do I have a dodgy clutch?

bigjl

londonTiger wrote: »

clutch plate connects the engine to the gearbox. the clutch is USED when the clutch pedal is released, as in the clutch plates are in contact and meant to have a solid connection. If it is slipping then the gearbox and engine are revving at different speeds when they should be at the same speed.

In all honesty I think the issue is probably just me driving harder now than when I first got the car 4 years ago and expect it to drive a lot faster. When I first got the car 4 years ago I used to drive like I drove in my lessons.

You have just rephrased what I said as a reply to what I said haven't you?

You honestly don't realise that you are lugging the engine with too low revs?

You are looking for a fault when the problem is the jut behind the wheel.

londonTiger

bigjl wrote: »

You have just rephrased what I said as a reply to what I said haven't you?

You honestly don't realise that you are lugging the engine with too low revs?

You are looking for a fault when the problem is the jut behind the wheel.

no you didn';t think out your response before typing and made a stupid mistake. You were saying clutch action occurs when the pedal is down, that is complete incorrect clutch action occurs when the pedal is released.

You said the complete opposite and now trying to backpeddle.

FYI I'm not driving in the brink of stalling at 5mph. If you actually read the OP you would have known that I hve observed the car just doesn't do 5mph and I have to pull it ouit of stalling by putting the clutch down. I do not have another car to compare this behavior to so I was posting on the forum to find out if this is normal on all cars.

So now I was NOT lugging the engine on too low revs. You're WRONG AGAIN.

Silver-Surfer_2

londonTiger wrote: »

no you didn';t think out your response before typing and made a stupid mistake. You were saying clutch action occurs when the pedal is down, that is complete incorrect clutch action occurs when the pedal is released.

You said the complete opposite and now trying to backpeddle.

FYI I'm not driving in the brink of stalling at 5mph. If you actually read the OP you would have known that I hve observed the car just doesn't do 5mph and I have to pull it ouit of stalling by putting the clutch down. I do not have another car to compare this behavior to so I was posting on the forum to find out if this is normal on all cars.

So now I was NOT lugging the engine on too low revs. You're WRONG AGAIN.

Some cars will go quite happily at 5mph without touching the accelerator.

londonTiger

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

Some cars will go quite happily at 5mph without touching the accelerator.

my idle rev is 700rpm, I preume you meant that the car will not do anything less than 700rpm and therefore if 5mph require less than 700rpm it will stall?

Norman_Castle

londonTiger wrote: »

my idle rev is 700rpm, I preume you meant that the car will not do anything less than 700rpm and therefore if 5mph require less than 700rpm it will stall?

It will be on its way to stalling. As you said,

londonTiger wrote: »

it is rough, sounds like it's going to stall

bigjl

londonTiger wrote: »

no you didn';t think out your response before typing and made a stupid mistake. You were saying clutch action occurs when the pedal is down, that is complete incorrect clutch action occurs when the pedal is released.

You said the complete opposite and now trying to backpeddle.

FYI I'm not driving in the brink of stalling at 5mph. If you actually read the OP you would have known that I hve observed the car just doesn't do 5mph and I have to pull it ouit of stalling by putting the clutch down. I do not have another car to compare this behavior to so I was posting on the forum to find out if this is normal on all cars.

So now I was NOT lugging the engine on too low revs. You're WRONG AGAIN.

No I'm not you are just trying to divert from the obvious.

You have even said you are doing 700rpm in 1st.

So you need to raise the revs by slipping the clutch.
Not sure why this is such a difficult concept for you to understand.

More worryingly is you also happily dish out advice when you clearly struggle with the very basics.

londonTiger

bigjl wrote: »

No I'm not you are just trying to divert from the obvious.

You have even said you are doing 700rpm in 1st.

So you need to raise the revs by slipping the clutch.
Not sure why this is such a difficult concept for you to understand.

More worryingly is you also happily dish out advice when you clearly struggle with the very basics.

i said no such thing, read the sentence again.

londonTiger

Norman_Castle wrote: »

londonTiger wrote: »

my idle rev is 700rpm, I preume you meant that the car will not do anything less than 700rpm and therefore if 5mph require less than 700rpm it will stall?

It will be on its way to stalling. As you said,

I don't think it would do 700rpm in gear 1. I just took the car out to drive and did 20mph in gear 1 it required 4k rpm. So 5mph would require 1000rpm

Norman_Castle

londonTiger wrote: »

I don't think it would do 700rpm in gear 1. I just took the car out to drive and did 20mph in gear 1 it required 4k rpm. So 5mph would require 1000rpm

So how fast does it go at 1000rpm in "gear 1"?.

Mankysteve

londonTiger wrote: »

Every service is current, airfilter, sparkies, engine oil, engine oil filter etc. All done within the last year and I do these all annually. My annual miles is 8,000 ish

I have a catalytic converter issue, that has been on there for quite some time, mechanic reckons the cat is gone but expensive. The fuel economy dropped like a bomb recently after an ASDA fillup, where I got 60 miles less to a fuel tank than normal. Since then the fuel economy has been improving every fillup.

The other reason why I suspect I have a a bad cat is that it's a bit slow off the mark, I don't know if it's the car or if it's me growing out of my slow car and needing a quicker car.

Do a proper brim tank, record millage then re brim and work out millage that way. Fuel gauges are not very accurate, mines goes up after a cold night.

Do you do a lot of journeys?

A knackered cat may be clogged up reducing your millage.