The forum software suggested these threads. So it's possible to get a pain under certain circumstances. I doubt my handles are defective. I think I just got caught at a pinch point. I think my fob batteries just came from the factory with low battery life and they're struggling to perform properly. I'll have them checked when I bring my car in.
In other news, apparently this thread will never die so I figured I'll keep posting in it to keep it at the top. Why not? We'll see how many pages we can get. I'm shooting for 17. I know, lofty goal. But I think we can do it if a few more people get irritated. Who here has feathers that are currently unruffled that would be okay with some ruffling?
And plastic bags? And soda? I mean. Really. Right? Geez. Both of them? Hmm.
The one caveat I must make is that my son once pinched his fingers. I think the sequence was he quickly got his hand in while the door was only partway presented and managed to get his finders inside the door a bit. There's a back plate that is flush with the door when the handle is presented, but while it's only part way out you can actually get down into the door between the back plate and the outside of the door. The handle finished presenting and actually pinched his finger causing many tears. After 21k miles this only happened once and I think it is only possible with some very quick movement and serious goofing around..
I agree with both observations from this thread - usually it hasn't hurt me, but in some corner cases maybe a little:
If indeed the finger(s) get caught partially while it is retracting, it can feel a lot more forceful than it actually is - once it nibbled at my finger tips a little and it hurt. I guess in this scenario the handle has reached "maximum" energy while closing and the fingertip, moving upwards, doesn't provide enough of a counter, so the soft tissue on the head of the finger gets pinched (and may give the sensation that you just avoided something bad happening, although in reality it was as bad as it could get).
In other news, apparently this thread will never die so I figured I'll keep posting in it to keep it at the top. Why not? We'll see how many pages we can get. I'm shooting for 17. I know, lofty goal. But I think we can do it if a few more people get irritated. Who here has feathers that are currently unruffled that would be okay with some ruffling?
And plastic bags? And soda? I mean. Really. Right? Geez. Both of them? Hmm.
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