On 1 Jan 2007 at 17:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Muller suggested that "Lots of cars had buzzers with switches > on the belts and in the seats... That's crazy." > > Crazy? Sure! But so were the various seat belt buzzer/lamp > reminders and the methods of making them work.
Yes indeed, all the buzzers were crazy, as were the ignition lockouts. So crazy that Congress reversed themselves and then made them all illegal. But that's not quite what I meant. What I thought was crazy is that they would bother to tie it to the gearbox at all. The functional result of such a switch is this: In any other car that buzzer would buzz as soon as the ignition was turned on. By wiring it through the gearbox it would wait to turn on until the driver put the car in gear; a passenger could simply fasten the belt but the driver would have to put the gearbox into neutral or hold in the clutch, and then fasten the belt. That strikes me as even more irritating than the buzzer itself, sort of like an umpire waiting until a batter has jogged down to first base for ball four before calling a strike. In addition, it added to the cost. So why do it? Did some marketing dweeb think it would be less irritating to put off for a moment the irritating buzz? On the other hand, BL management didn't exactly have their act together at the time. -- Jim Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html === This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register === http://www.vtr.org === Help keep Team.Net on the air === http://www.team.net/donate.html === unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try === http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool === Other lists available at === http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo === Archives at http://www.team.net/archive === http://www.team.net/the-local === Edit your replies!
