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YOUR RESEARCHCentral locking: feature or problem?
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Do they still check the oil, tire pressures and clean the windshield?
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Nowadays you're lucky if you find soapy water in the bucket with the squidgy to clean your windscreen.
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Do they still check the oil, tire pressures and clean the windshield?
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I can see how that could be useful if your petrol station has an attendant to fill the tank, some do.
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If I use the locking button on the dash, however, the gas cap lock is not actuated.
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For all I like to go on about being an original owner and have lived with it for 16 years and 80k, I don't know the answer to this...
If I lock/unlock with the key, the gas cap lock is actuated as expected.
If I use the locking button on the dash, however, the gas cap lock is not actuated.
Is this how it's supposed to work and something we've missed all this time?
I don't know the answer, I'll try it out on my 04c2.
I can see how that could be useful if your petrol station has an attendant to fill the tank, some do. You can keep your doors locked while you wait then wind your window down and pay.
For the 2003, the owner's manual says:
The filler flap is centrally locked along with the
other locks.
But it's unclear if "centrally locked" refers to the button in the car although that button is called a "central locking switch".
I'm sure someone will do a simulation for you and report.
On the one occasion my wife stopped for gas, she got out, locked her car and then for the life of her she could not get the gas flap open. LOL...she gave up and came home. I've been refueling her car for over fifteen years now. Just something that she doesn't like to do.
I've never tried the lock button on the dash and seeing if the gas flap is also locked. But it does make sense that "while seating in the car" and locking the doors, why would you want the gas flap locked? Rouge vagrants or dicey neighborhood? I guess maybe the frunk and engine lid are also locked...I dunno. Never tried it because the release won't release without the door open, and the door will then be unlocked with two pulls on the interior handle. So where does that leave it? Also, the dash lock button locks the doors but does not set the interior infrared sensors. So there is a difference to locking the car from the exterior vs. the interior dash button.
Porsche really made something simple so fricken complicating. Damn all this electronic stuff!
Every week someone can't get in their frunks, lock the car or access the engine compartment...Manual operation works best!
haha definitely not in the big-smoke (city) but you can still find the odd one in small county towns.
Nowadays you're lucky if you find soapy water in the bucket with the squidgy to clean your windscreen.
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