VF Clubbie warnings

[mpower]

Or unlock the car to shut the fuel cap. I just push the shaft back in to close the cover.

that's what i do, probably one of a handful of minor VF annoyances for me.

 

[Smitty]

I finally worked it out , and thanks to 426 CUDA for your sensible reply , as for the rest of you , asking why I want to leave the car with the motor running , well dear brain surgeons , simply to get out and open my gate , with the headlights on , is that a reasonable explanation , or did you all think I wanted to leave the motor running and the air con on , so I could go shopping at Chadstone ?

About 10 years ago, I got sick of that routine.. getting out and opening/closing gates especially if it was hissing down

Paid a man to put in electric gate openers... now? drive up press button on gate control (resides on console) and ya know what?...
they open themselves

Drive in, press control again and they close (did not want to pay extra coin for the autocloser function)
and a bonus with this?

Keep the gates shut when home and this also keeps the Mormons and utility floggers out

 

[Skylarking]

About 10 years ago, I got sick of that routine.. getting out and opening/closing gates especially if it was hissing down

Paid a man to put in electric gate openers... now? drive up press button on gate control (resides on console) and ya know what?...
they open themselves

Drive in, press control again and they close (did not want to pay extra coin for the autocloser function)
and a bonus with this?

Keep the gates shut when home and this also keeps the Mormons and utility floggers out

I like the concept of these GMS gate openers which use a $10/year sim to connect to the gsm network and then you send SMS’s to it to program up to 200? numbers into it.

Then any of those programmed numbers can call the gate and it opens... the call is not answered as it just uses the a number presented by the gsm network to check against its list. and you don’t need to give each person another device to carry around to open the gate... their phone is all they need

Really cheap if you buy direct from China but available at Amazon and eBay though prices are all over the place.

https://www.amazon.com.au/King-Pigeon-RTU5024-Control-Sliding/dp/B07GB2L283

 

[lmoengnr]

I like the concept of these GMS gate openers which use a $10/year sim to connect to the gsm network and then you send SMS’s to it to program up to 200? numbers into it.

Then any of those programmed numbers can call the gate and it opens... the call is not answered as it just uses the a number presented by the gsm network to check against its list. and you don’t need to give each person another device to carry around to open the gate... their phone is all they need

Really cheap if you buy direct from China but available at Amazon and eBay though prices are all over the place.

https://www.amazon.com.au/King-Pigeon-RTU5024-Control-Sliding/dp/B07GB2L283

Probably get caught by the cops, using your phone trying to open your gate....

 

[Skylarking]

Probably get caught by the cops, using your phone trying to open your gate....

There is that... but more an issue if you live on a busy road in the burbs than somewhere up ship creek...

 

[Smitty]

Probably get caught by the cops, using your phone trying to open your gate....

reason why I chose a system with a small (tiny compared to a matchbox) gate control

 

[Skylarking]

reason why I chose a system with a small (tiny compared to a matchbox) gate control

R8 like the VF does have voice control so you can press the button on tne steering wheel and just say “call open gate” then you’d not have to worry about being pinged
But each to their own

 

[lmoengnr]

R8 like the VF does have voice control so you can press the button on tne steering wheel and just say “call open gate” then you’d not have to worry about being pinged
But each to their own

That silly bloody woman never gets anything right, probably dial 000 instead...

 

[mpower]

That silly bloody woman never gets anything right, probably dial 000 instead...

long press and summon Google Assistant on Android for much more accurate SMS and calling