Weird tricks to cars ?
This is a thread about tricks you can do to cars. List the things you could do to your car to make something work when it was turned off, etc. Here's mine that I recall.
As a kid growing up, during High School golf season, our school provided Ford LTD's for us to travel to meets. We would cram 6 boys, a coach and 7 sets of golf clubs into a 73, or 74 or a 75 Ford LTD. When the meet was over and we were awaiting the team &individual scores of the meet, first guy back to the car jump in the driver's set. Coach would not give us the keys, so you could put your foot on the brake, wiggle the 4 way flasher just right without engaging it plus turn on the radio. Boom, music, you have the radio on to listen to the tunes you could find. You let your foot off the brake, you had to start it all over again. Finally he started to let us have the keys after finding out what we were doing. Somehow the flasher and brake lights would short / overload it's way over into the radio in the steering column and work. We found out just tinkering with it one day, early in the golf season, not knowing it would happen. Just being kids, things boys do when bored. |
You can bypass the solonoid on a 1960s Mustang by crossing two screwdrivers that are touching the wires on either side of it. It'll create a spark and start the car without a key.
Given that there was no lock on the hood, it was a pretty easy car to steal if you wanted to. You just had to find one where the doors weren't locked. Not that I stole a car, mind you. My dad restored Mustangs as a business, so we occasionally had to move cars when we didn't have the keys. |
Never tried it, but have seen it mentioned all over that cracking an egg into a leaking radiator will plug it up for a short time
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I drove my Triumph Spitfire without a starter for about six months. Maybe a year.
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They still shouldn't have started. Crank sure but not actually start. No power to the coil. That should come through the ignition switch I'm thinking |
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An old roommate of mine used to have a Triumph Spitfire... he spent waaaaaay more time out in the driveway working on it than he ever did actually driving it
That thing was ALWAYS broke down |
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I tried that with my GTI once when the battery was dead. I guess modern vehicles don't like it. |
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I wasn't keen on doing it myself. It would spark and crackle, and I don't like holding metal objects that are crackling with electricity. |
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Because they have Triumph refrigerators. LMAO To this day, I still miss that car though. But yeah, daily inspections were routine. |
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Modern cars have to have at least a little juice in them to push start, but ive done it quite a few times |
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Heh, all my tricks would be about getting out of a jam when something breaks on top of a mountain when you're 20 miles from the nearest road or something similar. It has involved things like bailing wire, duct tape, hi-lift jacks, axes and using things in the area like dead trees and rocks. I have had to MacGyver a lot of things over the years.
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