GT won't start!?!


paint the kill switch optical orange ... that way you see it and remember before you give yourself a heart attack cranking away at something.

stuff I dont use very often I color index so when the colors align ... everything is just fine....

hey ... it works. :wink
 
SuperB said:
So I go out today and take off the cover, slide the key it, turn it, and the start button does nothing!

Radio is fine, windows go up and down so it's not the battery, (I have lots of battery experience:wink).

I know the GT keys don't have a code or battery or whatever, but I figured, maybe they do. So I tore up my place looking for the other key, no dice, still won't start.

15 minutes later, I'm covered in sweat and cursing.

THEN, I push in the clutch and she starts right up!

Stupid Tesla doesn't have a clutch and I'm so used to driving it now that I forgot! :willy
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arent you glad, this time it didnt cost anything to fix :lol
 
SuperB said:
Now I need a RHD car just so I can experience that one. :rofl
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my brother had a Fairlady Z - proto of the 240z and RHD...

Downtown Chicago one night, in front of Mothers on Rush and Division, car in front of us stops IMMEDIATELY - we tapped her.... Light turns green, moves two feet and stops again hard - tapped again by us. Happens one more time!

Drunk sow in front of us gets out - come screaming over to the "drivers side" and proceeds to scream at me. I laugh in her face which fires her up even more! Cops come over - she is yelling at them about my driving - I'm now histaric!

They arrest her for driving a vehicle under the influence - let us go.............

:cheersHere's to RHD cars and forever being careful when passing a car on a two lane road.......
 
EFFER-MAN said:
could have been worst if it was like an older car and it had started and you would have lunged into the wall or garage door....
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Oh, you mean like my son did when he tried that and my freshly restored '65 Mustang Coupe jumped forward into the doorway entering the house?? I only had to have the hood, bumper and valence straightened and repainted.....
 
I feel for you Brian. I had a similar stupid car starting experience last year on the race track in Homestead. I was driving my Lotus and spun coming off the back stretch, barely missed the inside wall. I came to rest inches, no millimeters from that wall. Those that have driven there know what I mean. Well, I stalled the car in the spin and couldn't get it started again. I just kept turning the key and turning the key...nothing.

Well, that brought out a full course yellow as they towed me into the paddock. When I managed to regain my composure, I got in and started the Lotus right up. Seems I had forgotten to push the "start" button in my adrenalin induced mental state after the wall encounter.

Note to self, always turn key and then PUSH start button. The Lotus won't start with a key twist any more than a Ford GT will...
 
You should send Ford a thank you letter...

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/corvette/corvette_20040820_003.shtml
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/corvette/corvette_20040820_002.shtml
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/corvette/corvette_20040820_001.shtml

I was standing just a few feet away from this car when this occured. The driver of the car threw the keys to his buddy (passenger) and told him to "fire it up and warm up the engine" while he relieved himself on a nearby wall.

His buddy got into the passenger seat, reached over and inserted the keys into the ignition, turned over the engine without realizing the car was in gear, and the rest is history. The 'Vette drove under my friend's Accord (on the roof of the 'Vette) and carried both cars straight into the back of my other Friend's lifted Sierra (note the damaged hood on the Accord.) The impact actually pushed the Sierra forward about two feet.

As sad as it was...It was pretty funny when the cops asked "who was driving." LOL...They didn't believe anyone when we told them the story.
 
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Unless I am mistaken, all modern cars like this Vette, will not start unless that clutch is depressed, or the auto-trans is in P or N. So how could this happen?

We can thank the Audi suit for this feature.
 
BlackICE said:
Unless I am mistaken, all modern cars like this Vette, will not start unless that clutch is depressed, or the auto-trans is in P or N.
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And some cars with automatics ALSO require one's foot be on the brake as WELL as being in N or P B4 they'll start. (Wife's BMW is wunna 'em.)
 
Empty Pockets said:
And some cars with automatics ALSO require one's foot be on the brake as WELL as being in N or P B4 they'll start. (Wife's BMW is wunna 'em.)
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Sam is going to get all excited now!
 
BlackICE said:
Unless I am mistaken, all modern cars like this Vette, will not start unless that clutch is depressed, or the auto-trans is in P or N. So how could this happen?

We can thank the Audi suit for this feature.
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That was my understanding as well. I don't know how in the world it happened and I heard rumors that the owner of the 'Vette was going to investigate that with GM. I never heard what happened about it though.
 
Empty Pockets said:
:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl
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Ok, with all these rofl's do you think the last one is a few milliseconds behind the first one. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Lifes important questions.

John
 
JCSB said:
Ok, with all these rofl's do you think the last one is a few milliseconds behind the first one. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Lifes important questions.

John
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HEY!!! I "paused" there in the middle for a short-short!

Lighten up! :lol
 
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