Car sits in any gear reving, no motion

[Nutkin]

Happened last night driving back slowley got worse until my car will now just sit in any gear and act like no power at all is getting to the wheels.


I had to abandon it as no AA cover, is there anything i can do to bodge this or is towing the only option?

 

[warren_cox]

I'd check your pipes to see if any of them have blown off. If not then it sounds like a tow job.

 

[Danny_FR]

So it revs ok but doesn't transmit power? Clutch completely gone? If it is, you can still drive it without your clutch but its crunchy and embarrassing!

 

[Nutkin]

So it revs ok but doesn't transmit power? Clutch completely gone? If it is, you can still drive it without your clutch but its crunchy and embarrassing!

revs goes into gear fine, but no power to wheels?

how do i still drive it?

i was trying but it just wouldnt go no matter what i did? none of the gears engaged.

 

[DPJ]

Can you check the cables are making the shifter move on top of your box?

 

[Nutkin]

Can you check the cables are making the shifter move on top of your box?

yes, im reasonably sure it is the clutch, but i dont know if this is regular behaviour.


When its in first gear, it would pulll then it would just pulll less and less until now it is just free reving like the clutch is depressed all the time.

 

[UncleFester]

Could be a clutch cylinder, have you checked fluid levels in the resevoirs?

 

[Nutkin]

Could be a clutch cylinder, have you checked fluid levels in the resevoirs?

how do i check this? is it fixable at the side of the road?

 

[UncleFester]

If it's gone i doubt it - tbh it's probably going to be a tow and ramp job Can you select gears but not just not use them? What does the clutch pedal feel like?

 

[Nutkin]

If it's gone i doubt it - tbh it's probably going to be a tow and ramp job Can you select gears but not just not use them? What does the clutch pedal feel like?

honestly everything feels fine apart from nothing goes, its booked into autotechnic in wokingham, i just need to find that dam towing eye and get someone to tow me there

 

[LEE69]

CV joint gone?

 

[Nutkin]

never mind its going to a vag specialist and being towed.

175 for Towing though.

I have a feeling there gonna turn my brown eye blue with this ordeal.

 

[JamesL]

175, thats blo0dy steep!

Are you still waiting to get the clutch done anyway?

 

[LEE69]

£175 jeeeeeesus!!

Not got AA or RAC, no mate/family with it?

 

[Seat Adam]

Definately sounds like clutch completely gone. Bit steep the price of recovery!

I have a feeling there gonna turn my brown eye blue with this ordeal.[/QUOTE]

I think your brown eye will be more red and sore by the time their finished!

 

[JamesL]

Get onto www.quidco.com, sign up, go through to RAC and get the cheapest cover they do. Its something like £29 with £20 quidco. If you haven't used quidco before they keep the first £15 in quidco you earn, but then anything after that you keep. So the cover will cost you £24 at the moment with a free quidco account.

I downloaded my card straight off the website once I'd joined so if you did the same you could use it straight away.

Think they claim to only tow you 10 miles, but if the garage you are going to is closer than that then you sorted, and a years worth of cover.

Or has it already been towed?

 

[lee_woollett]

I had a drive shaft pop put of a gearbox once which caused these very same symptoms. Could get the thing in gear and clutch felt as normal. That's an easy thing to check

 

[Seat Adam]

Thats true, could be that. I'm thinking of a LSD in a car so no drive, could be one of the drive shafts CV joints or the drive shaft has snapped.

 

[Nutkin]

Just been towed to autotech in twyford,

think im gonna go for the awesome gti conversion.

http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/product.php?xProd=10682&xSec=356

 

[Seat Adam]

Just a warning if you have modded your car, I noticed it said rated up to approx 275ish NM torque.