Car Doesn't Start...

[Jeppe Poulsen]

So I just bought a new car in the game. It cost about 80k $. I repaired all the things in the car. The only new thing is that I replaced the supercharger with a tower supercharger instead of a midsize one. I also replaced the oil, water, and gas. It starts when I take it out of the garage, but in the garage, it revs but doesn't star up. Please help, thanks.

[Submerged Green]

have you checked the battery, ignition coil, spark plugs , starter , generator, battery level and spark timing

[Jeppe Poulsen]

Originally posted by Submerged Green:

have you checked the battery, ignition coil, spark plugs , starter , generator, battery level and spark timing

I've done everything you said except the ignition timing because I can't turn on the engine...

[Submerged Green]

have you tried stripping the car and putting everything back on , or keeping the good stuff and swapping it over to a new chassis

[Jeppe Poulsen]

Originally posted by Submerged Green:

have you tried stripping the car and putting everything back on , or keeping the good stuff and swapping it over to a new chassis

I'll try that!

[Jeppe Poulsen]

Originally posted by JeppeJMH:

Originally posted by Submerged Green:

have you tried stripping the car and putting everything back on , or keeping the good stuff and swapping it over to a new chassis

I'll try that!

I tried that, even the new chassis, but nothing happened

[Submerged Green]

probably best to bring it up in the discord, maybe the devs will be able to help you or other people


heres a link https://discord.gg/Qhj722

[Jeppe Poulsen]

Originally posted by Submerged Green:

probably best to bring it up in the discord, maybe the devs will be able to help you or other people


heres a link https://discord.gg/Qhj722

What channel should I post it in?

[Beedly10]

try buying a better battery. then try a more powerful starter, if all else fails then try putting a bigger carb on the car.

[Creative Pudding]

this is a topic come backs time to time, so we will make some help in the game, but for now:
- battery must be strong enough to spin the starter and in a min 80% charged state. Bad battery with 100% charge might wont be enough, just like a 100% good but week battery.
- starter must be strong enough to spin the motor
- bigger the engine, stronger battery and starter needed (brand's part parameters gives you a good hint, ie. a magura 7L engine's starter and battery will do the job for all others, smaller engines)
- carb, ignition, sparks, must be in good shape (80% +)
- ignition timing is crucial, sometimes it is off and it wont allow you to start the engine, so you cannot trim the timimg. The solution is to remove the ignition then reinstall, this way the timing will be "normalized" and it will be close enough to the center to start. You still need to fine tune once the engine is started up.
- fuel: you need at least 3L-5L for safe start
- fuse: while fueses are half ready, they are operational. If the fues box of fuses are damaged it might could cause problems with starting it up.

Usual errors and indications:
- when you start you don't hear any noise from the starter: most likely your starter is wrong or not enough power, battery issue
- when you hear to spin but very very slowly, it is starter or battery
- when you hear to spin and it start up the engine, rev up then stop: fuel issues, most likely carb or you don't have enough fuel to keep it running, just enough to start up
- if you only hear to spin, but no smoke, nothing... then look at the ignition (remount) and sparks or fuses

When you cannot figure it out, most likely:
1. check fuel (must be more then ~5L for safe start) Also one reason why it started once but not any more..
2. check fuses
3. re-mount the ignition (+ trim the timing if starts up)

Hope it helps!

[optimum_linin]

i think i know what happened
if you bought the panania foxy edition it need a new starter because the devs f'd up and gave it a walea one

[Creative Pudding]

We will check and fix it, btw fox car is from fox, one of our contest winner, the car won a community contest some time ago and get in the game. Probably some later update caused the problems...
thanks to coming back and share it!

[SuperProkop]

Magura starter I think has the highest cranking amps, always put this on your large powered engines. I have it on my XGTV8 that has 1669 HP and it cranks it with no issues.

[bossaboy967]

Originally posted by Creative Pudding:

We will check and fix it, btw fox car is from fox, one of our contest winner, the car won a community contest some time ago and get in the game. Probably some later update caused the problems...
thanks to coming back and share it!

i feel i have to give props to creative pudding on top of every post about a bug or issue and hey they happen so much the only difference between larger companies and small devs is how well they hide it while its fixed you guys are honest and amazing at what you do please never give up on this game youve made a piece of art for aussie gaming culture and i thank you so much for that