Anonymous
04-02-02, 09:22 AM
Anyway a Good night was ruined by a crap journy home, The 5door was getting some serious B-Road action, when a roundabout approached. Droping it down to 3rd I did the round about a treat, coming out the roundabout giving it some trottle, revs are high.... Errr what was that wierd noise.... Car now dosn't go above 60MPH.... Shit, drop it back down in to 3rd give it some trottle.... Errr nothing.... The car then conitues to run fine for a couple of minutes not going above 60MPH, and then it starts to cough and spluter..... SHIT, 20 minutes from Home, no reception on either mine of the misses phone, stuck down the A31 in the middle of the forest and the car is starting to play up. I reach a town and with the car still running but extremley shit I decided to pull up, at this point the car completely dies on me.
I pull over and thats it, it won't start. BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING EARTH PROBLEM with my starter motor. AHHHH anyway, after pondering whatto do for 3 minutes, I try the car again. First time, no luck, Second time no luck... Thrid time it starts and dies straight away, 4th time, with my right foot firmly planted on the accerator.... It starts followed by a shed load of black smoke from the exhaust... NOt good, the car then decideds to be nice for another 7 miles, It goes above 70, but I can feel it starting to Cough and splutter again when it's reaching high revs so I keep it to 50, I get on the motorway, now about 8 minutes from home, and it starts to play up again, I can feel the car reaching back and forwards and the revs are pissing about like no bodies bussiness... it starts to behave again for a while and then I hear this really WIERD noise coming from the back end of the car, It almost sounds like it's hollowing...? What the fuck is that on about? Strange noise creeps the shit outta me and just as we pull off the motorway (At the right juction thank fuck) the car finally packs it's bags and fucks off.... Or at least the engine did, I manage to coast it into a garge which is open till 12 (which convinetly for me has closed 10 minutes early!) anyway. I pop the bonnet and all seems well? I check the back end of the carsee if anything is falling off and all is well... what the fuck was that hollowing noise? It wasn't a wheel bearing, I know what they sound like, and wheel bearings don't stop making the noise once there gone there gone. Anyway, again a series of starts fail missrably with the car fucking about so bad it's untrue, I finally get the car home. The wierd thing is, My Alarm LED which normally flashes when the alarm is set and which is normally off when I am driving the car is now permontley on? So now I beg to ask the question. Have I serious fucked my engine, is it time to finally deleve deep and get a new engine, or is mine OK and suffering from a case of a let too much water. Thing is, the roads where dry on the way back? And why, after driving for an hour in the pouring rain there, driving round for half an hour in a bloody monsoon, would the wet finally get to me half an hour in to my journy home and when it's not even quater as wet as it was...... Bloody cars....!
If the engine is completely dead, I'm gonna go for a 1.8 16v, with the old fly by wire gubbins, should be pretty trick.
By the way, First one to say the problem with your car is because it's a 5door wins a hand full of Choclate buttons :D , Unfortunatley second place will have to make do with nothing....
I pull over and thats it, it won't start. BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING EARTH PROBLEM with my starter motor. AHHHH anyway, after pondering whatto do for 3 minutes, I try the car again. First time, no luck, Second time no luck... Thrid time it starts and dies straight away, 4th time, with my right foot firmly planted on the accerator.... It starts followed by a shed load of black smoke from the exhaust... NOt good, the car then decideds to be nice for another 7 miles, It goes above 70, but I can feel it starting to Cough and splutter again when it's reaching high revs so I keep it to 50, I get on the motorway, now about 8 minutes from home, and it starts to play up again, I can feel the car reaching back and forwards and the revs are pissing about like no bodies bussiness... it starts to behave again for a while and then I hear this really WIERD noise coming from the back end of the car, It almost sounds like it's hollowing...? What the fuck is that on about? Strange noise creeps the shit outta me and just as we pull off the motorway (At the right juction thank fuck) the car finally packs it's bags and fucks off.... Or at least the engine did, I manage to coast it into a garge which is open till 12 (which convinetly for me has closed 10 minutes early!) anyway. I pop the bonnet and all seems well? I check the back end of the carsee if anything is falling off and all is well... what the fuck was that hollowing noise? It wasn't a wheel bearing, I know what they sound like, and wheel bearings don't stop making the noise once there gone there gone. Anyway, again a series of starts fail missrably with the car fucking about so bad it's untrue, I finally get the car home. The wierd thing is, My Alarm LED which normally flashes when the alarm is set and which is normally off when I am driving the car is now permontley on? So now I beg to ask the question. Have I serious fucked my engine, is it time to finally deleve deep and get a new engine, or is mine OK and suffering from a case of a let too much water. Thing is, the roads where dry on the way back? And why, after driving for an hour in the pouring rain there, driving round for half an hour in a bloody monsoon, would the wet finally get to me half an hour in to my journy home and when it's not even quater as wet as it was...... Bloody cars....!
If the engine is completely dead, I'm gonna go for a 1.8 16v, with the old fly by wire gubbins, should be pretty trick.
By the way, First one to say the problem with your car is because it's a 5door wins a hand full of Choclate buttons :D , Unfortunatley second place will have to make do with nothing....