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Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:17 pm
by John Lloyd
Idea pinched from another car forum, but it sounds good.
I'll start;
Indicator switch on an Atom
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:29 pm
by 1965Cobra427
Remote trunk release
1994 Mustang Cobra - Inside the glove box
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:36 pm
by bolus
Mini cooper bonnet release -> outside footwell on the passenger side. You cant reach it from the driver's side
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:50 pm
by 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..
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:40 pm
by 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...
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:41 pm
by Bruce Fielding
Pretty much everything on a TVR...
Door releases under door mirrors and on the dashboard, for example...
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:02 pm
by 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
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:04 pm
by 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
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:30 am
by Driver
How is a trunk release in the glove box a weird place? Lots of cars have the remote release there.
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:05 am
by WorkingOnIt
[quote="Curator"]
Saab 9000 gas door release..never found it...
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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.
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:43 am
by 1965Cobra427
Starter button on '59 Buick - Under the accelerator pedal
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 3:55 am
by positron
Fuel door (tail light) release button (reflector) 1950 Cadillac
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:48 am
by Bruce Fielding
[quote="bolus"]
Another on the Mini. pull twice on the inside handle to open a locked door.
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That's the same on my Volvo...
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:49 am
by Bruce Fielding
It's not that strange, but the indicators on my Alvis are a switch around the horn boss...
Re: Strangest position of a button or switch in a car
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 7:22 am
by 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
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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?