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Originally Posted by Arragonis
What are the advantages of bump starts over conventional ones ?
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Conventional starting wears your starter motor and key ignition, bumping wears your clutch, but less than normal daily driving, especially city driving. You can reduce ignition wear with a start button. I think the really difference is in electrical load: a starter motor takes so much current that everything else (for example lights) gets dimmed/turned off for a second. Bump starting does take away some momentum, but that can be minimalized with practice. The power drain from using the starter has to be made up for with the alternator and I'm willing to bet that would take more power from your forward movement than a bump would.
Also, in a multiple EOC-starter-accelerate-EOC-starter-accelerate-... sequence the alt wouldn't charge the battery enough for more than a few starts.
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