Push Button Start
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As do several of the new Lincoln MKZ's. I have no idea why people don't like shifters anymore, and manufacturers keep coming up with retarded new ways to put a car into gear. Lets see, push button, rotating ****, T-handle which only moves one click forward or backwards, even BMW's automatic which needs to be moved several ways for no reason.
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As do several of the new Lincoln MKZ's. I have no idea why people don't like shifters anymore, and manufacturers keep coming up with retarded new ways to put a car into gear. Lets see, push button, rotating ****, T-handle which only moves one click forward or backwards, even BMW's automatic which needs to be moved several ways for no reason.
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I'm sure it works well enough.
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You might be off by a few years. Our 57 Mercury Monterey had a pushbutton transmission and the start was on the neutral button. The buttons stuck our of a pod on the dash to the left side of the steering wheel and were about 3/4" square and had 2 inches of travlel. N/S, L, D, R and a big bar across the bottom to pull for park. Neutral was spring loaded at the bottom for the start switch. It was a cable driven affair which went down to the transmission. I remember the N/S got worn so it wouldn't make contact to start anymore so my father took an extension cord and a plug which was shorted. He would plug it in to activate the starter solenoid and then keep the plug in his pocket. Actually a very fast car with a 322 CID 290 HP Police Interceptor engine and a big Holley 4 BBL.
My dad's Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge (whatever it was) had the push button dash shifters and I can remember at least one car that the starter button was under the gas pedal.
Bike isn't really "locked," it just won't start. But the fork is not locked and so it isn't really that hard to just roll it away into the back of a covered trailer and part it out...
I didn't order Security on my Road King Classic. The fob adds a convenience, but the H-D key is tiny, and its pretty easy to flip the lid of the ignition switch and lock that along with the forks.
I didn't order Security on my Road King Classic. The fob adds a convenience, but the H-D key is tiny, and its pretty easy to flip the lid of the ignition switch and lock that along with the forks.
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My teenage years and learning to drive spent some time in my mother's 1963 Chrysler 300. It had pushbuttons to control the TorqueFlite transmission. After surviving me I have to say it was the best transmission ever built. 413 CID and around 360 HP, look out boys I've got a license to fly. 1st gear button smoke show to 70, 2nd gear to end of the speedometer, 120mph and then drive and the car would shutter then take off like a scared rabbit. Too bad the 11in drum brakes did not work anywhere near the way the power side worked. Took close to a 1/2 mile to shut down a full power run.
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I've never owned a vehicle w/o a physical key...so forgive my lack of knowledge here. In the '17, will I still be able to lock my keys in the truck? Anyone know if there is a way to override the button on the handle unlock deal? I do this from time to time if I don't want to have them in my possession (county fair, range, lake) etc. Curious if that will be possible anymore.
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I've never owned a vehicle w/o a physical key...so forgive my lack of knowledge here. In the '17, will I still be able to lock my keys in the truck? Anyone know if there is a way to override the button on the handle unlock deal? I do this from time to time if I don't want to have them in my possession (county fair, range, lake) etc. Curious if that will be possible anymore.
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Thanks Trover, I was under the impression the little black button on the grab handle would unlock too (when within proximity to the fob? Not so? Perhaps configurable within the monster productivity screen?
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It does. Touch the black pad on the door handle, and if key is in pocket, door unlocks!
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But can it detect that the fob was purposefully locked into the truck and not auto-unlock for any stranger that touches the black pad? ( i think that is what NStorm's original question was)
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You got it! I'm thinking there must be a way to configure this in the productivity screen...
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Do it all the time when I don't want to have a set of keys in my pocket all day. Working outside where I might lose them miles into the woods. Kayaking where I don't want the fob getting wet if I take an unexpected swim..
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I don't know if this will work on the proximity key. I'm pretty sure if you leave the key in the car and then try to lock, the door just immediately unlocks after you lock it.
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Good question. Will have to look and see what our MKC can do. The MKC has the same technology and a "special" place to keep a key fob in the car.