Longest "limp-home" journey?
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What's the furthest you have driven in an ailing car (eg: to workshop for repairs or back home after a problem)? My record is 215 miles with a shattered clutch plate. I plotted my journey so that I didn't need to change out of 5th gear for 190 consecutive miles of M1, M25, M3, M27 & A31. I somehow graunched and clunked the last few miles to safety.
I had to drive, luckily only 30 miles, after my old 355 decided that one of the lambda sensors was faulty so the sensor that checks that shut down half the V8 so crawled home at 20-30mph.
It was most funny when people approached from behind at roundabouts thinking you were going to accelerate away and didn't so nearly ended up in my engine bay a few times.
The cars biggest problem was that the sensors were first to fail rather than the parts they were supposed to be protecting!!!
Great car though a lot of fun
It was most funny when people approached from behind at roundabouts thinking you were going to accelerate away and didn't so nearly ended up in my engine bay a few times.
The cars biggest problem was that the sensors were first to fail rather than the parts they were supposed to be protecting!!!
Great car though a lot of fun
1 month/1500 miles without the piston liners sealing. I averaged around 20mpg from a 1.8 and it ran like a tractor with the entire car shaking.
Upon removing the spark plugs, one was shattered and two were covered in oil from inside the cylinder.
I really do miss that car. It never stopped
Upon removing the spark plugs, one was shattered and two were covered in oil from inside the cylinder.
I really do miss that car. It never stopped
450 miles with a seized turbo.
I still had another one but the lack of power was torturous.
(I might add that for some reason a number of others in Supras and the like felt the need to 'challenge' me on the motorway but had to shamefully bow out.)
I got in the car two days later to take it to the garage to be looked at and while driving around a left hand bend I hit a manhole cover, the turbo sprang into life and it's been fine ever since.
I still had another one but the lack of power was torturous.
(I might add that for some reason a number of others in Supras and the like felt the need to 'challenge' me on the motorway but had to shamefully bow out.)
I got in the car two days later to take it to the garage to be looked at and while driving around a left hand bend I hit a manhole cover, the turbo sprang into life and it's been fine ever since.
Edited by Big Rod on Tuesday 22 November 10:27
During the limp home, it can't just be me that does odd things such as patting the dash and repeating "come on old boy".
It would probably be beneficial for everybody involved if the car gave up the game. Unfortunatly they tend to limp home, a bond is formed and more money is spent on fixing s
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It would probably be beneficial for everybody involved if the car gave up the game. Unfortunatly they tend to limp home, a bond is formed and more money is spent on fixing s
te!Grimsby to Peterborough in a 728i with a borked inlet manifold and running in limp mode. It was mostly fine and held a 50-55mph cruise in L1 - until it got to a long uphill stretch and 80-90bhp couldn't get it up the hill.
So it probably doesn't qualify by dint of the resulting 4 hour wait by the roadside and two hour AA truck trip home.
So it probably doesn't qualify by dint of the resulting 4 hour wait by the roadside and two hour AA truck trip home.
2 metres with a failed clutch cable. Kinda. I was just driving home from work, about 5 minutes' walk from my house, pulled into a gap between parked cars to let someone through first, then *BANG* clutch cable housing snapped. Couldn't engage gear so pushed it back and forth to "park" it tidily then walked home to call the AA. Given that I'd just been driving through busy dual carriageways and fast country roads, I was quite lucky that the housing didn't give way sooner and leave me in the middle of a busy junction!
16 years old, riding a yamaha DT50, the gear lever failed due to accident damage from a few weeks before.
Had to ride home 7 miles in second gear, at a max of 5mph, in the dark, on the A60 between Worksop and Church Warsop, there are a lot of long straight sections on the road, i was terrified at the time
Had to ride home 7 miles in second gear, at a max of 5mph, in the dark, on the A60 between Worksop and Church Warsop, there are a lot of long straight sections on the road, i was terrified at the time
About 30 miles in my old 200sx to an exhaust fabrication place, the new manifold (badly made) didnt mate up to the turbo correctly (and I couldnt be bothered to put the old manifold back on) so I had to drive it without the turbo making any boost. A low compression 1.8 is slow, very slow.
Bilbao in Spain to the Cotswolds via Le Mans. Circa 1000 miles. car Ginetta G33
Car cut out on the motorway just north of Santander, no power to fuel pump. Spanish garage patched it up (damaged wiring loom) but the battery drained as soon as ignition was turned off or engine dropped to idle speed.
I meant to add that it was an interesting experience being towed of the motorway by a Mk2 Focus RS.
That trip I also drove through floods almost a foot deep which is a lot in a G33 and torrential rain all the way to Le Mans.
Back home the issue was fixed in an hour by correctly earthing a cooling fan
Car cut out on the motorway just north of Santander, no power to fuel pump. Spanish garage patched it up (damaged wiring loom) but the battery drained as soon as ignition was turned off or engine dropped to idle speed.
I meant to add that it was an interesting experience being towed of the motorway by a Mk2 Focus RS.
That trip I also drove through floods almost a foot deep which is a lot in a G33 and torrential rain all the way to Le Mans.
Back home the issue was fixed in an hour by correctly earthing a cooling fan
Edited by blueg33 on Tuesday 22 November 11:13
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