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My car comes off the course hot and wants to go right back to its grid slot
and cool. It may not start easily -- or at all -- when still hot after being
weighed. And on a P car with no generator/alternator, each additional start
sucks more juice from the battery and leaves me more vulnerable to a
non-start late in the game. I can see that procedure of weighing when we
come off the course as increasing my starts threefold. And doing as many as
two of them per run on a hot car reluctant to start that cranks and cranks
just pulls the battery down all the more.
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I'm not picking on any one person, but this sounds like the driver's
problem, not Impound's. It's not Impound's, or any one else's, fault that a
particular car was built "insufficiently" for the task at hand purely due to
the owner's desires.
Personally, I would never field a car that is prone to overheating by merely
idling in grid, or won't restart under it's own power because it requires an
off-board battery to do so. That's my choice and I would have to live with
the weight penalties. At the same time I refuse to listen to arguments from
someone who runs with no on-board battery or alternator or generator just to
save weight and then cries because their car can't be restarted.
C'mon folks, it's time to get acquainted with a nice little philosophy of
mine called "personal responsibility" in which one accepts all repercussions
from their actions without trying to place the blame on someone else.
Eric Linnhoff in KC
1998 Dodge Neon R/T (see-dan)
STS #69 TLS #13
knuckledragger@kcweb.net
http://www.geocities.com/eric10mm/KnuckleDragger
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