nah i need a car. Its too far to ride to work everyday, and i dont fancy riding my push bike through south hatfield at 10pm on a tuesday night. I value my life :lol:

push bike it is then

drew please read my posts. I state that the clutch has failed, not just the cable. Adam-d, im trying to save every last penny for australia, and i dont want the hassle of forking out for scrapping it, re-insuring new car, fixing all its problems, only to be leaving the country very soon

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Originally posted by Kris TD
wierd, your first post was at 12.57 pm on the 18th, and your second was at 11.38 pm on the 18th

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you scrap it and buy another one

this is what happens to £300 cars :(

well the clutch has broken badly, and its a whole gearbox out job for the garage, so its gonna cost me about £250 to fix. with a service its gonna be nearly £350-£400 and i only paid £300 for the car:(

lol i dont think this is a cambelt problem. Before the clutch died, i would put a small amount of pressure on the pedal and it would go up and down and whack me in the foot, gear changes got harder each time until 1st was impossible, then when trying to put into reverse, heard a loud screech again, followed by lots of crunching, then smoke, then me jumping out of car

I had the same symptons - turned out my cambelt had fell off the rollers

if the cables snapped the pedal will be on the floor. dont no why it would smoke when cable snapped. may be clutch

bloody hope not :(

more like clutch!

im not positive its the clutch cable, but i tried jamming it into reverse to get off the road, and a real bad noise occured, followed by lots of smoke. I then turned the car off and opened the bonnet, then decided to get the car off the road as i was holding up traffic.

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Originally posted by Kris TD
wierd, your first post was at 12.57 pm on the 18th, and your second was at 11.38 pm on the 18th

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especially when its in a 2 tonne vehicle. kris, that is really weird. im scared. apparently because the forum is so big now, lots of problems been popping up all over the place like deleted threads appearing out of the blue

Yea, 4.8 V8's tend to use a lot of fuel...

wierd, your first post was at 12.57 pm on the 18th, and your second was at 11.38 pm on the 18th

yeah they have got monster torque. he pulled away quite sharpish at one point and i thought he was gonna pull the front of my car off :(

my dad had a cherokee. petrol drinking monster that makes a lot of noise when revved :thumbs:

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Got pulled round to garage tonight by neighbour. Hes got a grand cherokee V8. I cant believe how easily i was getting pulled along by that thing. Tis a monster

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engine bay. started pouring out the grill to start with, then just from the bonnet in general.

where did the smoke come from then? :boggle:

Got pulled round to garage tonight by neighbour. Hes got a grand cherokee V8. I cant believe how easily i was getting pulled along by that thing. Tis a monster

Bloody clutch cable snapped last night on the way home from picking my girlfriend up from work :mad::mad: What a pain in the arse. There was loads of smoke and thought the engine or gearbox had died on me too. Oh well, getting a neighbour to tow me round to a garage in his jeep, fun :lol::lol: