I decided to do a mini service on my 59 model 2.0TDCi VW Tiguan. basically a oil and filter change and a visual on the brake pads and discs. Only got 38,500 odd on the clock so I did not expect problems. Getting the vertical upturned filter casing off is a pain as it is plastic and has a 32mm hex head to spanne,r only access is so limited it is a pain. The drain plug is easy. Anyway job done and started engine up to check for leaks. All ok and so, just before switching of,f I decided to blip the throttle to rev the motor a bit. Now in all the time I have had the car(5 years) I have never revved the car whilst stationary. Anyway lo and behold the engine would only rev to 2500rpm! No warning messages were lit or pending although I did get a advisory to release my brake which actually was not on. Doom and gloom as the last time the engine went into limp mode(which it seemed had happened this time) was just before the guarantee ran out and some valve or other had failed. It was drivable, but on the way to the "stealers" another two related messages were generated. Anyway, the next day, I drove the car and all was normal. I reckon as I was not actually in gear the Brain/s are programmed to prevent high revving thus protecting the engine. If that is so how do they do the emissions test on the MOT? Years ago the garages use to have signs warning owners that diesel engine cars are revved to max and are to ensure their engines are capable to take the pain as if anything goes bang it is not the garages fault. Has all that changed then?
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It is not a fault it is a design feature
As far as the MOT goes
I just make a note of the test number in a book next to the smoke tester as not tested
If you "blow up" a engine it is the bloke who has his foot on the throttle that is to blame
If in any doubt don't do it
Most modern stuff with DPF filters wont even give a reading they are also (not testable)
As far as the MOT goes
I just make a note of the test number in a book next to the smoke tester as not tested
If you "blow up" a engine it is the bloke who has his foot on the throttle that is to blame
If in any doubt don't do it
Most modern stuff with DPF filters wont even give a reading they are also (not testable)
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I used to get an odd one with a Nissan Navarra, went through deep water (road flooded) and on the other side used the time honoured method of drying the brakes by left foot braking while accelerating, engines revs cut by ECU, I assume it decided if brakes are on you shouldn't be accelerating.
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I have had two octavias. The first one 2007 would let you rev the nuts off but my current one 2011 is the same as mentioned. You can rev it if you push the clutch pedal down as it thinks you want to give it some beans to set off.
Most of ours are on 61 plates, I haven't had a go on the newest ones as I'm too busy pedalling the Disco 4 that goes with the new job.
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My folks' A3 wont let you left foot brake. As soon as you tickle the brake pedal, it cuts the throttle.
Considering the price of computing power and the amount of data you could potentially harvest from a car, I'm surprised by how basic and clunky these "features" are.
Considering the price of computing power and the amount of data you could potentially harvest from a car, I'm surprised by how basic and clunky these "features" are.
Over revving !!! I cant get that far
Ive just got a brand new Tiguan and I cant even get the key out of the ignition.......it wont let me until Ive stopped and turned it back on again...........I assume Im doing something wrong
When all else fails.......read the instructions
Ive just got a brand new Tiguan and I cant even get the key out of the ignition.......it wont let me until Ive stopped and turned it back on again...........I assume Im doing something wrong
When all else fails.......read the instructions
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lots of car are like it now soon as you put the brakes on couple of seconds revs cut
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Gosh I take great pride in never reading the cars handbook
I'm the same - at work too which is probably not the best thing since I work in a missile factory.
Instruction manuals are for wimps! or girls
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I installed a few press handling robots in factory that made missile casings in the 80's, might have been Lucas Aerospace near Blackburn?.
There used to be a place Burnley way that made a fair chunk of the Sea-Dart casing - not sure what the company was. We're near Horwich and what used to be British Aerospace Dynamics (formerly Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and DeHavilland Propellors before that).
In Blackburn there was Royal Ordnance - CSF Division (Control Systems and Fuses) but they died off when certain people were taking back-handers to award contracts elsewhere. They did end up as part of Aerospace but only in the final death throes and it's a housing estate now. Dad worked there for many years and I did brief bits and pieces. There is still BAe Samlesbury - they just make parts for the expensive delivery vehicles.
There was Royal Ordnance Chorley too - explosives. The guys on the explosive side used to take great pleasure in giving people bits of TNT to play with and then laughing when they got a migrane as the nitro-glycerine had leeched through their skin. They used to routinely burn any old furniture or buildings that they were getting rid of due to the amount of explosive that had leeched into the fabric over the years. It's mostly a housing estate now. I spent a fair amount of time there when they were processing the soil - it was scraped off down to clay or bedrock and sent away to be cleaned before being returned. Apparently the houses all have a clause in the deeds about not growing food for human consumption in the gardens.
Further away there's Warton - they assemble the delivery vehicles. I have fond memories of being sat at the bottom end of the runway in a Daewoo Matiz waiting for the lights to go green so I could cross. As I looked up the runway I could see a Nimrod in green/yellow primer coming in for a landing but struggling to get it in line over the tarmac due to the crosswind so he was actually heading straight for me. He obviously decided to abort and straightened up to climb out and go around for another go - the car was shaking for ages after he passed overhead.
In Blackburn there was Royal Ordnance - CSF Division (Control Systems and Fuses) but they died off when certain people were taking back-handers to award contracts elsewhere. They did end up as part of Aerospace but only in the final death throes and it's a housing estate now. Dad worked there for many years and I did brief bits and pieces. There is still BAe Samlesbury - they just make parts for the expensive delivery vehicles.
There was Royal Ordnance Chorley too - explosives. The guys on the explosive side used to take great pleasure in giving people bits of TNT to play with and then laughing when they got a migrane as the nitro-glycerine had leeched through their skin. They used to routinely burn any old furniture or buildings that they were getting rid of due to the amount of explosive that had leeched into the fabric over the years. It's mostly a housing estate now. I spent a fair amount of time there when they were processing the soil - it was scraped off down to clay or bedrock and sent away to be cleaned before being returned. Apparently the houses all have a clause in the deeds about not growing food for human consumption in the gardens.
Further away there's Warton - they assemble the delivery vehicles. I have fond memories of being sat at the bottom end of the runway in a Daewoo Matiz waiting for the lights to go green so I could cross. As I looked up the runway I could see a Nimrod in green/yellow primer coming in for a landing but struggling to get it in line over the tarmac due to the crosswind so he was actually heading straight for me. He obviously decided to abort and straightened up to climb out and go around for another go - the car was shaking for ages after he passed overhead.
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It was Burnley, at least I knew it began with a B!, Lucas Aerospace had a line of big presses and robots to handle the material between them. A stack of 1 metre diameter by 12mm thick discs was loaded at the start of the line and went through the line of presses until an 8 foot long by 6 inch diameter tube came out the other end.
What concerned me was it was designed to turn a missile tube every few minutes on a 24 hour process, who used them all?
