963 Ford T-Bird with suicide doors.
I’m going to be even more specific. I think it’s the 200S with the blue/black interior.
+1.
Those are definitely Chrysler switches that date from the Daimler era . It’s from the passenger side of a 2-door vehicle, so I am going to say some variant of the Challenger, perhaps Hellcat?
FCA mini van front passenger door.
Curious. Perhaps they are simply Benjamin Buttons.
Thank you, thank you, I’m here all week. Try the veal!
You were on fire in this thread, Thomas!
When are we gonna see something long form?
One of these days. I’m elbow deep in a master’s thesis right now.
Once I get clear though, maybe I’ll have something interesting to write about.
When I sold Fords we had an Escape show up with Mercury mariner taillights, and another Escape show up with a V6 badge on one fender and a Hybrid badge on the other.
We had a Taurus with Ford hubcaps on one side and Mercury on the other. I remember a truck with a tranny that didn’t work and a minivan with a huge cut in the carpeting. This was back in 1999.
Probably wanted to save money and have the same part lh and rh. Probably a rush job that didn’t quite work out.
It’s an “auto” switch with door lock and unlock, which means it’s a front door.
Driver side door has all 4 window controls. It’s not universal from L to R on the front.
Let me just say that every last one of you with such detailed and intimate knowledge of the switch gear of modern vehicles scare me, and you should really spend some more time with non-auto obsessed people.
People on TTAC love to push buttons.
Speaking of pushing buttons, I’m sure its not from a “Japan built Toyota Highlander”
If it was, I’m sure there could be only one.
We’re the princes of the universe…
Took me a second. Now I get it.
No real clue but I’m going to guess a Mazda, although the consensus is a Chrysler of some variety.
I’ll be contrary and say it’s the 2016 Toyota Tacoma prototype truck.
Viper or Ghibli, duh!
Viper has the door lock buttons located by the handle.
Ghibli uses chrome trim on the edges of the buttons and does not have the small cubby at the end of the switch bank.
Definitely FCA switch gear. I disagree with CW above that this is the Chrysler 200, Jeep Cherokee or Grand Cherokee.
I’m feeling this is a trick question. There appears to be blue accent trim in the interior and none of the usual suspects fits the bill. I seem to remember that the power door lock switches on the Viper are on the door pull, not the armrest itself.
So I’m going to guess that although this is definitely FCA switch gear – it isn’t a FCA product per se – so I’m going with Maserati Ghibli.
The material quality doesn’t fit admittedly – but it kind of looks like it – the angle makes it tough.
200S uses blue accent trim.
It’s from either a:
1) Renegade, or
2) 500.
My guesses are in that order.
Really? Not the CT6? I could have bet a million bucks that that would have been your guess!
Excepting real world fit/finish & interior materials quality, since one has to touch & feel an actual vehicle to get an accurate sense of these things – and also since the CT6 on the floor was a pre-production vehicle – I think the general interior design of the CT6 is the nicest of any Cadillac that I can recall.
I’m not as impressed with the exterior, and as always, in the hyper competitive space that the CT6 plays within, the actual driving dynamics, reliability, pricing & other such things will determine its market success or failure.
500—switches are on the dashboard
Renegade—-Not even the same style switch
Besides the central placement, 500 window switches are round. And there are no door lock buttons, pushing a door handle in will lock all the locks.
2015 Jeep Renegade with Sierra Blue exterior. Front Passenger door.
Renegade uses different looking switches.
Nope :) This is the “middle” part of the 3 part Renegade door grip/switch assembly, with the switch part put upside down on the front (and not the middle) part. 2 errors here (unless the front and middle piece are one, then it is a simple reversal.) See what I mean? :
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8704/16399865933_406b848e1e_b.jpg
Look at the style of window button, on the Renegade: it’s sub flush to the surface. On the photo provided it’s over flush and rounded.
Also look where the bezel ends on the Renegade, it’s a straight line cut between the door pull and the switch bezel, on the photo provided it’s rounded off.
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/z/Ok4AAOSwQJhUgBOt/$_4.JPG
My guess is it is from ATS.
No wait they are not backwards. The a picture is of left rear door shot backwards. So there no reason to blame ATS for all automotive sins.
Look closely at the bottom of the door trim and compare to the 200.
Blue trim.
Bottom of the door that is roundish that extends inboard, it’s the bottle holder on the passenger front door.
Stitching location.
Those switches.
Chrysler 200S, with the blue trim.
It’s not the Renegade either, they use a totally different looking switch.
Agreed. The blue is the door handle trim, since there is no painted panel at the top of the door. And yeah, wrong switches for a renegade.
Mitsubishi Outlander.
Looks the same as the up and coming Triton.
I don’t think it is installed upside down. It might be installed backwards!!!
I’d like to guess it’s a Daimler “Smart” car just to bask in the irony. Best guess: Alfa something. MiTo. Something like that.
I’m surprised that the design would allow it to be installed backwards or upside down.
The buttons aren’t backwards. The labels on the buttons are backwards. Since I have to guess, I’d guess it to be the Honda Civic.
the stupidity here (root cause) is not the factory that let this out the door, or even the oversight of the prep morons for the auto show..
it is for violating one of the key principles of the toyota production method, poka-yoke. the panel should be designed so it can’t be installed wrong! even if mirror image for both sides of the car, there are numerous methods used to prevent this issue. none of this is new, and was taught to me circa 1995 in silicon valley.. so what exactly is chrysler fiat’s excuse in 2015???? some things never change..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke