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*******Motors Chat - Round 7*******

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  • #1322
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    05 Avensis diesel in trouble. High revs and very low speed. It wouldn't go anywhere this morning. Nothing comes up on display. A quick look on google says it's the fuel injectors.
    Anyone any ideas?


  • #1323
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    MJ23 wrote: »
    05 Avensis diesel in trouble. High revs and very low speed. It wouldn't go anywhere this morning. Nothing comes up on display. A quick look on google says it's the fuel injectors.
    Anyone any ideas?

    Sounds more like the clutch is gone.

    Are the revs shooting up as though your foot is still on the clutch pedal?


  • #1324
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    It goes into gear but goes very slow. It wouldn't go over 60kph yesterday.


  • #1325
    MJ23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭MJ23


    Interslice wrote: »
    Sounds more like the clutch is gone.

    Are the revs shooting up as though your foot is still on the clutch pedal?

    Yes.


  • #1326
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    MJ23 wrote: »
    Yes.

    Very likely your clutch is failing then or more commonly known as slipping.
    If you want to be 100% sure then go onto the road and at a low speed (say 60ish) pop it into 5th gear and floor it. If the revs climb faster than the speed then you need a new clutch I'm afraid.


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  • #1327
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭Interslice


    I'd use whatevers left of the clutch to get it too a mechanic. It will leave you stranded at the bottom of a hill eventually.


  • #1328
    h3000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    Snotaul Goodman wrote: »
    :o

    I got done there once. My first car, my second week driving and my first 2 points. Although I was doing 112 and that was before that stretch was upgraded to a motorway. The car I was driving wouldn't do anywhere near 186 if you drove it off a cliff.

    Since then I don't think I've ever gone over the limit around that area. The paranoia is still the 7 years later plus I've seen countless amounts of people done there too.

    The Gardai are like ninjas on that stretch alright. Robocop used to hide in the central median quite often but haven't seen him around in a while.

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  • #1329
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    h3000 wrote: »
    The Gardai are like ninjas on that stretch alright. Robocop used to hide in the central median quite often but haven't seen him around in a while.

    I've heard he's no longer a garda.


  • #1330
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,158 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    OSI wrote: »
    Frank Keane have a VW XL1 over for a promo. Passed me by earlier on Wexford St. God it looks ****. Looks like an 80s Sci Fi movie car.

    HkVvpIF.jpg


    back to the future style!

    That being said, I don't think the VW looks that bad in the press shots I've seen....


  • #1331
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,729 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    That looks better than the vee dub.


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  • #1332
    rubin_spitfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭rubin_spitfire


    OSI wrote: »
    Yeah, it looks different, and I usually like different. But it looks ****. Even compared to the pictures, in the flesh it looked like one of those flimsy solar powered cars they test in the deserts. Looked like a fart would dent it, and it's got those ridiculous half height windows you got in the McLaren F1.

    Also, no door mirrors, tiny cameras on each door instead.

    Registration by any chance WOB XL 119? Have driven this one in VW training centre in Milton Keynes recently.


  • #1333
    wotzgoingon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,309 ✭✭✭✭wotzgoingon


    rubin_spitfire wrote: »
    Also, no door mirrors, tiny cameras on each door instead.

    Registration by any chance WOB XL 119? Have driven this one in VW training centre in Milton Keynes recently.

    That's the one here alright.


  • #1334
    rubin_spitfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭rubin_spitfire


    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    That's the one here alright.

    Will be sure to see it around.

    It is a very weird car to drive. Visibility is very bad from all angles, and reversing with no door mirrors is very difficult. Even on the road, not very special...


  • #1335
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Lads if any of yis are going for the car specials in aldi this week there is a voucher in the indo on sunday for 10 of any spend over 50


  • #1336
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    There's nothing car related in Aldi next week though


  • #1337
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Now nearing 136k miles, just about 50 short as of this evening. I like driving my car :)

    I feel a trip to Leitrim tomorrow though....


  • #1338
    Foxhole Norman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Foxhole Norman


    192hp = :D


  • #1339
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭tossy


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    192hp = :D

    130bhp = :(


  • #1340
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,549 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    tossy wrote: »
    130bhp = :(

    Did you sell the s3?


  • #1341
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Was stuck behind a tractor on the way to new Ross. I was first behind it and about 15 plus cars behind me really bad roads so very few opportunities to overtake. You think he'd pull in as there is a few spots to do so oh no. Then when I did get an opportunity to overtake him he turned around and started to speed up was doing 45 upto the guts of 60kmh when passing him. It was a 142 tractor so the cab was probably on air or something hence why he was capable of going so fast. Can't understand why people who are moving slow can't just pull in when the traffic builds upto that extend.


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  • #1342
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Had to drop herself to the airport this morning at 5am, half an hour there, half an hour back, getting back into bed and staying there, priceless :cool:


  • #1343
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Had to drop herself to the airport this morning at 5am, half an hour there, half an hour back, getting back into bed and staying there, priceless :cool:

    The mammy? :p


  • #1344
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    The mammy? :p

    Nope :P


  • #1345
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #1346
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Foxhole Norman wrote: »
    192hp = :D

    170hp = :)


  • #1347
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,920 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    400bhp = :D:pac::mad::mad::D:P:D:eek:


  • #1348
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    3200bhp = public transport :pac:


  • #1349
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭tossy


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Did you sell the s3?

    I did aye. Have a loan of a 130pd passat for tipping around in for the moment. Half the horse power - twice the mpg, minus 400 times the fun.


  • #1350
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,549 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Passant has more lift though.


    Have you any specific replacement in mind?


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  • #1351
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭tossy


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Passant has more lift though.


    Have you any specific replacement in mind?

    Something with even less horses than the Pissrat. :D but with more driveshafts


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