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Hi, I was wandering if anyone can help, I drive an R reg Escort and recently when driving on the motorway the speed of the car starts dropping. I cannot accelerate, the car then starts making a very strange sound, at which point I have to pull over, as I bring the car to a stand still I can feel the engine shake very unusually. I turn the engine off after a few minutes and when trying to accelerate the engine still makes this noise and it feels very hard trying to gain speed. When turning the engine off for around 5 minutes or so it then starts fine, as this is becoming more prominent can any help or advise? Thanks Zack

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Zack2000
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"Zack2000" wrote

So, this "strange sound"... does it sound like:

1 - stopthecarstopthecarstopthecarstopthecarstopthecar 2 - ohyeahohyeahohyeahohyeahohyeahohyeahohyeah 3 - RrrraaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If it's one of those, it's :

1 - Your wheelchair-bound grandmother being dragged under the car. 2 - Your daughter and her new boyfriend "doin' it" in the back seat. 3 - An elephant at a nearby zoo being castrated.

If it's something else, please describe it with words other than "strange".

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MasterBlaster

LMFAO!! Oddly enough, if you repeat those phrases fast enough, they do sound familiar to a car in distress, usually of the Chevrolet nature.

Sharky

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Sharky

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:57:33 GMT, "MasterBlaster"

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joe schmoe

Carbed engine? Possibly carb ice. Otherwize, is it overheating??? could be detonation noise.

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clare at snyder.on.ca

Could be!

I had an 82 Escort that did the same thing, right around 32 F and wet road or fog.

Slowly, then quickly, lose power. get to where I had to stop. Leave it off 5 minutes, start up and go on.

Never could find anything else wrong, and it only happened under those conditions.

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Backyard Mechanic

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