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How to Rope-Start a Car

Don’t you just hate push-starting a car with a dead battery? But what if there was a cooler way to make the engine turn over than simply using jumper cables or brute force.
The method you are about to see requires some clever Russian reverse engineering, a rope and the sort of superman thinking you get from drinking vodka at some outing in the countryside with you comrades.

“Watch this: I’m going to start this car with a rope and brute force!” is what this young man must have been thinking. Oddly enough, this is a WIN, with the beat-up old Lada starting like a champ from the first tug of the rope. Genius! But will it work with a modern fuel-injected car with advanced electronics? Most likely not, this is a carburated vehicle, but in Soviet Russia...
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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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