Re:Scotland plans to make petrol and diesel cars obsolete by...
by arethuza on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:43AM
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I've never had electric windows fail (and I've been driving for 30 years) but I have had a rental car where one of the hand cranked windows failed - it didn't fail to close, that worked fine but it did fail to stay closed. A gentle push downwards on the glass would make the window lower into the door with the handle spinning round.
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Re:Scotland plans to make petrol and diesel cars obsolete by...
by kagamine on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:27AM
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Buy a Land Rover or Range Rover, your premium product will have you ripping out the door skins the day after the warranty ends. It's a 3-6 hour job at least and impossible to put the door back as factory because the waterproofing seals aren't available (use gaffer tape). The winding mechanism costs a bundle too.
Re:Scotland plans to make petrol and diesel cars obsolete by...
by arethuza on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:41AM
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I was going to say that if I did need a proper 4x4 (which I don't) I'd probably get something Japanese. Then I remembered that my wife had a Toyota SUV that had all manner of electrical problems eventually traced to a faulty sunroof...