Bizzare 5th gear on motorway?
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:13 pm
Can anyone help with this mystery.
last week i had the throttle body cleaned and changed the thermostate.
The car has been running perfectly and no stalling ( touch wood)
Anyway... driving on the motorway and hitting 90 for a good 7 min stretch and with full beams (m4 at night time....very dark) and then giving the car a chance to cool down i dropped to 60 and crused at a slower rate. Anyway the car stopped performing... i pushed down on the accelarator and their was no response... i got nervous.. and began to pull over.
I stopped put hazards on and then checked to see if the new thermostate i put in was buggered. No sign of leakage from any pipes and the fan was in motion. I left the car for a min and had a cig, then went back and it drove fine?????
Has anyone experienced anything similar or knows what was wrong???
last week i had the throttle body cleaned and changed the thermostate.
The car has been running perfectly and no stalling ( touch wood)
Anyway... driving on the motorway and hitting 90 for a good 7 min stretch and with full beams (m4 at night time....very dark) and then giving the car a chance to cool down i dropped to 60 and crused at a slower rate. Anyway the car stopped performing... i pushed down on the accelarator and their was no response... i got nervous.. and began to pull over.
I stopped put hazards on and then checked to see if the new thermostate i put in was buggered. No sign of leakage from any pipes and the fan was in motion. I left the car for a min and had a cig, then went back and it drove fine?????
Has anyone experienced anything similar or knows what was wrong???