Minis have an electronic key. If the various unknown precursors to running don't exist it won't start. Could be the starter actually spinning is needed, but we don't know.
But fuel injection is likely as well. We have an old Chevy S10 pickup as a yard dog at the nursery where I am working. You can't get it to start rolling down a hill. I blame it on the fuel injection system. It starts fine otherwise, but sometimes I just want to roll and pop it. On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the only car group I know. So pardon the off-topic post. > > > > A young kid with a minicooper flagged me down to jump start his car. I > told him, I’d be happy to if he could figure out how to use my 400V pack…. > > > > Then I asked, well, have you tried just rolling it and popping the clutch > to get it started. He looked at me with blank stare. I smugly said, sure, > it’s a stick shift, so we just get it rolling and pop the clutch and it > will start. > > > > It wouldn’t. Then I began to realize, that all the cars I have done this > with in the past DID NOT HAVE ANY CPU’s in them. IE, all you have to do is > get a spark, not power up and entire network of computers before the motor > will even begin to consider the “starting process”. > > > > So is this true? That we can no longer pop-start a modern car with a dead > battery? > > > > My son (too cheap to buy a new battery) still does it frequently with his > pre-cpu Geo-Tracker, in fact we just did it last week. > > > > I’m just too old for all these newfangled hurdles… > > > > Bob > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/ > attachments/20160818/8d076b7c/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ > group/NEDRA) > > -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Mobile and Google Phone [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160818/e8414a22/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
