Why would you emergency shut off the engine? That sounds absolutely suicidal.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 1:40 PM Matt Hoppes < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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