Car Problems!!

[Celt_Man]

Anyone ever have the accelerator pedal stick and keeping down even without your foot on it??  Jayus happened me the other week on a bendy enough road - it's some criac!!

Fixed it on the spot with a typically male and careful approach - sank the boot even further a couple of times and it came unstuck!! 

[Tony Baloney]

Anyone ever have the accelerator pedal stick and keeping down even without your foot on it??  Jayus happened me the other week on a bendy enough road - it's some criac!!

Fixed it on the spot with a typically male and careful approach - sank the boot even further a couple of times and it came unstuck!! 

Not a Toyota is it?!

http://www.toyota.com/recall/pedal.html

[Celt_Man]

Anyone ever have the accelerator pedal stick and keeping down even without your foot on it??  Jayus happened me the other week on a bendy enough road - it's some criac!!

Fixed it on the spot with a typically male and careful approach - sank the boot even further a couple of times and it came unstuck!! 

Not a Toyota is it?!

http://www.toyota.com/recall/pedal.html

Nope!! Ahh wouldn't be too worried about it

[Hardy]

Ahh wouldn't be too worried about it

I would have thought it could be very dangerous. The fraction of a second you take to respond to an unexpected acceleration or failure to slow down could be fatal.

[Tony Baloney]

Anyone ever have the accelerator pedal stick and keeping down even without your foot on it??  Jayus happened me the other week on a bendy enough road - it's some criac!!

Fixed it on the spot with a typically male and careful approach - sank the boot even further a couple of times and it came unstuck!! 

Not a Toyota is it?!

http://www.toyota.com/recall/pedal.html

Nope!! Ahh wouldn't be too worried about it

I would next time I was approaching a T junction!

[Celt_Man]

It seems to have sorted itself out and have had no problems yet... The car was still braking even when the accelerator was sticking so not really the end of the world

[maddog]

Ive got a right head scratcher here - hit the car before Christmas, damage to the suspension front wheels etc, they replaced everything including the drive shaft. Car is driving fine now apart from this odd noise that i could best describe as sounding like a wobble board , anyway if you pull steering left it makes the noise, if you pull right it doesnt, but any bumps in a straight line and you can hear it as well. Insurers are sending out an independent engineer as the garage that repaired it maintain the noise is nothing to do with them. Also the dirty bastard drained the diesel out of the car while it was with them.

[Denn Forever]

Have you had it tracked at a tyre place?  Were the wheels replaced?  The wobble boared sound would signal to mke that there may be a bulge in the tyre either from a damaged tyre or a kinked rim.

[thejuice]

Herself was quoted with £190 to replace an EGR valve? This is mostly for labour rather than the price of the part.

Is that a fair price? Is it something you could clean yourself rather than replace.

[RMDrive]

Herself was quoted with £190 to replace an EGR valve? This is mostly for labour rather than the price of the part.

Is that a fair price? Is it something you could clean yourself rather than replace.

Depends on where it is on the engine. For example, getting the EGR off a 2001 TDDI Mondeo is a pain, getting it off a later model is not too bad. What car is it?

[Denn Forever]

£190 seems expensive  but don't know what involved with your particular car.  Don't you love You Tube.

Prices for replacement

http://www.micksgarage.ie/parts/egr-valves/default.aspx?gclid=CJyrnISupqkCFQNP4QodhErpuA

What ERG valve does.

http://autorepair.about.com/od/glossary/gr/def_egr-valve.htm

You Tube has videos on cleaning although above site when it goes it has to be replaced.

http://autorepair.about.com/od/glossary/gr/def_egr-valve.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMkx_utiGGc

[theskull1]

Most can be removed/cleaned without too much difficulty
Check out car forums for your car.. They should have step by step guides to help you. It's just nuts,bolts, a squirt or two of WD40 and a few grazed fingers

[thejuice]

Its a Citroen C3. Her car, not mine.

Thanks for all the tips.

[johnneycool]

Herself was quoted with £190 to replace an EGR valve? This is mostly for labour rather than the price of the part.

Is that a fair price? Is it something you could clean yourself rather than replace.

Depends on where it is on the engine. For example, getting the EGR off a 2001 TDDI Mondeo is a pain, getting it off a later model is not too bad. What car is it?

If its a vacuum operated one on a TDCI mondeo, block it up and the thing will run better. Got mine done a year ago and its the dogs danglies, no smoking out of it at all.

On the Mondeo front, got both rear axials replace a few months back but ever since then the ABS has gone to buggery, allegedly when you buy new axials you get new ABS sensors and according to a part time mechanic I may need to get the car onto the computer to get them 'recalibrated' or the likes, anyone heard about this before?

[Croí na hÉireann]

Its a Citroen C3. Her car, not mine.

Thanks for all the tips.

Why do wimin love French cars? Is it the Henry ads? Mine has me driven daft about buying a Renault, I'd rather walk.