Hello folks. I've just got my old (Vario, 1.4) girl back from the MOT centre and it's now doing this weird thing wherein the revs immediately climb to the mid range upon even the smallest application of power. Even at 30mph the engine really is being revved to fuck, and engaging the kickdown almost brings the poor little thing to redline.

What's the problem do you reckon? Centrifugal clutch was my first thought. The car needed two new tyres for the MOT, and as opposed to changing the tyre, he just stuck two old wheels on with decent tyres. Now there is a funny smell around the car just after driving, but I can't tell if it's coming from under the bonnet or the said wheels.

HAYULP! I really hope it isn't fucked.

so are your revs going higher but the speed isnt building?

I hope to hell that the muppets down the MOT didn't rev the f**k out of it in Park and kill your clutch.

macplaxton wrote:I hope to hell that the muppets down the MOT didn't rev the f**k out of it in Park and kill your clutch.

Smell and general description does suggest that to me at least. However MOT station should have insurance and if clutch is burned then they must pay for installing a new one.

Not a chance they would pay for a clutch, wear and tear, they'll say.

The MOT centre I took it to was a Volvo specialist, and my car had been his own runabout before I bought it, so I can't imagine it's because of revving in park or anything like that.

The car has behaved like this before, but it seemed to wear off. :/

frazeb wrote:so are your revs going higher but the speed isnt building?

That's it right there.

sounds like a clutch then specially if theres a smell after

Could be the brakes are binding or wheels touching something they should'nt, as it's happened before brakes may have released last time but with sitting have stuck again.

Rang him today, and it's going back in tomorrow morning. Let's just see how that goes...

Update - all is well again! It turns out he'd omitted to re-connect some pipes that he took apart during the service. He was apologetic and sorted it all out, free of charge. I'm properly glad it wasn't the clutch.

I'm well chuffed with the car now, it feels really fresh after it's full service.

Good news

Tom

Indeed. Thanks for all those who replied to my original post!

Tom wrote:Update - all is well again!

Well, almost. The car performed without issue this morning on my way to work, but the high-revving symptoms briefly resurfaced on the return journey. However, they soon disappeared, and I've just taken it out for a run now and it's again performed without issue.

I'm utterly confused. I can't help but think of it all as a harbinger.

(Sorry about the persistent updates to this thread - at least if anybody else has the same issues, they'll learn the square root of fuck all from it. )

Persistent updates are fine around here... It's only spam that isn't.