EOC Question - what did i do wrong?

[Doofus McFancypants]

Thanks guys.

Last night after work i keyed the car to ON and sat there for 60 seconds to see if there is indeed some kind of a timeout - Nope - fired right up. This AM waited 2 minutes - fired right up.

MetroMPG - yes i was releasing it in 5th and staying there. I will try what you have outlined. This AM i did try key-starting it ( just to prove that i could as a last resort) worked fine

Daox - absolutely agree with you - i did not note in my initial post that i had lest work early to aviod the high traffic time so i could "play" with it. I have skipped opprotunities where i felt traffic was a little to thick - afterall this is a rather large car and no power stearing is VERY noticable ( ok - not compared to some of the larger cars/trucks - but it actually suprised me)


When faces with this occurance again - my action plan shall be to
- key car whole way off
- restart with key and drive on.

Thank you for your help here - once again - this forum ROCKS!!!


Steve

[MetroMPG]

Hey Doofus! (Sorry. You picked the name, though.)

Any more news on this? Have you been continuing to develop the technique?

[Doofus McFancypants]

Over the past week or so - i have not run into the event again.
I have successfully EOC'ed for a total of 1.5 miles to work and 1.7 from work ( so total of 3.2 miles out of 24 mile round trip.

I believe i was not keying the car into correct position - and thus the engine did not kick on.
( other wise known as User Error - or adjusting the Nut behind the wheel)

I have been doing the partial clutch engagement to start engine then clutch back in and then re-engaging the gear.

Thanks everyone for the assistance with this.. I look forward to saving even more fuel with this technique.

Steve