• Lovable SidekickEnglish
    0•1 month ago

    Sadly the Duke boys window entry never really caught on as well as obesity.

  • Chloé 🥕
    0•1 month ago

    my uncle on my father’s side is a man, and i think he just turns into goo and goes through the cracks of the door

  • @[email protected]English
    0•1 month ago

    Generally true, but I’ve had to enter my car via the trunk more than once due to the doors freezing shut.

      • @[email protected]
        0•1 month ago

        When it gets really cold my doors have issues. So a few months back I was leaving for work on a Tuesday morning at 2:30am. (Delivery trucks would arrive at 3:30am Tuesdays that’s why I remember). I get in the old 94 Cherokee and back down the drive. As I head down my street I see 2 cop cars stopped at the corner right before the turn I need to take out of the neighborhood. As I approach I brake and start to swing to the right just a tad to make sure they have room in case they got out of the car, and good thing I did because as I passed them MY door swung open and would have knocked the side view mirror off the cop car had I not. The cop just saw me panickingly lean and reach out with my left hand to snatch the door to pull it shut, my seat belt pops open at that moment and I almost fall out of the car but manage to close the door, fight with the seatbelt and take the turn only to continue driving wondering how far I would get before those cops pulled me over assuming I was drunk and when they find out I’m not give me a ticket for I have no idea what. The bars close here at 3am, so drunk drivers are plenty around that time.

        • lime!English
          0•1 month ago

          you probably made that cop’s night

  • moosetwinEnglish
    0•1 month ago

    jump through the window like the american dad intro, now that’ll put some hair on your chest

  • @[email protected]
    0•1 month ago

    No, we do not. Instead we phase through the door and pop out on the other side to get in and out.

    • @[email protected]
      0•1 month ago

      Sometimes.

      Sometimes they even shut by themselves.

      Signed, a Honda Odyssey owner.

      I love having a minivan but there is just soooooooooo much shit that can break expensively. Doors especially.

      My kids are bigger now. Maybe get a real passenger van…or an older minivan where the doors are manual and let out a satisfying KERCHUNK when they are opened/shut.

      • @[email protected]
        0•1 month ago

        You can probably make that happen with yours. When our Toyota Sienna lost power in the doors we decided it was too old to invest that much money into them. It was much cheaper to cut away the cable and disconnect power so they operated just like any manual sliding door

        • @[email protected]
          0•1 month ago

          On my car, the actuator that unlatches the door is electronic and apparently can get “stuck”, keeping the door from opening more than a crack.

          Fortunately this most recent time I figured out how to fix it, by jamming a screwdriver in there and prying it open. But even then I had to disconnect the battery for a few minutes after to reset the door system. Why things gotta be so complicated? Why can’t the latch mechanism be cable driven like, ya know, every other car.

          Also there’s nothing to grab hold of to shut or open the door from the inside. So I think a manual door conversion isn’t possible. But worth looking into for the future.