BMW Accelerator jam car hits 135mph

He He! What a load of Bollocks ;-) Even if true he must have being over the speed limit at the time! Probably traveling at 135mph.

I'll wait, and find out the true facts. Probably an ass hole who thinks he's above he law.

JS

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John Smith
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In the engine, the correct question would be, "does it have a clutch pedal".

Reply to
chippy

Between the engine and the gearbox.

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Emperor's New Widescreen

OK it appears that automatics don't work quite as I thought, (although they could), but it does seem they have some form of clutch ableit a fluidal rather than a mechanical one.

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Emperor's New Widescreen

Good Lord there is some crap on Usenet. There is a torque converter between the engine and 'box on conventional automatics which may have a lock-up clutch to give a direct drive without slip above a certain speed which may vary. However there are a number of multi-plate clutch packs inside these gearboxes which are engaged and disengaged hydraulically and, these days, controlled electronically. None of these clutches are directly controlled by the driver.

Now it seems to me that the only plausible cause of this 'accident' is if the cruise control malfunctioned. He could still have knocked the auto into neutral or switched the engine off though.

Huw

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Huw

In article , Clark Spyendchipz writes

I had an auto gearbox Cavalier once where the auto choke jammed on resulting in very high revs, not 135 mph I admit but, pulled to side of road, engaged neutral, switched off engine, called garage, problem solved.

Mike

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Michael Swift

Why don't you stick to something you know about, like wide screen televisions? .............. on second thoughts ................

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scrambled egg

Well, let's get this back on course. Has the car definitely got a neutral. I think I know the answer to that one, but let's hear it from someone who does know about cars and this one in particular.

The report said the gears had jammed so one would assume that amongst the other disasters to have struck this rolling pile of crap, neutral wasn't an option... As for switching the engine off, presumably his hands were already full what with phoning the AA, the Police, Mum and the RSPCA.

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Derek Potter

I'm thinking that the electronics wouldn't let him deselect 5th if going into 4th would put the engine past redline. I didn't think beemer box's did that though.

Reply to
Alan LeHun

It's a 4 speed old-tech slushomatic box.

Whatever really happened, we'll never know, but the story being spouted by said chav is obviously bullshit.

Reply to
SteveH

It was a hands free phone.

And *he* called the police to say he was out of control, rather than them chasing him because he was speeding.

He claims he couldn't get into neutral, which sounds quite likely given it was an auto, and he thought he would lose the steering if he turned off the ignition.

He managed to keep the speed down to about 70 for quite a few miles, by using the brakes, but eventually they faded.

To me, the most surprising thing is that he survived the eventual crash virtually unscathed.

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Alex Heney

Nope. You have to actually remove the key to activate the steering lock. Mike.

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Mike G

OK, no Brits should get mad at this because it's just a reaction to seeing this guy's picture and that's all. There was a (serious) news story some decades back about how Soviet scientists had conducted a careful study and found that Russians were the most beautiful people of all the worlds nations and the English were, eh, shall we say, at the other end of the spectrum.

(And no, I am neither.)

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GRL

And they did not tell him to switch off the engine by stitching one notch on the key? Or even stamp on the brakes until the car stalled? ISTM a couple of people have failed in the obvious test. Perhaps so much so, there must be something else.

He still could not get the car to stop by pressing the brakes harder?

It is to me too.

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chippy

Wrong again, that's not like... Oh! as you were then.

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chippy

Let us just suppose there is any (ANY!) basis of reality to this hoax. SO WHAT if he DID engage the freakin' steering lock! He's supposedly (SUPPOSEDLY!!!) standing on the brake pedal already. At 130 mph. Supposedly with fried brakes.

Just how much steering do you suppose you'd have while standing on fried brakes at 130 mph anyway?!?

Sheesh....

Just *look* at this twit. He's obviously a fucktard who couldn't hold on to

130 mph for TEN SECONDS, never mind 30 minutes....

It's just a matter of time that they figure out that - from the jump to the "crash" - he never left the one cellular tower they found him at in the end...

Reply to
daytripper

So why did he phone the police?

marc

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marc_CH

Yeah. And all black people are criminals too.

You are a low-life.

marc

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marc_CH

"If you've read about manual transmissions, you know that an engine is connected to a transmission by way of a clutch. Without this connection, a car would not be able to come to a complete stop without killing the engine. But cars with an automatic transmission have no clutch that disconnects the transmission from the engine. Instead, they use an amazing device called a torque converter."

So no clutch! A torque converter ;-)

JS

Reply to
John Smith

I thought that was Google's Babelfish.

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Derek Potter

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