hey guys,
tonight I had a pretty scary experience in the VR4, Lorry happened to be in the passenger seat at the time aswell.
I was driving to Ballarat for a job meeting and about 1 hour into the trip I got a sudden jolt, similar to a fuel cut but I thought nothing of it and put it down to a problem with the cruise control disengaging or something similar. Soon after I noticed some grey smoke behind the car and paniced thinking the turbo was doing something it shouldn't have been.
I pulled in at the nearest service station and popped the bonnet. I noticed some smoke and a burning smell but couldn't see where it was coming from. The oil looked fine, there was plenty of coolant and couldn't see any leaks so I took the car for a quick test drive around the servo and everything seemed to be fine, the car drove ok and no more smoke.
We hopped back in it and drove another 30km to Ballarat sitting on about 110km/h.
After the meeting I hopped back in the car and was cruising at about 40-50km/h when the car made a loud "bang" and violently spun to the left and slid sideways across 3 lanes towards a row of cars parked perpendicular to the kerb! Luckily it missed by a matter of feet.
I'm just so glad that it didn't happen when mum and I were on the freeway doing 110km/h... god knows what the outcome could have been then!!!! :?
Baz, I'm glad we changed those tyres yesterday mate, with the bald ones I would have had no hope!
Lorry, thanks for all your help tonight, you're a true mate and a very valuable member of the car club. I'm very appreciative! Sorry for the scare, but I thought you were looking a bit sleepy and needed a wakeup
Moral of the story - use the KISS principal (keep it simple stupid)
AWD cars with EFI and turbos are gay, things just fuck up!
I want my RWD carby fed n/a rotor back! :lol:
Mat
PS. we still don't know the cause of this... possibly a seized transfer case? the car is still at Ballarat and will be getting fixed up this week hopefully.
tonight I had a pretty scary experience in the VR4, Lorry happened to be in the passenger seat at the time aswell.
I was driving to Ballarat for a job meeting and about 1 hour into the trip I got a sudden jolt, similar to a fuel cut but I thought nothing of it and put it down to a problem with the cruise control disengaging or something similar. Soon after I noticed some grey smoke behind the car and paniced thinking the turbo was doing something it shouldn't have been.
I pulled in at the nearest service station and popped the bonnet. I noticed some smoke and a burning smell but couldn't see where it was coming from. The oil looked fine, there was plenty of coolant and couldn't see any leaks so I took the car for a quick test drive around the servo and everything seemed to be fine, the car drove ok and no more smoke.
We hopped back in it and drove another 30km to Ballarat sitting on about 110km/h.
After the meeting I hopped back in the car and was cruising at about 40-50km/h when the car made a loud "bang" and violently spun to the left and slid sideways across 3 lanes towards a row of cars parked perpendicular to the kerb! Luckily it missed by a matter of feet.
I'm just so glad that it didn't happen when mum and I were on the freeway doing 110km/h... god knows what the outcome could have been then!!!! :?
Baz, I'm glad we changed those tyres yesterday mate, with the bald ones I would have had no hope!
Lorry, thanks for all your help tonight, you're a true mate and a very valuable member of the car club. I'm very appreciative! Sorry for the scare, but I thought you were looking a bit sleepy and needed a wakeup
Moral of the story - use the KISS principal (keep it simple stupid)
AWD cars with EFI and turbos are gay, things just fuck up!
I want my RWD carby fed n/a rotor back! :lol:
Mat
PS. we still don't know the cause of this... possibly a seized transfer case? the car is still at Ballarat and will be getting fixed up this week hopefully.
