Choke?

[thinfourth2]

Have you ever driven a car with a manual coke

[redtwin]

Yes, could never understand why people rubbish decent cupholders in cars.

[-Pete-]

thinfourth2 said:

Have you ever driven a car with a manual coke

Coke or Choke? Most of my cars and bikes had a choke, it was all the rage in the good old days. I sometimes had a Diet Coke in there as well.

[jsg612]

Never driven a car with, however my Makkita grass trimmer has an automatic choke.

[daveenty]

All my early cars (mainly Cortinas & Zephyrs) had a manual choke.

IIRC, the first auto ones (water temp based) on carbs were horrendous and sticky.

Don't miss them though, just get in and start it now without hassle.

[Mattt]

My '93 Fiesta had one,

[patmahe]

My first car, a 92 Toyota Starlet 1.0 had a 4 speed gearbox and a manual choke, surely this must have been one of the last cars available with one?

[Chas88]

I never have, I think I'd forget to put it on/off if I ended up with a car that has one now. I remember my parents car having one when I was younger it was either a Ford Escort or Ford Fiesta can't remember which one now.

[MJK 24]

My old Volkswagen diesel has a 'Cold Start Handle'!!

You pull it a few mm and the idle speed goes up by 50rpm.

A few more mm and it idle speed goes up by 150rpm (200rpm in total)

The remaining 90% of it's travel adjusts the timing of the injector pump.

If the ambient temperature it below 0 degress, it'll run terrible without if being used for the first 1/4 of a mile or so.

Back on topic, all my Alfasud's have had a manual choke.

[miniman]

Not only do I still use a choke, I still have the traditional British Leyland 1970s solution to crappy parts quality.

[koolchris99]

my mini metro had one.

i had to pull it out after coming off the motorway or the engine would cut out.

what a car.

[V88Dicky]

Not only did my first car or two have a choke, one, (or both) had a little lever on top of the pan style air cleaner, that said "winter/summer". WTF?

[Negative Creep]

Had loads of cars with them, although the ones with auto chokes tended not to work at all (especially my mk.4 Cortina, which would flood the carb on a regular basis)

[redstu]

What's the point of the pole?
I can only think of one, to remind those of limited inteligence to remember to pull it our before flattening the battery on their "ckassic"!
Not that I'd know anyone that stupid.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

miniman said:

Not only do I still use a choke, I still have the traditional British Leyland 1970s solution to crappy parts quality.

What's that thing next to it? Looks like a Shraeder valve cap?

[miniman]

Heated rear windscreen switch.

[RobM77]

I feel old now I'm only 33, but when I learnt to drive almost all cars had manual chokes.

[useyourdellusion]

Gives a car character in my experience. Much better than cursing the autochokes which never worked (on old Fords anyway, many being converted back to manual choke).

My chainsaw has a manual choke now, still love the balancing act.

Edited by useyourdellusion on Tuesday 28th December 23:20

[skip_1]

miniman said:

Not only do I still use a choke, I still have the traditional British Leyland 1970s solution to crappy parts quality.

I had an '81 Austin Metro with the exact same issue

Edited by skip_1 on Tuesday 28th December 23:24

[redtwin]

miniman said:

Heated rear windscreen switch.

I was hoping it was for air shocks so you could adjust ride height to suit road conditions.