madman
Enthusiast
In case your car won\'t start - electric problem
Here is what happened:
I let my son (14) learn to drive and this time we had viper on the local airfield. I told him 'this engine has so much torque that you can get this car moving without the gas, just be gentle on the clutch'. He tried but he was to fast on the clutch and the engine stalled.
After that we couldn't start the car. When pressing the start button the electricity shut down briefly and then went up again and the starter did not turn. Other then that all controls functioned normally.
This was some mystery to me because other then the engine stall nothing happened. I went to check the fuse box and was afraid that some relay was gone. The starter fuse was ok which made me more scared not knowing what was going on and thinking about all complications of getting the car off the airfield back home. Then I began examine fuses one by one and discovered that ASD 20Amp fuse was gone. After replacing it the car fired up right away.
The manual says that ASD fuse is for 'Batt-Relay Contact and Auto-Shutdown. I am guessing that starter did not have enough voltage (alternator did not produce enough since my son was not stepping on the gas) and therefore requested too much of a current which fried this fuse. Why this fuse in particular remains a mystery to me.
Anyway - it seems to me that something similar can easily happen to anyone so in case it does check your fuses first and have always some spare. If there would be a library of know how this could be put in. And if there is a viper tech reading this and knowing what happened it would be great to have this explained.
cheers from across the pond.
Here is what happened:
I let my son (14) learn to drive and this time we had viper on the local airfield. I told him 'this engine has so much torque that you can get this car moving without the gas, just be gentle on the clutch'. He tried but he was to fast on the clutch and the engine stalled.
After that we couldn't start the car. When pressing the start button the electricity shut down briefly and then went up again and the starter did not turn. Other then that all controls functioned normally.
This was some mystery to me because other then the engine stall nothing happened. I went to check the fuse box and was afraid that some relay was gone. The starter fuse was ok which made me more scared not knowing what was going on and thinking about all complications of getting the car off the airfield back home. Then I began examine fuses one by one and discovered that ASD 20Amp fuse was gone. After replacing it the car fired up right away.
The manual says that ASD fuse is for 'Batt-Relay Contact and Auto-Shutdown. I am guessing that starter did not have enough voltage (alternator did not produce enough since my son was not stepping on the gas) and therefore requested too much of a current which fried this fuse. Why this fuse in particular remains a mystery to me.
Anyway - it seems to me that something similar can easily happen to anyone so in case it does check your fuses first and have always some spare. If there would be a library of know how this could be put in. And if there is a viper tech reading this and knowing what happened it would be great to have this explained.
cheers from across the pond.
