Sentences with phrase «idling cars at»

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It seems like I spend twice as long in the car every day idling my way through rush hour and staring at the rusted bumper of the car in front of me, when I could be writing and connecting with clients at work.

She added: «We have to move away from nose to tail car traffic at peak times, endless engine idling, stop start travel and rising pollution and carbon emissions.

So you could make the growl of my beat - up, 13 - year - old car idling at a traffic light into something symphonic?

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Think about like the engine of a car that in a safe haven would be in a nice, slow, idle, not stressed at all versus in your garage a car where there's somebody who has their foot all the way down on the gas pedal and so that engine is just accelerated at much higher speed than it ought to be for a car that's parked in a garage.

Her car tends to overheat at idle; we have determined that the radiator cooling fan does not kick on.

My car has been overheating at idle after a long period of time - perhaps 20 - 30 minutes in traffic.

No other production car revs this high; it's just a shame the engine sounds so limp - wristed at idle.

The idle does drop as it should though after the car has warmed up, so this doesn't seem to be affecting the IAC at all.

While its 444bhp peak power output sounds more than healthy, it's clearly overshadowed — numerically at least — by its 470bhp Mercedes - AMG C63 rival, and some way short of the more expensive, 503bhp, C63 S. However, our considerable experience of its coupe relation suggests it's the 443 lb ft developed from just 1900rpm that will mark this out as a truly fast car: expect colossal shove from just above idle.

When it has been running for a while it idles at 750 RPM and the car runs much smoother when it's at this point.

If you hold the gas pedal at idle does the car stay running?

Climb into the Evo X, twist the chunky black plastic key, and you are instantly aware — and a little disappointed — that the whole car doesn't buzz and hum and feel alive at idle like its predecessors.

It's all a big balancing act that usually ends up at a 750 RPM range idle for a typical car, sometimes a bit lower for a big engine, and sometimes up to about double that for small engines.

This is due to your RPM being at idle - speed (roughly 600-1000, depending on the car) and requiring more turning force to begin moving the wheels.

Most cars I've driven idle well into the 2k + range at cold start.

Car hovers at 900rpm when idling and every 10 - 20 seconds the revs would slowly drop to about 500rpm before kicking back up to 1000 then back to 900.

While I'm sitting idle at traffic lights I put the car into neutral.

Then start the car, and drive back and forth several feet (using quick taps on the gas and not just idling) over and over, and let it rest at idle a few seconds before turning off the engine.

At this point the car lacked acceleration but still able to run at 70mph and idle as smooth as normaAt this point the car lacked acceleration but still able to run at 70mph and idle as smooth as normaat 70mph and idle as smooth as normal.

«We have an F1 engine that is used to idling at 4500rpm, now idling at 1100rpm; it still revs to 11,000 rpm in the road car.

One of our cars has a bit of a rough idle which disappears at about 1,000 RPM.

I got this error on my Skoda Fabia 2006 1.2 Bensin 3 cylinder (engine code BME), the car is shaky on idle like it is missing a cylinder, acceleration is non-linear, and fuel consumption is low at 5L / 100 km while the factory specs is 6l / 100 km

Recently I put my car on the 4 gas analyser, and it gave me these results at idle: CO2: 10.64 % CO: 4.98 % O2: 1.94 % HC: 148 ppm Lambda value: 0.93 / 13.7 AFR I have to mention that it concerns...

The revised steering is much heavier than I remember, especially at idle and low speed, but it's also less jumpy and more linear in its response, so you feel much more connected to this SLR than the standard car.

At idle the engine sounds much like you'd expect of a muscle car, with a loud and low burble.

Double tapping the button, however, immediately changes the tone and, even at idle, there's a deep blare from the back of the car.

I brought my car in because it was running rough and sometimes stalling at idle.

The car hasn't started around 4 times in the past week or so, (and worked after 10 - 20 minutes) and the gas has died while driving twice, as well as the engine dying while idle once in a test I did at home.

Car always has 10 - 12 degrees of ignition timing at idle on cold start then progressively drops to 0 degrees ignition timing at idle once reaching full operating temperature and engine fan cuts in.

The car shook, there was a nasty vibration from the engine (at idle), giving it partial throttle (still in Park) made the engine rev smoothly.

At idle, the Equinox is so quiet that one journalist on our media test drive tried to start an already - running car.

I need help finding why my car's air conditioning (2011 Ford Mustang v6) is only blowing cold air at idling and not while driving on the highway when it's 100 °F here in Nashville.

Some noise is coming when the car is running at idle.

hint: does the oil light come on and stay on for a sorta long time when your first start the car up at idle?

At idle, the car's idle control system attempts to maintain a constant idle, but can only do so with a finite amount of torque.

We listened to a four - cylinder car at idle, and although it doesn't sound nearly as good as a rumbling V - 8 or a sonorous V - 6, neither does it sound like a two - door Chevy Malibu.

More recent cars use the throttle valve instead through electronic control, and therefore, can at least in theory provide greater torque at idle.

I had an experience myself with a»96 Nissan Skyline GTS - t where the car was running very rich at idle and consuming noticeably more fuel than normal, it was resolved with a new sensor.

The MAF supplies air flow and temperature data to the car's computer, a failing MAF sensor can definitely produce surging at idle which is what it sounds like you have.

That and they said that they fixed the problem, but the car idled hard literally the first time I tried to drive it out of the parking lot and stalled at the next light.

I then put two brand new bolts and fit the intake right back into it's place but the car is now only shaking when the RPM is dipping under 1000... it used to idle at 1000 - 1200 but now it goes as low as 500 and that's when the vibration is making the whole car shaking.

Edit: Coolant in some cars passes through a type of fast idle valve that raises and lowers a plunger (connected to some type of heat reactive wax that closes the airway fully when the coolant is at OT) through a tube that feeds more or less air through the engine raising or lowering its speed.

At least in my car when the MAF sensor got dirty it would idle very roughly while being perfectly smooth when moving.

The smaller clicking sound gets much louder as the RPMs go higher, and at idle the car drops RPMs to around 500 and shoots quickly back up to 1000.

The supercharger covers turbo lag and, like the chassis, the engine puts the power down on this unusual test - car surface seamlessly and without drama, though there's some four - banger roughness at idle.

After a couple of months my car began to idle roughly at stops but not always.

Engine braking happens because when you let off the gas pedal at speed the car makes the choice to provide 0 fuel to the engine allowing the engine to be rotated by the rotation of the tires, unlike when stopped and you release the gas pedal it maintains an idle.

In road cars, relatively mild cams are used which allow for smooth running and plenty of low down torque so that it's easy to pull away from near idle at a very small throttle opening without stalling.

Putting the car in neutral makes the RPM increase until I come to a complete stop, where the engine finally begins to run at its idling RPM.