Video: Friends videotape man "trapped" inside C6 Corvette with dead battery
05-14-11, 02:16 PM
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Video: Friends videotape man "trapped" inside C6 Corvette with dead battery
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Are sixth-generation Chevrolet Corvette coupes attempting to take out their owners? After one man recently became "trapped" inside his ZR1, another driver, captured above, also believed he was stuck inside his 'Vette. The real issue here, however, isn't folks being outsmarted by their cars; it's that vehicle owners don't even bother learning how their cars work.
When the battery dies on a C6 Corvette, the door-release buttons stop working. General Motors isn't in the business of creating sports cars that turn into traps, so it installs (very obviously marked) levers on the floor that, when pulled, manually open the doors. Not rocket science, guys. No need to panic. But hey, when you do freak out, and your friends are kind enough to find it hilarious and videotape it, well, we're happy to share.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=lWoXJIe0prU
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/14/f...with-dead-bat/
Video: Friends videotape man "trapped" inside C6 Corvette with dead battery
Are sixth-generation Chevrolet Corvette coupes attempting to take out their owners? After one man recently became "trapped" inside his ZR1, another driver, captured above, also believed he was stuck inside his 'Vette. The real issue here, however, isn't folks being outsmarted by their cars; it's that vehicle owners don't even bother learning how their cars work.
When the battery dies on a C6 Corvette, the door-release buttons stop working. General Motors isn't in the business of creating sports cars that turn into traps, so it installs (very obviously marked) levers on the floor that, when pulled, manually open the doors. Not rocket science, guys. No need to panic. But hey, when you do freak out, and your friends are kind enough to find it hilarious and videotape it, well, we're happy to share.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=lWoXJIe0prU
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/14/f...with-dead-bat/
05-14-11, 06:36 PM
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What an idiot, you own a ZR1 and don't even know your own car.. Like you said, It has the Emergency Door Lever on the floor, what does he think that lever is? (the gas cap release, NOT) LOL
Edit: from the Plate, its a Texan
Edit: from the Plate, its a Texan
Last edited by 1QWKGS4; 05-14-11 at 06:39 PM.
05-14-11, 11:32 PM
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This is one of those cases when the design is more stupid than the user.
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05-15-11, 07:47 PM
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After after multiple views im not even sure thats a Z06 as it looks like it has a targa top. And Z06's and ZR1 are fixed roof hardtops, looks like it maybe by a Z06 clone, with the wheels rear quaters and rear spoiler and so on, but bef not a ZR1 dont think it's a Z06 either.
05-15-11, 08:51 PM
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Before I went on vacation last year I was filling up at the gas station and a lady who just got a used Corvette could not figure out how to open the fuel door and asked if I could find it. I had to look through the owners manual to finally see where it was located at because it was not apparent by just looking around in the interior.
When my dad was young he accidentally set of the alarm system on a old Corvette he was borrowing because there was a certain way you had to start the car, it took him forever to shut them off.
Corvettes are known to have some odd and confusing location for certain functions over the years.
When my dad was young he accidentally set of the alarm system on a old Corvette he was borrowing because there was a certain way you had to start the car, it took him forever to shut them off.
Corvettes are known to have some odd and confusing location for certain functions over the years.
05-16-11, 06:33 PM
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05-17-11, 09:09 AM
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LOL, it happens.. When I bought my first MB E class years ago, after a few days I had to put gas, got to the gas station, and couldn't figure out how to open the gas door, there was no release inside, no release outside.. I had to call the dealer and he said it was as simple as pushing the gas door on one side, duhhhh... lol
05-17-11, 10:12 AM
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