Another reason for dumping it was that if you were foolish enough to put
your bag of groceries in the passenger seat (where else would you put it in
a TR6?) then you were faced with a serious case of noise and a good deal of
laughter and mocking from the Mustang full of teenyboppers sitting next to
you at the red light.
Joe
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From: 6pack-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:6pack-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Robert Lang
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:13 PM
To: michael lunsford
Cc: 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [6pack] Warning buzzer
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, michael lunsford wrote:
> UH??? There must be a reason no one I have ever seen with a 1970 TR 6 has
an
> operating ignition warning buzzer. As a matter of fact I didn't know mine
> even came with one. I have to reiterate Kevin's question "why the HELL
would
> you want that buzzer??". Inquiring minds want to know.
Actually, if you look in your original owner manual, there should be a
section on the seatbelt interlock system... I can't recall if my 70 had
one, but I know the 74 did.
A lot of folks disabled / removed these back in the day because they felt
that wearing a seatbelt was a waste of time or too restrictive or too BIG
BROTHER (How dare the GOVERNMENT TELL ME WHAT TO DO! Usually right before
the SPLAT on the grill of an 18 wheeler, I might add).
But it turns out that a more common reason to disable them was that in
certain contitions, the seat belt interlock would be blamed for no-start
conditions and other electrical problems - not that a TRIUMPH would ever
have an electrical problem, I might add. But one or two no-starts 'cause
your seat belt wasn't fastened and most hairy chested males would have had
it with that stupid buzzer. And out it went!
I won't say whether there's a correlation between botched seat belt
interlock repairs and fire / smoke from the dash though. That'd be a
stretch. NOT.
:-)
rml
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