Osburn, Chaz
There’s always the chance that the gas you put in the tank was bad. “Bad gas” means the fuel can’t combust as it should. When you put bad gas in the tank, it might createrough idle, stalling issues, or pinging sounds. It could also force theCheck Engine Lightto come on and ...
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When pressing the throttle it hesitated slightly, resulting in an uncomfortable slap in the back that was followed by a mechanical clunk when taking off. Even worse, the Compass was my first and only test vehicle to stall when restarting from its idle stop/start mode. I was waiting at a s...
My 2000 Ford Contour SE, 6 cyl. Sport. Has auto trans. It has a whining noise coming from the engine dept. when revving the engine or when accelerating during driving. At idle, it’s hard to hear, but when driving you can hear it. Also the battery red light comes on when accelerati...
go into reverse, press the nav-screen icon, adjust the green rectangle showing your destination (if needed), center the wheel, and let go of the brake. As with parallel parking, you need to keep the speed down, because if you go too fast - it shuts off and you have to finish manual...
and again are large enough to be operated by people with gloves. A separate stalk contains the cruise control, with up adding speed, down reducing it, and a pull cancelling the control for the moment. An on/off switch on the end of the stalk shuts it off entirely. We have found this...
When a Racecar consumer shuts down, it gets the opportunity to tear down any resources held by the consumer instance. For example, it may make sense to close any open files or network connections. Doing so is simple: just implement a #teardown method in your consumer class and it will ...
To avoid this problem of adead battery, you need to check the battery for a parasitic draw — when the battery gets discharged more quickly because power is being drained when the ignition system is turned on as well as when the ignition system is switched off. You can troubleshoot the pa...
Other than hypermilers, few of us turn the engine off when we stop at a traffic light or when at a fast food drive-thru and turn it on when it’s time to go – and in many older cars it might not even result in real fuel savings. That’s where stop-start technology comes in,...