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I appreciate it when engineers add functional features to cars (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/cars@lemmy.world
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I've been in this situation a few times where I have something hanging out the hatch of a car. Often, there isn't really anything to hold the hatch down. But at slightly open positions like this, the handle for the hatch is perfectly oriented to clip a bungee cord on and hold it down.

Is this just a coincidence? Maybe. Still pleased me when strapping it down in the parking lot

I do wish there were actually a hook of some kind, though, for when it's significantly more open. Not that I've actually needed that.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Im not a truck person, but if someone actually uses their truck to haul shit around then that is by definition not a pavement princess.

A pavement princess is a truck or an offroad vehicle that is never used for any of the purposes it was engineered for, like hauling shit or driving offroad.

Also, hauling lumber with a truck is infinitely better than the dumb shit people do to haul lumber otherwise, simply because theyre too lazy to rent a truck for a day. The other week I saw someone with a few 12ft pieces of lumber sticking 6ft up and out the sunroof of their audi a4. Just fuckin rent an appropriate vehicle, its not that hard

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it'd be pretty difficult to haul these 16 footers with a truck, though. calls for a big trailer unfortunately. I think their point is more that people say they need a truck for stuff like this but really it's just not necessary, or even less convenient

    luckily for me I had it just fine with the car, my 7ft trailer wouldn't have helped me lol. although I did consider hitching it up just to ensure my stickout was covered haha

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