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Old 01-16-2016, 10:00 PM   #21 (permalink)
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I feel like I am missing a message. How do you move a car using the starter? Clutch interlock, starting a car without holding down the clutch?
Clutch interlocks are easily disabled though. My Jeep is designed to start in gear, you just have to pull the fuse marked 'off road'.

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My Toyota pickup had a big button on the left side of the dash marked 'CLUTCH START CANCEL.'
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I feel like I am missing a message. How do you move a car using the starter? Clutch interlock, starting a car without holding down the clutch? When my brother was a kid, my sister left him in the car when she ran inside the house. My brother kept turning the key and the car dented the garage door.

With my Prelude, I once wondered what happened when I held down the accelerator instead of the clutch. Funny how it simultaneously started and started moving. Then my clutch went out and I needed to figure out how to get it to my mechanic.

I cannot do that with my Civic, though.
It takes a manual, at least I never tried to do this with an auto gearbox.
Press the clutch, select first gear, release the clutch, start.
Do not touch any pedal when starting, and certainly not the accelerator pedal. That would only choke the engine or make the car jump forward when it does fire after all.
In a life and death scenario you can also use second to make a quicker getaway, but it puts larger stresses on the components.

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