Surprising things you learned about the SC long after buying it
05-08-14, 02:01 PM
#196
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just spent over $700 to repair a door dent put in by some inconsiderate ***. I really think in some cases it's done by an envious dimwit. One time, while exiting a grocery store I saw a woman empty her cart and then push it hard toward three empty parking places across the aisle and send it crashing into the side of my car. When I confronted her she said "it's only a car. what are you going to do about it?"
Being the commanding officer of a sheriffs department I took her by the shoulder, turned her around, cuffed her and called for a cruiser to transport her to the county jail. All that frozen food! Too bad lady.
She got 100 hours of community service and had to pay full restitution for the damages. For some reason I felt much better.
just spent over $700 to repair a door dent put in by some inconsiderate ***. I really think in some cases it's done by an envious dimwit. One time, while exiting a grocery store I saw a woman empty her cart and then push it hard toward three empty parking places across the aisle and send it crashing into the side of my car. When I confronted her she said "it's only a car. what are you going to do about it?"
Being the commanding officer of a sheriffs department I took her by the shoulder, turned her around, cuffed her and called for a cruiser to transport her to the county jail. All that frozen food! Too bad lady.
She got 100 hours of community service and had to pay full restitution for the damages. For some reason I felt much better.
05-08-14, 05:38 PM
#197
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just spent over $700 to repair a door dent put in by some inconsiderate ***. I really think in some cases it's done by an envious dimwit. One time, while exiting a grocery store I saw a woman empty her cart and then push it hard toward three empty parking places across the aisle and send it crashing into the side of my car. When I confronted her she said "it's only a car. what are you going to do about it?"
Being the commanding officer of a sheriffs department I took her by the shoulder, turned her around, cuffed her and called for a cruiser to transport her to the county jail. All that frozen food! Too bad lady.
She got 100 hours of community service and had to pay full restitution for the damages. For some reason I felt much better.
just spent over $700 to repair a door dent put in by some inconsiderate ***. I really think in some cases it's done by an envious dimwit. One time, while exiting a grocery store I saw a woman empty her cart and then push it hard toward three empty parking places across the aisle and send it crashing into the side of my car. When I confronted her she said "it's only a car. what are you going to do about it?"
Being the commanding officer of a sheriffs department I took her by the shoulder, turned her around, cuffed her and called for a cruiser to transport her to the county jail. All that frozen food! Too bad lady.
She got 100 hours of community service and had to pay full restitution for the damages. For some reason I felt much better.
It must have been extremely tempting to drop the hammer.
(Just kidding)
05-12-14, 06:45 AM
#198
Driver School Candidate
Maybe YOU were kidding. I was seriously considering retroactive birth control.
06-08-14, 10:23 AM
#199
So, I'm slowly making my way through this thread to get some more "SC430 Life Hacks." Three things that I will add in that those of us with the LuxLink, I've found three things in particular.
One, if you use the auto roof via the key and make it to the car before the windows go up, you can enter the car (since the doors are unlocked while the roof is in motion) and hit the power lock button inside the car to avoid having the windows roll up. I can also start the car while the roof is in motion and press 1 on the wall to memory seat position while the roof cycles. In most of the LuxLink literature, it specifies that you must use the key in the driver's side door to stop the cycle. I found this method is faster and have less of a chance of the motor being burned out with repeated "up-down" of the window.
Secondly, if you are exiting the vehicle you can open the door, hold the key lock for 3 seconds to start the roof cycle and manually lock the driver and passenger doors and exit the vehicle rather than waiting around for the cycle to complete and arm the system with fob lock key. Of course, this doesn't arm the security but the doors are locked. I usually use this method for quick grocery/shopping stops in the daylight hours.
Lastly, as I read in one post that triple tapping the window button will drop the quarter windows in those of us with the LuxLink This method didn't work for me. Too bad.
One, if you use the auto roof via the key and make it to the car before the windows go up, you can enter the car (since the doors are unlocked while the roof is in motion) and hit the power lock button inside the car to avoid having the windows roll up. I can also start the car while the roof is in motion and press 1 on the wall to memory seat position while the roof cycles. In most of the LuxLink literature, it specifies that you must use the key in the driver's side door to stop the cycle. I found this method is faster and have less of a chance of the motor being burned out with repeated "up-down" of the window.
Secondly, if you are exiting the vehicle you can open the door, hold the key lock for 3 seconds to start the roof cycle and manually lock the driver and passenger doors and exit the vehicle rather than waiting around for the cycle to complete and arm the system with fob lock key. Of course, this doesn't arm the security but the doors are locked. I usually use this method for quick grocery/shopping stops in the daylight hours.
Lastly, as I read in one post that triple tapping the window button will drop the quarter windows in those of us with the LuxLink This method didn't work for me. Too bad.
Last edited by ShawnOk; 06-08-14 at 10:27 AM.
06-08-14, 10:44 AM
#200
I have this option. I don't use it a lot but, it's occasionally really handy to be able to do.
06-08-14, 11:34 AM
#201
This feature was an OPTIONAL feature for the LuxLink. If you ordered the LuxLink with this option, you got a separate module (an off-the-shelf window roll-up/roll-down module) that connected to one of the normally-unused wires of the LuxLink. When you triple-press the window down button, it activated the roll-up/roll-down module and, voila...the rear windows move!
I have this option. I don't use it a lot but, it's occasionally really handy to be able to do.
I have this option. I don't use it a lot but, it's occasionally really handy to be able to do.
06-08-14, 04:21 PM
#202
One, if you use the auto roof via the key and make it to the car before the windows go up, you can enter the car (since the doors are unlocked while the roof is in motion) and hit the power lock button inside the car to avoid having the windows roll up. I can also start the car while the roof is in motion and press 1 on the wall to memory seat position while the roof cycles. In most of the LuxLink literature, it specifies that you must use the key in the driver's side door to stop the cycle. I found this method is faster and have less of a chance of the motor being burned out with repeated "up-down" of the window.
Secondly, if you are exiting the vehicle you can open the door, hold the key lock for 3 seconds to start the roof cycle and manually lock the driver and passenger doors and exit the vehicle rather than waiting around for the cycle to complete and arm the system with fob lock key. Of course, this doesn't arm the security but the doors are locked. I usually use this method for quick grocery/shopping stops in the daylight hours.
Lastly, as I read in one post that triple tapping the window button will drop the quarter windows in those of us with the LuxLink This method didn't work for me. Too bad.
If you are exiting your car after having hit the dash button 2x, then I always use the power door lock switch on the door-it does set security as well. It will also save your remote batteries.
In both versions of Luxlink, the rear quarter mod was always an add-on feature and most Luxlinks were sold without that mod.
John
06-08-14, 06:58 PM
#203
Soloman, I have a version 2 which doesn't not have the double-tap feature. Mine only has the key fob remote start and top function. Therefore with every roof drop, the final movement is the windows in the up position. If I want to drive right away, why would i want the windows up? Therefore I can stop the cycle before they go up by getting in as the doors are unlocked, starting the car, hitting the power lock and memory seat buttons at the proper moment, and drive away without having to roll with windows back down again. On exiting the car, I can use the remote key again to put the top up remotely and this time allow the windows to roll all the way up to finish the cycle. But the final movement on the top up procedure is an unlock door, so you have to stand around like a dufus to allow the LuxLink to finish it's cycle to hit "lock" on the fob... OR as I was indicating, manually lock the door and walk away once the cycle starts. This way you're not standing around and the door is 100% locked when you walk away.
Last edited by ShawnOk; 06-08-14 at 07:04 PM.
08-20-14, 07:56 PM
#208
Racer
Thread Starter
11-21-14, 05:28 PM
#210
Racer
Thread Starter
The Nav can find locations based on longitude/latitude. This is particularly useful for destinations that do not have street numbers -- i.e. inside a state park.
Since I am not too bright, I could never get the Nav to accept the Google longitude/latitude. Turns out, Google uses decimal whereas the car wants degrees and minutes. Found a website here that will do the conversion. Problem solved.
Since I am not too bright, I could never get the Nav to accept the Google longitude/latitude. Turns out, Google uses decimal whereas the car wants degrees and minutes. Found a website here that will do the conversion. Problem solved.