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To: rickmichaels

Doesn’t anyone actually read an owner’s manual any more?


3 posted on 02/08/2016 5:24:27 PM PST by Farmer Dean
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To: Farmer Dean

You’ve got it: the gearshift isn’t confusing, the operators are just %@&! stupid.


9 posted on 02/08/2016 5:27:34 PM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: Farmer Dean

Maybe you and I are the only ones left who do.


17 posted on 02/08/2016 5:32:59 PM PST by svcw (An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man is a subject)
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To: Farmer Dean

Maybe you and I are the only ones left who do.


18 posted on 02/08/2016 5:33:00 PM PST by svcw (An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man is a subject)
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To: Farmer Dean

“Doesn’t anyone actually read an owner’s manual any more?”

If I interpret this correctly, its a lot like a joystick on a video game. It always go back to the same centered position. So, for park, the driver bumps it forward 3 times, and looks for a light.

“A light shows which gear is selected, but to get from Drive to Park, drivers must push the lever forward three times. The gearshift does not have notches that match up with the gear you want to shift into, and it moves back to a centred position after the driver picks a gear”

Then there’s this:

“But investigators found that the push-button start-stop feature doesn’t shut off the engine if the vehicles aren’t in Park,

‘This function does not protect drivers who intentionally leave the engine running or drivers who do not recognize that the engine continues to run after an attempted shut-off,’ investigators wrote.”

So if I fail in bumping the joystick the right number of times, and push the engine stop button...I’ve really left the car in gear with it running.

I would never buy this car.


25 posted on 02/08/2016 5:37:43 PM PST by lacrew
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To: Farmer Dean

Doesn’t anyone actually read an owner’s manual any more?
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Perhaps they may have printed the manual in the wrong Spanish dialect?


26 posted on 02/08/2016 5:38:36 PM PST by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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To: Farmer Dean

They are 500 pages long. I doubt it.


50 posted on 02/08/2016 5:52:53 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: Farmer Dean
Doesn't anyone actually read an owner's manual any more?

Public skool graduates can't...

71 posted on 02/08/2016 6:20:42 PM PST by null and void (This war starts in the spiritual realm-it will end in ours though.)
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To: Farmer Dean
Doesn't anyone actually read an owner's manual any more?

Likely not. Me included.

Funny story, I had a Nissan Altima a few years back and after about a year and a half, I got a flat tire. No big deal. I pull off the road, grab my jack and go to loosen the lug-nuts. But one of them was round with a funny star-like pattern around the inside of it. My wrench was useless. I couldn't figure out what the hell that thing was. And each of the other three wheels had one also.

So I'm standing on the side of the highway looking like a complete loser who can't change out his own tire. I decide to go into the glove compartment to pull out my manual and sure enough, there's a lug nut "key" in there, still in it's original shrink-wrap.

A year and a half of driving that car and I never knew I had a set of wheel locks.

89 posted on 02/08/2016 7:09:20 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Cruz (8); Trump (7); Rubio (7)
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