| Title: | Cars in the UK |
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| Moderator: | COMICS::SHELLEY ELD |
| Created: | Sun Mar 06 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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This is probably a very simple question, so please bear with me.
I have recently bought an old (80) BMW 732 (an automatic). So far
everything seems to be fine, except for one incident. It was about one
week after I got the car and had already driven it for about 100 miles.
When I wanted to start the car, apparently only the electrical system
was switched on. The engine didn't even try -- there's no noise
whatsoever. The radio and lights all worked normally. I tried the
brake. It's stiff. I couldn't move it by anything more than an inch
or so. I switched off the car. The brake was still stiff.
Having other urgent things to do, I locked the car and left. Two days
later I returned and tried. It switched on like a charm. I switched
it off and tried the brake. It moved swiftly. It's been more than two
weeks now. Everything's fine.
It couldn't be temperature because I'm in Hong Kong (25-30 degree C
currently). It's probably not battery because the lights are normal.
Is there any built-in feature or locking mechanism in the BMW 732 which
I unknowingly initiated ? (Rather unlikely for a car of that age)
Since I don't have the Owner's Manual I can't check. I would
appreciate any suggestions.
Regards,
Eddie.
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| 2166.1 | Silly Question but .... | WOTVAX::STONEG | So hard, finding inspiration.... | Mon Oct 18 1993 13:08 | 5 |
as it's an Automatic, it wasn't in 'Drive' was it ? if so then you
shouldn't be able to start it....
Graham
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| 2166.2 | LEMAN::CHEVAUX | Patrick Chevaux @GEO, DTN 821-4150 | Mon Oct 18 1993 13:48 | 8 | |
I've experienced this strange behaviour several times with automatics.
Sometimes I've been able to trace the problem when in a hurry I pushed
the gear lever in P while the car was still moving a little bit. But as
.0 mentionned, usually the engine started when I tried again 1 hour
later.
Something to do with a safety device ?
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| 2166.3 | HGOVC::HGOEDD::EDDIELEUNG | Eddie Leung @HGO | Tue Oct 19 1993 04:57 | 7 | |
Re : .2
You could be right. I was in a great hurry when I parked the car so
I might have pushed it into P while the car was still moving. Don't
know whether I want to do an experiment to test the hypothesis though.
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