I had a moderately eventful journey home from work this evening. Actually, the journey itself was unremarkable but there was a bit of a saga before I could set off.
My car's been an absolute gem, no problems at all, and the journey in to work today was no different. But when I came to go home I couldn't get the car in gear. Pushing hard on the gear stick got nowhere but you could hear the engine note change slightly as it laboured a little. I tried rocking the car but that did nothing. This was with the engine running.
I could get the car in gear fine with the engine off, but starting the car in gear with the clutch depressed made the car lurch. The clutch didn't seem to be disengaging. After a minor palaver and a couple of phone calls to the RAC (Sod's Law: my Audi Roadside cover ran out at the end of 2007) a patrolman came out.
He poked around, there was plenty of clutch fluid and no sign of problems in the engine bay. In the end we rolled the car out of the parking space and he started the car in gear and it lurched around the car park a little and then seemed to drive fine. He tried every gear and they were fine, even reverse.
I thanked him profusely and headed home and everything was perfectly normal. It was so weird; the car had been absolutely fine, no hint of a problem. The only thing out of the ordinary that I can think of is the foot-deep flood I went through on the way to work this morning. Got through there fine though and the car behaved perfectly afterwards. And how could a flood affect things like that? Was the clutch stuck? How did that happen? And how come starting the car in gear fixed things?
Answers on a postcard please.
My car's been an absolute gem, no problems at all, and the journey in to work today was no different. But when I came to go home I couldn't get the car in gear. Pushing hard on the gear stick got nowhere but you could hear the engine note change slightly as it laboured a little. I tried rocking the car but that did nothing. This was with the engine running.
I could get the car in gear fine with the engine off, but starting the car in gear with the clutch depressed made the car lurch. The clutch didn't seem to be disengaging. After a minor palaver and a couple of phone calls to the RAC (Sod's Law: my Audi Roadside cover ran out at the end of 2007) a patrolman came out.
He poked around, there was plenty of clutch fluid and no sign of problems in the engine bay. In the end we rolled the car out of the parking space and he started the car in gear and it lurched around the car park a little and then seemed to drive fine. He tried every gear and they were fine, even reverse.
I thanked him profusely and headed home and everything was perfectly normal. It was so weird; the car had been absolutely fine, no hint of a problem. The only thing out of the ordinary that I can think of is the foot-deep flood I went through on the way to work this morning. Got through there fine though and the car behaved perfectly afterwards. And how could a flood affect things like that? Was the clutch stuck? How did that happen? And how come starting the car in gear fixed things?
Answers on a postcard please.
