An Option You Don't Need!
 

This comes under the "now I have heard everything category." [8D]

Sekurus, a company near Los Angeles, CA, has developed a vehicle option- a light on a plastic box mounted beneath the dashboard that flashes when a car payment is due!

The box's LED light starts blinking when a payment is almost due. On the deadline day, the units not only blinks but beeps. When the customer makes a payment, the lender gives them a 6-digit code to enter into the box.

Sekurus' income has increased 30% in recent years, and hopes to achieve $20 million this year.

This is one option that we definitely do not need on our Challengers!!

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That would be extremely annoying, and to think my mother thinks that the dinging sound that my dad's Taurus makes when she regularly fails to put on her seat belt on the passenger side is unnecessary and annoying. Though, I wish I could have an option like this for other things. A reminder for when the car is due for an oil change, transmission fluid flush, and for various other reminders.

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Hmmm. I will have to check this company out for a job. Who knows RLSH, with this feature out, if this company wants to have a future, they should look into those features to incorporate with this box.

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Never mind about the career, they are in Murrietta which is about 1.5 to 2 hour drive. :(

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I hate the Stupid Child Saftey Locks on our '02 Yukon XL.
They annoy me.
They should have made a disabling feature.

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Are you talking about the feature on the back door that you have to open the doors from the outside? There is usually a switch in the door, when you open up the door you should see it. There wasn't one on the Yukons?

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Actualy. When you shift out of 1st gear, all the doors lock and you have to shift out of drive or unlock manualy.

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Actually those can be modified from what I understand if you program it. Mine on my Intrepid lock after you drive about 20mph (which I believe is standard on Chrysler products). The Child Safety Lock reference that TechmanBD was referring to are those idiotic switches on the back seat of cars that became common back in the 80-90s that disable the inside door handle that if the kid manages to lift the lock, they won't be able to open the door. The problem with those things is if you get your fingers shut in the door, your up a creek if no one else is around or your dad is too irritated to listen to you yelling at him at the top of your lungs to stop yanking at the inside handle and go to the exterior handle as yanks harder and harder as it shoves the door harder on your finger since he can't understand that the concept of if at first it doesn't work yank harder is counter productive.[:@] The thing I can't understand is why they make locking systems like that on cars for the backseats and make front doors that are supposed to be locked, unlock when you pull the handle, because we all know that children NEVER ride in the front seats whether or not its the law, and this was done before the days of dual sided airbags to justify that stand point. Thank God that I was wearing a seatbelt when I was 6 or else I might not be here today. All the cars we had before hand would never unlock unless you physically unlocked it yourself. Okay, rant over![sm=rant.gif]

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At leas the blinking LEDs will make the repo guys job easier to spot the vehicles

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Ah, you are talking about that feature. Like RLSH said, there is usually a way to reprogram that. My 01 Silverado had that. Look in the manual, it will tell you the sequence of events to turn it off. Usually turn the key to on position hitting a few buttons, stand on your head, recite the Pledge of Allegiance and so on. [sm=icon_rofl.gif]

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I KNEW I shoulda sued my parents for constantly endangering me as a child. My old man had a 1950 Ford that didn't even have seatbelts. Come to think of it, the dashboard was solid metal and came to a point right about the place where your head would hit it if you were in a crash. They actually brought me home from the hospital in this dangerous car after I was born! How could my parents have been so mean? Obviously, they were TRYING to get rid of me. They even gave me the car as my own when I turned 16! See? Even then, they were trying to get rid of me! Oh, wait! In those days, you were expected to try to AVOID running into other things like oncoming cars, telephone poles and brick walls! ;)

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LOL! Well, the thing that bothers me is the fact that the car manufactures are so short sighted that they changed this element for some reason unknown to me. I mean, I could see this one happening from a mile away. What do kids do when they have been riding over an hour (I think we had been riding for over 5 hours that time) in a car? They mess with anything they can rap their fingers around and mess with to entertain themselves, so logically won't the passenger side door handle be a logical thing to mess with once they think they have made it safe for themselves by pushing the lock numb into the locking position. I would lock the door of our older cars and play with the door handles all of the time without that dangerous result. I really think some of these designers need to stop thinking convince and think about potential safety hazards when they design these things, because really do we need the door to be able to unlock itself without lifting the numb or pressing the unlock button first.

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My dad had a 1965 Ford pickup and you would for sure have a cantalope head if it ever hit the dash. I also remember burning myself several times on the metal dash
when the vehicle was parked in the sun. Boy have times changed.

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Child locks last for a short duration (time really needed) but are worth it for their time in use. They were great for all 3 of the kids in stopping the play.

As once a kid myself, I for one challenged (no pun intended) my parents in our blue '68 AMC Rebel Wagon. A ride home from church one Sunday morning I decided it was time to check out the wear on the rear tires. I had no clue, being a youngin', and didn't think opening the door while moving would actually put me far too close to the end of my young life. Then again, seat belts too, we only wore on the trips between Rochester and Little Falls on the NY State Thruway, where of course, you need them less. :D

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My uncle has a 1949 chevrolet truck and it's dash is metal and right about were your head would hit, like Roswell's.