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Old 09-18-2005, 04:50 PM
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Default Re: Oil Change - Starting ICE "on demand"

The only thing I had to do at the quick lube was to tell the guys to wait a few seconds after they pressed the power button. I told them to trust me, the ICE would eventually start. If you need to run the ICE after it has warmed up, and you don't want to turn it off and back on again, just have it in park and slowly press on the accelerator pedal. The ICE will kick on and be somewhere around a fast idle. If you want it to run faster, press on the pedal some more and the RPMs will just about double to something around 2500 RPM. You can push the pedal to the floor and the ICE will still run at about 2500 RPM.
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