Car Stalled in gear moving

[Dustin]

Hello,

I had the most bizarre thing happen to me today. I was putting around in traffic, and went to put the car in Third.

The car stalled, I immediately pushed in the clutch and let it back out to get the engine going again. This is where it got interesting. It didn't. The car was dead, and was slowing down instead of the engine starting up like normal.

I had to turn the key off, and then re-start it using the starter while moving at 15mph. That seems odd for a manual car.

Has anybody else experienced this? I'm used to older, simpler cars that you could push start. This almost seems like that's now not something we can do.

Just curious.

 

[Eric Smit]

that is very strange, but I might have an answer; when the car dies, it takes a minute before you can restart it. I bet if you would have tried to bump start it again when you turned the key it would have been okay.


-Eric Smit

 

[Dustin]

I'd rather not have to find out, but again I'm used to my mid 90s Japanese cars that could be restarted just by bumping the clutch again.

 

[Bogus]

A minute really? That's retarded.

 

[kevindaniels63]

It's probably a safety feature.

 

[Eric Smit]

not a literal minute, sorry. like 3-5 seconds.


-Eric Smit

 

[Bogus]

So the MT has a downside after all!

 

[$ub$onic]

Is that after you stall it ?

 

[Eric Smit]

yes.


-Eric Smit

 

[$ub$onic]

That is odd haven't ran into that yet.......

 

[kevindaniels63]

I did a few times when i first got mine when i went from an 07 satun clutch to this one. If it wouldn't start on a roll the first time I would turn the key off and then hit it again and have no issue.

 

[River_Rat]

I guess you could call it a downside: When you negligently kill the engine, it will take a few seconds to get it started again. I think the purpose is to increase the embarrassment of the driver that stalls in traffic, at least that's what it has done for me.

Also, the Sonic will take to a bump start.

 

[$ub$onic]

My wife has stalled mine in traffic and I've never seen a delay

 

[River_Rat]

must be a 1.8 thing. the delay is not long, I'd say closer to 2 or 3 seconds, but it feels like forever when you're the retard backing up traffic.

 

[$ub$onic]

I can see that.

 

[Bogus]

hahaha I can imagine. I only stalled a couple times in my life at stop signs and red lights.

 

[Swordsmith]

When I first got the Sonic I stalled it several times. Wasn't used to the gearing, so different from my F150, and the engine was silence of the lambs quiet so I couldn't hear it protesting, I'd slow from 75 down to 25, forget to shift out of 6th, and kill it. Never had any problem starting up again, bump or key, seems to me it would do it right away, or at least as soon as I noticed it was dead, often by wondering where the responsiveness went and then glancing at the tach.

Only time it was embarrassing was coming up an offramp towards a toll booth and a big semi behind me having trouble slowing while I dropped to a crawl not realizing what was wrong. Still started soon as I downshifted.

No trouble hearing the engine now, by the way. Passengers, yes, I have trouble hearing them sometimes, but not the engine.

 

[Leverus]

My wife has stalled mine in traffic and I've never seen a delay

This is my first stick, so I stalled it in traffic more than a few times. I can't say I ever noticed a delay either. I'd gotten pretty quick at grabbing the key and turning it too.

 

[Swordsmith]

There is a lockout, I recall reading about it, if you turn the key and get a fail to start, you can't start again for a brief interval. I have never had this happen, even running with one bad injector and a not dialed in tune and running E85 on a very cold day (which does add up to stalls, but never added up to a fail to start). Anyway, I can imagine that this somehow affects start after stall as well, I just don't think I ever had it happen to me.