Urban myths about cars

[Jammy2008]

anonymous said:

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Alright, you made your point.

[ShiggyBiggs]

jesta1865 said:

Road_Terrorist said:

Dracoro said:

_Batty_ said:

i was told that you could unlock a Sierra with a half a tennis ball over the lock.

Stick ANYTHING into an old ford door lock and you'll be able to open it.

As proved by a mate who proudly showed us his Escort Mexico. Of the group of us, ALL had at least one key on their keyfob that would open the car

That's quite true, Ford keys will usually work in other Ford type locks, especially if they are a bit old and worn. I could take the key from my Mk2 Cortina and open most of my Mk2 Escorts very easily, especially the boot lock.

too right, on the way to football one day we were discussing the fact that my mates escort keys would open another ones dads sierra cosworth! then the guy driving (mk2 escort) said thats nothing, and whilst doing 70 took his keys from the ignition and threw them in the passenger footwell, the car never missed a beat even when he put them back in :-)

Hahahaha, reminds me of a time my mate took the keys out of his 306d-turbo to show me it still ran, but the steering lock came on going into a corner. Lucky we werent going at any decent speed.

[JJM]

Once heard that on some TVR's as the door realease built into the wing mirror was so unreliable, they had a emergency release tucked away in one of the wheel arches.

[Sam_68]

JJM said:

Once heard that on some TVR's as the door release built into the wing mirror was so unreliable, they had a emergency release tucked away in one of the wheel arches.

There is an emergency means of access on the >>>Griffith generation TVR's, but if I told you where it was, I'd have to kill you... the TVR boys get very sensitive about it for some reason, despite the fact that
there are much easier and quicker ways of breaking into a Grimaera than the 'official' means of secondary access.

[Podie]

fergus91 said:

Podie said:

5pen said:

27 months on, does anybody know if the OP's story about the 3-litre Clio is true?

I seem to recall the story involved VW rushing to display the super-economy Lupo at the motor show when the Clio was launched, though it always sounded like a convenient story made-up after the event to me.

Its cobblers. RenaultSport stated early on they were working on a V6 car.

although technicaly renault itself had a relitively small role in the design and enginering of the V6 that was done mainly by TWR

Agreed, but they commissed TWR to do the work.

[Kitchski]

I read somwhere that when the pug 405 mi16 was launched autocar wanted to do a three way test with the renault 21 turbo and citroen bx 16v. The bx was the only press car to be collected in the uk, the others from france where the test was being conducted. When they tried to collect the renault though, they weren't allowed into the car park. Why? They were in a citroen!

[Morningside]

Holy thread resurrection and all that.

But this thread.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
reminded me of a story that I was told about a car that was stolen in the late 1980s. broken up, parts sold on and the rest buried in the garden.

Another 'factual' myth is about an old scrapyard that leveled the dip in the access road by burying old coaches and covering them with dirt. There are now bungalows built over the top.

[motco]

Ford forgot to design in sidelights for the MkIII Zephyr and that's why it has them stuck on like they were.