Luckiest Day Of My Life!!!! Thank You God!

[Dragon18]

well i finally bought my car after 5 months of waiting to import etc i got one from here

nice 180sx 95 model with afew light mods =0

so its 10 at night and iam leaving my girlfriends place

so i say good by give her a kiss and goto press the disarm button on the remote but i dont! i press the remote start button by accident

my car starts up and starts moving preety quickly might i ad.

so my g/f goes OMG ! THE CAR so i start running for it try to open the doors they are lockedd

drag onto the car

dosnt stop

so the car manages to get half of it self onto the lawn of the foot path missing 5 trees by 10 cm

gets off the lawn 1 meter till it hits the main rd

i manage to press the right button while draagging onto it and running aftter it and it stops

1 meter from the main rd with about 10 cars camming its way

all i can sy is thank you GOD!

THANK YOU SOO MUCH!

taking it tommrow to take off remote start =)

after that i noticed when i was driving i didnt pay much attention to it when i first bought the car

but when i was driving home after the great incident i was checking to see if my wheel alinment was straght so i put the steering wheel straght and it went straght but i noticed that when i was driving the steering wheel wasnt actully perfectly straght it was slighly to the right a fraction.

so if i did put it dead straght it would go towards the left a little bit.

but if i left go of the wheel and let it go straght the car goes straght but the steering wheel is actually a fraction to the right.

now i wanted to ask ? 1 was this already there and i didnt notice it from the start i think so =)

2. is it the steering wheel, if it was taken out and put back in wasnt put in the exact same spot? (its a standard steering wheel with airbag)

3. could of m car going on the footpath a little bit put out the wheel alinment and steering alinment =)

let me know what ya think guys thanks =-)

[Merli]

Firstly, DON'T LEAVE THE CAR PARKED IN GEAR. Well you can, but you risk that happening, and you can't use a turbo timer.

Secondly, get a wheel and steering alignment done, it'll fix up that steering wheel.

[japwpn]

i fitted a remote start to my car and the guy who fitted it made a point of talkin me into buyin a neutral safety switch cost $50 from autobarn basicly if the car in gear it wont start. plus on my alarm system i need to have the h/brake up so im protected 2 ways!! and its already payed for its self last week i left the car in gear after movin it a few meters forgot that it was in gear and tryed to start it by remote all i can say is im glad i got it and payed the $50

and it works!!

[inark]

lmao.... u ricers and ur remote starts

for gods sake whats so hard about turning the damn thing on with the key? lol

anyways... u are definately god damn lucky funny as hell story tho (only cause it didnt end in tragedy )

reminds me of the person who went to Jeep and got it installed in their brand new Jeep... did the same thing... left it in gear but it ended up plowing into a colid concrete wall rofl.

[Shell]

hahaa very lucky Dragon18!

i don't really get this remote start thing...i mean, why does the car take off if you've only turned the engine on and no one's touching the accellerator? :confused:

am i missing something....

hmm, blame the blonde hair

[akeenan]

are they autos? when a car is put in drive the wheels start to spin if its not an auto im confused as well.

[BigAl]

It's not rocket science, get in your car, stick it in first and crank it over (handbrake off, feet off the pedals) The car will lurch forward and start and travel forward at idle speed. BTW an auto will not start in gear, they have a neutral (or park) safety switch standard.

[Silver-Arrowz]

What happened to the handbrake?

Now your car has 8 lives left (provided the other owners haven't used some themselves). Use them wisely.

[Champinco]

yeah im relctant to know as well. hand brake??? if its manual??

how much is it to get installed im interested. nb: i already have an alarm with immobiliser on the same key fob.

[Dragon18]

not sure was from auto barn =)

but i will goto auto barn and get that thing install $50 buckz

i shit my self and yes the hand break wasnt all the way up too

[fatz]

hahahah thats funny shit

my 33 had that until i lent it to a mate. told him ten times not to park it in gear

he came back the next day with a new front bar form me lol

parked it behind a car and auto started it and it drove into the back of the next car

pete

[Guest nismo_trip]

There is a solution that wont cost you $50

Dont need these wizz bang gizmos

Just use your key

[dAVE]

my remote start if set in for a manual car, will only let you start it if it knows the car is in netural. The way it does this is - after the turbo timer has shut the car down, if a door is opened, it will not work until the car is runnning again.. this just means that if someone opens your car and puts it in gear without u realising, then u wont start it in gear. However, mine is set for auto, so I can start whenever - i never leave my cars in gear.

[BigAl]

It's a good idea not to leave your car in gear . That way, if somebody shunts it you don't risk damage to the drive train as well as panels

[predator]

I'd disable that man.. sounds dangerous! remote start is illegal in VIC.. basically law in VIC is if you're not in the car in can't be running - yes b.s. but true.. That means a turbo timer is also not allowed here either unless u sit in the car while it times down. Useless facts of the day

I'm always tripping my alarm on/off switch in my pocket.. so you wanna watch it with something like a remote start.

[SS8_Gohan]

hey Dragon18, good to hear that you finally got the 180 u've wanted for soo long!

but didn't u get one imported thru Craig? i think i remember u putting pictures up about it a little while ago.. :confused:

[hippy]

i don't think u are lucky .. .more like unlucky for almost having it happen!!!

[rb26dett]

how would the car continue travelling?? if the accelerator is not applied, wun that mean that the car wun have sufficient power to drive the car? wun the engine stall??

and if it stalled, wun the engaged gear stop the car from moving??

[2rismo]

rb26dett, have you never been in 1st gear at idle with the car driving slowly down the road????

of course it can do it... if it was a slight hill, it would pick up speed downhill....

[two40]

Originally posted by rb26dett

how would the car continue travelling?? if the accelerator is not applied, wun that mean that the car wun have sufficient power to drive the car? wun the engine stall??

and if it stalled, wun the engaged gear stop the car from moving??

wun do you mean?