Best and Worst Warning Chime

[Onslaught]

I hate all of them. Honda and Ford makes some of the most annoying. I want to kill the guys at work who keep the keys in the ignition with the doors open.

Every car I've owned has had the little noise makers pulled out of them and trashed.

[Raza]

Yeah, pull the handle, and keep it pulled, the door will allow you to lock it manually.

How?  My car doesn't have a little peg for locking and unlocking, nor a positional switch.

[Soup DeVille]

How?  My car doesn't have a little peg for locking and unlocking, nor a positional switch.

I was referring to Nomis's asian car dilemma, not your Prussian car dilemmas.

Damn Krauts will over-engineer anything to the point of stupidity.

[NomisR]

You said you couldn't lock your doors manually. That's how you can.

Hmm, I was thinking why and I typed what..

But yeah.. I said I can't but I don't want a way too.. why would people do it anyways? So they can lock their keys in their car?

[Soup DeVille]

Hmm, I was thinking why and I typed what..

But yeah.. I said I can't but I don't want a way too.. why would people do it anyways? So they can lock their keys in their car?

Or if their remote fails.

[NomisR]

Or if their remote fails.

Use the key to lock the door?

[Soup DeVille]

Use the key to lock the door?

That too.

[Raza]

I was referring to Nomis's asian car dilemma, not your Prussian car dilemmas.

Damn Krauts will over-engineer anything to the point of stupidity.

My Passat had a little stick up thing.  So did my E320.  The Jetta doesn't.

[Soup DeVille]

My Passat had a little stick up thing.  So did my E320.  The Jetta doesn't.

I have no answers for you, and blame the absence of such a simple feature on teutonic grade engineering arrogance: the same way BMW lack dipsticks.

[NomisR]

I have no answers for you, and blame the absence of such a simple feature on teutonic grade engineering arrogance: the same way BMW lack dipsticks.

They do?  How do you check oil level??

[Eye of the Tiger]

They do?  How do you check oil level??

Same way you check fuel level without a dipstick?

[NomisR]

Same way you check fuel level without a dipstick?

That's stupid, so if I was changing my own oil, I have to run into my car to check the oil level?

[TBR]

One thing I like about the Prelude is it as two very distinctive chimes, one for the keys and one for the lights. Of course, I more frequently forget to turn the headlights on than I do forget to turn them off (gauges are always lit, so if I start in a well lit parking lot I don't notice that they aren't on).

[Tave]

Same thing with my Dodge, minus the remote-related stuff.

Same with the Aveo.

Which means I have to lock/unlock the door with my key, which means I'm bound to scratch the paint around the keyhole sooner or later.

I liked the system on my 4runner more: you had to hold the doorhandle open as you closed the locked door.

[Tave]

Open the handle, and the manual lock will work.

No it won't (if it's like the Aveo). The manual lock is stuck on unlock when the door is open. It's not like the old-school locks where it would unlock itself as it latched.


I know, so much for progress, eh?

[Raza]

I have no answers for you, and blame the absence of such a simple feature on teutonic grade engineering arrogance: the same way BMW lack dipsticks.

Oh, I like it.  That way, you can't unlock my car with a coat hanger.

[NomisR]

Oh, I like it.  That way, you can't unlock my car with a coat hanger.

So what if you locked your key in your car?

[Soup DeVille]

They do?  How do you check oil level??

You turn the car upside down and see how much runs out.

[NomisR]

You turn the car upside down and see how much runs out.

Ahh, good point, now how do you pick up your car?

[Tave]

I once locked my keys in the car at a gas station, and while most of the customers laughed at my futile attempts to coat-hanger it open, one family took pity on me and tried to help. The father urged his young daughter to squeeze her arm through the crack in the window and reach for the unlock stick. It was obvious from the start her arm wasn't long enough, and as we (me and the father) stood there holding her up at the top of the window, I heard a conversation I'll never forget.

"Daddy, I can't do it."

"Yes you can honey, reach for it."

"Daddy, it hurts!"

"Uh, don't worry about it man, I'll find some other way."

"Oh, nonsense, she almost has it. C'mon honey, reach for it."

"Uh...ah....uhhhhh. It HURTS!"

"Shut up and reach!"



This went on for awhile, until pops himself gave up on it. I went back to work with the coat hanger and had it open momentarily.

[Soup DeVille]

Ahh, good point, now how do you pick up your car?

You need to set up a ramp, and then drive over it with one tire at a high rate of speed.

[Rupert]

The old school buzzers are like my old alarm clock.  I hated hearing it so much that it woke me up without fail.  I even had a Pavlovian response if I ever heard the same sound on TV (it's happened with my old alarm clock, and my current one as well, the exact same sound) and got sick to my stomach when I heard it.

If by best you mean most effective, then I must say you're right.

My mother has a kitchen timer that uses the exact sound that my travel alarm clock uses. Whenever the cookies are ready, I jump a foot and shoot a hand out to turn it off. 

[Soup DeVille]

My mother has a kitchen timer that uses the exact sound that my travel alarm clock uses. Whenever the cookies are ready, I jump a foot and shoot a hand out to turn it off. 

You'll break that habit after you get married and smack the wife on the top of the head a couple of times.

[Raza]

So what if you locked your key in your car?

I....don't...



The only way to lock my keys in my car would be to put my keys in the car, and then use my spare key to lock the doors.  Then, I'd have my spare keys with me.  I suppose I could open my window about an inch, lock my car, and then slide my key in through the crack, and I would be fucked then.  But I don't foresee a scenario in which that is likely to happen. 

And anyway, do you carry a wire coat hanger with you at all times?

[Tave]

And anyway, do you carry a wire coat hanger with you at all times?

Interestingly enough, before I saw that man almost abuse his young daughter, I asked the gas station clerk for a coat hanger. To both his and my surprise, he had one behind the register.

[Raza]

Interestingly enough, before I saw that man almost abuse his young daughter, I asked the gas station clerk for a coat hanger. To both his and my surprise, he had one behind the register.

Well, that almost makes sense.  I'm just imagining someone walking around with a coat hanger sticking out of his back pocket as a backup plan.

[93JC]

And anyway, do you carry a wire coat hanger with you at all times?

Don't leave home without it.

[Rupert]

That, and the towel.

[Soup DeVille]

That, and the towel.

Always know where your towel is.

[93JC]

When you get out of the water you need to dry off right away to avoid catching a cold.