I sold my VW Beetle and decided to get a Mercedes SLK230 to run around in during these hot summer days. The Beetle was okay but we didn’t find it that comfortable and even though it had air conditioning it wasn’t powerful enough to keep cool. Whether it was because it needed recharging or the sheer amount of glass in the Beetle letting all the sun and heat through I don’t know.

So I got the Mercedes and as with any car you get I guess you have to get used to things being different.

The first thing that caught me out with it was on returning to the car with bags of shopping I couldn’t figure out how to open the boot. No matter what I did I couldn’t unlock it. We managed to get it open in the end but it was more luck than judgement. It turns out that when you unlock the car with the key fob remote it only unlocks the drivers door and you have to press it again to unlock the passenger door and the boot. I should have expected that really as my Beetle was the same. Must be a German thing?

Now what really puzzles me is that I kept struggling to get the ignition key out. The engine had stopped, the hand brake was on and the gearbox was in park but it wouldn’t let me take the key out. Eventually I did manage but wasn’t sure how I did it so I got the manual out to read if there was anything in particular I had to do to get the key out.

Now here is the puzzling thing. It turns out that even though the engine is off, hand brake on and gearbox in park if you have your foot on the brake it wont let you take the key out? Now why would that be? I’m sure there must be a perfectly logical reason for this but I for one cannot think what it is. Perhaps someone could let me know.

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