Basically how it works. Its the same principle as pull chord 2 strokes. Once the engine is started the alternator can generate enough electricity for spark and more
@@ivoxii Ignition, ecu, injectors and fuel pump all need electricity, and you need the alternator to produce that electricity. Old diesels can run without any electricity, modern diesels and petrol engines need electricity and you wont get far without an alternator. Smaller engines can get away with having only a magneto, but it still generates electricity for the ignition
I was in a supermarket carpark once and a woman asked me of I had jumpleads as her sons battery died. "I don't, but I'll give you a push so you can bump start it". She looked at me as if I was talking a foreign language. He son was too scared to try it so I ended up in the car with them pushing. Got it started, stopped the car and got out. They thought I was some sort of sorcerer 😂
@@rayirth.upside-downThen come back in an hour or so with a new battery replaced and you see them talking to a cop who's taking down the details of the incident.
I had this happen at the supermarket, I asked if the lady knew how to bump start the car. She nodded "Yup sure do". So my friend and I started pushing, we got her up to a speed where the car was rolling faster than we could push (it was down hill) she still didnt start it. I think she thought we were going to push her all the way home. lol. I had to jump in and get her going with my mate and her pushing.,
Technically not true. the problem is you have to get an automatic up to about 25-40mph in gear to get the torque converter to spin hard/fast enough to turn the motor. Really rough on the transmission.
Hahah i live on a hill so i park my car on the side of the road and coast down at 12am. pretty dangerous ngl but defo worked. The problem was parking it back there once i came home lol
I assume you’re not turning the wheels slightly toward the curb so it’s not a battering ram when someone bumps it when parking and then it just rolls down the hill?
Remember as soon as you abruptly let out the clutch to put it back down again so you don’t just start driving straight into whatever is in front of you
I did that once in first gear in a grocery store parking lot. I chirped tires like 15 times in a row half second spacing because the car kept dying then firing back up. Thats when i learned i needed to push the clutch back in right away.
Yeh I'm amazed by how many comments don't know either. It's almost as bad as the recent "Children these days can't read analogue clocks" thing. Do people really not know about jump starting a car?!
@@hateclubhow would (younger) people know about it? It's not something you learn in driving school. So for most people the only way to know about it is if someone showed it to them. (or by watching a video about it. Which makes OPs comment even more asinine) And since modern cars are much more reliable, there are fewer manual transmission and mobile phones made it much easier to get help by professional, there is no reason to assume that the average person knows about bump starting. The last time I saw a bump start in real life must have been around 15 years ago.
Us Americans are becoming dumber every generation. The rest of the world isn’t as lazy as we are. The majority of cars everywhere else have manual transmissions and all know how to do this. They can also change their own oil and jack the car up to fix a flat. We have lost basic skills to laziness and technology.
Yep every driver should know this once we had to push start someone we pushed a few times only to realise they didn't know how to jump start this way lol
@@adamthomas1222not true. If they have a rear pump you can push start them. They’re very old. 50-60s. Some 70s even. A lot of Fords allowed push starts with an auto. It even gave instructions in the manuals. My old merc w123 can do it. Even saw a 2001 Ford do it once.
@@adamthomas1222 works with every combustion engine, push it over its threshold and it‘ll start if ignition is given. Automatic transmission is just harder to push as the clutch is on all time. But turn it over its threshold and the engine will start. I also remember older auto transmissions where you could slightly go out off n but not into d, so you didn’t have to push the brake to get into d.
"Bump start" is apparently another term for "popping the clutch" which is arcane knowledge from the 70s. It was arcane knowledge from the 40s back then.
@@ssimsharp I bet not knowing that countries all over the world are actually paved must suck too. Like if we have cars and computers dont you think we also have roads?
just remember this only works if there is still some charge on the battery. (alternator needs some small voltage to make power, since it's magnets are electromagnets)
You usually dont need to go all that fast. Slowly lift the clutch until right before the bite point, let it grab and then push it back in. Ive jumped cars off of 2-3 Mph before and it's way easier than getting to 5. Definitely recommend 2nd gear like he mentioned
@@leoisherwood4829On my motorbike if i try it in 1st the back wheel will lock up, in 2nd it works first time everytime. Its a real life case of 1st the worst 2nd the best
@@leoisherwood4829like the other person said, more mechanical advantage. But its also safer on your car. If you roll start a car and accidentally get over 25kmh, that’s not gonna be pleasant on the engine.
Straight to the point, demonstration as an example, no words wasted, thank you for explaining it simply, I've always heard about it but I never quite got how to bump start a car
I delivered pizzas for a few months in a car like this. You dont need to push it fast at all once you get the knack. I always parked pointing downhill, or if flat, never with an obstruction ahead. But you can start like this in reverse if you need too.
The old “bump start” 😂 I used to have to do that quite a lot with one of my first cars. It was a pain in the arse but looking back it was so much fun and I have so many memories around it. When a car works how it should it’s obviously better but it doesn’t seem as fun when you’re remembering it
used to do this a lot with my buddy's car who had a bad battery. he couldn't afford a new one, so we did this for probably close to 6 months. he also lost reverse eventually and so we had to push the car backwards out of parking spaces whenever he couldn't just pull through.
Push a car for 5 meters to get a ride, or walk? Ay mate, I'll push the car. That's what all my friends thought, when we had to do this with my Yaris. @@nathanortega3191
I had a non reverse car too, called it the go-forward mobile cos life is about going forward. If I ever got stuck. I popped it in neutral, stuck one foot out onto the ground and pushed back like a giant skateboard till I had enough room to go FORWARD!! That was a Nissan Pathfinder, 98 I believe. It was at just over 500,000 km before the engine finally died. Owned it since 350k or so, for $900. Not bad bang for your buck.
In the states, we call it bump starting. Neutral, give it some speed, put it in 1st or 2nd and dump the clutch. Can be done backwards on most cars as well... but... has a much higher... pucker factor.
I had that too! There is some charm in having your own old car that only you know its quircks. I took care of it and made it nice and pretty. Good thing was that my street went downhill lol.
Just a little advice from somebody who had to fix a couple of VW's because people tried this, if your timing chain is very worn (long ratteling sound when starting) your engine can skip timing 👍🏻
You can practice this by stopping on a hill, turning the engine off, putting it back on ignition (not start), then do the roll by releasing the brake, then releasing the clutch in 2nd gear. Then just replace the hill with your own sweat and keep it in neutral while you push. Don't let it get away from you!
When I had a 1978 1.3 Morris Marina I always tried to park it facing down hill so I could do this when (not if) I needed to. The only difference is that I use 3rd gear and then change to 2nd as it starts easier
Two things: If the car has power steering, make sure the road is straight, 'cause it's a bear to steer when the engine is off. Second: before you just go on driving, make sure that, as soon as the engine starts, you put the gear in neutral, rev up for a few minutes to make sure the battery gets some charge before you go-enough to crank the engine if it stalls-you don't want to have to jump start it all over again a minute later.
@@puerlatinophilus3037don't push it backwards. But if you're on a hill facing up, you can roll up to speed by just letting off the brake. Just make sure you put the car into an appropriate gear for the direction you are travelling. Not gonna work very well if you get the engine spinning the wrong way.
The starter motor on a Honda makes a unique loud sound. I would roll back down our driveway and bump start my car in reverse to sneak out without waking my folks.
A friend used to have an old shape focus which constantly wouldn't start. We bump started it almost daily for him, only to find out about a year later when we were pushing the car he was clutch in and just turning the key ...
@@yogi30303 you don't start the push by making contact at 60mph. The worst that should happen is a bit of scratching on the bumper, but if this is something you need to do regularly enough that you got tired of pushing by hand, then the scratches are probably the least of your concern. As a side note, in some places it is common practice to bumper push other cars for more efficient parallel parking. The handbrake is on so it's not like they're pushing very far, but light bumper to bumper contact isn't some type of cardinal sin.
In Australia (NSW), if you do your learners test in a manual car, this part of the test, although it's called a hill start because ain't no one pushing. (people in below are correct it is a "bump start not a hill start, Our test includes a hill start)
@@rossgirven5163 You're right, a hill start is about showing the car won't stall on you when going uphill. But you can still bump start a car like this by letting it roll downhill.
Just the young rascals! I learned in the 80s, my first car was a manual. It’s sad to see them start dissapearing, but I can’t afford a new car anyway (they’re like $20,000 these days).
I still have my first car! A geo tracker turbo diesel. It didn’t suck back then, but my lack of proper maintenance has made it suck, even though I’ve swapped an engine and repaired a transmission on a barn floor in -18°c
Forgot to mention that it is not recommended to do that to newer cars. That's because the electronics may short or do a bad reset, possibly damaging some components. As i know you should be fine doing this to a 2004> year
It should be said tho, if you‘re battery is crappy, it puts extra strain on you‘re generator (they are expensive) and could even break other electronics of your car, as the battery not only stores energy but also smoothes the voltage of your electrical system. As someone with a motocycle and a car with a big sound system, it‘s still useful to know and i have to do it sometimes. Needless to say, you should still have a working battery, using the technique, if it‘s uncharged rather than skip buying a new one.
@@MrDemi1233 mate, the generator has the ability to toggle the intensity of the magnetic field to regulate how much power is generated. It‘s slow tho. It‘s not to smooth out spikes or other noise. Even this assumes, that you have a regulated generator what most mid-tier modern cars have, but older one and even cheaper modern one don‘t. Hook up an oscilloscope to a running car (especially gas-car) with a new and with an old battery and you‘ll see the difference.
This is so funny. I've had to do this on the fly in trucks amd cars that I was restoring or rebuilding, hell I even had to do it on a motor cycle witch was a blast, lol. It's amazing how much knowledge difference there is between genorations
I had an old Wartburg with a broken starter, I used to start it like that all the time. It was so light I was able to push it enough with one foot out of the door. Especially if I had it facing down.
one of the main reasons I always prefer manual gear box.. This is still actually one of things you learn and are expected to know how to do in Finnish driving license test.
I remember doing this once on a particularly cold day. Engine wouldnt start and I rememy hearing about this trick. Just thought Id wing it and give it a go and it worked! Felt like a genuis for awhile after that lol
Any young lad brought up doing the school run in a lemon knows all to well about this. The worst is when youve got to try it in winter with all the ice and slush. Getting back in the car with soaking feet and having to do a full day of school in a school that at the time was the number 1 school in need of repair in the country in the middle of winter. To say i was cold would be an understatement
We called this "pop starting" back in my day, mostly used it on dirt bikes and quads at the time but yea anything with a manual transmission will pop start
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if your car doesn’t want to start, just convince it that it’s already in 2nd gear
No this is just basic mechanics, make the transmission crank the engine if the starter is out!
Basically how it works. Its the same principle as pull chord 2 strokes. Once the engine is started the alternator can generate enough electricity for spark and more
Gaslight your car into starting
@@johnnymac6242 engine powers itself, doesn't need the alternator, alternator just charges the battery after cranking/using accessories
@@ivoxii Ignition, ecu, injectors and fuel pump all need electricity, and you need the alternator to produce that electricity. Old diesels can run without any electricity, modern diesels and petrol engines need electricity and you wont get far without an alternator. Smaller engines can get away with having only a magneto, but it still generates electricity for the ignition
I was in a supermarket carpark once and a woman asked me of I had jumpleads as her sons battery died. "I don't, but I'll give you a push so you can bump start it". She looked at me as if I was talking a foreign language. He son was too scared to try it so I ended up in the car with them pushing. Got it started, stopped the car and got out. They thought I was some sort of sorcerer 😂
"Don't let them know your next move"
* drives the car away *
@@rayirth.upside-down 🤣
😂😂😂love that
@@rayirth.upside-downThen come back in an hour or so with a new battery replaced and you see them talking to a cop who's taking down the details of the incident.
I had this happen at the supermarket, I asked if the lady knew how to bump start the car. She nodded "Yup sure do".
So my friend and I started pushing, we got her up to a speed where the car was rolling faster than we could push (it was down hill) she still didnt start it.
I think she thought we were going to push her all the way home. lol.
I had to jump in and get her going with my mate and her pushing.,
Yes, it's called bump starting. Useful for when your battery runs flat in the winter.
It also Works in Summer 🥸
And spring and autumn. It's call clutch starting in Australia.
I know I'm old when people don't know what a bump start is.
@@fifty-plus Spring, Summer and Autumn aren't that hard on batteries though! :)
@@bluebob81anyone who rides a motorcycle knows what it is
instruction unclear. I pushed my car through my neighbor's house.
Take it out and try again, make a video show us how long it takes for you to learn that skill.
@@ramizalizada4565 That's what she said
if you have a hand, use it for handbreak lol
hope you have a good lawyer
In India people just ask someone walking by to push while sitting in the car, and the pedestrian casually pushes the car and walks by 😅
I always have so much fun watching that 😁😁
India 😂
Me and my friends helped an old uncle like that the other day LoL.
Most asian country I'm pretty sure
Lol, travel more. Everyone does that
I used to include turning the key, in case there is a little juice left to run the starter motor
most cars dont let you crank the engine with the starter when the clutch switch is not engaged.
@@allsepticboss9632 Older cars will let you do that.
@@leepicgamer3320i think my old astra 2002 started without the clutch
Never turn the key, it wastes power you idiots and can flood the engine.
@@therandomdj124it does, i have a 2001 as a project
Extra points for doing in the length of your driveway.
It’s called a roll start / push start. Will not work on automatic vehicles, can only be done on a manual. Can also be done in reverse 👍
Technically not true. the problem is you have to get an automatic up to about 25-40mph in gear to get the torque converter to spin hard/fast enough to turn the motor. Really rough on the transmission.
Bump start
@@bigdatapimpjust need to learn to push a car at 25 mph before I get an auto I guess
@@AnthemTD haven’t heard it called that before. It’s usually called a push or roll over this side of the world. I’ll add it to the vocabulary 🤙🏽
In the UK it is called a "bump start"
That’s how you sneak off with your parents vehicle at night and not wake them up lol
Hahah i live on a hill so i park my car on the side of the road and coast down at 12am. pretty dangerous ngl but defo worked. The problem was parking it back there once i came home lol
Did that at 16. Pushed from the back. Right into a tree. Lmao
I assume you’re not turning the wheels slightly toward the curb so it’s not a battering ram when someone bumps it when parking and then it just rolls down the hill?
@@Hamachingo what are you talking about? That has nothing to do with anything that was said here.
@@jeremymissens7608he's implying that if you don't want your car repo'd, you gotta pay your car payments in a nurshell basically
Remember as soon as you abruptly let out the clutch to put it back down again so you don’t just start driving straight into whatever is in front of you
duh
i remember i did it like that my first time in my civic, except my foot was floored on the gas not the clutch
I did that once in first gear in a grocery store parking lot. I chirped tires like 15 times in a row half second spacing because the car kept dying then firing back up. Thats when i learned i needed to push the clutch back in right away.
Good man! Also reverse can be easier too
Gotta do it on a long quiet road haha
I remember vividly my dad always needed to park at the very top of a steep hill for this very reason.
As a beginner bike rider, i used to do it on my bike even though the battery was ok. Just because it was fun!
My man just described bump starting as if it’s something new 😂
Yeh I'm amazed by how many comments don't know either. It's almost as bad as the recent "Children these days can't read analogue clocks" thing. Do people really not know about jump starting a car?!
@@hateclubhow would (younger) people know about it?
It's not something you learn in driving school. So for most people the only way to know about it is if someone showed it to them. (or by watching a video about it. Which makes OPs comment even more asinine)
And since modern cars are much more reliable, there are fewer manual transmission and mobile phones made it much easier to get help by professional, there is no reason to assume that the average person knows about bump starting.
The last time I saw a bump start in real life must have been around 15 years ago.
@@Jehty_motorcycle
Jesus Christ I had to scroll way too far down to find this.
Us Americans are becoming dumber every generation. The rest of the world isn’t as lazy as we are. The majority of cars everywhere else have manual transmissions and all know how to do this. They can also change their own oil and jack the car up to fix a flat. We have lost basic skills to laziness and technology.
Yep every driver should know this once we had to push start someone we pushed a few times only to realise they didn't know how to jump start this way lol
But again it only works with manual cars
@@adamthomas1222not true. If they have a rear pump you can push start them. They’re very old. 50-60s. Some 70s even. A lot of Fords allowed push starts with an auto. It even gave instructions in the manuals. My old merc w123 can do it. Even saw a 2001 Ford do it once.
@@adamthomas1222 works with every combustion engine, push it over its threshold and it‘ll start if ignition is given.
Automatic transmission is just harder to push as the clutch is on all time. But turn it over its threshold and the engine will start.
I also remember older auto transmissions where you could slightly go out off n but not into d, so you didn’t have to push the brake to get into d.
@@adamthomas1222so almost every car.
@@adamthomas1222 Only works with petrol engines.
imagine doing UberEats in this car, you'd be jacked in a month.
"Bump start" is apparently another term for "popping the clutch" which is arcane knowledge from the 70s. It was arcane knowledge from the 40s back then.
As a kid in Nigeria, we all natural learnt this method of kick starting cars. 😂
Bet pushing cars on sand sucks
Greece too for many people like me I guess.
@@ssimsharp I bet not knowing that countries all over the world are actually paved must suck too. Like if we have cars and computers dont you think we also have roads?
@@Jamie-cz2xu it was a joke dufus.
As a kid in eighties Britain it was my regular cardio exercise helping my nan get her car going in the mornings!
Bros got that first generation push start😭
I just used to always park on a hill. I still do this sometime when my car battery runs out, and I still park facing down hill when ever I can
just remember this only works if there is still some charge on the battery. (alternator needs some small voltage to make power, since it's magnets are electromagnets)
You are wrong.
I think once the alternator is spinning it makes enough to get the thing going.
Great advice mate. Just failed my driving test. Thanks a lot.
When you wanna impress the instructor
In the US they would just be like yea that's a good skill too have. I'm convinced European instructors take it in the arse for fun
@@clutchbleach2057”iN ThE uNiTeD StAtEs” 🤓 you’re such a melt shut up 🤡
@@clutchbleach2057in the US, nobody learns in a manual, so quite talking shite just because our driving tests have a much much higher standard
@@pb6198how does one quite talking?
You usually dont need to go all that fast. Slowly lift the clutch until right before the bite point, let it grab and then push it back in. Ive jumped cars off of 2-3 Mph before and it's way easier than getting to 5. Definitely recommend 2nd gear like he mentioned
In my experience I never get one started in anything but 2nd gear or reverse (wouldn't recommend) so good shout I'd say.
why second gear? surely if you start in first gear it gives the engine a higher rpm to speed ratio than 2nd?
@@leoisherwood4829more mechanical advantage when in a higher gear making it easier to turn the engine over
@@leoisherwood4829On my motorbike if i try it in 1st the back wheel will lock up, in 2nd it works first time everytime. Its a real life case of 1st the worst 2nd the best
@@leoisherwood4829like the other person said, more mechanical advantage. But its also safer on your car. If you roll start a car and accidentally get over 25kmh, that’s not gonna be pleasant on the engine.
Straight to the point, demonstration as an example, no words wasted, thank you for explaining it simply, I've always heard about it but I never quite got how to bump start a car
This was how I started my old go kart.
I delivered pizzas for a few months in a car like this.
You dont need to push it fast at all once you get the knack.
I always parked pointing downhill, or if flat, never with an obstruction ahead.
But you can start like this in reverse if you need too.
Do you pop it in reverse gear I assume?
@@dy5256nah he put it in 3rd.
What I'd you park on a hill and someone parks in front of you?
@@swankshire6939💀
@@swankshire6939pretty sure it should be 8th??
The old “bump start” 😂 I used to have to do that quite a lot with one of my first cars. It was a pain in the arse but looking back it was so much fun and I have so many memories around it. When a car works how it should it’s obviously better but it doesn’t seem as fun when you’re remembering it
Instructions Unclear, My Automatic Car is rolling off a hill
aye mike i haven’t seen you in so long i used to binge your learning how to vids your awesome bro keep it up
used to do this a lot with my buddy's car who had a bad battery. he couldn't afford a new one, so we did this for probably close to 6 months. he also lost reverse eventually and so we had to push the car backwards out of parking spaces whenever he couldn't just pull through.
That’s some real homie shit💯
Push a car for 5 meters to get a ride, or walk? Ay mate, I'll push the car.
That's what all my friends thought, when we had to do this with my Yaris.
@@nathanortega3191
I had a non reverse car too, called it the go-forward mobile cos life is about going forward. If I ever got stuck. I popped it in neutral, stuck one foot out onto the ground and pushed back like a giant skateboard till I had enough room to go FORWARD!! That was a Nissan Pathfinder, 98 I believe. It was at just over 500,000 km before the engine finally died. Owned it since 350k or so, for $900. Not bad bang for your buck.
In the states, we call it bump starting. Neutral, give it some speed, put it in 1st or 2nd and dump the clutch. Can be done backwards on most cars as well... but... has a much higher... pucker factor.
"Pucker factor" thank you that's a new phrase I'm going to use from now on 🤣
It's called a bump or push starting in the UK too.
Or a jump start
@@widdawoddaa jump start is when you use jump leads I believe
@@_Area-51Id agree, bump start is this, bumping the engine round with the gear and jump start is jumping from another battery
I had that too! There is some charm in having your own old car that only you know its quircks. I took care of it and made it nice and pretty. Good thing was that my street went downhill lol.
Had to do this many times and has come in very handy!
Just a little advice from somebody who had to fix a couple of VW's because people tried this, if your timing chain is very worn (long ratteling sound when starting) your engine can skip timing 👍🏻
I thought the same. Or in case of a timing belt, it can snap, or skip timing if it's old.
Cue the pistons ramming full speed into the valves😢
Would never try it in my old mk7 transit for the same reason. Just not worth the risk
This is part of why you put it in a higher gear and don't do it in first
That doesn't make sense, why would a bump start cause it to jump timing.
You can practice this by stopping on a hill, turning the engine off, putting it back on ignition (not start), then do the roll by releasing the brake, then releasing the clutch in 2nd gear. Then just replace the hill with your own sweat and keep it in neutral while you push. Don't let it get away from you!
Great tip!
Dad taught us this back in gradeschool, forgotten, so thank you for refreshing my memory
This was the only way to start my dirtbike as a kid. It had a kick lever, but it hardly ever worked. The bump start is gold
Bro got that yabba dabba doo package 💀
😂
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
What the fuck are you on about? What language is this?
My man really said:
"Yabba Dabba Dooo"💀
When I had a 1978 1.3 Morris Marina I always tried to park it facing down hill so I could do this when (not if) I needed to. The only difference is that I use 3rd gear and then change to 2nd as it starts easier
I learned this when I watched the karate kid back when I was a child that you can push start a manual if you didn't have the money for a new battery.
Two things: If the car has power steering, make sure the road is straight, 'cause it's a bear to steer when the engine is off. Second: before you just go on driving, make sure that, as soon as the engine starts, you put the gear in neutral, rev up for a few minutes to make sure the battery gets some charge before you go-enough to crank the engine if it stalls-you don't want to have to jump start it all over again a minute later.
It can be done in reverse gear as well, in case you are on a hill pointing the wrong direction.
Called a 'jump start' in South Africa.
That sounds extra dangerous. What if you trip?
@@puerlatinophilus3037don't push it backwards. But if you're on a hill facing up, you can roll up to speed by just letting off the brake. Just make sure you put the car into an appropriate gear for the direction you are travelling. Not gonna work very well if you get the engine spinning the wrong way.
This is the best trick if you have an inclined driveway. No push required.
That's weird, because here it's called a "bump start". A "jump start" is when you use jumper leads to start from another car's battery.
That's how cars in Russia are started incline or not
at one point in time my dad's ignition didn't work so he would just always park on a hill and do this
You can do this with reverse too
Also first gear, maybe if you’re in a tight parking spot like parallel parking
The starter motor on a Honda makes a unique loud sound. I would roll back down our driveway and bump start my car in reverse to sneak out without waking my folks.
Never tried it with a car but I used to do it with my moped when I was 15-17. Cool to see it's doable alone with a car!
Thanks for making my life easier, I start my car everyday using your method 🤩🤩🤩
Well done!!! I leant this 30 years ago without the internet lol
This is officially the first thing thats really made me feel old 😢😂
I was like "That's a skill??" Thought everybody knew this lol
A friend used to have an old shape focus which constantly wouldn't start. We bump started it almost daily for him, only to find out about a year later when we were pushing the car he was clutch in and just turning the key ...
The literal definition of "chaotic neutral"
Your friend was winning daily
I'm glad you're sharing it with a new generation but it's an age old trick. Where I come from they call it bump starting. If your starter has gone bad
Was one of the first things I learned when I got a license as well.
The good old bump start.
Everybody should know this.
Me and my friends used to push with another car to save our legs 😅
I honestly thought everyone did know this...
Won't that damage the car?
@@yogi30303 you don't start the push by making contact at 60mph. The worst that should happen is a bit of scratching on the bumper, but if this is something you need to do regularly enough that you got tired of pushing by hand, then the scratches are probably the least of your concern.
As a side note, in some places it is common practice to bumper push other cars for more efficient parallel parking. The handbrake is on so it's not like they're pushing very far, but light bumper to bumper contact isn't some type of cardinal sin.
@@MattMcConahaI’m never going to drive in Paris
Unless they own a diesel.
Disclaimer: “don’t watch if you are a car thief”
Or american
Won't work without ignition
you would need to get into the car first and turn the ignition switch to the on position.
Well it's to late
Well it's to late mate
I'm really thankful I learned this trick back in the day, it also works on motorcycles.
the old bump start. learned this when i was 12, good to teach those who dont know.
In Australia (NSW), if you do your learners test in a manual car, this part of the test, although it's called a hill start because ain't no one pushing. (people in below are correct it is a "bump start not a hill start, Our test includes a hill start)
Interesting will rember this for my test as I'm Aus
Meanwhile my country removing parallel parking from driving tests.
This is not a hill start.
A hill start is using clutch control to set off going up hill from a stand still.
This is a bump start.
@@rossgirven5163 You're right, a hill start is about showing the car won't stall on you when going uphill. But you can still bump start a car like this by letting it roll downhill.
I learned this in Connecticut years ago, on a hill with a hooptie 😂
What's a clutch? -- Average American
Just the young rascals! I learned in the 80s, my first car was a manual. It’s sad to see them start dissapearing, but I can’t afford a new car anyway (they’re like $20,000 these days).
My best one was when I was parallel-parked close to a car in front and behind and yet managed to push start it! Probably only had a meter or 2!
The age old push start😂. Thats how we we started our car for 5 years until my dad finally decided to buy a starter motor for the family car.
I still have my first car! A geo tracker turbo diesel. It didn’t suck back then, but my lack of proper maintenance has made it suck, even though I’ve swapped an engine and repaired a transmission on a barn floor in -18°c
Forgot to mention that it is not recommended to do that to newer cars. That's because the electronics may short or do a bad reset, possibly damaging some components.
As i know you should be fine doing this to a 2004> year
Ah yes and then the car will go into "I've been stolen mode". I have fond memories of having to do this with my old Citroen
This is how i started all my cars in the 80s
Whole new meaning to push start
Dont forget to push the clutch back in as it starts up
nah u have to immediately give it some throttle rather than putting clutch back in
@@hazza2247 that just makes the car lurch forward even more before abruptly twisting your engine mounts the other way and slowing down
Good to know for motorbikes too btw, had to do this before on one
I had to do this while deserted on my motorcycle 😂
If you own a car and don't know how to push start, you're a part of societies problems.
It should be said tho, if you‘re battery is crappy, it puts extra strain on you‘re generator (they are expensive) and could even break other electronics of your car, as the battery not only stores energy but also smoothes the voltage of your electrical system.
As someone with a motocycle and a car with a big sound system, it‘s still useful to know and i have to do it sometimes.
Needless to say, you should still have a working battery, using the technique, if it‘s uncharged rather than skip buying a new one.
The generator has a built in circuit too smooth out voltage so...
@@MrDemi1233 mate, the generator has the ability to toggle the intensity of the magnetic field to regulate how much power is generated. It‘s slow tho. It‘s not to smooth out spikes or other noise.
Even this assumes, that you have a regulated generator what most mid-tier modern cars have, but older one and even cheaper modern one don‘t.
Hook up an oscilloscope to a running car (especially gas-car) with a new and with an old battery and you‘ll see the difference.
yes youre right@@DarkBloodLP
Good ol bump start, I have to do it with my bikes all the time
i learned this when i was two and i watched the karate kid back in the 80's
Me and my dad did this with his F150 for 4 years we had a sloped driveway and this was just a part of getting to school going to work lol
This was me every other day coming out of highschool in my volkswagen beetle :D
"KICK STARTING A CAR" Now you know boiz, now you know
Popping the clutch. Helped friends do this so many times in high school
Ive started once a VW polo drived backwards from hill - its crazy bc when engine start you actually full accelerate back
Learned to park on hills, got good at doing this in reverse too :D
This is so funny. I've had to do this on the fly in trucks amd cars that I was restoring or rebuilding, hell I even had to do it on a motor cycle witch was a blast, lol. It's amazing how much knowledge difference there is between genorations
This feels like someone trying to convince you to use a bussard ramjet
We always called it "popping the clutch".
Those were the days seeing people pushing a car until there was a downhill to bump start it
I had an old Wartburg with a broken starter, I used to start it like that all the time. It was so light I was able to push it enough with one foot out of the door. Especially if I had it facing down.
I've done this with dirtbikes so satisfying when it starts, your best bet if you can is get a hill to do the work for you lol
I learned this when I was four or five years old with my dad's crappy motorcycle. Was a pretty common occurrence back then for us
Ahh, good ol' push start! Even more fun when you have exhaust lol. Another benefit for manual
one of the main reasons I always prefer manual gear box.. This is still actually one of things you learn and are expected to know how to do in Finnish driving license test.
I remember doing this once on a particularly cold day. Engine wouldnt start and I rememy hearing about this trick. Just thought Id wing it and give it a go and it worked! Felt like a genuis for awhile after that lol
It's not necessarily the battery, for me it was the sparks, but yeah especially useful in winter where it's harder for the engine to start
Any young lad brought up doing the school run in a lemon knows all to well about this. The worst is when youve got to try it in winter with all the ice and slush. Getting back in the car with soaking feet and having to do a full day of school in a school that at the time was the number 1 school in need of repair in the country in the middle of winter. To say i was cold would be an understatement
Dude acting like bump starting a car is some hidden piece of knowledge
Learnt this from my dad, 2nd and dump! Really easy once you get going
We called this "pop starting" back in my day, mostly used it on dirt bikes and quads at the time but yea anything with a manual transmission will pop start
I remember doing this with my brother and sister when my dad was going to bring us to school. 😂
This is exactly how my old Simson motorcycle worked too. :D
A bump start. Gone the days. Just be glad you don't have to pull the choke out 😂
Good ol push starting lol used to do this for fun in parking lots
Yeah i remember learning to pop start a vehicle when i was like 6. Lol
We used to do this all the time when we still had a very old car. Luckily our financial situation changed a bit and we could effort a better one.
Thank god I had a long downhill when this happened, because I got to 5th gear before it started😂😂