That's an awful idea. Yes, the crank and engine will not let the car move unless its on a big slope but really is it that much of a trouble to just pull a small lever that takes 2 seconds and make sure that your car wont fucking move no matter what?
I'd say it's mostly a protection for the catalytic converter. Bump starting always poses the risk of getting unburned fuel in there which can seriously mess up the cat if burned there.
I wanted to ask something: Will this thing with pressing V stay? I love being able to press it to turn a car off when desired. The only thing that annoys me is when a car is turned off, it will restart on its own. At some point I was able to turn off a D-Series permanently and then restart it when desired though.
Then try to use handbrake in cold winter and in the morning try to move the car.... Breaks are sometimes frozen (contact surfaces of breaks) so your wheels are stuck (at least on my old crappy car).
Many people do it here actually. Maybe it's just a German thing, googeling "handbrake or leave in gear" gives a lot less relevant results in English than in German. In driving school I got told "put in neutral and pull handbrake" though. My mom does it since 30 years and never had a problem. But yes, electrics could fail and make the engine trying to start...but that's not too likely. Exept in winter where you could the freezing problem mentioned above using the handbrake is always the safer solution though I guess.
It's what I've been told. --- Post updated --- Maybe it's because the road conditions are safer for that over there
even a 9 year old can push a clutch, especially on the hatchbacks that we have, the pedals are really light and easy to push. All these things happening to protect the catalytic converter and emissions (Rev hang, No bumpstart) and etc is just making life harder. Surely the odd bumpstart every 4 years when your battery is flat to get going to the battery shop isnt going to harm the environment
i suppose it depends on the height of the child, my 9yr old sister starts the car before school to heat it up, we just taught her to waggle the gear stick, as the car we have doesnt have this "feature"
Ive never heard of unburnt fuel in a N/A car in the exhaust still possing a threat to the cat for an after fire. And if i gave some gray matter into it i could come up with a few reasons as to why it doesn't make sense, but i've been awake for 12 hours now. And i had no idea that some people would rather leave it in gear instead of parking brake for the sake of avoiding icing on the brakes. I live in south america and it never even snows.
Any backfire event combined with heat of the cat can cause ignition in the cat. Bump starting can also cause this misfire as is. Burning in cat even if quickly extinguished damages cat
yeah, but is an after fire even that likely in a N/A low power car? unless the car is tuned its not gonna provide so much fuel that there will be unburnt excess in the escape manifold, and considering that they have to already be ignited to even go through the exhaust it seems like something very unlikely.
