Civilian vehicles?

[WallShadow]

The

Originally Posted by adimar

So don't use pneumatic air filled tires. Either fill the tires with straw, use full rubber tires made from multiple layers of vehicle tires or just ride the bike on its rims.

Adi

For the short term, I'd go with option 1. When the time comes that there are no more tires to fill with straw, #2. I hope I never get desperate enough to ride on bare rims.

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by WallShadow

The

For the short term, I'd go with option 1. When the time comes that there are no more tires to fill with straw, #2. I hope I never get desperate enough to ride on bare rims.

Don't forget that the first bicycle tires where rimmed in leather.

[Apache6]

I'm not an expert, but a friend of mine has told me that you can remove some of the electronic components of modern diesel engines and the vehicle will still run, it is just not as efficent and pollutes more.

[WallShadow]

Speaking of diesel (and using vegetable oils as a substitute/supplement), in addition to filtering the oil (imagining a run on coffee filters for this), how much more pure could you get it by centrifuging it? <imagining large playground merry-go-round, or salvaged abandoned carnival motorized merry-go-round being modified to assist in clarifying biodiesel--definitely would raise both the locals' eyebrows and their questions about the sanity of the perpetrators>

[Olefin]

FYI - if you have an older car made before electronic ignitions and onboard computers EMP wont do squat - it will just be a very big light in the sky - and there are still a lot of older cars around -

Keep in mind too that a lot of places in the US didn't get hit by nukes - the only nuclear strikes in PA were near Philly - thats it - and thats per canon

Meaning any car in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Scranton, York, etc.. is just fine - same with western and central NY - nothing

and a tactical nuke wont produce much of an EMP effect so outside of a very limited area around such a bomb anything electronic will be fine - including the ignition of a car

[.45cultist]

Some one could have an old vehicle on blocks with its battery and antenna disconnected and frame grounded.

[Apache6]

Modern vehicles stored inside certain structures would remain functional. Many vehicles are shipped in connex containers which would likely protect them. Many vehicles in underground garages and (I believe) the interior sections of large parking garages would also be OK since the EMP pulse would not be able to penetrate. Vehicles which are not attached to a battery at the time of the pulse, for whatever reason are also less likely to be damaged.

[kato13]

Originally Posted by Olefin

FYI - if you have an older car made before electronic ignitions and onboard computers EMP wont do squat - it will just be a very big light in the sky - and there are still a lot of older cars around -

Keep in mind too that a lot of places in the US didn't get hit by nukes - the only nuclear strikes in PA were near Philly - thats it - and thats per canon

Meaning any car in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Scranton, York, etc.. is just fine - same with western and central NY - nothing

and a tactical nuke wont produce much of an EMP effect so outside of a very limited area around such a bomb anything electronic will be fine - including the ignition of a car

This post covers the fact that worrying about cars not working after an EMP event might be over stated.

http://forum.juhlin.com/showpost.php...9&postcount=47

Of course the game specifically says that EMP was worse than expected. So do with both of these elements what you will.

I still feel that having months to prepare from the first nuke use to Thanksgiving means that a lot of people would have made preparations.

[LT. Ox]

Thank you very much.