Xantia relay

[aldo135]

3rd time lucky there!!

[aldo135]

Made the hotel via a great chippy in Stoke! However the clutch is starting to slip. If I take it easy will I be able to nurse it home? I remember there being problems with the cable or clip on cable, but is slipping usually the clutch itself? Sorry I'm a bit of a novice with these things!

[320touring]

Made the hotel via a great chippy in Stoke! However the clutch is starting to slip. If I take it easy will I be able to nurse it home? I remember there being problems with the cable or clip on cable, but is slipping usually the clutch itself? Sorry I'm a bit of a novice with these things!

Slipping is usually the clutch itself. Just be gentle and try to avoid hard acceleration /high engine loads.

 

My Toledo has had a slipping clutch for ages - but never fails to get me where i need to be.

 

I think the clip issues just mean the clutch cable pings off (if I remember correctly)?

[aldo135]

Cheers, I’m 4 hours from home, was only doing a steady 70 for the most part, will try slightly slower tomorrow! The biting point is really high, was thinking that was needing adjustment but now think it just needs changed. It does go along really nice on the motorway.

[aldo135]

Mr Peel’s offer is going down by the minute!!

[SierraMikeHotel]

RobinMasters said something about the clutch but I confess I wasn't really following - might be worth a PM to him, it may save you some time if he'd already started investigating.

[aldo135]

Halfway home. Are we the first to go swimming on the way back from a collection?!!

[Jim Bell]

Halfway home. Are we the first to go swimming on the way back from a collection?!!

 

You may have started a dangerous new trend.

[SierraMikeHotel]

I think it only counts if you do the trampolining as well.

[anonymous user]

 

Is that a photo of one of those new Vauxhall Corsa grit-bins that I keep hearing advertised on tv

[aldo135]

Got home at 3.30, car drove well taking it easy. Will add more later. See my 740 hiding in the background

[robinmasters]

Two possibilities; 1) The clip is designed to be the weak-point in the system, so the clip breaking could indicate the clutch is on its way out. 2) The cable needs adjusting; the previous owner assured me that this was the case.

[aldo135]

Forgot I hadn't added a petrol station picture... But managed to add a sideways view of Penrith Lesuire Centre! Can't get the staff etc. Mistake now rectified

[Lacquer Peel]

I believe this is parked somewhere near my house now, with the keys popped through the letter box for me to assess. What a gent Aldo is.

24 hour shift today so I have to wait til morning to hear that sweet XUD cold start.

[dome]

I missed this, top work Aldo! Looking forward to seeing it at Scotoshite.

[aldo135]

Cheers Dome, you might see it soon but probably not in my hands!

 

Nae bother LP, enjoyed the drive without the kids shouting for Little Mix on the radio! Nice* walk round Falkirk before my train too! I had 50 mins to wait, managed to get a haircut then a cafe visit for a coffee/ roll and sausage, the prices compared to Edinburgh paid my train ticket!

[320touring]

Ahh, shall we see both Aldo135 AND LP at the inaugural 2019 Scotoshite meeting on Wed 30th Jan?

[aldo135]

I'll be there mate!

[Lacquer Peel]

I took it for a decent test drive this morning.

 

In my opinion the clutch isn't slipping but it is juddering at low speeds (TADT,S). The sticky accelerator cable makes it seem like clutch slip.

I joined the M876 and accelerated keenly to 70MPH uphill, there was none of the engine revving and little to no acceleration you'd expect of a slipping clutch, it accelerated well.

 

Headroom is a problem for me, with a sunroof fitted I have to slouch and it's given me a sore neck already.

 

I thought about taking it on but I don't have the space to work on it, it'd be a shame to use it every day as my only car, and I don't fit inside it.

It's really nice, it's only done 60k and the niggles it has wouldn't take much to sort out.

 

Thanks to aldo for letting me try it out, PM the man if you'd like to buy it. LP delivery assistance possible.

[stereotype]

He got a name?

 

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[aldo135]

We've not named him, I should have asked the kids!

[stereotype]

Still time! Quick quick quick choose one

 

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[Minimad5]

Re-roffle that mo-fo

 

Looks a reasonable steer.

[Lacquer Peel]

It's sold already.

[aldo135]

Yeah I won’t have the V5 on this long!

[aldo135]

Still time! Quick quick quick choose one

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Will ask them in the morning!

[Talbot]

PM the man if you'd like to buy it.

Bottoms, I didn't realise this was available for sale again so soon. I'd have had it in a heartbeat and re-roffled the red TD sx.

 

Who bought it?

[Tickman]

Bottoms, I didn't realise this was available for sale again so soon. I'd have had it in a heartbeat and re-roffled the red TD sx.

 

Who bought it?

 

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