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Get Out page The recent announcement of lawsuits over the deaths of two college students in a Cybertruck fire has us rethinking and re-writing out Get Out page. We believe we were first to call attention to electronic locks and latches some ten years ago with the death a man in the hot Texas sun …
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Electronic latches This one pulls us in multiple directions. InsideEVs reports that the Chinese government is rumored to be considering a ban on electronic latches (door handles), particularly those that conceal themselves (flush handles). The piece then references the earlier issuance of “draft rules stating that cars must have a clearly marked mechanical release on …
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Audi symbols update And well, they did it. Our Audi symbols update is finally done and they did it. The page now features over 200 symbols and indicators — 210 to be exact. It goes without saying that they are new “leader” in sheer numbers. We added 81 symbols to the page, a full 67 …
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Back to work We are back in business and back to work updating the Audi symbols page with a brand new laptop with all the old files restored. Pulling together the software we commonly use was a bigger chore. Seven new symbols have already been added, and there are as many as 40 to go! …
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Audi symbols So today we added six more indicators to the Audi symbols page including a green rear belt indicator, a steering lock indicator and and engine start malfunction indicator. But what we really wanted to talk about is three emergency assist indicators in two colors. Not only that, but the first two symbols are …
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Audi symbols As we bull our way through a Audi symbols page update, we are struck by how many symbols are repeated in multiple colors. In the update thus far we’ve added 14 new indicators, 11 of which are new to our database, posted four new systems, and have at least another 40 symbols to …
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New old owner’s manual rant
Owner’s manual Its been some time since we had an owner’s manual to rant about, but we have one now, on a 2008 Audi Q7. We were contacted by the owner of said Audi, actually a 2007 model, which evidently has a mechanical key start back up for the keyless start system. But when he …
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