DAPPH
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I said WINK .
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bigegg
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ExGF had same issue:
She ended up with a ford galaxy auto with electric handbrake and some sort of uprated "easy steering" (overpowered power steering?).
I know what you mean about the "Meccano" feel to the "adaptations": it was easier and quicker for me to lift the electric wheelchair into the back than use the hoist.
(Which could be the reason *my* shoulder is knacked
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bigegg
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You have windows?
Half the cars around here have black plastic bags sellotaped over the holes. (And broken glass in the footwell).
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First journey completed successfully without crashing, I feared I may accidently change from radio 4 to radio 1 whilst blindly stabbing at the touch screen as I attempted to activate the heated seats, I was however successfull in that endeavour too
One of mine has manual windows . . . narrow enough the drive can wind the passenger side up or down without too much hassle from the drivers seat, or taking their eyes off the road.
Also got a brilliant anti-theft measure . . . a manual choke
Flippin' hill hold - I just want to roll back down my drive with the trailer on the back - take your foot off the brake . . . nothing happens . . . until finally it releases and you roll. Touch the brake . . .
Same car had some delay valve in the clutch hydraulics to help Americans handle a clutch . . . meant gear changing was a bit hit and miss on drive take up, as it seemed to be a variable delay . . . luckily a wood screw down the hose will pull it out . . .
Same car had some delay valve in the clutch hydraulics to help Americans handle a clutch . . . meant gear changing was a bit hit and miss on drive take up, as it seemed to be a variable delay . . . luckily a wood screw down the hose will pull it out . . .
bigegg
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jerrytug
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Is it possible to just switch it off?
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Don't know, but why would you want to? I imagine it would turn the radio off as well. It is possible to access (as far as I can tell) the main functions without it
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Is that what that is; Hill assist? Van does that. ****** me off no end.
jerrytug
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I would want it off when driving, to minimise distraction. Looks like there are buttons on the steering wheel for the radio?
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That can be disabled, with a proper button I hasten to add, in this car
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One thing I hate, and deliberately ignore is steering wheel buttons, really not my thing
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You can switch off the hill hold, or you could on the Renault I rented a couple of years ago.
That car had no key, just a block of plastic that you pushed into a hole on the dash to start the motor, except I stalled the car pulling out into traffic first time I drove it, as the silly auto handbrake had come on when I stopped.....
.....and I was clueless how to restart it. The plastic was already pushed in all the way. Eventually I just yanked the plastic thing out and rammed it back in, in panic, and it fired up again.
Pah, fancy high tech rubbish.....
DAPPH
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Just before I turned 70 , I hired a Ford Transit stretch Luton with tail lift to move my daughter & her hubby to a new house , almost every time I stopped for traffic ,lights or anything else the sodding thing stopped . It didn't fire up again when I pressed the accelerator . I was left to resort to key starting it each time , Pity I didn't realise the problem before I drove off the hire forecourt at 08.00 hrs.
Thinking back..... Was it that I needed to apply the hand brake on the flat & have it in neutral then just press the accelerator to start before engaging gear ?
Come on guys give me a clue.... even though I'm now considered too old to hire such a vehicle ever again in the UK due to not being able to get insurance , I'd still like to understand what went wrong.
Thinking back..... Was it that I needed to apply the hand brake on the flat & have it in neutral then just press the accelerator to start before engaging gear ?
Come on guys give me a clue.... even though I'm now considered too old to hire such a vehicle ever again in the UK due to not being able to get insurance , I'd still like to understand what went wrong.
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Anyone tried the self parking system? Good grief what a faff - even dealer had no idea or trust in it. The car needed to ‘look’ for a space twice as long as the car, I was thinking what’s up with that space
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Best thing I have ever seen for parking is mirrors. I was joining a ship in Japan. Busy place, everything crammed in. Driver picked me up at hotel In a normal car but it had oddly positioned like stick on rear view mirrors. Basically he could see both bumpers with them. And used the just about to touch parking method, unlike Spain where they used the extra half inch nudge method.
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