Here’s a detail I’d never taken notice of before. I guess you wouldn’t unless you were locked in the boot of your car for some reason.
Take a good look. In the unlikely case of an abduction in your own vehicle (or in someone else’s Saab), here’s the tab you should look for. It’s a detail captured by el donito, on Flickr.
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I’ve seen those before, but I didn’t know that they glowed.
Yeah. The dumb thing flaps around in the trunk. I had to put velcro stickies on it to stop the “thump, thump, thump”.
Also great for the little ones who might lock themselves in your trunk on a hot summer day. Five young kids died that way a few years ago here in Utah, and this is a good way to prevent that.
Does it works with trunk closed with double lock ? (or how its called, the function that activates on second press of lock on remote and dectivates all the handles and other physical means of unlocking/opening doors )
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if you don’t you’re going to see a red 9000 coming down the cul-de-sac!
My NG had one just like that, glowed and everything, but it was just T-shaped instead of mushroom cloud-shaped.
It shouldn´t flap around in the trunk. If someone has pulled it out of position from the grey “clothing” in the trunk so it flaps around in a steel-wire just press the handle back in the clothings little crack. I know since I mount that piece at the trollhättan plant
The handle showed comes only with the US and Canada market.
What is that? I have a 9-3SC and never seen it. Maybe i should spent more time in my trunk?
Heheh, we did have a lot of fun playing with that thing — and we are a bunch of grown-ups! I’ve had my [used] Saab for 3 weeks now, and I love finding out its charming quirks!
Mag-X: They glow in the dark just in case you should get locked in your trunk (or someone else’s) without a flashlight. I know, as a former Boy Scout, I should always “Be Prepared”!
Papluh: Now, that’s a new one on me; I always thought the second press on the remote merely arms the alarm system, I did not realize it “dectivates all the handles and other physical means of unlocking/opening doors”.
Yeah that’s called “Dead Locking” and it’s on European Saab’s only. Doesn’t make it to North America. Not sure why, could be for a variety of reasons. Saab isn’t the only company that has it, nor are they the only company who only has it in Europe, or in not-USA anyway.
I would imagine this would still work though. I don’t *think* dead-locking has an effect on the trunk, though I could be wrong. In any case, this is designed for ‘accidental’ trappage and car-jacking. In either of those 2 cases the car would more than likely be not-dead locked.