Today tinkering with the car in my garage I was having difficulties reassembling the door lock /bowden cable with poor visibility and cramped working space and needed to turn the car around to put it back to together.
Since I couldn't technically fully lock the door in place, I found a bit of webbing and secured it to hold the door closed and figured I could risk being on a quiet side street for 10-15 seconds in that relatively safe state whilst doing a 3 point turn to head back to my garage facing the other way.
What I hadn't anticipated was the car wouldn't let me put it in reverse as it couldn't register the door as closed. Each time I selected reverse it just reverted to neutral and pinged a confusing check control symbol whilst telling me the door wasn't closed. Nightmare! By now I couldn't get off the road without turning the car around and was left with no option but to drive some way further and for longer than I'd have chosen with my DIY door closure just to avoid reverse.
A lesson learned but I question the logic of a safety feature that specifically and solely blocks reverse gear :headbang:
Since I couldn't technically fully lock the door in place, I found a bit of webbing and secured it to hold the door closed and figured I could risk being on a quiet side street for 10-15 seconds in that relatively safe state whilst doing a 3 point turn to head back to my garage facing the other way.
What I hadn't anticipated was the car wouldn't let me put it in reverse as it couldn't register the door as closed. Each time I selected reverse it just reverted to neutral and pinged a confusing check control symbol whilst telling me the door wasn't closed. Nightmare! By now I couldn't get off the road without turning the car around and was left with no option but to drive some way further and for longer than I'd have chosen with my DIY door closure just to avoid reverse.
A lesson learned but I question the logic of a safety feature that specifically and solely blocks reverse gear :headbang:
