futsysmids
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While driving back from seeing a customer today, I decided rather than take the motorway, I would take the scenic route home.
While I was happy to pootle along and enjoy the scenery when I wanted to accelerate the car wouldn't accelerate fast enough nor would it go into kickdown when I depressed my foot flat to floor.
I suppose I limped to the local supermarket and went in. When I came out and went the rest of the way home the car was fine, accelerates fine and kickdown worked as it should.
Any ideas why their seemed to be a glich in the system???
My car is a 93k, fsh, C180 5spd auto on a 1997 plate.
I took the car out again a couple of hours later and the car performed perfectly. I did however get stuck in a hour long traffic jam on the A20 - which caused my car to jump and splutter when trying to move off at low speed when crawling in traffic or having stopped for a minute or two.
Don't know what caused that???
When I got out of the traffic jam and was heading through home at normal and above normal speeds the car was fine.
Does anyone have any ideas? I see that I have had a lot of people look at the post but no replies.
Btw - the gearbox was serviced about a year ago when the rear main oil seal and head gasket were replaced - so fluid levels should be fine. I can't see it being the selector rods as the Haynes manual suggests.
While I was happy to pootle along and enjoy the scenery when I wanted to accelerate the car wouldn't accelerate fast enough nor would it go into kickdown when I depressed my foot flat to floor.
I suppose I limped to the local supermarket and went in. When I came out and went the rest of the way home the car was fine, accelerates fine and kickdown worked as it should.
Any ideas why their seemed to be a glich in the system???
My car is a 93k, fsh, C180 5spd auto on a 1997 plate.
I took the car out again a couple of hours later and the car performed perfectly. I did however get stuck in a hour long traffic jam on the A20 - which caused my car to jump and splutter when trying to move off at low speed when crawling in traffic or having stopped for a minute or two.
Don't know what caused that???
When I got out of the traffic jam and was heading through home at normal and above normal speeds the car was fine.
Does anyone have any ideas? I see that I have had a lot of people look at the post but no replies.
Btw - the gearbox was serviced about a year ago when the rear main oil seal and head gasket were replaced - so fluid levels should be fine. I can't see it being the selector rods as the Haynes manual suggests.
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