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Grumpypants
Dio 😁
Jun 2021
4:48pm, 18 Jun 2021
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halfpint
Been there with work club cars. Not a clue how to start the damned things.
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SsH
I was going to post an almost identical comment Dio. New car delivered halfway down the street and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to get it into reverse. Had to do a long winded drive round the village to get back home...
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Jun 2021
4:52pm, 18 Jun 2021
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SsH
and my current new-to-me car has a fancy pants push button handbrake. Had to go back in to ask the salesman how to operate it
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Diogenes
[I was 21 at the time and none of the cars I’d driven up to them had had such a system. On the test drive I’d only used the forward gears.]
Jun 2021
6:52pm, 18 Jun 2021
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halfpint
[push button parking brake was a revelation here too. I didn’t ask I just faffed and worked it put]
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LazyDaisy
[Today W
we had to show my BiL how to get his car radio - sorry, in-car entertainment system - to scan, find and save radio 4. They've had the car for six months :-) ]
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7:50pm, 18 Jun 2021
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Grumpypants
I'm smiling because I've found I'm not alone in my befuddlement 😁
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Sigh
[My last few company cars (all VW) have had push button parking brakes; on the first one, a 57 plate, one day the push button stopped working and the local dealer didn't have the spare part. Their answer? "Just leave it in gear." :-) ]
Jun 2021
8:13pm, 18 Jun 2021
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Rosehip
Doesn't everyone always leave the car in gear? or dis you not all start off with cars with crap handbrakes?

It's a good job I do, my last car had an electronic handbrake, I've had Elmo 2 years now and I still forget the handbrake is a proper lever.

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