WS wrote:Astraist wrote:it's also economically important to run the car on high revs periodically.
Why?
fungus wrote:WS wrote:Astraist wrote:it's also economically important to run the car on high revs periodically.
Why?
I would imagine that a car driven constantly at low revs would suffer from sluggish performance after a while.
I know that I'm going back about forty years, but when filling up with petrol one day, I was talking to the assistant who was one of the mechanics about the various star ratings of petrol in relation to various vehicles. The conversation came round to older drivers. The mechanic said that it was not uncommon for older customers to ask if their car needed a de-coke as it wasn't running too well. He said that they usualy gave the car to the apprentice telling them to take it for a run up the A31. When they came back the car was usually running better due to the fact that they had floored the accelerator and given it a good blow out.
My neighbour came in the other day complaining that his Citroen Berlingo HDI was not running well, and would not accelerate properly. He had phoned the local garage and they had told him to drive it hard to blow the turbo out. He did this and said it belched out clouds of black smoke and after that it was running normally. Sooted up turbo due to driving it too gently?
fungus wrote:My neighbour came in the other day complaining that his Citroen Berlingo HDI was not running well, and would not accelerate properly. He had phoned the local garage and they had told him to drive it hard to blow the turbo out. He did this and said it belched out clouds of black smoke and after that it was running normally. Sooted up turbo due to driving it too gently?
mefoster wrote:Full throttle, but only up to 2500 rpm? I'm not sure that's even possible.
foxtrot_mike wrote:But what about hesitation and progress at junctions, I like to take a few extra minutes to look and look again before pulling out checking for solos whether and vehicles overtaking.
Im also not very good at judging speed of other vehicles which doesnt help and need a few extra minutes to think.
MrToad wrote:...I've been in a few cars with drivers who aren't planning, and when they take a long time to make decisions at junctions they are punished for it by other road users. They get overtaken, cut up, pulled out on, beeped at or generally abused - it turns out that what they see as being extra cautious is actually creating problems...
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