head gasket failure - now dumb Audi decisions
Chris Cappuccio
chris at nmedia.net
Wed Sep 13 18:26:30 EDT 2006
Mitchell Segal [MSegal at nsbgroup.com] wrote:
>
> No, my beef is, that the HORN does not work unless the key is on. Now, the
> horn to me, should be a safety device, like the lights and hazards, it
> should work ALL the time. On several occasions I have been sitting in my
> car, waiting for someone, and a guy in front of me is backing up and about
> to hit me. I wanted to honk him, to warn him, only to discover I have no
> horn at all, unless the key is on.
>
> This to me is a case of the Audi engineers being a little bone-headed. Why
> go to the trouble to disable the horn without the key (something that only
> works so long as you press the button anyways, so it's not like you can
> leave it on and walk away), but they allow you to leave radio on for a long
> time, which is something that you could more easily do, and which can drain
> the battery without you knowing it.
>
Let me get this straight....
You sit around in your car with everyting off, waiting for people to park in front of you.
These people even seem like they might back up in to you.
And Audi engineers are the bone-headed ones?
FWIW, Ford gives you the horn and lights at all times, and Volvo even turns off your headlights whenever you turn the car off.
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