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From: Adrian on 29 Apr 2010 13:59 Harry Bloomfield <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> Being a diesel, my car will happily crawl forward with the engine >> idling, so I don't even need to touch the accelerator pedal. > Diesel? > > You can do that with both modern diesel and petrol cars. Modern? I don't think I've ever driven a car I can't do it with.
From: Harry Bloomfield on 29 Apr 2010 14:01 Adrian wrote on 29/04/2010 : > Modern? > > I don't think I've ever driven a car I can't do it with. Most carburettured cars would tend to stall, unless you set a fast tick-over. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: FrengaX on 29 Apr 2010 14:03 On Apr 29, 5:31 pm, Ed Chilada <nos...(a)nospam.com> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:03:34 -0700 (PDT), NKTB > > <north_korean_tourist_bo...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >I put my car into neutral and the handbrake on, just as you do. > >However, there seems to be a large majority who are quite happy to sit > >in queues with the foot on the brake pedal. > > In very slow stop-start motorway traffic, putting your handbrake > on/off and your car in and out of neutral every 10 seconds would get > old very quickly. In that sort of traffic, either I keep my foot on the clutch, or press the auto-stop-cancel button, so it doesn't shut the engine off at all.
From: Adrian on 29 Apr 2010 14:07 Harry Bloomfield <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> Modern? >> >> I don't think I've ever driven a car I can't do it with. > Most carburettured cars would tend to stall, unless you set a fast > tick-over. I think your clutch control might need some practice.
From: Mortimer on 29 Apr 2010 15:28
"Harry Bloomfield" <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:mn.ec757da42b187de5.106911(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk... > Adrian wrote on 29/04/2010 : >> Modern? >> >> I don't think I've ever driven a car I can't do it with. > > Most carburettured cars would tend to stall, unless you set a fast > tick-over. My VW Golf (1800 petrol, 1993) and my Renault 5s (1400 petrol, 1980 and 1988) would not set off from rest with the engine idling and my foot off the accelerator pedal on level ground even if I let the clutch up gently: the engine invariably stalled. These were all cars with carburettors rather than fuel injection. The only time the Golf didn't do this was when the automatic choke developed a fault and set the slow-running control to idle at about 1500 rpm - very noisy when it suddenly did it when I was stationary in a traffic jam! Mind you, a modern VW Golf Mark 5 or 6 with a 1.9 TDI engine is remarkably easy to stall if you don't give it enough accelerator and/or let the clutch in a bit sharply: the Golf is the only diesel-engined car that I've ever managed to stall several times on the trot while test-driving it - very embarrassing! |