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How to turn off push button start car?

4 people a year are killed this way. 4 people.

JFC...
 
Holeshot said:
4 people a year are killed this way. 4 people.

JFC...
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plus you’d have to ignore the audible signal when you opened the door (assuming you also didn’t notice the engine was still running when you exited the vehicle and closed the door).

tragic never-the-less.
 
littlebeast said:
plus you’d have to ignore the audible signal when you opened the door (assuming you also didn’t notice the engine was still running when you exited the vehicle and closed the door).

tragic never-the-less.
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there is no "THE audible signal" when I open the door on my Start/Stop car BTW.


(actually there is. But only if I am completely outside of the car, Door Closed, Windows closed and I'm 1 - 1/2 foot away. At which point it's barely audible! The first time I heard about it is when the remaining passengers told me at a gas station.. I usually leave the electrics on, so they can control the windows )
 
Every vehicle that I currently own can be shut off by turning the key counter-clockwise. However, the next one will have the stupid keyless push start/stop feature because that's all they're making anymore. And I'm annoyed about that.

When the Honda S2000 came out in the year 2000, a push button start was a neat new feature, but you still had to turn the key on first - and hold in the clutch. I don't know who first put a toggle start/stop button in, but I strongly dislike ANY switches that toggle on and off. I want a positive on and off based on switch position.

Yeah. :afm199
 
I'm gonna guess that the 68 year old man more than likely came home from the sandwich shop and immediately headed for the bathroom, and then forgot the car was running, and couldn't hear it as he went on to other things...

Bill Maher has a joke asking what is it about the key going in the front door makes men in their 60's have to urinate.
 
ScottRNelson said:
Every vehicle that I currently own can be shut off by turning the key counter-clockwise. However, the next one will have the stupid keyless push start/stop feature because that's all they're making anymore. And I'm annoyed about that.

When the Honda S2000 came out in the year 2000, a push button start was a neat new feature, but you still had to turn the key on first - and hold in the clutch. I don't know who first put a toggle start/stop button in, but I strongly dislike ANY switches that toggle on and off. I want a positive on and off based on switch position.

Yeah. :afm199
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I haven't seen it in a while, but there was a car commercial that showed some young woman confidently, arrogantly pushing her stupid button to start her Lexus/BMW whatever. It's just too much. Who gives a flyin f about pushing a button like a conditioned monkey to get the food release?

I hate it as a concept and as an electronic possible point of failure. I actually like knowing where my keys are at all times and consider the keyhole a good place, not sitting casually on the console or whatever.

PS. I find this thread frightening. The exhaust one could have happened anywhere but that guy and his dog dying in his vette. Too much, man.
 
littlebeast said:
plus you’d have to ignore the audible signal when you opened the door (assuming you also didn’t notice the engine was still running when you exited the vehicle and closed the door).

tragic never-the-less.
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GM has a loud HONK that happens when you shut the door and turn around. Ford's is right as you pass by the engine compartment. I hate it...
 
It sounds like my sister in-law had a transmission fault/error. From what I have read the Pathfinder has transmission issues. I wouldn't be surprised if the car thought it was in drive, but it was in fact in park. Nothing was adding up and the car computer was confused and she couldn't shut it off. Her mechanic reset all the codes and she drove the car yesterday, but he advised that the transmission get checked out thoroughly.
 
I must be in the barf minority that likes the push button start. My car makes several loud chirps if I walk away with the engine running.
I never forget to shut it off but sometimes I’ll run into a store with a passenger.
The fob I always in my pocket, never sitting casually on the console.
 
fuel pump fuse

this happened a few times back in early 2000's when mercedes benz ahem chrysler at the time started doing the keyless start/stop but the fob was still inserted into the car panel
 
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Holeshot said:
Two things are LIFE SAVING in new vehicles w/ solenoid doors: how to turn the pushbutton vehicle off when under acceleration AND how to open solenoid doors w/ out power. There's always a pull handed somewhere.

Solenoid Doors:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...fter-becoming-trapped-inside-corvette-n373316

can't tell you how many times i've seen people lock themselves in the corvettes at the car shows because they see the door open, jump in and shut the door, and THEN discover the car has no power. been guilty of being the one hopping out before they jump in (because i know where the release is). also got yelled at by the cadillac stand because they'd shut the doors on the XLR to keep people out, but left the windows and the top down (instead of like...putting a sign on it..)

Holeshot said:
GM has a loud HONK that happens when you shut the door and turn around. Ford's is right as you pass by the engine compartment. I hate it...
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our Civic beeps at you a bunch if you leave it on.

Johndicezx9 said:
5-6 year old car, maybe the fob battery is dropping off...
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that's my first thought too...with it not wanting to come out of park, it makes me think it's an 'anti carjack' mode, it thinks someone took off with the car running and no key.

fuel pump fuse is a good backup if nothing else is working.
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Love the car show story...let em rot in there!
 
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