Hi all,
two separate issue here i'm hoping for advice on. the engine stutter i know has been touched on before on here but reading it doesn't sound like my issue so thought i'd start a new thread.
basically, it doesn't do it very often but when i am accelerating and the revs pass through 2.5k to just over 3k it seems to do it (2.2 diesel). it is like a total loss in power for a second and the whole car jolts. it then is fine again and the car picks up speed as you would expect. this happens at partial throttle, or full throttle but does most often seem to be around that rev rang but not always and has happened at higher or lower revs. i had the car serviced in November, it wasn't doing that before the service. i have been back to the garage twice and they cannot find a fault with it but it is driving me crazy! I wondered, since it is new since the service, whether the likely cause is the fuel filter which they changed. could it be the engine is being briefly starved of fuel if there is a fault/mis-fit/blockage?
the gearbox i don;t think i can blame on the garage but it has got progressively worse. it still engages all gears but sometimes with the clutch fully depressed it is lovely and other times, still with the clutch fully depressed, i need to give it a bit of a shove. would this be (hopefully) something as simple as replacing the gearbox fluid - which i don't think has ever been done (i'm not on 160k miles!) or could it be something more sinister?
sorry for the epic,
thanks in advance for your help.
Rich
two separate issue here i'm hoping for advice on. the engine stutter i know has been touched on before on here but reading it doesn't sound like my issue so thought i'd start a new thread.
basically, it doesn't do it very often but when i am accelerating and the revs pass through 2.5k to just over 3k it seems to do it (2.2 diesel). it is like a total loss in power for a second and the whole car jolts. it then is fine again and the car picks up speed as you would expect. this happens at partial throttle, or full throttle but does most often seem to be around that rev rang but not always and has happened at higher or lower revs. i had the car serviced in November, it wasn't doing that before the service. i have been back to the garage twice and they cannot find a fault with it but it is driving me crazy! I wondered, since it is new since the service, whether the likely cause is the fuel filter which they changed. could it be the engine is being briefly starved of fuel if there is a fault/mis-fit/blockage?
the gearbox i don;t think i can blame on the garage but it has got progressively worse. it still engages all gears but sometimes with the clutch fully depressed it is lovely and other times, still with the clutch fully depressed, i need to give it a bit of a shove. would this be (hopefully) something as simple as replacing the gearbox fluid - which i don't think has ever been done (i'm not on 160k miles!) or could it be something more sinister?
sorry for the epic,
thanks in advance for your help.
Rich