I think I’ve taken the Mini out seven times in the last month, and twice it has given me a warning message that my trunk is open.
Bear in mind that I am sixteen years behind the rest of you in car technology, and most of you know why my trunk is mysteriously open. As I say, I am way behind, so I had to call the Mini dealer to find out what was going on.
Here is the key fob:
Top button is Unlock, the one with the logo is Lock, the one right below that is Open Your Damn Trunk Without Realizing It, and I’m afraid of whatever the bottom red button does.
The man I spoke with was gracious enough to blame other elements in my purse for pushing the trunk button, but I know my fat little fingers or my too-tight jeans pocket did it.
3 responses to “Trunk”
Yeah, that is Not Helpful. I wish buttons that you didn’t want to push accidentally came with a slider cover or some other “lock” function so you couldn’t mash them without meaning to.
(I do see why it’d be useful to have an “open the trunk” button on your key fob, for groceries et al, though. But NOT useful to have it easily mashable.)
KC – and given that unlock unlocks all the doors and the trunk (pretty sure), why have something that only unlocks the trunk? I’m sure they designed it correctly, I’m just using it incorrectly.
It’s a car. I remain suspicious (ever since the “ooh, you don’t even have to put the key in, just have it close enough to the ignition!” thing where the engineers forgot women usually don’t have pockets and usually *do* have a purse, which is usually either on the passenger seat or on the passenger-side floor… so, female test drivers were either unable to start the car, because their purses were too far away, *or* had the car get irritable while driving if their purses slid out of range…) that car engineers, at max, usually only theoretically think of what average women might like/use.
I mean, automatic soap dispensers and automatic “face finders” on cameras and not-pale skin; blind spots are a thing.
(I also wish the alarm button on the car had a slidey thing, because it’s *great* to have while walking back to your car when it’s dark, but it is *not* great to accidentally push it with pocket/purse/whatever at other times.)