mysterious red button
Dec 24, 2006 | 05:21 PM
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From: Baton Rouge La
mysterious red button
I just bought my first corvette, a 75 and found a red button in the windshield wiper compartment. Maybe this is a stupid question, I don't know, but what does it do?
Dec 24, 2006 | 05:36 PM
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From: Fort Worth TX
Probably a valet switch. My vettes don't have one.
rg
Dec 24, 2006 | 06:44 PM
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I think it's the self destruct button -- push it and see
That should be the seatbelt non-start override button. Another better idea from your friends in the government.
Dec 24, 2006 | 06:50 PM
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Easy button!!??
Dec 24, 2006 | 06:59 PM
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In my vette the red button engages the flux capacitor.
Dec 24, 2006 | 08:37 PM
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HEY .......DEAN.............WHAT THE HECK..............is behind your seats ?
looks like the cabin of the space shuttle............
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Dec 24, 2006 | 08:42 PM
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Easy button!!??
Dec 24, 2006 | 09:30 PM
Drifting
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Naw it's the button for the ejection seat.
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Dec 24, 2006 | 10:39 PM
Melting Slicks
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The red button on mine "arms" the main guns...no, wait, that was my other ride...
Dean, he's got a '75, I didn't think the flux capacitor's came out until 1985?
Okay...not that we've been much help to this point but if you could post a pictue it might help us ID it.
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Dec 24, 2006 | 11:31 PM
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"windshield wiper compartment" ?
Dec 25, 2006 | 01:55 AM
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That should be the seatbelt non-start override button. Another better idea from your friends in the government.
Dec 25, 2006 | 02:32 AM
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DON'T PUSH THE RED BUTTON!
Dec 25, 2006 | 02:37 AM
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427SIXPACK
HEY .......DEAN.............WHAT THE HECK..............is behind your seats ?
looks like the cabin of the space shuttle............
THAT'S THE THAI VERSION OF GPS NAV..............YOU MUST CARRY..............YOUR OWN SATTELLITE..............WITH YOU!!!
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Dec 25, 2006 | 12:22 PM
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If it's on the passenger side, it might be a start button. Beware. I pushed mine and thought the car was going to launch.
Dec 25, 2006 | 01:12 PM
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Pushing the red button will expose the entrance to the Bat-Cave
Dec 26, 2006 | 01:46 AM
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Quote:
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2TONE82
Dean, he's got a '75, I didn't think the flux capacitor's came out until 1985?
You are correct but my Vette is a
N ot
C orectly
R estored
S tingray
Dec 26, 2006 | 07:22 PM
Burning Brakes
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From: Mesa AZ
only way to tell is follow wires to where ever they go.
Dec 26, 2006 | 09:41 PM
Melting Slicks
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That sports almanac is totally useless now
Dec 27, 2006 | 02:00 AM
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Our 16 year old had an orange button on the lower dash of his BMW 528i that didn't do anything. He rigged it to turn on the neon under his car. I advise against this, even if you are 16. (He got a GTI for Christmas, no neon).
Dec 27, 2006 | 09:02 AM
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Resets the theft alarm, if memory serves. Get an owners manual and it should tell you.