With regard to a statement made in
a separate thread:
In reply to:
Also never pump the gas before you start it either .
On old-fashioned carbureter-equipped cars, you were supposed to pump the gas pedal once, to set the choke, before you cold-started it. Modern fuel-injected cars don't have a choke, so no need for this.
Also, on older, carbureter-equipped cars, there was a pump that would squirt extra fuel in when you pressed the gas pedal. With most of such cars with which I was ever familiar, it was often useful to pump the gas a few times to prime the engine. Again, this doesn't apply to modern fuel-injected cars.
I've seen, in numerous places, statements like the above, saying not to pump the gas on a fuel-injected car before you start it. The reasons why you would want to do so on a carbureted car don't apply, so there is clearly no need, and no good reason to do this. But does it actually hurt anythng? I can't imagine that pumping the gas pedal on a fuel-injected car, that is not running, would do anything at all, good or ill.
Is there really a good reason not to pump the gas pedal before you start a fuel-injected car?
