most of you know the issues we had getting to and from
Innamincka.....
the same sort of thing happened on the way up to Armidale the other week. We were about 15km onto the
Newcastle freeway heading north and all of a sudden I lost the accelerator then the car stalled (at 110kph!) and I managed to get it just inside the white lines on the side of the road.....
anyway, within an hour we had NRMA there telling us we were out of fuel - no bloody chance of that happening - Nath had topped up at work that morning and still had an est. of 110lt left. So off the man goes to get us some fuel cos he didnt believe us, topped us up, bled the blasted thing for 40 minutes and away we went....but the fuel wasn't the issue.....dunno what was...
THEN while Nathan is on his way to
Toowoomba with the kids (minus me) the cars engine light comes on and he loses the accelerator. Turns the car off and she starts again....no light....drives fine......
I had rung the car yard we bought it off and gave the bloke a piece of my mind (I can be scarey when Im really pi$7 off).....Nath did the same and he told us to take it to Nissan....they did exactly the same as our mechanic....tested it with some sort of thingy and came up with the senario....its 1 of 3 things that could be causing the probs.....YET NO ONE IS WILLING TO FIX ANY OF THEM!!!!!!
So on the way home it happens again....lose accel but car doesnt stall like with Nath (it only did it with me)....and this time we lost he accel slowly over 20km or so....got to the point where going up a
hill was impossible......turned car off....back on again and all is fine......managed to get home and hasn't happened since.....
So here is the senario:
Prob only happens after driving for a couple of hours (yet we managed Armidale - Picton with no issues)
Not he same thing everytime.....sometimes it stalls, sometimes we lose the accel slowly...
almost always have the engine light on (which I know covers a hell of a lot of things)
So my guess is is that something is overheating......???
The mechanic (who is really good) the car yard wants us to deal with says he wont be ale to pin point the prob until the lights on except the light comes on after 2hrs of driving....or sometimes 6hrs....and even when it does we cannt just drive it to him....it wont drive (most of the time with the light on which means turning car off)
so there you go...your updated and more to come.....its going to that mech on 20th nov....he's pretty popular!
Laura