Holy dead threads Batman! This thread is a Zombie! Dead but brought back for reasons only to eat brains! and for some reason my exclamation point is stuck at the end of each sentence! Oh no!
Holy dead threads Batman! This thread is a Zombie! Dead but brought back for reasons only to eat brains! and for some reason my exclamation point is stuck at the end of each sentence! Oh no!
We didn't bury this one far enough! We need to shoot this one in the head and burn it! Oh no, the exclamation points are going crazy!
My opinion! A bumper sticker that says "This vehicle is protected by the Defender!" "Car will release toxic gas if unauthorized personnel is found inside!"
Putting the kidding aside, we've noticed at a lot of our club meets that people like to walk up to any car and open the door. Seems a lot of late model cars together make it look like a sale going on.
My wife was filling up with gas last Friday. Got out of the car, closed the door, and started the process to put gas in the car. (She was down to two bars).
Meanwhile, the lady in the car next to her comes up, opens up the door, and gets in the drivers seat. My wife immediately comes over and asks her what she is doing. The woman (in her 50s) tells my wife how much she loves these cars, and proceeds to ask her a bunch of questions (You know which ones they are). Meanwhile she gets out of the car.
The woman finishes her gas up, and so does my wife, and they both leave.
A few minutes later my wife realizes her cell phone is missing, which was on the passenger seat, along with her purse (purse not missing). When she got home, a search of her purse revealed nothing missing from the purse, but that her cell phone was indeed missing.
A call to verizon confirmed cell phone use after she noticed it missing. She had the phone placed out of order. We go buy her a new one today.
Moral of the story: Stay the HeXX out of my car, Next person jumps in might get shot.
Oh, and I really wanted to post this story so that others get the lesson we have learned and not let people just jump in your car. Or, not even let then in in the first place. In this bad economy, this sort of thing will happen more and more.
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man! I would've fliped the F@#$ out!!!! that's a definite no-no!! you just don't get inside someones car! that's messed up!
Well, I did it just Friday: stopped the car at the pump, locked it (three beeps) to go in and tell the cashier that I want to fill it up. Went back to the car, unlocked it (one beep) to open the gas tank lid and immediately locked it again (three beeps) while filling the car..
Am I missing something? My smart has a manual gas tank lid. Are those standard and the lockable switchie ones an extra?
Am I missing something? My smart has a manual gas tank lid. Are those standard and the lockable switchie ones an extra?
LOL..yours locks and you just don't know it. It's operation is seamless, it's so well designed. Next time you're at the car when it's locked, try opening the gas flap...it's locked as well. The flap unlocks along with the doors and when you exit the car.
Someone here a while back posted that he couldn't open the flap and thought he had a problem, never realizing it was locked by design. Check it out!
People always ask me first. I never have a problem with letting them in because I always make sure I have my key in my hand, and I never leave anything out anywhere in the car, mainly because i do not like the "clutter". I have gotten into the habit of putting everything not in my pockets in the glove box whenever I step out side the car. The Cabrio had me paranoid from day one, I am really glad the smart has a locking glove box. Sorry that happened. I will definitely warn my wife in case she is out by herself in my car for some reason.
Its this sort of BS that keeps me saying we both need to get consealed weapons permit.
Ummm...
Speaking as a concealed pistol license holder: Be very careful with that thought.
Most jurisdictions in the US won't look favorably on using deadly force to protect property; only to protect your life. Shooting someone over a cellphone is an invitation to a state-mandated "vacation" in one of those maximum-security "hotels." (I hear you probably won't like the food or the recreational activities...)
Of course, if someone jumped in your car and attacked you, then all bets are off.
I did not think you would be able to lock the car if one of the doors, rear lid, or fuel cover was open? Did I miss something?
There isn't a lock sensor on the fuel cover, like there is on the doors and boot lid. It's just a lock plunger that pops out to secure the fuel cover when you lock the car.
You should be able to re-lock the car just fine with either the fuel cover or the front cover open.
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that's a definite no-no!! you just don't get inside someones car! that's messed up!
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