Strangest position of a button or switch in a car

[John Lloyd]

Idea pinched from another car forum, but it sounds good.


I'll start;

Indicator switch on an Atom 

[1965Cobra427]

Remote trunk release

1994 Mustang Cobra - Inside the glove box

[bolus]

Mini cooper bonnet release -> outside footwell on the passenger side.  You cant reach it from the driver's side

[Heywood-Yablowme]

Liberty rear window switches mounted on the front console..

Samuri hood latch in glove box..

Daihatsu hood latch release...is the hood ornament.

Inside door release on a Subaru XT coupe...try to find it the first time..

Saab 9000 gas door release..never found it...

I could go on..

[Bruce Fielding]

[quote="bolus"]
Mini cooper bonnet release -> outside footwell on the passenger side.  You cant reach it from the driver's side
[/quote]

Yes you can... it's just to the right of the accelerator...


oh...

hang on...

[Bruce Fielding]

Pretty much everything on a TVR...

Door releases under door mirrors and on the dashboard, for example...

[bolus]

[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
[quote="bolus"]
Mini cooper bonnet release -> outside footwell on the passenger side.  You cant reach it from the driver's side
[/quote]

Yes you can... it's just to the right of the accelerator...


oh...

hang on...
[/quote]

Haha, true

[bolus]

Another on the Mini.  pull twice on the inside handle to open a locked door.  Most people pull once and then keep on pulling  harder until the handle breaks

[Driver]

How is a trunk release in the glove box a weird place? Lots of cars have the remote release there.

[WorkingOnIt]

[quote="Curator"]
Saab 9000 gas door release..never found it...
[/quote]

This reminded me of a story - a couple apparent joyriders steal a late production DeLorean, gas station attendant sees them circling the car. They leave without buying gas and abandon it a couple miles away.

[1965Cobra427]

Starter button on '59 Buick - Under the accelerator pedal

[positron]

Fuel door (tail light) release button (reflector) 1950 Cadillac 

[Bruce Fielding]

[quote="bolus"]
Another on the Mini.  pull twice on the inside handle to open a locked door. 
[/quote]

That's the same on my Volvo...

[Bruce Fielding]

It's not that strange, but the indicators on my Alvis are a switch around the horn boss...

[Karl]

[quote="bolus"]
Another on the Mini.  pull twice on the inside handle to open a locked door.  Most people pull once and then keep on pulling  harder until the handle breaks
[/quote]

All BMWs.  What did these people do when cars didn't have this convenience function at all, and you had to manually unlock them?  Did they just sit there holding the handle?  Were a lot of people getting stuck in their cars in the 1980s?