With the development of the times and the advancement of technology, today's new car configuration can be described as more and more advanced. Because of this, there are many configurations that we saw in the car when we were children, but they disappeared with the replacement of the car, resulting in many young readers now not even seeing it! Let's talk about the car configurations that have been eliminated, if you have seen or even used them, then you have to expose your age!
When it comes to a vintage configuration, the hand-cranked window must be one of the most representative. In the early years, in order to save costs and reduce prices, most low-end models will use hand-cranked windows, and only models with higher prices will be equipped with power windows. Because of this, there are also passages about hand-cranked car windows. For example, when you hand-crank the lift window, you must not change the color of the face, maintain a uniform speed, and at the same time, do not let the people outside the car see the movement of your hands, in order to pretend that you are a high-level power window.
However, since around 2010, self-owned brand people-friendly models have mushroomed, and each company has entered an era of configuration competition. In addition, the extremely mature technology cost of power windows is getting lower and lower, so the hand-cranked windows have gradually disappeared in the field of ordinary family cars. Today, even the entry-level micro-surfaces that cost more than 30,000 yuan are equipped with power windows.
Many people may have seen the hand-cranked car window, so how many people have seen the hand-cranked skylight? Strictly speaking, the hand-cranked sunroof is not a very common design, because in general, low-end cars or low-end cars with lower prices usually do not provide sunroofs, and models equipped with sunroofs naturally use electric sunroofs due to their relatively high price. However, in the early 21st century, many people thought that the sunroof was a very advanced thing, and they would give priority to models with sunroofs when buying cars. However, due to the configuration of some low-end cars plus electric sunroofs, the price will lose competitiveness, so the manually controlled sunroof was born.
One of the most representative models is Tianjin FAW's 2003 domestic small car Weizi, which uses the same chassis platform as the contemporaneous Toyota Yaris, and is also equipped with a very classic 1.3L Toyota 8A engine, which is extremely reliable and durable. Of course, the most interesting thing is of course the weizi hand-cranked sunroof, which not only satisfies the consumer's pursuit of the sunroof, but also has not significantly increased the price of the vehicle. For example, the 1.3L+4AT non-sunroof version of Weizi was priced at 73,800 yuan, while the sunroof version with the same configuration was only 3,000 yuan more expensive.
Today's new cars are basically equipped with large-screen entertainment systems as standard, and various internet of vehicles online music and mobile phone interconnection functions are readily available. However, in the era when the Internet was not yet developed and smartphones were not yet widespread, the entertainment function of the car was mainly achieved through radio and tape players. Among them, the radio needless to say, due to the characteristics of not occupying the vision, as well as the timeliness of synchronous broadcasting, so FM broadcasting is still the preferred entertainment method for many people when driving. But tapes are not so lucky.
In terms of the mainstream form of music storage devices, the first is the old-fashioned record, later evolved into tape, followed by the CD player. Around 2005, with the rise of large-capacity mp3 players, tape and CD players were gradually eliminated due to capacity limitations. Later, after the birth of smart phones, music players also became the pursuit of a small number of HiFi players. The same is true for cars, the tape CDUSB mobile phone Bluetooth Car Networking, the pace of evolution of in-car entertainment functions, has never stopped.
As mentioned earlier, today's cars still have radios, so naturally they also need to install antennas for receiving radio waves. Nowadays, most vehicles use a relatively beautiful and compact "shark fin" antenna, and some cars that pursue shape design even use hidden antennas, so the small configuration of "radio antenna" has no sense of existence now. But in the teens or twenties, most cars also need to install a long retractable antenna on the roof, hood or trunk cover, when using the radio, you need to pull the antenna out to receive the signal, and when you are not in use, you need to put the antenna in to avoid damage and break the antenna.
What is more interesting is that the models that used telescopic antennas at that time were also divided into two categories, one was the telescopic antenna represented by low-end vans and low-end cars, which required manual hand pulling out of the antenna. The other type is the old-school Japanese high-end sedan such as Nissan demeanor, in order to ensure that users can use the car more elegantly, the electric telescopic antenna used can be automatically extended when the vehicle is turned on the radio, or when the ignition is started, and automatically put away when not in use. I believe that friends born after 90 and before must have envied the electric antenna of high-end cars when they were young, right?
Now the new car is basically popularized one-click start, even if the price is cheap without a key start of the car, it can also be started by directly twisting the key. However, in the early days of automobile development, because the starting motor was not yet popular, the car at that time also needed to rely on a rocker to directly connect with the engine crankshaft when it was ignited, and provide an initial force of rotation for the crankshaft by hand crankshaft to start the engine.
Maybe some students will say that this rocker start is not only used for tractors? In fact, in the 80s and 90s, some domestic "jeeps" at that time were old in technology, and in fact, they also used the way of hand crank start. And because of the need to rely on the manual drive of the engine crankshaft and piston linkage and other structural movements at the start, coupled with the cold car state, so the resistance of the rocker is very large, some people with less strength can not even "shake the vehicle on fire"!
In that era when smart phones were not yet born, even mobile phones were not widely popularized, and communication relied on landlines and BP machines, in order to meet the needs of rich people who were "online" at any time in the car, many high-end cars were equipped with car phones. You know, 20 years ago, the car phone was definitely a symbol of high-end honor, a configuration that only luxury cars and high-end cars had, and even until 7 or 8 years ago, many high-end cars would design car phones in the armrest box. However, with the popularity of mobile phones in the 21st century, car phones have gradually been eliminated, and the rapid development of smart phones in the past 10 years has directly killed this configuration.
As an important tool for drivers to observe the road conditions behind them, the exterior mirror must be adjusted to an angle corresponding to the driver's sitting posture and body shape to obtain the best field of view. In today's new cars, basically will be equipped with electric adjustment of the exterior mirror, the control area is usually on the left side of the main driver's door panel or dashboard, through the knob can adjust the lens of the exterior mirror, some high-end models can even achieve the external mirror angle and the main driver seat memory position of the mutual binding function.
However, in the early years, ESC rearview mirrors were not a common configuration, and most family cars needed to adjust the angle of the mirrors purely manually. For example, Xiali, which was spread all over the country in the north and south of the river, needed the driver and co-pilot to extend their hands and directly adjust the angle of the lens.
The German car, which is dominated by the Volkswagen Jetta, adjusts the rearview mirror by installing a multi-angle lever (inside the yellow frame above) connected to the outer rearview mirror lens on the inside of the main and co-pilot door panels.
With the development of automotive technology, most family cars today have been equipped with electric adjustment of rearview mirrors as standard. Personally, I can think of the only one who is still using manual adjustment, and the only one who is still using Wuling Hongguang MINIEV. And THE EXTERIOR MIRROR OF THE MINIEV DOES NOT EVEN PROVIDE THE LEVER CONTROL IN THE CAR, JUST LIKE THE OLD Charlie of the year, which needs to be extended to adjust the angle directly by pressing the lens... Before seeing a lot of young friends in the MINIEV forum marvel at the novel configuration of "manual adjustment", I just want to say: "You are so young!" ”
Headlight wipers This configuration was still very common in high-end cars in the late 1990s and early 2000s, especially in the Mercedes-Benz W140 S Class and the original Volvo S80. So why did you have the function of a headlight wiper? In fact, it was because the high-end cars at that time generally used xenon headlights, and the xenon light source would have a serious scattering phenomenon when it encountered dust and other obstructions, which would not only affect the lighting effect, but also lead to the scattered light of the opposite vehicle.
In addition, for example, Nordic brands such as Volvo, due to the fact that it often snows in cold areas, and the snow will cover the headlights, resulting in the complete failure of the headlights, so under the dual influence of xenon light source + snow, the headlight wipers were born. However, with the drastic changes in the design language of the 21st century, the original square headlight shape has been eliminated, replaced by a variety of curved and curved headlight shapes, and the wiper can no longer effectively clean the headlight shade. Coupled with the popularity of the headlight cleaning and water spray system, the headlight wiper has gradually disappeared in the long river of history. So if you're not an old car enthusiast and have seen or even used headlight wipers, then your age should already be a mystery
Now most cars use electronic central control locks, only need to press a button on the door, you can achieve door locking or unlocking, and the main driver's seat can directly control the door lock of the whole car through the button. However, 20 years ago, when the vehicle electronic system was not yet developed, the car at that time used door locks controlled by traditional mechanical structures.
Take the old Jetta as an example, its door lock is a small lever installed separately on the door (inside the yellow frame in the picture above), if you press this lever down, the door will be locked, at this time neither inside the car nor outside the car can open the door by pulling the door handle. And for some old cars, there was no concept of central control lock at that time, each door was controlled individually, so when other passengers wanted to enter the car, the driver needed to use the key to unlock the main driver, and then pull up the lever of other doors from the inside, so that the passenger could open the door from the outside... Later, with the development and popularization of electronic central control locks, those models that use tie-lever door locks also began to support electronic control.
As we said earlier, the early car even electronic central control lock is not popular, naturally there is no way to have today's vehicle advanced electronic anti-theft, or even engine computer lock such anti-theft equipment. At the same time, since cars were a luxury more expensive than real estate in the 90s, there were no surveillance cameras in all corners as they do now, which led to the frequent theft of cars in the early years. Especially for models based on the Honda brand, the anti-theft performance at that time was poor and it was easy to be stolen, so the phenomenon of car loss in the southwest region of China was very frequent. Because of this, in the past, when buying a car, everyone basically bought a gear lock or a steering wheel lock to add an anti-theft protection to the vehicle.
In fact, whether it is a gear lock or a steering wheel lock, the principle is the same, that is, through the external force to lock their position, so that even if the car thief can pry open the door, can put the vehicle on fire, will also be unable to hit the direction, can not hang the gear and finally can not drive the car away. Although it is not impossible for the car thieves of the year to pry open these locks, their existence has also increased the workload and business difficulty of the car thieves, and those who are troublesome may go to "patronize" other cars.
Nowadays, with the advancement of vehicle anti-theft technology and the ubiquity of cameras except toilets and bathrooms, criminals rarely touch such targets as cars. So unless it's a frequent user who goes to remote areas, most people nowadays don't buy a vehicle burglar lock anymore.
Yes you read that right! In the early years of the car due to the air conditioning system is not powerful, and the car power is generally very poor, after opening the air conditioning power decline is serious, but also the cost of fuel, the private car of the year will basically place a small electric fan on the dashboard to cool down the air for the people in the car. And what is more serious is that at that time, some public cars and buses did not even have air conditioning, so they could only use the scheme of installing electric fans in the whole car to resist high temperatures.
However, with the performance of air conditioning compressors getting better and better in recent years, and the rise of turbocharged engines, the impact of air conditioning in summer on vehicle power is not as serious as before. More importantly, now that the living standards of our people have improved, they will not be entangled in the extra fuel money of opening the air conditioner, so this kind of shaking head fan specially designed for cars has gradually disappeared from people's vision.
After reading these 11 configurations, I don't know if you have recalled the young times that were closely related to the old car. And for those post-00 friends who see these configurations for the first time, will they take a new perspective on the car configurations that we have become accustomed to and think should be easy to use? Let's talk in the comments section