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To: Justaham

Just today I was manually unlocking the door on my 1984 BMW and thinking about what an old-school thing to do that was.

What’s with the rubber overshoes/galoshes disappearing? I thought people still used those. What has replaced them?


16 posted on 07/22/2011 6:27:32 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
What’s with the rubber overshoes/galoshes disappearing? I thought people still used those. What has replaced them?

Cold and wet feet.

23 posted on 07/22/2011 6:49:06 PM PDT by pgkdan (Time for a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: Yardstick

I probably haven’t manually unlocked a car door since around 1999...


76 posted on 07/23/2011 9:16:31 AM PDT by RockinRight (If we're "teabaggers" then they're "d-baggers.")
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To: Yardstick
Just today I was manually unlocking the door on my 1984 BMW and thinking about what an old-school thing to do that was.

Actually 2 months or so ago, I recall reading (might have been right here on FR) that thieves can now hack codes from auto key fobs via a remote query against the fob, if it is within radio range of their hacking scanner.

That is, unless your lock uses an "old school" ... key.

77 posted on 07/23/2011 9:22:45 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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