Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:53:17 +0000 (UTC) From: azbnospam.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen) Subject: Re: 2001 saab 93, ignition cutoff?
In article <MPG.1fd521de958b9b6bce0nospam.individual.net>, Elder <carl.robsonnospamcing-czechs.com> wrote: >In article <ekc017$1dpo$3nospamoron.nerim.net>, farrisnospam.org says... >>Not sure what that means - how do you run a car through the gears if it >>won't start? If it is not starting at first, but then does finally start, >>it sounds like you are not looking at an anti-theft device, unless you >>closed and re-opened the lock system in your efforts to get it startted. >> >> >I'm thinking auto box with reverse gear or park ignition lockout that >might have gone bad? That sounds very plausible. I had a car a few years ago (Reliant Scimitar) which did that when the engine was warm. Best way to get it to start was to either wait for it to cool down or to open the bonnet and pour a couple of pints of water over the transmission casing :) I'd recommend taking a look / getting someone to take a look at the adjustment of the transmission selector linkage. It sounds like it's just a touch out, with the inhibitor switch getting triggered when the selector is in neutral. >No experience with autos directly, but don't they generally have some >kind of lockout to stop the car shooting away when started? Certainly there's usually a lock-out to stop you starting it in drive or reverse - that's been fitted since the start of the 70s (going by the Scimitar, which was October 1970). -- Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)
