My son's Geo, My Ford truck have the same thing in common

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The turbo timer is connected to your handbrake, if your handbrake is put down the engine dies. Even if they manage to get away with the handbrake up (my handbrake very good) they will only have a short time of driving before the engine will die and will imobilise (mine does anyway).

The turbo timer has setting how long you want it on for how hard you was driving, once you turn off the ignition the timer will start. Its funny to walk off and set on the alarm and people stare and sometimes say 'but your cars still running' (mainly females).


skip0110
So it just idles the engine after you take they key out, cycling oil through the turbo until the temperature drops enough?
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Yeah,

Your turbo is almost always hotter than the engine and oil, so you leave it to idle to bring the turbo temp down close to engine temp. This allow the engine and turbo to cool at similar rate when the engine is switched off, also alows the oil to flow trough the turbo which is cooling and stopping the oil from burning (if the engine was off and the oil stationary).
 
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Don't forget that the turbo timer also allows the turbo to slow down. With a turbo that requires on external lubrication, simply cutting the engine off can be disastrous, as you're left with a turbo spinning at thousands of RPM and no means of lubrication. The result: shredded turbo. The timer allows the car to idle long enough to keep pumping lubricant while the turbo comes to rest.
 
Famine
Don't they trust you to disengage the gearbox then?

That's just stunning. I thought you were taking the piss.


The last time I started my car without pressing the clutch pedal was last week. I reached in and started it, put the rear screen heater on, the windscreen blower on full and the intermittant wipers on, then set about scraping ice off the car. It'd have been a bit of a palaver to have to get into the car (especially given the height, or lack of, off the ground and the slope of my drive), press the clutch, start the engine and then have to get out again.
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Apparently in lawsuit happy America, you have to get in to the car far enough to depress the clutch to start it, set your heat and defrost, then get back out to scrape the windows. This after placing the vehicle in nuetral, and insuring the parking brake is set.

Keep in mind that a guy set his cruise control in the Winnebago, walked back to the kitchen area to get a cuppa coffee and (of course) crashed, as the driver's seat was completely un-assed.
He sued Winnebago. He also won a large amount of money, and got a new Winnie to boot.

So, here in America most everything is "idiot-proofed" to the point of absurdity to keep the stupid people among us somewhat safe.
 
Gil
It's my opinion that her issue is that she isn't fully depressing the clutch before turning the key. Anyone else got any theories? (other than "the vehicles don't like her".)
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That's my vote. Is she short, at least in comparison to you lot? I'm sure she's not getting the clutch in enough to close the safety switch.
 
neon_duke
That's my vote. Is she short, at least in comparison to you lot? I'm sure she's not getting the clutch in enough to close the safety switch.
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Gil
Now it is possible that my floor mats prevented the clutch from going all the way to the floor.
Since she is eight inches shorter than me, moving the seat forward may indeed have scrunched up the mat under the pedals.

Now, the Geo only has carpeting, no mats. But the dead pedal is pretty close to the clutch, she may have hit the dead pedal with the outside of her left foot and not pressed the clutch to the floor. It doesn't have near the pedal travel the Ford does. She may have felt the dead pedal and thought she had her foot on the floor...
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So....this means that all the cars outside of the US don't need the clutch to be in when you start it? Just leave it in neutral and turn it on? That's kinda funny. I've only driven 2 cars with a manual, a focus and a toyota pickup, and they both needed to have the clutch in to start. Well, then again, I'm here in California, where we have more lawyers than most nations.
 
Like I said earlier I never start by depressing the clutch (due to leaving it in neutral because the turbo timer) and I havent come across a car that you have to depress the clutch to start.
 
neon_duke
That's my vote. Is she short, at least in comparison to you lot? I'm sure she's not getting the clutch in enough to close the safety switch.
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She's 5' 4" and I'm a touch under 6'. I put the seat all the way back or almost all the way back in all of our vehicles even though I have rather short legs. (31" inseam).
Her height, and my floor mats probably kept the pedal from being able to go far enough to engage the safety switch.

Famine
It's true! In the states we have a surplus of stupid people. They are, however, smart enough to hire good lawyers. And a few of them get rich due to their stupidity.
Only in America do you get one of those cardboard window shades that has sunglasses on the front, and "please send help" on the back. The fine print on the back says, "Do not drive with window shade in place".

There's also the young girl that brought suit against McDonalds because she got fat on their food. I don't think that she won. But that's the kind of crap that clogs the courtrooms here.
 

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