It's definately pinking!

If it revs to 12K RPM, I'd call it highly tuned ;o)

Cheers,

Colin.

...And a ride home. Don't forget her ride home.

fido

What about when learners kangaroo ?

Daytona

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Nah, just well balanced.

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I was just thinking that. Even a little revver like his fiat isn't going to be under maximum load to maintain 60+ unless he has lots of long climbs with only flats or short downhills in between.

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Or the driver can't be bothered to change down and is trying to slog it up in 5th...

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No it doesn't flick to the top, you are letting it go. You need to get it to bite, when you start moving then you can let it get to the top fully.

I know some cars have heavy clutches/stronger return mechanisms than others but I've let to find one that couldn't controlled at all in a fairly modern car by a fully able man.

The Skoda Fav was pathetic, you had to wait for it to come back before giving it gas, the Saab was nicely balanced, but the Celica is a little stronger on return and gives a little push against the foot, but it is easily controllable.

And you do need to rev it when pulling away, as others have said.

Yeah it probably would in someways, but remeber my car's small. If I have my foot forward too much my foot gets caught up in the steering lol. If my foots badly positioned when I'm doing manouvres I can sometimes feel the steering thing touch my foot as it spins round, which could be dangerous :-(

OK, dictionary definition is : "to do something slowly with great physical or mental effort" In a car I think it's basically when the engine's under heavy load and struggling. If you go up a hill slowly in 1st gear, it may labour, but you can't change into a lower gear from 1st.

No, as I've said, I've only ever stalled it three times (twice due to leaving it in gear lol). I don't have a problem with rescuing the engine when it's about to stall. I used to floor it in my old Metro, but with my Seicento it usually only needs small movements to rescue it.

I do know this! I can usually pull away with the revs barely changing, but more problem is when my foot slips on the clutch I completely loose control.

In my car, labouring's when you have it in 4th at 25mph.

I didn't go to a main dealer, or a big franchise. It was a little backstreet place. They did an electronic diagnosis, and two of them drove it.

I'll ask them what they think, see if they agree that there's nothing wrong (but I really doubt that they'd say that). The misfiring's only noticeable at idle, so they will notice, and you can feel the misfire's with your hand near the end of the exhaust (although it's very easy to hear them too).

The thing is that a year ago my car wasn't making these misfiring noises. It was intermitent when it first started. I while ago I was thinking to myself 'am I sure that it didn't used to do this?', but I am sure. When it first started I took it to a garage to ask them, but that day it didn't misfire, there was nothing wrong with it lol. Now I can guaruntee that it'll misfire and it also doesn't need to be warm like it did when it first started. The pinking's been there for as long as I can remember though.

Ah yeah, I've read that it's best to disconnect the battery, I had never thought about there being a fuse for the ECU.

ROFL! I had a look back just now. I can see how you can find it funny, although it's not funny to me. My car has been behaving weirdly, and a lot of what I've been saying isn't as much rubbish as you think it is, honest :-)

I've passed grade 8 on my trombone :-P

Hmm, what advice is that? Let me guess, the advice about walking lol! Honestly, I'm not sure what advice you're talking about.

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They very rarely do - or at least they didn't when I taught 'em.

ROFL! I do know how to drive, and I can control my feet quite well, but not when they're wet and slipping all over the place.

I don't know exactly what I said, but it doesn't pink when maintaining

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If your foot is slipping off the clutch, then it would slip off the brake.

Either throw those shoes away or learn to control the pedals properly.

Colin Stamp wrote in uk.rec.cars.maintenance on Sat, 02 Oct 2004 11:54:16 +0100:

Oops. Forgot it needs two revs per bang.