EgeWorks Wolfsburg Wizard
602 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
I looked like a big time fool, first cold day, stall, stall stall, can't see through the fog on the windows. Smell like car engine from the heater. I LOVE MY CAR!!!
How long did it take to warm up your vw this morning!! (Melbourne)
mscabrio Cabriolet Queen
2,308 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
This morning was so cold .... 7 degrees ! The days of driving to you with the roof down are gone ! :cry
I remember I could NEVER start my beetle on cold mornings ... So I bought a new one !
I remember I could NEVER start my beetle on cold mornings ... So I bought a new one !
vwombat Hey Ho - Lets GO!
1,218 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
The Germans have this thing called a STANDHEIZUNG which keeps your motor cosy overnight. I think it uses the water cooling system to keep the temp up. Not much help to us airheads! Some of them actually put a funky little gas burner under their motors, but I'm not that game.
Luckily I live in balmy Queensland. Ha Ha!
Luckily I live in balmy Queensland. Ha Ha!
mscabrio Cabriolet Queen
2,308 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
OOPS !!!! TYPO .... I meant DRIVING TO WORK !!!!!!!!mscabrio wrote:This morning was so cold .... 7 degrees ! The days of driving to you with the roof down are gone ! :cry
I remember I could NEVER start my beetle on cold mornings ... So I bought a new one !
Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins
4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·
good ol queensland:bounce
62/60 model bug eye baja bug, (Full Build in Progress)
1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
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1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
2004 Harley Davidson Sportster XL Custom
Lokita Officially Full-On Dubber
260 posts · joined Mar 2004 ·
I'm in Sydney so right in between and my car was pretty unhappy this morning. It started fine- it just didn't want to move anywhere!
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Starbug rustbag
2,408 posts · joined Feb 2003 ·
i wouldnt be going on about balmy queensland temperatures if i were you...
i know cherry hates being woken up to drive to work of a saturday morning in winter. i hate having to go to work of a saturday morning in winter so i know how she feels. im stalling every 5 minutes until about midday!
i know cherry hates being woken up to drive to work of a saturday morning in winter. i hate having to go to work of a saturday morning in winter so i know how she feels. im stalling every 5 minutes until about midday!
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this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins
4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·
u do have a valid point there starbuggy......but we can always make them think we are better off😉 ......yeah it can get to about 3 degrees here in the sticks where i live in the middle of winter....not cool
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1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
2004 Harley Davidson Sportster XL Custom
1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
2004 Harley Davidson Sportster XL Custom
BiX Veteran Volks Folk
2,499 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·
anthiron well I think it owuld be cool:thumb
I have no sympathy for my car, only the wallet that pays for it!
Go hard or go home!!!!
Go hard or go home!!!!
Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins
4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·
ha ha ha....perhaps:P
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1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
2004 Harley Davidson Sportster XL Custom
1974 Chevrolet Luv
1970 MK2 Ford Cortina GT
1979 Yamaha RX125 Two Stroke tracker project.
2004 Harley Davidson Sportster XL Custom
MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth
3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·
Starbuggy wrote:i wouldnt be going on about balmy queensland temperatures if i were you...
i know cherry hates being woken up to drive to work of a saturday morning in winter. i hate having to go to work of a saturday morning in winter so i know how she feels. im stalling every 5 minutes until about midday!
You live at the wrong end of the state!!!! Too close to the Mexicans...........:thumb
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Cruzin in a Golf Wolfsburg Wizard
406 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·
ha ha, you guys are looking at the small picture....what people should do is move north in winter and south in the summer....car gets too cold in winter and too hot in summer, learn from the animals! Fly south for the summer and north for the winter. My car had a little bit of a splutter on start up this morning with choke out on full!
<hr>"I choose to Cruze VW Golf Mk1 Style!!!"
68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --
11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
Volkswagenwerk designed the automatic choke on the solex carby to help You start the car immediately, and drive away immediately... none of this rev the guts out of the motor before You drive away.... it doesn't do the engine any good either.. sitting and revving... You are supposed to drive away on the auto choke....
it gets to below Zero on some Winter mornings here... & over night... not looking forward to it.. then not looking forward to 40+ degrees Next Summer either...
and I agree with moving North in the Winter & South in the Summer.... many retired people do just that... 6 months north & 6 months South....
Lee
it gets to below Zero on some Winter mornings here... & over night... not looking forward to it.. then not looking forward to 40+ degrees Next Summer either...
and I agree with moving North in the Winter & South in the Summer.... many retired people do just that... 6 months north & 6 months South....
Lee
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---
lugnuts Custom Title Time!
1,070 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
Hmmm 6mths north and 6mths south the worst of all compromises (ducks for cover and lurks til this thread dies) 😉
Cruzin in a Golf Wolfsburg Wizard
406 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·
Thats useless anyway when my car is a golf diesel...so i dont rev the guts out of it, just sit and wait for it to warm itself...it was right after about 10 seconds.68AutoBug wrote:Volkswagenwerk designed the automatic choke on the solex carby to help You start the car immediately, and drive away immediately... none of this rev the guts out of the motor before You drive away.... it doesn't do the engine any good either.. sitting and revving... You are supposed to drive away on the auto choke....
[Edited on 20-4-2004 by Cruzin in a Golf]
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65busser Moderator Custom Title Time!
1,795 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·
What's the difference between sitting and revving and driving and revving on a cold engine? Isn't it kind of accepted that you should allow the engine to run / warm up before taking off. Different story for modern engines.
I think the developers of the automatic choke would like to have come up with something that allowed us to drive off immediately. It would have sounded good in the sales brochure, but I dont know.....
I think the developers of the automatic choke would like to have come up with something that allowed us to drive off immediately. It would have sounded good in the sales brochure, but I dont know.....
MickH Hairy Gutted Sloth
3,389 posts · joined Sep 2003 ·
I think the developers of the automatic choke would like to have come up with something that allowed us to drive off immediately. It would have sounded good in the sales brochure, but I dont know..... [/quote]
Yeh...they wish they had put fuel injection into use a little earlier. :thumb
[Edited on 20-4-2004 by Mick H]
Yeh...they wish they had put fuel injection into use a little earlier. :thumb
[Edited on 20-4-2004 by Mick H]
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65busser Moderator Custom Title Time!
1,795 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·
I'm sure their hearts were in the right place. Hey Lee, when was an automatic choke introduced on a Volkswagen?
Peter Leonard Moderator Volatile
1,456 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·
auto chokes are a great way of helping to wear out your engine prematurely. sheesh. just sit for a minute while it warms naturally (no reason to rev the crapola out of it), then drive it nicely for the first couple of minutes. be nice to your leedle dub...
let sleeping dubs lie
pickle Slammed & Awesome Dubber
99 posts · joined Jun 2003 ·
Whats up with you lot, you don't know what cold is................ Try running a split camper over here when its snowing and the thing had twin carbs and no choke 😠
never had to many probs over here in the winter just normal vw type stuff like no view outa the front screen 😎
just drive em gentle till they get warm and everything will be fine.
never had to many probs over here in the winter just normal vw type stuff like no view outa the front screen 😎
just drive em gentle till they get warm and everything will be fine.
vwombat Hey Ho - Lets GO!
1,218 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
Well done old Bean! That's put us Convicts in our place now hasn't it!
"When I was a boy, we had to push our 21 Window 15 Miles through the snow just to get to a service station".
Don't take me too seriously! Others have lived to regret it!
"When I was a boy, we had to push our 21 Window 15 Miles through the snow just to get to a service station".
Don't take me too seriously! Others have lived to regret it!
Che Castro ankle straps
1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
hehe i havent ever had cold start problems so i'm lucky.
if you read the users manual that comes with the car from the factory it says it is designed to be driven away straight away.
there is the argument that driving it straight away will warm it up quicker which reduces wear. The choke is there to compensate for icing in the carb in cold and/or humid weather. The choke should be adjusted so it more or less matches the weather so the mixture the engine receives during warmup is just richness to compensate for the icing.
chokes arent necessary if you have dual carbs because the manifolds are only inches from the heads. Its the damn stock manifold that suffers from icing problems.
if you read the users manual that comes with the car from the factory it says it is designed to be driven away straight away.
there is the argument that driving it straight away will warm it up quicker which reduces wear. The choke is there to compensate for icing in the carb in cold and/or humid weather. The choke should be adjusted so it more or less matches the weather so the mixture the engine receives during warmup is just richness to compensate for the icing.
chokes arent necessary if you have dual carbs because the manifolds are only inches from the heads. Its the damn stock manifold that suffers from icing problems.
Jon
Y2K Wolfsburg Wizard
500 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·
Mick H wrote:You live at the wrong end of the state!!!! Too close to the Mexicans...........:thumb
He he he ......im a mexican but i class myself more like a queenslander. But it still gets cold here in winter. Gets down to about zero most mornings.
But then again i only have to put my ass in my heated seats and all is good......mmmmmm gotta love technology. :P:thumb:thumb:thumb:thumb:thumb
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2007 Passat Black shaggin wagon
1955 Beetle white VWOVAL
1956 Kombi, rusty n lichen
65busser Moderator Custom Title Time!
1,795 posts · joined Nov 2002 ·
Lee's right!
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fish Wolfsburg Wizard
584 posts · joined Apr 2003 ·
No choke, no pumpin the gas, just start and drive to the surf, no problems. Ahh queensland bootifull one day purfect the next. ah!!!!
vwombat Hey Ho - Lets GO!
1,218 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·
Yeah, there may be a lot of rednecks up here,
but at least we've got that!
Surf's up Dude!
but at least we've got that!
Surf's up Dude!
Flying VW Wolfsburg Wizard
680 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
In the Winter my Baja never warms up.
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