Burned to death cause of a faulty lock?

[dans]

ROFL

Is this poorly spelled rant a wind up. Why on earth would you get all worked up about being stuck in a car you don't own as it sunk into a lake you have not driven into due to mechanical problems that have not occurred to a car you have not fixed because you don't own it yet, and which might just not be that suitable as you are claustrophobic anyway.

Do you also worry about going out to the pub in case you fall down the toilet which you have not visited, because you don't need a piss in the pub which is closed where there might be a mugger although there might not be and anyway you do not know because you are scared to go out???

Too many computer games bringing on angst where none is needed. Relax mate. It may very well never happen.

[robster]

dans said: ROFL

Is this poorly spelled rant a wind up. Why on earth would you get all worked up about being stuck in a car you don't own as it sunk into a lake you have not driven into due to mechanical problems that have not occurred to a car you have not fixed because you don't own it yet, and which might just not be that suitable as you are claustrophobic anyway.

Do you also worry about going out to the pub in case you fall down the toilet which you have not visited, because you don't need a piss in the pub which is closed where there might be a mugger although there might not be and anyway you do not know because you are scared to go out???

Too many computer games bringing on angst where none is needed. Relax mate. It may very well never happen.

You're a funny guy mate. Lets be friends. I like you a lot.

Claustrophobic... yeah, praps. Said so didn't I.

re: the shuttle disasters... reasearch em. Nasa was warned of problems in em, prior to launch (challenger) but engies were ignored, and the rest is history.

But, in everyones eagerness to slam the claustrophobic guy who read a post about 4 people getting locked in their cars, you musta missed the bit about the electrics being *more simple than kids electronics* ... where the comparison came from i can only guess.

Pent up stress eh. You'll get over this post in time, Im sure.

re: the pub... I'll buy you the beers next meet mate. You sound in need of chill pills et al more than I.

Just claustrophobic here mate, although I'll admit being as defensive about your rants as you are about the cars.

I think this thread is about flogged to death now... knockin it on the head here.

[Noodles 4.2]

williamball said: What would happen if the central locking went AWOL in another car. Do you get a secondary way to get out? I think not.
WB

Err - what you think that door opening handle on every "normal" car is for then?????

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Handles are no use in a modern car. I was in a new BMW 535i that had central locking issues. Fortunately the passenger window was open so we could get out.

All cars should be as safe as a Cerb with a backup mechanical lever if you ask me.

Tony

[dans]

robster said
You're a funny guy mate. Lets be friends. I like you a lot.

Claustrophobic... yeah, praps. Said so didn't I.

re: the shuttle disasters... reasearch em. Nasa was warned of problems in em, prior to launch (challenger) but engies were ignored, and the rest is history.

But, in everyones eagerness to slam the claustrophobic guy who read a post about 4 people getting locked in their cars, you musta missed the bit about the electrics being *more simple than kids electronics* ... where the comparison came from i can only guess.

Pent up stress eh. You'll get over this post in time, Im sure.

re: the pub... I'll buy you the beers next meet mate. You sound in need of chill pills et al more than I.

Just claustrophobic here mate, although I'll admit being as defensive about your rants as you are about the cars.

I think this thread is about flogged to death now... knockin it on the head here.

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Robster

Glad you can take the joke in the spirit it was meant. I can assure you I am not defensive about TVR reliability, some of it is shocking. I don't think I mentioned Shuttles so I'll gloss gently over that. It was not a rant as indicated by the smileys,(what follows is a rant) but it was a touch of humor brought about by your post meeting with my healthy sense of the ridiculous.

As to the kids electronics bit, well the circuits might be simple when drawn on paper, but the construction is done by notoriously fallable things called people, whereas most kiddie toys are made in very accurate factories where they can be tested and junked quickly if they do not work. It is hard to do that with £50K of handbuilt plastic sportscar. The plastic is the key point here, it is much more complicated to build any kind of electronics into a plastic car, they need to be earthed effectively and that means that the electronics get more complex than they'd have to be in a steel bodied vehicle. More complexity means more single points of failure and more breakage.

Either way it is not really something to get all hot under the collar about unless it is a problem which actually affects you, and you do not have a Cerbera, so this is all deeply theoretical and silly. The tone of your post was inflammatory and suggested a serious problem, on reading the contents I discover that it is the product of a fertile imagination. On PH that tends to mean someone is going to gently take the piss out of you, as I did.

So before the men in white coats come for you...chill out, spot a joke when it is clearly marked by smileys and if you are not prepared to be laughed at don't post daft things.