"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
10/06/2016 at 14:48 • Filed to: None
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"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
10/06/2016 at 14:48 • Filed to: None | 1
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Some idiot designed a corvette that was an inflation adjusted 63K car that doesn’t have a buzzer for when the lights are left on. Some other idiot left those running lights on when I got to work this morning. Fast forward to lunch time, and I notice the proximity keyless entry doesn’t unlock the door when I walk up. I soon found out why.
It turns out that we do have a jump start box for our university vehicle, but it is a decidedly smaller one. Even after letting it fully charge, it isn’t quite enough to turn over 5.7L of good compression. I’ll be having a co-worker jump me this evening, which might not be tremendous amounts of fun. Given the location of the battery on the corvette and my not-tremendously long set of jumper cables in the car, I’ll probably have to push the car out it’s parking spot to allow a co-worker’s car to assume the position.
Bitching is now over. I’ll get back to work.
iSureWilll
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
10/06/2016 at 14:56 |
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If manual, can’t you push start?
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> iSureWilll
10/06/2016 at 15:12 |
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It could be push started, but not without some difficulty and some extra people. It’s in a very small parking lot, and it isn’t light. I’m sure I can roll it back 15 feet so with the grade so that it can be positioned for a jump start. Pushing it up and out of the parking lot would be a lot bigger deal.
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iSureWilll
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
10/06/2016 at 15:16 |
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Ah. Pushing up is basically always a no go in a push start situation.
Good luck!
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
10/06/2016 at 17:41 |
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Wow, that seems like a stupid engineering oversight...? No buzzer or warning the lights are left on with a $63K car?
My base model 2009 Hyundai Accent shuts them off no matter what the switch is set to when I take the key out, so you CAN’T kill the battery by leaving them on. My old 2002 Subaru Impreza did the same as well!
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
10/06/2016 at 17:52 |
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Indeed. On cars its age or older, my 91 Legend, 93 MX6 and 88 integras all had a buzzer or chime of some kind. My 91 F150 did not, but my 92 F350 did. When the headlights are all the way on, it is pretty obvious with them being flipped up. With only the running lights it is not as obvious, especially since it is fully light by time I get into town these days.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
10/06/2016 at 23:56 |
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I ended up getting jumped by a coworker without having to push the car out of its parking space. Preliminary battle damage assessment suggests that the battery might have survived. I did the 25 mile drive home, and the car was able to restart on its own both when I got home and a few hours later. We’ll see what happens in the morning.