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Locked in Car for 45 Minutes after Electronics Failure.

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Old 02-14-2012, 10:31 PM
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Locked in Car for 45 Minutes after Electronics Failure.

A frightening experience for a family locked in their Porsche :-

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/w...215-1t580.html
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Guess its a good thing I drive a Merc :P
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"This is obviously a phenomenon and is in no way a reflection on inferior build quality of the Panamera"

Sounds like Christine.

Porsches don't have lock pins which could definitely be a problem.
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Surprised this kind of thing still occurs. Poor design. A friend of mine from college had this happen to him 20 years ago on Twin Peaks in San Francisco where there are a lot of transmission towers of various sorts. Actually, he was locked out. Back to Porsche, a small defense on their part, this probably could've happened to any brand. Often, this type of system (and many other ones) are provided and designed by tier-1 suppliers. So, if we dug into more details, it probably wasn't Porsche's fault and that supplier may have supplied similar systems to other brands. All of whom were scrambling to fix it...
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This is not that unusual!

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