We are looking to refresh one of our SUVs. Everything seems to be going push start - which scares me for several reasons:
1) key fob battery death - leaving you stranded. Apparently with most vehicles there are hidden keys and slots. Ok. 2) needing to perform an emergency engine stop at highway speed. Apparently you can hold the stop button for three seconds (which I might add can be a very long time and a long distance at 70mph!) 3) that brings us to 3. Assuming the engine is forced to stop at highway speed. How do you: a) put the vehicle into ACC mode so the wheel stays unlocked b) attempt a restart of the engine (while shifted to neutral) while the vehicle is still moving from previous engine momentum? Although this may seem trivial. I’ve had 2-3 instances over my 20 years of driving where I’ve either had to dead stick a vehicle into a service location because of a broken component that died at highway speed, or another engine issue. In all cases, having to stop the vehicle to attempt an engine restart would have caused me to get stranded rather than arrive at a location where the vehicle could be serviced. #20YearsWithoutNeedingATow -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
