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How to not tow a car
mangogrooveworkshop - 10/3/07 at 05:56 PM

How not to do it (no snow) linky



Peteff - 10/3/07 at 05:58 PM

That was on a few weeks back, they left the ignition switched off and the lock came on. Did anyone recognise the accent?

nitram38 - 10/3/07 at 06:25 PM

If there ever was a case to ban steering locks, that was it!!!!

jlparsons - 10/3/07 at 06:50 PM

i second that. Never have liked em. And now that most are electronically activated I'm even more spooked by them - thats the only hang up I have about my car. When you take the key out you hear it engage a half second later when the electronic brain decides that it's ok to do so, horrible to think that it only requires a software fault for that to happen when you're doing 80!!

DIY Si - 10/3/07 at 06:52 PM

It's for reasons like that that mine is disabled on the indy. I now have no worries about being towed at all.

Simon - 10/3/07 at 07:00 PM

quote:
Originally posted by nitram38
If there ever was a case to ban steering locks, that was it!!!!


I'd have thought banning the idiot behind the wheel was preferable

ATB

Simon

roadrunner - 10/3/07 at 09:25 PM

Why did they film being towed.Strange if you ask me.

robertst - 11/3/07 at 12:45 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Simon
quote:
Originally posted by nitram38
If there ever was a case to ban steering locks, that was it!!!!


I'd have thought banning the idiot behind the wheel was preferable

ATB

Simon


Second that! i'm sorry, but this is the kind of mistake you make with a quad not an impreza, towing the car with what looks (from the end part of the video) to be a completely unsuitable tow cable, i think forgetting the steering lock is one of the LAST things that would slip off my mind.