My window on my Infiniti G35 go down automatically, how can I stop this?
I had the exact same thing happen to me on my 04 coupe, except with passenger side window. The window regulator motor can not adjust itself properly to "know" the height the window is supposed to be. On the coupe, the window moves slightly down and back up when opening and closing the door. On the up movement, it thinks it has gone too far and rolls back down a few inches. You can take it to the dealership and they will replace it free, as long as you still have it under warranty, otherwise look at replacing the window regular motor. If you are looking to do it yourself look at this link http://www.350z-tech.com/zwiki/Service:TSB_04-089_Window_Regulator_Motor_Reset_Procedure
What are some creative ways to disable a car from running?
Creative ways to disable a car from running? Got it…I like the potato in exhaust idea! Used to do something similar while standing next to scooters/motorbikes at traffic lights by putting your foot on the exhaust. Friends got agitated, strangers mostly confused.Anyway, five creative ways that will definitely disable a car from running. We don’t mind the owner, or his beloved racing machine now, do we?Hmm, maybe we do, not sure. Therefore, I will give five options ranging from playful to psycho that meet your criteria.Right! Let’s go.Playful: steal the tires and store them in your barn or garage, the engine will keep running and the car will not. You can choose to give back the tires and apologize for acting funny. (or sell them online)Rude: make a small hole or leak in the cooling fluid line or oil lines and give it some time. It will eventually stop the car from working if it goes unnoticed and needs a mechanic to repair, but you have given them a chance to pay attention.Cruel: mix some sand or sugar with the fuel and wait for the car to stop, forever. You will need to change the entire engine and this being expensive and time-consuming, it is quite cruel.Horrendous: cut the cable behind one of the wheels until you see (brake) fluid leaking. No one knows when the vehicle will stop running but it will stop, at some point, at some speed, against something. “evil laugh”Psycho: Buy an iron jerrycan and fill it with fuel;Call your lawyer and schedule a meeting,Undo the car from one of the spark plug cables,Put the aforementioned cable in the jerrycan and make sure it is well hidden,Get your clapperboard, camera, and popcorn and get to a safe distance,Wait for the driver to put the key in the ignition,and… ACTION!Good luckPlease, feel free to give us an update on your decision and the end results!“more evil laughs”
HELP!! CAR STUCK IN MUD!! HELP!!?
remove a little dirt from the front of the wheels and put some flat pieces of wood as close and below the tires as possible, with a small angle, the bigger the angle the worst to take your car out (making 4 little ramps one for each tire), if you don't have the muscle to push it a bit under the tires use a hammer. this should do the trick but just to be safe, uninflate your tires a bit to get more traction and cover the pieces of wood with pieces of chain link fence or another type of metallic fence with smaller holes to get a better grip in the wood. if it's a rear wheel drive vehicle, load it with some bricks or dirt or concrete on the back to get better traction. use 1st gear to get out of there, if you want to go backwards, remove dirt fro the back of the tires and just put the pieces of wood and fence on the back and below the tires and reverse. to get out don't step on the gas too fast, just try to take it out without any wheel spin as it will make your car sink even deeper. check if your car has traction control or a feature to block the differential or to enable four-wheel drive, if it has, activate them all. if you have people that are willing to push your car while you try to get it out the better, if you have a friend that has a car of pickup that lives nearby you can ask him to give you a push, you have tons of options. i got stuck dozens of times because near my house there are a lot of dirt roads and my van is rear wheel drive and doesn't weigh much on the back so believe me, i know. ps. i carry a slab of concrete on the back of my van and i don't get stuck for a long time now, but just to be safe i also carry 4 pieces of wood and chain link fence, we never know the day of tomorrow...
I ran out of gas today and my brakes weren't working properly. Is that normal.?
You shouldn't have ruined anything by putting it into park at 3mph, but doing that is not good for the transmission. Always come to a complete stop before putting the car in park or reverse. It is normal for your brake pedal to become very hard to push when the engine is not running. The brakes are power assisted, which requires the engine to be running at the time, in order to assist with pressurising the hydraulic lines which transfer and multiply the pressure from your foot/the brake pedal, to the pads themselves. As soon as the engine stops running, you generally have one really good firm press of the pedal before they become hard and unresponsive as the power assist wears off. This is to ensure that you can slow the car down to a stop, in the event of the engine cutting out.
What's wrong with my car if I can smell gas while I am driving?
Presuming a fuel injected car, I'd guess the answer is that you have a fuel leak. It would most likely be from a hose or hose fitting in the engine compartment. A strong smell of gas would indicate that it's leaking in the engine compartment, and being vaproized. Perhaps a drop hitting the exhaust, or a tiny spray from a small hole that leaks when you hit a bump that hits the engine block. This vapor would get sucked in the air intakes at the base of the windshield and into the cabin for your sniffing pleasure.Most of the fuel system other than the fuel lines is behind the driver, and less likely to be sucked into the cabin to be smelled. Unless you are smelling it when you stop, not while driving. In that case, it'd more likely be from the back of the car, not a fuel line. Though, when I say "fuel line" I should note that the fuel filter is usually in-line in the fuel line in the engine bay. A leak in the "fuel line" would include the possibility of a leak in the fuel filter, or the connectors around it.So it's important to note whether the smell is only while driving, only while stopped, or primarily one or the other, as well as the car make and model.If you are smelling gas while driving a VW Bug, the opposite of what I said would apply. The tank is in the front, and the engine and fuel filter in the back for the VW.
Is it dangerous if one of my stove burners won't light, but I smell gas when I try?
As long as the control knob is turned off, there is no danger. However, as long as you smell gas, there's a problem,especially if you have an older standing pilot unit (which I don't think you have, since you said it "clicks"). Be very careful and allow the gas to dissipate (open a window or door) after you turn the burner off. If you have left the control knob on for more than a minute, turn the gas off at the stove (and outside too, if you can), do not turn any lights on or off as you exit and get outside of the house before you call the fire department. A minute of gas is a lot. A few seconds won't hurt.If there is water in a burner port (which I'm sure is gone by the time I write this answer), or if the ignitor electrode is wet, the burner won't light. You can clear out the water and dry off the ignitor with a can of compressed keyboard cleaner. After spraying, wait a few moments for the propellant in the compressed air to evaporate off, and give your burner a try again.If you continue to have a problem, the burner port(s) nearest the ignitor may be clogged, and a toothpick will usually work to clean it out (try not to break off the toothpick in the holes).If it still doesn't light, it's possible that you need to re-position the ignitor to be in better spot. This is more likely on propane than natural gas, and there is a way to do it, but I'll leave that for another day.
What happens if my car runs out of gas?
The obvious answer is that it will stop running... unless it's a hybrid with a charged battery that can help you limp along to a gas station... As soon as the engine dies, you will lose all "power" assistance with the steering and braking. You can still steer and brake, but it will be much harder than when the engine is running. Power windows will work, along with other electrical accessories, until the battery is drained. Once you've coasted to a stop / pulled over to the side of the road, put your hazards on and start making phone calls on your cell to get someone to help you. When you add gasoline back into the car, it will probably start within a few moments of cranking the engine. On older cars, you run the risk of getting dirt or rust into the fuel line / filter. If you get gas into the car and it won't start back up, there's a fair chance that the fuel line or filter has become clogged. Depending on the car and the location of the filter, you may or may not be able to fix this on the side of the road. A tow truck will have to tow it to a service station where the fuel line or filter can be cleaned out.
What happens if you are going 70mph down a road in a car and suddenly turn your key off?
In my car, which is a 1997 with a manual transmission and fuel injection, turning the engine off doesn’t actually do very much. I lose the ability to indicate direction changes, since the turn signals only work when the car is on. The engine obviously will fail to produce forward power. However, if the car is in gear, the power steering and braking assist will continue to work until the car stops, since these items are driven mechanically off of the engine (either through rotation or vacuum), which is still happening because the engine is turning (if the car is moving and the car is in gear, the engine is turning).It’s actually possible to traverse long downhill segments in the mountains this way. Pressing the gas will allow the car to speed up by reducing engine vacuum, and the rotation of the engine drives the power steering as well as it would with the engine running. When you let off the gas, the vacuum is immediately restored, which allows full use of the power brakes. And you can shift gears to control speed via engine braking as normal.A lot of modern cars do basically this when you let off the gas while in gear. They will disable the fuel injectors, may disable the spark plugs, and will allow you to use the engine to brake as normal. When you the RPMs come below a set value (say, 1,500), then the ECU re-enables the fuel and spark so that the engine will idle. The means that you’re using no gas going downhill in gear (and if you put the car in neutral to “coast”, you’re actually using more gas).This won’t work in a car with carburetors. Most of these cars use mechanical devices to pump fuel and control the spark plugs, and turning the engine off will disable the ignition coil (ergo the spark plugs) but the fuel pump will keep pumping fuel and the carburetors will continue mixing air and fuel as if the car were running. Without this fuel being burned, the mixture will be pumped out the exhaust, where it will damage the catalytic converter and may flood the engine or foul the spark plugs. This is just one of the ways in which mechanical carburation is less efficient than fuel injection.