Zack2000

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

MasterBlaster

"Zack2000" wrote

> 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?

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".

Sharky

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

joe schmoe

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:57:33 GMT, "MasterBlaster"
<Nobody's.Home@My.Place> wrote:

>
>"Zack2000" wrote
>
>> 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?
>
>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".

I Think I heard a combination of:
2) ohyeahohyeahohyeahohyeahohyeahohyeahohyeahyeahyeah!
4) stopitstoobigstopitstoobigstopitstoobigstopitstoobigstopitstoobig!

The other day.

Do you think that's another type of "near combustion" problem?

I'm not so good at diagnosis by sound though.

clare at snyder.on.ca

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:15:53 -0500, "Zack2000"
<zack_k2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>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

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

Backyard Mechanic

clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:



>
> Carbed engine? Possibly carb ice.

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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