Hi Roland,

I agree with everything you say. Before '86, when the headlights, at least, became automatic with the ignition switch, I've forgotten them and required a jump start ('83) because that soft chime was too easy to ignore, its sound having become associated with the Volvo, rather than the warning it was meant to give.

Then that same year of change made it hard to lock up the car without the key, so there was no longer the prospect of staring into a locked car to see the keys hanging from the ignition switch!

One bad habit I've never been able to kick is putting the key in before the seat belt is fastened. If the lights-left-on buzzer was its only function, I guess it wouldn't be so easy to become inured to that sound.

My 79 has no chime, but two separate buzzers, and still, I have walked away from that car with the lights on.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

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