Guess what's wrong with my car
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Mrs phoned me up, she's on her way to work
she's had to stop on the hard shoulder 'because the car was going really slow' set off again, 'hardly made it up the hill' (this is not even a hill, just a very slight slope)
insists handbrake wasn't on
All this came on suddenly, previously she'd been doing 120 kmh
eventually made it to work, parked up and rang me again;
Me - "can you rev the engine up with the clutch in?"
"huh?"
eventually explained that intricate operation, Yes, she says, it revs up
asked her to feel if one of the wheels was hot, "maybe"
"oh I know, it's just the petrol" she says (it's diesel) "the light has just come on"
hmm
and there's possibly something dripping underneath, maybe oil
and it made some sort of funny noise when she switched it off
Breakdown man will be there later, when she finishes work
answers on a postcard please
she's had to stop on the hard shoulder 'because the car was going really slow' set off again, 'hardly made it up the hill' (this is not even a hill, just a very slight slope)
insists handbrake wasn't on
All this came on suddenly, previously she'd been doing 120 kmh
eventually made it to work, parked up and rang me again;
Me - "can you rev the engine up with the clutch in?"
"huh?"
eventually explained that intricate operation, Yes, she says, it revs up
asked her to feel if one of the wheels was hot, "maybe"
"oh I know, it's just the petrol" she says (it's diesel) "the light has just come on"
hmm
and there's possibly something dripping underneath, maybe oil
and it made some sort of funny noise when she switched it off
Breakdown man will be there later, when she finishes work
answers on a postcard please
kambites said:
Carpet bunched up under the throttle pedal so it wont push all the way down? 
Depends on whether it's really dripping oil, really. If it is, that sounds expensive.
carpet would be the ideal scenario Depends on whether it's really dripping oil, really. If it is, that sounds expensive.
'expensive' = scrap the car, it's worth nothing and has a few other faults
Odd one. The dripping is almost certainly air con condenser, as anything else that could be a symptom would be less "dripping" and more "pissing everywhere" when you had the engine running.
Surely she could not possibly miss or forget to mention temperature warnings all over the place, so overheating seems unlikely, but then if it's had a catastrophic oil leak and ran dry I wouldn't expect it to do another hundred yards, never mind get her to work.
My money is on exceedingly low engine oil which is now rapidly becoming inadequate to lubricate the engine properly. Don't drive it another foot.
Surely she could not possibly miss or forget to mention temperature warnings all over the place, so overheating seems unlikely, but then if it's had a catastrophic oil leak and ran dry I wouldn't expect it to do another hundred yards, never mind get her to work.
My money is on exceedingly low engine oil which is now rapidly becoming inadequate to lubricate the engine properly. Don't drive it another foot.
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