Sodding car! Had it less than two months and already the thing is playing up!
Over the last few weeks it has periodically cut out at random moments - usually when I've been driving around for a bit and am approaching a junction or lights and am slowing down. At first I thought maybe it was because the car is new and the biting point is different and perhaps I was stalling it - but after paying very close attention, it's definitely not that. Then I thought perhaps the battery is a bit crap and needs replacing - as it seemed to happen if I had wipers and headlights and AC and radio on all at the same time. But then it happened in broad daylight during nice sunny day so no wipers or headlights or AC on at all!
Then I thought maybe the timing was off. Last night on the way home it decided it would be a really good idea for the engine to cut out while I was doing about 50mph between the A130 and the A127! I managed to stop just short of the roundabout and it took several attempts to get the damn thing started again!
Took it into the garage today for them to look at. Turns out its not the clutch, or the battery or even the timing.
No - it was the stupid on board computer thingy that manages all the car functions! Apparently this computer had decided that the build-up of vapour in my exhaust valve was a fault and was making the unilateral decision to shut the sodding engine off - regardless of what the engine happened to be doing at the time!
Anyhow - the nice man at Vauxhall tweeked it a bit and essentially the computer in my car no longer recognises my exhaust valve vapours as a fault - in fact - it no longer even acknowledges or is aware of my exhaust valve at all! Hopefully I won't develop a real fault with it then or I'm fooked!! lol
Still - at least the car is running nicely again now. I think they must have given it a bit of a tune-up because it sounds different and the idle speed was sitting at around 1000 rpm instead of 750rpm when I picked it up again.
All covered by my warranty too so nothing to pay. Wahay!
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Excellent that everything is now fixed and in better working order.
Hated the thought of something happening if it conked out when you were driving.
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