"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
07/28/2016 at 18:05 • Filed to: None
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"Klaus Schmoll" (klausschmoll)
07/28/2016 at 18:05 • Filed to: None | 2
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- The driver’s side rear door doesn’t react to the central locking. Not the remote or the actual key. You can live with that, but that’s where you want to put your briefcase/handbag/whatever in a four door car. I just put it in the trunk instead.
- Which leaves me to an actual flaw in design. The trunk/boot can be opened with the key or by pulling the lever next to the driver’s seat. No handle or so. When you open the trunk/boot with the key the central locking doesn’t pop. When you open the cabin, the trunk stays locked. WTF!!!
I locked myself out only a few months ago. Approach car with shopping bags. Open trunklid/bootlid with actual key. Put stuff in, shuffle it around with both hand so that it will stay put. Keys in trunk to use both hands. Slam lid=fucked.
I blame you Americans for this fucking flaw in design! I can’t exactly say why, but it has to do with the valet thing.
- It has some sort of reverse warning/maybe even a parking sensor. When I engage reverse something beeps, or more like ... sometimes something tries to beep. Some aftermarket shit that was once wired to that car seems to be dying a slow death. A miserable excuse for a beep that accompanies 50% of reverse gear usage with no rhyme or reason.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> Klaus Schmoll
07/28/2016 at 18:22 |
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What the hell kind of Accord is that? Doesn’t look like the ones in Japan or the USA.
*Ohhhhh weird, Rover Accord, 6th gen? I guess I heard about it but I never saw one.
DynamicWeight
> Klaus Schmoll
07/28/2016 at 18:32 |
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Sounds like a door lock actuator, should be cheap and easy to install.
When you open the trunk it pops open, right? So if you tied the unlock doors button to the trunk as well, it would pop open every time you unlocked the doors, that would be bad. Okay, so lets say every time you hit the trunk open button, or used the key, it also unlocked all the doors. Also bad, but we need a thought experiment to see why.
A man parks his car, gets out, and locks it. Then he goes to get his briefcase from the trunk. He opens the trunk, retrieves the case, and walks away. Now, if the locks are part of the trunk opening system, his car is left unlocked unless he remembers to lock it again.
This is why the trunk opening has to be separate from the rest of the doors, because it physically pops open when it is unlocked.
Honeybunchesofgoats
> Klaus Schmoll
07/28/2016 at 18:43 |
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I always store my bag in the trunk, because it has a bitchin’ leather grab handle and I like the excuse to use it.
Also, I'm very obsessive about having nothing in the cabin that isn't living or attached to something living.
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Klaus Schmoll
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
07/29/2016 at 11:05 |
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Nothing Rover about it. It’s the euro version of the 6th gen, built in Swindon/UK.
duurtlang
> Klaus Schmoll
08/16/2016 at 10:55 |
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You’re not looking for a project or a future classic or anything, right? I spotted this 1988 E30 Touring, and when I found out it’s located on Rügen (Sassnitz) I thought of you.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/BMW-E30-TO…
Spasoje
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
08/24/2016 at 19:01 |
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To add some context, this silver Accord was replaced by what we called the Acura TSX.