How to Install A Start Button
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Date: 2020-07-07
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Comments and reviews: 10
Seth
So I started watching this I just couldn't believe how much they were making fun of the aftermarket push to start system. I understand that what they did to the car was ignorant but what they did isn't a push to start systems. They just wired the buttons to the ignition. But an actual push to start system replaces the ignition completely and has a new set of keys that work like actually push to starts do. So you throw out the old ignition and use your new keys to just simply push to start. So I'm not sure if they didn't have a working version of this back and 2012 and that's why they are making fun of this ignorant button add of. I think you should recreate the video with an actual system to replace the old ignition. That's what i came to see.
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So I started watching this I just couldn't believe how much they were making fun of the aftermarket push to start system. I understand that what they did to the car was ignorant but what they did isn't a push to start systems. They just wired the buttons to the ignition. But an actual push to start system replaces the ignition completely and has a new set of keys that work like actually push to starts do. So you throw out the old ignition and use your new keys to just simply push to start. So I'm not sure if they didn't have a working version of this back and 2012 and that's why they are making fun of this ignorant button add of. I think you should recreate the video with an actual system to replace the old ignition. That's what i came to see.
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Troy
Goodness as a long time MCM viewer and sub, this is a good throwback video. I recently had to do the same with my 1988 Jeep Cherokee as it has a mechanical rod linkage to the ignition switch and ignition cylinder. The rod was bent so instead of going through the effort of fabricating a new linkage and attempting to properly realign the ignition switch to engage on crank. I ordered a SPST 50a switch for 6 shipped to my door. I have enough spare wiring laying around and some inline fuse holders. With all my heat-shrink crimp connectors I should be able to cobble together a solution to the no crank. It starts just fine when you short the starter solenoid so I'm assuming this will do the trick!
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Goodness as a long time MCM viewer and sub, this is a good throwback video. I recently had to do the same with my 1988 Jeep Cherokee as it has a mechanical rod linkage to the ignition switch and ignition cylinder. The rod was bent so instead of going through the effort of fabricating a new linkage and attempting to properly realign the ignition switch to engage on crank. I ordered a SPST 50a switch for 6 shipped to my door. I have enough spare wiring laying around and some inline fuse holders. With all my heat-shrink crimp connectors I should be able to cobble together a solution to the no crank. It starts just fine when you short the starter solenoid so I'm assuming this will do the trick!
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Andrew
Is there any way to wire this so if you find a way to put a spare key or something into the ignition with it always turned so when you use the switch (momentary switch) it would complete the circuit and start the car? Plus you can hide the switch somewhere neat like on the roof (like a plane) under the visor or in a sunglasses holder when you flip it down? Not very useful but would it work? I think itd be fun to do in a project car
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Is there any way to wire this so if you find a way to put a spare key or something into the ignition with it always turned so when you use the switch (momentary switch) it would complete the circuit and start the car? Plus you can hide the switch somewhere neat like on the roof (like a plane) under the visor or in a sunglasses holder when you flip it down? Not very useful but would it work? I think itd be fun to do in a project car
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Armand
Needs to be installed with a fuel pump toggle switch or something to do it proper. Why let your engine idle down hills when you can slap your manual trans into neutral, cut your fuel, leave your ignition key in the on position and coast until you need engine power again. It's a broke Seattle teenager trick to save gas and IDK about shutting down at a stop light, that's for new cars, not old VW bugs.
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Needs to be installed with a fuel pump toggle switch or something to do it proper. Why let your engine idle down hills when you can slap your manual trans into neutral, cut your fuel, leave your ignition key in the on position and coast until you need engine power again. It's a broke Seattle teenager trick to save gas and IDK about shutting down at a stop light, that's for new cars, not old VW bugs.
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PAINless
If you really wanted to get fancy. take out the ignition switch all together. instead of splicing into the wires, just extend then and have a master switch to be used as the on position. pretty simple, would just have to ground one extra wire and have another switch. Hit the master switch to power the car and the start button to engage the starter
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If you really wanted to get fancy. take out the ignition switch all together. instead of splicing into the wires, just extend then and have a master switch to be used as the on position. pretty simple, would just have to ground one extra wire and have another switch. Hit the master switch to power the car and the start button to engage the starter
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oldshield
I understand the gripe about 2 hands to start, but. I do have an old 87 vw and the harness that plugs into the back of the ignitions switch seems to be flakey and i have to push up on the wires in order to make the ignition switch work. have gone thru 4 switches now and something like this makes sense to me, since i was using 2 hands already: ).
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I understand the gripe about 2 hands to start, but. I do have an old 87 vw and the harness that plugs into the back of the ignitions switch seems to be flakey and i have to push up on the wires in order to make the ignition switch work. have gone thru 4 switches now and something like this makes sense to me, since i was using 2 hands already: ).
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JohnnyRottenest
Right its very dumb, but I think you missed the point. Im sure people are more interested in a start button that activates when the key is in the car, but still in your pocket. Not a button in addition to a key - its a button instead of a keyed ignition, but it activates when the key is in proximity to a sensor in the car.
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Right its very dumb, but I think you missed the point. Im sure people are more interested in a start button that activates when the key is in the car, but still in your pocket. Not a button in addition to a key - its a button instead of a keyed ignition, but it activates when the key is in proximity to a sensor in the car.
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Sam
Haha one of the most useless mods ever. So you have a start button but you still need your car keys AND you need both hands hahaha the ideal scenario would be: place your car keys near a sensor placed anywhere convenient inside the car, the sensor picks the signal and now you can use the start button
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Haha one of the most useless mods ever. So you have a start button but you still need your car keys AND you need both hands hahaha the ideal scenario would be: place your car keys near a sensor placed anywhere convenient inside the car, the sensor picks the signal and now you can use the start button
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Darryn
doing this is a good way to save your ignition barrel wearing out. like a common issue on holdens like vt-vy models, guys are always replacing the rear throw in spring in the back part of ignition barrel. being a plastic part it wears out fast. a button start saves key cycles meaning less wear.
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doing this is a good way to save your ignition barrel wearing out. like a common issue on holdens like vt-vy models, guys are always replacing the rear throw in spring in the back part of ignition barrel. being a plastic part it wears out fast. a button start saves key cycles meaning less wear.
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Pfitz
I did the exact same thing with my radio. It had a Bluetooth module draining my battery so I put a switch in my dash to toggle the radio harness.
Also, it's like a billion times easier to just use a hole saw bit on your drill rather than doing all this drilling filing and cutting.
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I did the exact same thing with my radio. It had a Bluetooth module draining my battery so I put a switch in my dash to toggle the radio harness.
Also, it's like a billion times easier to just use a hole saw bit on your drill rather than doing all this drilling filing and cutting.
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