Thread: My D3 has got a bit of a cold

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The reason I stated what I did in my first post was that the TCS (RACV over here) did a survey of all the call outs they have had in the last ten years or so, and what they were about and also the % of cars per year that broke down. They found that there was a direct relation to the amount of electronic gear on a car and the amount of breakdowns and they are getting more and more electronic call outs every year.

and here lies the problem - electronics and pressurised water!!!

To add the the above quote, in the UK there has been a increase in cars electronics braking down - NOT ALL ARE LR PRODUCTS!!!

The reasons coming from the RAC / TCS / AA (NRMA here in NSW) was the attempts of owners trying to "keep up with the Jones" by constanly washing the engine bay with an ever increasing number of high pressure hoses.

Do these people think that it goes quicker when cleaner? or does the neighbour even look under the bonnet of their car?

As suggested in these posts - electronics are more reliable than mechanical devices, just they don't like pressurised water - I guess its like putting a couple if litres of water into the oil top up in an older non electro motor?

LRH

Did you hear about that fellow who had a latest model Renault, and something went funny with it and he could not stop, It just went flat out (over 200Km/h) till something gave out. Nobody was hurt as he was on the expressway but what would have happend if he was in town?

he would have got 5 metres down the road then a cab or a government bus would have pulled out in front of him and he would have stopped...

if your car gets stuck on full throttle you simply switch off the ignition...if that dont work you just put it in neutral and let the engine go on its own...

that was driver error as far as im concerned....

The car is one of those with the card in place of the ignition key, you cannot pull out the card or stop the motor whilest in gear. Also the car is automatic. Electronic automatic, so he could not put it into neutral. I asked a garage (Renault) about this, and he said to me that "from what I have heard on the radio the bloke inside the car could do nothing but hope it would stop owing to the nature of the breakdown"[/b][/quote]

OK then i would stand on the brake as hard as i could then turn it into a Armco or Guard rail or anything..... even at 100kmh i'd pull it into something.... That is a design fault that you cant shut it down or grab neutral. id be looking at a law suit against the Frogs for that one.....[/b][/quote]

I will not argue with you on that one. I'd be trying to stop it somehow as well. But at 200Km/h it would not be easy.

They said he went through a toll gate at little over 200Km/h. I do not know if any of you have been through the toll gates on the French freeways, but there is not a lot of room in most of them. The police were following him and clearing the road.

Thanks p38arover, good site, just spent an hour there.

Cheers and thanks again.