With the dwindling amount of people smoking and the ones who do seem to flick ash out the window, why do car makers still fit ashtrays to nearly all cars?
A waste of time me thinks, i never use mine.
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I use mine all the time - Sweet wrappers!
The problem arises when a passenger wants to smoke - as I and the wife are non smokers, and the children are and hopefully will be for their entire lives, we don't allow anyone to smoke in our cars/vans.
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I smoke in the car but my ash tray has never been used - it holds loose change for meters and machines
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Usefull for sweet wrappers though.Keeps them off the floor.I hate rubbish on the carpet!.Ps I dont allow smokers to smoke in my car. Would be nice if container was made slightly larger for rubbish rather than fag ends.
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Steve
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I find it useful for small change for parking,next to it of course is the cigar lighter,I wish this was live with the ignition off for phones etc,mine only comes on with the key turned to first position ie with all the check lights in the instrument panel on.
ndbw
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Non smoking option in the last three cars.
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The ashtray, along with the cigar lighter, is disappearing from many new cars and is now seen as an option or "smoker's pack" at around £50. The socket for the lighter is usually left so you can still use it for mobile phone chargers, car-vacs etc.
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What happened there? All I used was the word that rhymes with Rugger.
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Scenic comes with a removable ashtray that sits in one of the cup holders. If, like me, you don't smoke, then you just put it away in one of the many storage compartments for the next owner!
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The corolla verso has a similar system - little removable thing that goes in one of the cup holders.
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sweary words upset the sweary thing...keo
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The lighter socket on my Xsara is on a permanent feed because I always have to remember to remove the mobile phone charger when the car's laid up for a week or two. PITA, I'd much rather it came on when the ignition is in the accessory position.
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What happened there? All I used was the word that rhymes with Rugger.
... which is now a swear word.
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I use mine all the time - Sweet wrappers!
I use mine for sweets. Once eaten, the wrappers go out the window.
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I use mine for sweets. Once eaten, the wrappers go out the window.
But you don't eat them while moving, do you, because that is now an offence?
So the wrappers pile up in the lay-by - like the peanut shells in Naked Gun!
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DD, Tut tut.
"I use mine for sweets. Once eaten, the wrappers go out the window."
LITTER BUG. :¬(
Regards,
John R @ Home
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Although a non-smoker, I would be dissapointed if I went to look at a car in the showroom which didn't have an ashtray/(lighter/accessory) socket. I will never use it for its proper purpose, but I'd notice if the car didn't have it.
It's the same as buying a mountain bike that only had the neccessary 5/6 speeds and not the usual 18/24 which repeat themselves half the time.
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Ah! then ashtrays are not used for ash but sweets instead, just like a glove box is never used for gloves.
Now i get it!
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My daughter complains that the Yaris with all it many cubby holes lacks the ashtray feature of the previous Fiat Uno.
The Fiat ashtray just clipped on the front of the high level shelf. It was a good size and easy to lift off and empty.
I obtained a spare from the scrapyard so we had stereo ashtrays.
One for sweet wrappers and the other one, after I had cut out the snubber, was perfect for the mobile phone.
So much for progress.
In my Mondeo, with the auto box in Park, it is almost impossible to get at the ashtray behind the gear selector.
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Wife, who is a non-smoker, got a newish '04 Fiesta as a courtesy car from a repair garage and one of her first complaints about it was that it had no ashtray. I didn't think to ask her why she needed one in a car she would only have for a couple days.
The ashtray in her Astra is too full with shopping receipts to fit even one sweet wrapper in, so the wrappers are stored in the door cubby hole (remember when they were called Map Pockets?)
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>>What's the point?>>
Some drivers find them useful for holding the grey waste that builds up on a cigarette instead of it falling into their lap or messing up the carpets...:-)
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Wife, who is a non-smoker, got a newish '04 Fiesta as a courtesy car from a repair garage and one of her first complaints about it was that it had no ashtray. I didn't think to ask her why she needed one in a car she would only have for a couple days.
I suppose they don't put ashtrays in the cars as they probably won't want people smoking in their courtesy cars.
I know that we have non-smoking courtesy cars and I'm guessing a lot of other places are the same.
Blue
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Bring back opening quarter-lights!
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>>Bring back opening quarter-lights!>>
Seconded.
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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I know that we have non-smoking courtesy cars....
Surely the diesel ones smoke a little bit ;o)
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Wasn't much point in the ashtray on my motorbike.
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When I had a Mk IX Jaguar ('60), it had three cigarette lighters, and at least three ashtrays, which in the '70s was regarded as severely decadent. It would probably be considered to be a health hazard nowadays. My current Jag ('84)has two cigarette lighters and three ashtrays. I don't think they've ever been used for smoking purposes. I'm not sure about the smoking provisions in the latest models but it is certainly becoming a less common habit. I have never used the ashtrays for anything but keeping the small screws and pieces that fall off from time to time, spare fuses, small foreign coins etc.
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I only gave up 6 months ago, and until then my ashtray was very well used and typically close to full of butt ends and ash.
These days the ashtrays are just as full, but contain "stuff" that I might need but doesn't have a sensible place of its own to go.
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So where did the "stuff" go when the asktray was used for ash?
Or is it a case of, whether you intend to or not, filling all available space. I have a similar problem.
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there is a well known law of physics that deals with "stuff" in cars.
Stuff will expand to fill all available holes and locations.
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