i dont let people drive my car period
the only issue with it is the large turn radius for the size of the car
If I were like held up at a gas station and somebody wanted to take my car, I'd just hand him the keys and tell him, "Go for it." He certainly wouldn't go very far in it lol
Actually wow, maybe I'll do what e-maxx did on instructing someone on driving mine, but I doubt a thief would stick around long enough for me to tell him all this:
For starting the car with a hot engine (temp reading at or above the halfway mark to normal running temperature): You will try to start the car and it will just hum alive and immediately die, but the car is not broken. Well, yes it is. But that doesn't matter, it will still drive...usually. Turn the key and immediately push the gas in until the RPM revs above 1500. Let off the gas and push in the gas repeatedly while trying to simultaneously make it sound like it's idling, but don't hold it at the idle mark. Just keep pushing the gas in and out. In and out. In and out. That's right, keep doing it. After about 15 seconds, you shouldn't have to do it as hard anymore. Push it in and let it out gently a few more times and it should start to regulate. The car will gurgle around while the tachometer flounces back and forth between 500 and 1500 RPM for another 15 seconds before coming to a rest around 1000. Once it reaches the resting point,
DO NOT TOUCH THE ACCELERATOR or the car will quickly die and you'll have to restart the whole process. Next, find a way to waste time. Watch traffic. Text a friend. Get on the forums. You only need to do it for five minutes while the car remembers how it's supposed to behave. After about five minutes, the tachometer will have fallen to around 750rpm. Push the gas in hard and let it surge into the 2000-3000 range before immediately letting off the gas. If you did everything correct, the tachometer should just drop like a rock and stop quickly back in the 750rpm range. If you did it wrong or the car hates you, it will either drop lower than 750 before chugging back to an idle* or it will die again...neither of which is good but at least you can still drive it if the former is true. Anyway, if the idle stays steady, just shift into drive/reverse (the idle should drop a tiny bit on the shift, but that's okay) and you're good to go.
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Instructions for unsteady idle even after waiting: This also applies for sitting at long stop lights, long drive thru lines, rush hour, or simply idling for any long period of time. There really isn't a way to completely fix this unless you let the car sit for hours to let the engine cool down, which isn't always an option. If it does happen and you must drive the car, just wing it and try to escape any road littered with stop lights or low speed limits (preferably 45+mph)**. The engine will get accustomed to the high speed and by the time you do need to stop, it won't be so fluttery anymore.
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If you cannot escape a road with stop lights or low speed limits, this is where you need to use precision. Like, surgical precision, else you could end up blocking traffic somewhere. Do not accelerate too fast and stay well under the speed limit in case you would have to shove the accelerator down. Anticipate red lights and stop signs well in advance and slow down
extremely gradually. Even then, the tachometer will start flouncing around. Once you are nearly at a stop, push the accelerator down slightly but continue braking. Once you are stopped, keep both feet on both pedals (brake full compressed, accelerator just slightly) and regulate the engine at 1000rpm or higher. Clearly, you can't do this forever, so quickly and intelligently find a road where you can go fast without interruptions.
If everything fails and the car dies while you are driving: This generally only happens during those times when the engine is fluctuating and can't hold its idle and you are driving under 40mph or have to stop quickly. It will likely only happen when the car is moving however. The first thing you will notice on engine death is a red "VOLT" light that turns on in the instrument panel, indicating that everything that still works in the car is being run by the battery. You will also notice that the power steering is gone, the accelerator does not respond at all, and the anti-lock brakes have disappeared. But now is not the time to focus on these things especially since you are rolling down the street filled with traffic at ~30mph. Find a place where you can get the car to stop using only the remaining speed in the rolling vehicle. It's probably a good idea to turn on the hazard flashers at this point. Get out of traffic, stop the car, turn the key, and restart the entire process from the beginning. Since the engine is at maximum temperature, you will not get it into a reliable state. Simply get it to a point where it won't die, smack the gas, and find a road to drive fast on for several minutes.
Starting the car on a cold engine: Turn key. Drive car.
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