> But suppose you have a *very* old car. You might have to unlock one door, reach in and pull up a button to unlocked the back door on that side, the run around to the other side and unlock that door and reach in again for the other back door. (With a car that old you may have to turn a crank to lower a window.) Long armed people used to open the driver's side door, get in, and then unlock the other three doors from the inside.

My car is like that, and it's a 2000. I wouldn't consider that *very* old. We got a good deal on it, probably because it didn't have any of the fancy "options."

> Sometimes I really miss my old 1980 Subaru wagon. You had to use a key on that one and there were cranks on the windows. A system like that seldom fails. It cost my daughter $110 just to get her remote door locks reprogramed. That's the cost of progress.

Our first car was an '87 Honda Accord with crank windows. One day the window crank mechanism on the driver's side front door broke. We couldn't get the window to go up or down, luckily it was all the way up when it broke. I seem to recall it costing over $200 to fix. I should add that whenever *anything* broke on that car, it usually cost over $200 to fix. Foreign parts and all.

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