"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/03/2015 at 17:59 • Filed to: Starting
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/03/2015 at 17:59 • Filed to: Starting | 6
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Suppose you find yourself parked outside a bar in rural France in your tired Peugeot 205, having discovered that it has no lights-on warning and that having forgotten les feux you now have a flat battery? Fear not, you have a manual car.
Step 1: return to bar, identify elements of the Auxiliary Starting System (ASS), to be seen propping up said bar. Select likely looking elements.
Step 2: attach ASS to, er, ass end of car
Step 3: turn ignition on, select second, haul out choke, press clutch
Step 4: engage ASS (conveniently voice-activated)
Step 5: wait for ASS to achieve maximum performance
Step 6: engage clutch, accelerate. Car starts, ASS automatically disengages and returns to bar storage area
Step 7: drive home
but
Step 7a: put back choke too early, stall engine going downhill
Step 7b: haul choke out again, engage Gravity Operated Auxiliary Starting System
Step 7c: drive home
Luken10
> Cé hé sin
03/03/2015 at 18:04 |
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There has been several times I have push started my car like this. Total life saver and time saver compared to finding someone to jump you.
Plus you kind of feel like some mechanical bad ass when you do it.
OkCars- 22k Crossroads
> Luken10
03/03/2015 at 18:17 |
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And when i bought a beater with 2 friends (one is here in oppo they refer to him as the japanese text guy) The clutch cable was gone and we always started on 1st gear. The ignition moved the car forward, and from then on we just changed gears by feel.
RallyWrench
> Cé hé sin
03/03/2015 at 18:23 |
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A procedure honed by experience, I'm sure.
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> RallyWrench
03/03/2015 at 18:28 |
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Indeed.
duurtlang
> Cé hé sin
03/03/2015 at 19:14 |
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Interesting.
My 1988 Peugeot 205 doesn't have a choke and does have a lights-on warning.
505Turbeaux
> Cé hé sin
03/03/2015 at 19:34 |
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well, you can pop start my Invicta wagon with the Dynaflow too, and above procedures would apply
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> duurtlang
03/04/2015 at 04:40 |
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That's a fancy, upmarket one. "My" 205 was absolutely basic. You had to open the window to adjust the (one) door mirror.
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duurtlang
> Cé hé sin
03/04/2015 at 10:33 |
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Seriously? That's sad. Coincidentally one of my two internally adjustable side mirrors was recently crashed into by, probably, a cyclist. It had to be replaced. I sourced a mirror assembly from Ebay, a new one, and it was less than €20 including shipping. I replaced it last Sunday.
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> duurtlang
03/04/2015 at 10:44 |
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I actually updated the car in the week that I borrowed it! I saw a scrapyard nearby and picked one up for something like €20 and it had an adjusting lever.