rhodieee said:
Hey guys. Recently this weather has been dreadful and majority of the time I drive around I have the air con on... It feels like I loose power to the wheels when it's on... And I only came across this problem today aswell where if I'm in first gear and I push the car abit it feels like the whole clutch is just slipping and the rev gauge just goes higher and higher without power to the wheels. I turned of my car and gave it a rest for about half an hour and I drove around again this time with aircon off and it felt so much better and first gear wasn't slipping at all. Anyone else has his problem?
Sounds like you have two seperate issues
- power loss with aircon on, see above, not much you can do about that, unless your compressor is doing something funny (read "soon to be very expensive!")
- clutch slip as you say "..and I push the car abit it feels like the whole clutch is just slipping and the rev gauge just goes higher and higher without power to the wheels."
You could do try a few tests to see if this is the case, such as;
- put it in 4th (or 5th) going up a hill and floor it, this may highlight issues without the need to rev it in 1st.
- park the car whilst iding, foot brake on
hard, clutch in, 1st gear, engine idling, clutch out, see how quick the engine stops.
May, or may not, tell you something useful, but if there is no engine speed rise on the hill test and it just struggles (I am assuming a steep hill!) and it shuts down pretty well straight away on the idle test then I would argue that the clutch is good.
