Removing cold start?

[Adamccc]

I heard a 63 cold start in an underground car park once, it's sudden bark into life was brutal, it sounded awesome.

Have you tried having someone else start the car while you're in the house so you can actually hear how it's affecting neighbours?

Yeah, I got the misses to go start it cold one evening and I stood in the other side of the house in our bedroom and you could definitely here it. Unfortunately I go down to the office at about 4.30am once a week to avoid traffic - at the moment I take the handbrake off, start it up and put it straight into drive (calm the cold start) and just let it roll down the road with minimum revs and leave it for a minute outside the village to warm and then drive steady until engine temp is +80

I did post a note to 5-6 of my closest neighbours saying 'sorry for the noise the battery controlling my exhaust values is flat and will be change this week...' Unfortunately as I said it's not made any difference (I'm planning on visiting MSL to see if they can see if the valves are working) - only complaint I've had is from a neighbour over the road saying she appreciated the note but could I take my girlfriends car down to work until mine is 'fixed' doesn't seem like anyone else minds... I often park the car outside our house (in front of our bedroom) the night before leaving for a quick and easy exit and the misses sleeps right through it so I might be overthinking it but don't like the idea of pissing the neighbourhood off for the next couple of years!

 

[supaer]

Hahahahaha that is pretty loud..... ermmmmmm buy a cheap car to drive to your car on the outskirts of the village??

 

[Adamccc]

I just sold my 320d that I had to runabout in - don't think I'd like the idea of my car being away from the house where our CCTV is etc.

 

[supaer]

lol i know i would be the same, i dont even know why i suggested that!!

Offer to pay for triple glazing for your neighbours?

 

[rossco964]

Didn't MRC Tuning used to do this for RS4's? Must be quite a few ex RS4 owners on here

 

[Adamccc]

Yeah I saw a fellow TTRS owner have his cold start mapped out - Newer cars seem to have this purely for emissions rather than actually warming the engine, just not sure whether it's be possible on Mercs

 

[gasman2]

Easy way to tell if working
Start car get on the floor and see if the arm on the valve moves when u press the button
Also if the capristo doesn't have a vacuum reserve like the ipe it will always start loud as it need vac to operate solenoid