buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
Who the hell cranks a car until the battery is dead?
Usually the crank behind the wheel.
Who the hell cranks a car until the battery is dead?
I don't reckonAre we ever going to be told the details of the car? Make, model, year?
To be fair, if you want to test the theory, you need to pull your battery cable to simulate a dead battery.Like many of you, I just went out and tried mine. 2019 Jeep Cherokee.
Locked the doors from the inside. No key. Opened just fine with the lever.
Must be more to the story... ?
Unfortunately, the vast majority of people live in places where you can't leave anything unlocked. I know someone who lives in the middle of nowhere and had an anvil stolen from an unlocked shed. Nothing else, just the anvil. I once had bricks stolen that were piled by the garage I was building. Where do you go to fence bricks?My wife's 2018 Hyundai Kona only has an electronic door unlock feature while my 2018 Chevy Volt has a manual unlock lever on each door. The Hyundai is continually locking itself up when she doesn't want it to. Make her mad.
I hate the auto locking features on car doors these days. You'd think everyone lives in a crime ridden neighborhood and you have to lock up every thing you own in every single moment. On my pick-up truck, the keys are almost never removed from the ignition or the doors locked for the last 20 years. No one has stolen it yet. Where I live it is more than a little unlikely it will ever get stolen. That is one of the reasons I live where I live. Many of the more modern cars don't have auto lock bypass features anymore.
I also wish they had a fixed storage point for FOBs on new cars. I guess the expect you to never leave the FOB anywhere but in your pocket. That might work OK if you are the only one who drives your car. My Volt is confusing because you can't easily tell if the car is on or off.