XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 22 Jan 2024 13:31:09 -0500, Clare Snyder   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:02:43 -0500, micky    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>My rental car, and likely the next cars I own, have a digital or touch   
   >>or whatever control interface. That is, there are no mechanical buttons   
   >>for most things, like 5 buttons for preset radio stations.   
   >>   
   >>That's fine except for one thing.   When I see someone walking by and I   
   >>need to ask a question, I can't hear him or even myself until I turn the   
   >>radio down, and that takes 6 seconds, using the Volume Down button the   
   >>steering wheel.    By that time he's gone or he's losing patience with   
   >>me   
   >>   
   >>Is there some Mute button on any of these car radios, or should I plan   
   >>on installing my own in my next car?**   
   >>   
   >>Also there are news stories I won't listen to, like the recent story   
   >>about the report on the shootings and murder of little school children   
   >>at Uvalde Texas. I listened once and that was too much and then they   
   >>went on for an hour it seems.  To know when the topic had changed, I had   
   >>to turn the volume up, 6 seconds, and down again, 6 more seconds.   
   >>   
   >>My current car, the 2005 Toyota, has a "digital" radio but they left the   
   >>volume control.  One flick of the thumb and forefinger, less than a   
   >>second to put the volute to mute or undo that.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>**I had to make iirc 7 modifications to my current car.   
   >>  1) a button on the so I could open the trunk while the car was running   
   >>and without the fob (which is hard to use when in the ignition and would   
   >>not work when the car was running.)   
   >>  2) crush the beeper that beeped whenever the car was runing and my   
   >>seat belt wasn't on and the door was open, or something like that.  All   
   >>I know is it was very annoying and my life was better once I got rid of   
   >>it.   
   >>  3) cut the wire the top motor that prevented raising or lowering the   
   >>top when going over 8? mph.  I've been doing this for over 50 years and   
   >>only the last 2 cars had this rule.  I only do it when leaving or   
   >>arriving home and going under 10, or when hurriedly putting the top up   
   >>in the rain, and going under 15.  I know enough not to do it at 40mph or   
   >>I'll ruin my top, probably the mechanism too.   
   >>  4) I know t here were 3 or 4 more and I always have trouble   
   >>remembering all at the same time   
   >   
   >What's wrong with just turning the radio off? Takes about 1 second   
   >That said, their is a mute button on the digital radio I installed in   
   >the truck   
   >The 2014 Sorento has a muter buttonon the steering wheel   
      
   I've looked at buttons from both sides now,   
   From up and down and still somehow   
   It's button illusions I recall   
   I really don't know buttons at all   
      
   If there's an on/off button, I haven't found it.   
      
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