what the hell is this feature?

[loweuro77]

hey nramsey, is your luggage rack silver or is it a reflection? i thought they were all black, is it oem?

 

[BondoBob]

Two ideas:

A "slam lock" keeps the owner from lowering the car too much. That's why the motoring press always mentions a "slammed Honda", but not a "slammed Mazda".

-- or --

the slam lock prevents the driver's door from locking when exiting without the car keys in the ignition. (Hint: don't test this while the car is sitting miles away from anywhere and the only set of keys to the door ARE in the ignition.)

 

[Protege Type 5]

i dunno..i think sirnuke is onto a conspiracy theory..mine seems to be missing as well...

 

[Sir Nuke]

Man, you sure can think of great ways for me to waste my time Nuke!

A slam lock is a style of lock activated by closure and requiring a key to open. I'm in my office and not gonna go outside right now to test it, but I'm thinking this is on our hatches.

well that still isn't it.....with all the doors unlocked....you can close and open your hatch as many times as you like, even slaming it and it still doesn't require RE-unlocking.....so it doesn't lock when you slam it.

 

[Sir Nuke]

Thats a joke right?

oh no I am serious...do NOT tell my wife that I am wrong sometimes... :{D

 

[Sir Nuke]

i dunno..i think sirnuke is onto a conspiracy theory..mine seems to be missing as well...

well at least I now know I wasn't the only one to get ripped off! lol lol

 

[TexP5]

I don't know for sure. I actually looked at some lock sites. Slam locks are usually on applications like security gates and the sliding rear doors of large trucks? It's a lock engaged by closure. You slam it, it locks. Some mechanical lever or a key is required to open it.

My thinking is that this refers to every car door made since maybe 1915?? When you shut the door, the locking mechanism is what holds it shut. When you pull the door handle you are essentially disengaging a lock. The thing we all refer to as the "lock" on the car is essentially a deadbolt, a secondary system but the car door is already securely held in a closed position by the slam lock. Does this make any sense??

I'm not guaranteeing I'm right or anything but if I am this is the best BS use of a "Features" list I have ever seen. Aaaah the marvels of marketing people!

 

[Sir Nuke]

WELL Tex....that all could very easily be it.....BUT, what I challenge you all to do is the NEXT time you go to the dealer for something....anything....even if you are only going to pick up a part or whatever.....grab a sales person or the maintence manager and ATTEMPT to have them tell you what it is....and then come back and report as to what BS they told you....and lets see how many DIFFERENT stories we get...lol.

I mean, come on....why list something on your website as a "feature" of your product when no one even knows what it is....

 

[TexP5]

That's a job for Allen Funt. I bet we'd get some great stories if we all start asking our dealers about tis "feature" lol

 

[Sir Nuke]

That's a job for Allen Funt. I bet we'd get some great stories if we all start asking our dealers about tis "feature" lol

yep could be.....I am going to be interested in seeing or hearing the creative BS some of them will come up with....

I tell you something....I have a TON more respect for someone that doesn't know the answer and TELLS me that they don't but they will find out and get back to me...and DOES.

but when someone attempts to feed me a line of crap.....just so they can LOOK as they know what they are doing.....well, they lose.

 

[TexP5]

THE ANSWER IS...

Those of you who said it was that you didn't have to hold the handle up when you shut the door are correct...

This came from Autoworld.com's description of the 626.

"Now you can lock your car without the inconvenience of holding up the exterior door handle, thanks to 626's door "slam locks"

Like Nuke said in an earlier message, I haven't driven a car that required you to hold the handle up in 20 years. Do any auto manufacturers NOT use slam locks? Are there cars out there that still make you hold the handle or use the key???

 

[nramsey]

My '91 Miata requires you to hold the handle, as did my old '92 Protege and my '87 626. My friend's 98 Civic also required you to hold the handle I think. I believe most cars without power locks require you to hold the handle, why I don't know.

 

[Sir Nuke]

My '91 Miata requires you to hold the handle, as did my old '92 Protege and my '87 626. My friend's 98 Civic also required you to hold the handle I think. I believe most cars without power locks require you to hold the handle, why I don't know.

this is the first car I have ever owned that HAS electric door locks.....and NONE of the cars I have owned since 1976 have I HAD to hold up the handle to close them...hmm

well the mystery has been solved. thanks Tex.

 

[scooby419]

I have to hold the handle out when i close the doors on my 96 miata. This is the most inconvenient feature ever. Just because you have to hold the handle out, doesn't mean that you will make sure that you will have you keys everytime you lock the car. You get into the same routine everytime you get out, so it makes no difference. The only difference there is, is the fact that you have to have a hand free to lock your car everytime.