Eli5: how can you roll start a manual vehicle but not an automatic vehicle?
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Well, I have definitely helped roll started an automatic. Early 90s, was in France with friends and the car I was in was in an accident. The owner was fully covered and he got a Fiat Tipo for the duration of the holiday. But couldn’t get it going when we stayed at a farmhouse, so we (ignorantly it seems) tried to bump start. A long farmhouse drive, slight incline in our favour and we got it going. Only discovered later that we shouldn’t have been able to do it.
Would love to know HOW we succeeded if anyone has any ideas, it’s been a mystery ever since… thx
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