Starting the car
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Starting the car
My brothers recently bought a scoob and he mentioned the other day that scoobys sound like theyre struggling to start when you turn the key, ive noticed this myself but couldnt explain why. Does anyone know why this is? Is it an attribute of flat fours?
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Mine was exactly the same, mind you I had an Aussie WRX so the battery was a lot smaller than the UK equivalent.
A bigger battery did the trick, but to be honest in the winter it's pretty normal behaviour for it to *sound* like it's struggling even though it's not really.
A bigger battery did the trick, but to be honest in the winter it's pretty normal behaviour for it to *sound* like it's struggling even though it's not really.
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mines fine but every now and then it stuggles, aparently if u touch the accelarator before turning the key it resets the ECU and wont start for something like 10 seconds, might be worth pointing out if you didnt know
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do people still depress the clutch when starting? remember vaguely doing it when I was learning to drive but have never done so since
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Your suppose to depress the clutch, it takes less effort to turn the car over that way (thus not using all your battery power).
Also has another function, it stops you flying forward/backwards incase you left your car in gear.....
I always do this and ive never had any battery problems or slow start problems with my scoobs
Tony
Also has another function, it stops you flying forward/backwards incase you left your car in gear.....
I always do this and ive never had any battery problems or slow start problems with my scoobs
Tony
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Originally Posted by TonyBurns
Your suppose to depress the clutch, it takes less effort to turn the car over that way (thus not using all your battery power).
Also has another function, it stops you flying forward/backwards incase you left your car in gear.....
I always do this and ive never had any battery problems or slow start problems with my scoobs
Tony
Also has another function, it stops you flying forward/backwards incase you left your car in gear.....
I always do this and ive never had any battery problems or slow start problems with my scoobs
Tony
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if you apply the lessons learnt when learning to drive, you should leave the car out of gear with the handbrake applied.
i always do in my car, but depress the clutch, cos you never know what the kids or the mrs has left it when they have been in it
Mart
i always do in my car, but depress the clutch, cos you never know what the kids or the mrs has left it when they have been in it
Mart
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Nope, you take the strain off the alternator if i remember correctly, and depessing the clutch is the correct way to start any car (read the user handbook )
Tony
PS, New Age STi's need the clutch depressing to start them up otherwise they wont start.
Tony
PS, New Age STi's need the clutch depressing to start them up otherwise they wont start.
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Originally Posted by davedipster
Won't this put a loading on the crank on start-up, I've read stories about something called 'crankwalk' on some engines.
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Well your taking the load off the gearbox.
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