<ALL>Central lock stupidity and compressed air engine

["Boyd, David (Neighbour Boy)" <boydd@xxxxxxxx>]

Howdy,

Not really relevant to BMW's but I came across this.  I don't know how legit
it is but it looked kind of interesting.
http://www.necnp.org/aircar.htm
and
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?patent_number=5592904

As far as mandatory BMW content -- Last night I got home and while unloading
my car got distracted by my son and realized several hours later that I had
left my car unlocked.  I went outside to lock up and when I locked the
doors, they would immediately unlock.  I tried several times and then
stopped, remembering that I could do damage if I kept trying over and over.
I was just about ready to disconnect the battery, lock the doors manually
and troubleshoot the problem later because it was freezing out and I just
wanted to go back inside and go to bed when I decided to check the
passengers lock.  The passengers lock was frozen up and it took a lot of
effort to physically push it locked.  Once I locked the passengers door
manually everything locked up just fine.

- --David

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