that's a truck so it needs a truckburetor, not a carburetor
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Wash your hands after you truckburete
We got the best carburetors in the galaxy
Dude, I can fix that for you. Trust me, it's supposed to idle at 3000RPM!
I had a 3000 RPM idle once on my car (efi, not carb) and I was happy that day.
We'd spent weeks replacing the engine. High idle was from cracked intake plenum but at least the car finally ran again. Plenum crack got stuffed promptly and then it idled normally.
I just got a car that shuts off when stopped. I hate it. Especially when you stop at a stop sign for a second too long and it shuts off then you hit the gas and it hesitates because it has to literally start the engine before moving.
I rented a Rogue in Vegas for a week. Every damned stoplight, ac slowly gets warmer, actually starts putting out warm moist air. Some of those longer lights out there were miserable. I finally found the button and made it stay on and spent that extra $0.97 on not being miserable.
I think its just a bad car. I have a volvo xc40 and it starts right away and takes off in less than a second. No hesitation. It's a fuel car, not electric.
Same, Honda CRZ (it's like a Prius but it doesnt make you hate yourself) and I dont have any delay on quick-starting the engine.
It's a hybrid but the electric part is just KERS, so I only fuel it up, I don't charge it.
I haven't seen one where this can't be disabled as a setting. Assume you've checked? If not imagine someone has found a hack for this.
Some cars, like mine, only allow you to temporarily disable the start-stop system, and it turns on every time you (fully) start the engine.
In my car specifically, if you manually turn the system back on, for whatever reason you have to reach a minimum speed of 10km/h before it works.
My guess is because it has to check again if your car’s state meets all the requirements for it to engage. It takes a combination of factors for the car to allow start-stop to engage (engine temp, battery health, A/C, etc.), and if you just turned it on again after it was disabled, it need to get to a certain speed to be able to recalculate.
It seems unnecessary, they could just have its user-set switch as one of those factors rather than forgetting everything upon disablng it.
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I have been renting a lot of cars lately. The hybrids do the best job because hybrid. The gas cars can be hit or miss. A jeep renegade I rented did ok except that sometimes it would auto stop, sometimes it wouldn't. You had to be stopped and the. Push the brake a little harder to engage.
I have a Volvo and if you stop at a pace other than very gentle, it will shut off the engine before you've stopped moving. That one is annoying.
Got a newer Volvo as a loaner and the baby hybrid system in them is FAR better. You can't even really hear it start up. I believe it doesn't have a traditional starter, you hear almost nothing when you start it for the first time. It just kind of goes from being off to running without any sound or vibration. Very weird but kinda cool.
Each system is a little different, some are not very good, others you don't even notice.
Two things: firstly, 48v integrated starter generator vs 12v starter. Secondly, newer cars I believe memorize where in the cam rotation they shut off so they can ignite almost immediately if the conditions are right.
I have that hybrid volvo and it's amazing, I never even think about it. It just works. If someone wants to test drive, it's an automatic xc40 with b4 engine.
A jeep renegade I rented did ok
You must've gotten a good one.
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Every car I've ever driven with such a feature only shuts off when in neutral and you let go of the clutch. For short stops, I just stay in first gear and keep the clutch pressed.
I have an automatic and it shuts off when I just brake until it stops. Then I just release the brake and it starts. Very easy.
yeah, I just anticipate when traffic will start moving and let off the brake enough that it starts but doesn't roll a couple seconds before I think I'll need to go
Same, but I'm the only person I know who still drives manual cars.
I bought a car in December that does this. Literally all you have to do is let off the brake wait half a second to 1 second and it starts right back up not a big deal. Just maybe you know have a slight bit of patience in your driving.
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Or your points are shot because of that cam you stuffed in the engine and then decided to not go with electronic ignition.
Smack the fuel tank half a dozen times with a sledge hammer, the fuel filter is probably clogged.
Can confirm, I just did this yesterday.
Don't do this. If you unclog the filter the next stop for the junk you knocked loose is the engine.
Fuel filters are cheap and easy to replace.
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Been a while, but this can also work on the starter. Just a suggestion, keep the hammer weight under 2lbs.
Preferably with a rubber head
Oh shit, 1000%!
You just reminded me that I have a rubber mallet, that needs to go in the truck..
I had 82 Chevy Malibu station wagon in the early 90s while in college. The thing would start like a champion on the second turn, NEVER the first.
Which was fine except the contacts on the solenoid started sticking when it was below freezing. It would sit there and run the battery down unless you jumped out reached underneath with something heavy to knock the solenoid loose... Get back, now being the second try, it would immediately start like a champ...
Did that for 3 months before I finally changed the starter.
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