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Date:   Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:48:40 +1200
Reply-To:   Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:   Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:   Re: Headlight question (ignition "lock")
In-Reply-To:   <3C8A29BC.57A5C434@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
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I have done this a number of times. So for the past few years I ALWAYS keep a spare key in my wallet. I've used these a few times, but now when I lock the door & see the key in the ignition I can grin!

Using a key to LOCK the door is an entirely unnecessary hassle (especially when your hands are full) and wears the lock out twice as quickly.

VW had a good system in the mid80s Scirocco: You could lock the driver's door by pushing down the knob, but to push the knob down you had to hold in the outside release trigger. Why did they not continue this system?

Of course all of this can be avoided by fitting a remote central locking system, as I will be.

>yeah - until the first time you locked your keys in a vehicle. > >Andrew Grebneff wrote: > >> >...the "have to use the key to lock the door" as >> >far as good thinking goes. >> >> Now that's one feature I have to consider ASININE! >> -- >> Andrew Grebneff >> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand >> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> >> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut >> Hmm, Windows For Dummies... You got that right!!! >> Friends don't let friends do Windows >> Macs rock...Windoze wobbles


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