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Old style pedals have a better "feel"...

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peppy m.

In Reply to: RE: The Renault Dauphine had one. posted by ghost of olddude55 on November 21, 2024 at 06:15:30

Corny perhaps, but modern car pedals don't always "feel" very good to me. At least not the ones I'v tried. There's a subtle difference.

My '91 Honda Civic does have a simple EFI. But that's about it. Everything else is direct/manual and you can feel it/love it.

Follow Ups:

Malaise Era carbs were awful. - ghost of olddude55 06:41:52 11/21/24 (4)
Even the ones that worked, like Honda's CVCC system, you ever look at the diagram for the vacuum lines? There's about a thousand of them and they all have to be routed to the right port.
EFI was much simpler than that, and it ran good unlike the carbs on American cars.

The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
- Don't those "start/stop" car engine starters wear out much faster ? - peppy m. 06:59:30 11/21/24 (3)
  I mean, the logical answer to me would seem to be "yes". But I dunno...
  
  Maybe they all use "extra heavy-duty" starters now ?
  - No, you get a starter designed for start/stop service. - Steve O 07:39:46 11/21/24 (0)
    You also get a heavier duty AGM type battery in most cases.
  - Not necessarily - E-Stat 07:15:01 11/21/24 (0)
    but they are heavier duty and likely more expensive than need be.
    
    I always disable the Auto Idle Stop feature on our Passport as I find it distracting and sometimes dangerous for the engine to stop just when I need acceleration!
  - Don't know... - ghost of olddude55 07:11:05 11/21/24 (0)
    ...and the systems work pretty well. We put about 1000 miles on a rented Chevy Traverse last year and I didn't even realize it had auto stop/start until I was sitting in the front passenger seat while my brother was driving. Didn't notice it at all while I was driving the car.
    It's the complexity I don't like. It's one more thing to go wrong, costs $$$ to fix, and it's only there so the car maker can achieve its CAFE goal. Any fuel savings for the consumer is negligible.
    
    The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.

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