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Surprising things you learned about the SC long after buying it

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Old 01-17-19, 09:27 AM
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Here in the Great White North, all of our windshield fluid is good to -40. Just have to make sure the old stuff is diluted enough.
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Great thread and I love the humorous ones as well!
Old 03-18-21, 06:23 AM
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I seat belt my leather luggage in the back seat placed vertically on each side. A bag for me, a bag for my wife. Allows us to tour with top down. The leather bags match the caramel interior perfect. It looks bespoke.
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Here is one feature i found, when parking the car at night and locking the car the headlights stay on for a preset time, you can turn them off by pushing the lock button on the key fob, if you are like me you want to make sure they are off before locking the garage
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should say push the off on the key fob twice
Old 03-18-21, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Silver23
Here is one feature i found, when parking the car at night and locking the car the headlights stay on for a preset time, you can turn them off by pushing the lock button on the key fob, if you are like me you want to make sure they are off before locking the garage
Do you have TechStream ? If you do, you can turn the headlights 30 second delay off. I did for mine. It saves your battery.
Old 06-03-21, 07:52 AM
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I just bought a 2002 SC430 red with black interior and 88000 miles, its a great car and fun to drive. The only problem is its impossible to get a wind screen for the car.
Old 06-03-21, 08:49 AM
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Cabriolet is a wind screen we have on our 08? Cabrio parts. The love to drive wind deflector did not fit as well
Old 06-12-21, 07:35 PM
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wow, read thread from end to end. Saved the longer ones and hope I remember the others.
Old 06-12-21, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by jimisbell
wow, read thread from end to end. Saved the longer ones and hope I remember the others.
It’s quite interesting, isn’t it? I learned many things from this thread. Thanks the OP.
Old 06-14-21, 08:57 PM
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I have the original GPS disk in mine and wanted to do the "override" But the link to the video no longer works. Is there another source?
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Not sure what do you want? What video?
Old 06-14-21, 09:28 PM
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In an early post it was explained what you have to do to over ride the GPS not allowing you to change settings while running an the sequence was stated to be in the video link, but no one actually said what that sequence to get to the hidden menu was, just that it could be seen in the video. But that link no longer works.

Post #152 is where the video is mentioned.

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Old 06-15-21, 06:42 AM
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Originally Posted by jimisbell
In an early post it was explained what you have to do to over ride the GPS not allowing you to change settings while running an the sequence was stated to be in the video link, but no one actually said what that sequence to get to the hidden menu was, just that it could be seen in the video. But that link no longer works.

Post #152 is where the video is mentioned.
Oh, that override. There is a sequence that will take you to hidden screen. I can’t remember how. May be someone can. After you get the hidden screen, just follow the instruction in post #153. Never mind the video.
Just curious, why would you want to use the factory map? It’s outdated, no live traffic, not user friendly, @nd on top of that, the screen resolution is like a 1980 computer.
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Because it has the over ride capability. I have a 15.1 version and can put it in if I am going on a trip to the inner cities where all the changes are. But even the latest version is 5 years old and things have changed in the past 5 years.
On a long road trip it is often nice to be able to put in a new destination on the fly and the long road trips are when the old versions are OK.
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