How did I miss this hidden feature?

[ORRadtech]

If the fob battery is dead and you put it in the cup and now you can start your car it is putting a charge to the battery even if just enough to start the car. Just saying what the book said.

No, it doesn't say anything about charging the fob battery. It says that you can start the car with a dead fob battery. The exact term is escaping me right now but it's an RFID type thing.

splitting hairs.

Not really. Saying that inserting it and it will charge is incorrect. You can't leave it there and expect the fob to lock/unlock the car. The slot is simply a way to get the fob chip close enough to the sensor for it to be read. Like tapping a chipped credit card against a terminal.

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[Journey GT 435]

Have ever tryed to brake a side window of a car? The key fell out of my jacket pocket and when I came back to the car I couldn't get in. I could see the key sitting on the drivers seat. The car was my 2005 MKZ. No cell phone. But full coverage insurance. I found a near by brick. So I smacked the window. LOL nothing. I HAMMERED the window, still nothing. The brick started to brake apart, still no luck. Beating in a downward stroke many times, no luck. I started to notice that the window was starting to slide down. Five or six more strokes of the brick and I could get my finger tips on the top of the window and was able to pull it down far enough to reach in and get my keys. Never did brake the window. Marked the hell out of it and like I said full coverage paid for a new one at no cost. Those side windows are TOUGH!

 

[Journey GT 435]

Like I said splitting hairs. Who cares.

 

[ORRadtech]

Says the guy who beats his car with a brick

 

[Journey GT 435]

The idea was anothe hidden feature.

 

[13GetThere]

So it's for sunglasses huh.
I thought it was where you stashed your smoke so the cops couldn't find it (I sure as heck couldn't) and I just didn't have a need for it.

 

[dclement]

Now that's funny. I too had overlooked that drawer. I must say that in the French manual, it's described as "tiroir à verres" (glasses drawer, but as in "drinking glasses" -- same word). So I told myself, it must be another cup holder of some kind, and I didn't even bother to open it! I eventually came across the English manual, and realised my mistake

 

[Skye]

My center console doesnt lock

The Security Package option includes the locking center console.

Coupes without the option, the console will not lock.

IDK if a locking console is standard with a vert or not.

Many of the break-ins in my area are smash and grabs. Someone in a hurry leaves something in view. Or in Winter, the entire car unlocked and running.

The console is nice, another hurdle to pass the crook might not have been aware of. While I've not attempted it myself , quick use with a heavy pry bar will probably break the lid right off the hinges.

 

[jcm3]

I ordered a owners manual because there wasn't one in the gloves box only to find out when it came that there is a hideing spot above the glove box. And there it is, now I have two.

That's where the owners manual was when I bought mine. I couldn't find it and reached out to them and even they didn't know where it was. Doh!

 

[Decosse]

The was a long thread back in 15?16? about all of the hidden features and easter eggs in the car. Can't find it now, maybe someone knows where it is? When I first got my 16, my bedtime reading was the owners' manual. I wasn't sure I had one, but that yellow tab in the glovebox got my attention.

 

[ModernSVO]

Spare magazine cubby.

 

[ORRadtech]

Spare magazine cubby.

Sure, as long as you don't need it in a hurry...

 

[13GetThere]

ModernSVO and ORRadtech both have good ideas/points.

OC spray if you can't carry in your State.

 

[blankman]

It was also a nice find that the steering wheel is telescoping. I am exmilitary and we were tought to adapt and over come, not to play hide and seek.

This exactly. I found the lever for vertical movement. Figured there was another lever for telescoping, but couldnt find one. Low and behold when I was cleaning my interior the other week, I moved the wheel down to clean and accidently pulled on it. Immediately thought, wow I'm a f'ing idiot.

 

[Farkel]

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