nasty pothole caused my car to die?????

[dj_russell]

earlier on went down this bastard of a pothole i never seen it, the car just cut out and there was a mighty bang 1st thought was ive took the sump out or cam snapped and the bang was the engine.

looks under car everythings fine etc...

all it was was that fuel cut off thing by the right shocker the black circular button. pushed it in and wolla???

what caused that??

cheers
jim:homme:

[Jorge-]

its the fuel cut off, in a crash. must have been quite a bang...

[Predator_R32]

As said its a fuel cut off and you presst hat to reactivate the fuel going to injectors, just a safety feature

[Liam]

Inertia switch. Its a little ball bearing type thing that when it comes out of its little hole it cuts the power to the fuel pump. When you press it the little bearing goes back into its hole. It takes a couple of G's to knock one out though. Must bein hard. I would check the droplinks and stuff just to make sure theyre ok.

[Predator_R32]

Thats it couldnt think of the name :p

[Tontsy]

ouch... must of been a fuckin bang! as liam said, start checkin make sure, other things are ok. if it cut the fuel, i would of thought there would be damage underneath!

[dj_russell]

im going to say its fucked my shocker and complain to the council as it really went bang. didnt help the fact it was 3 up(4 if you count my weight lol).

no dought there answer will be i shouldnt own a low car. the tracking seems to be ok the front left shocker was knocking since ive owned it.

cheers all aswell.

ill get underneath in the light tomorrow.

[Jorge-]

they will jsut say its lowered, your own fault, and to do that it must have been at some speed.

[dj_russell]

they will jsut say its lowered, your own fault, and to do that it must have been at some speed.

thats the thing that really pisses me off i was driving nicely earlier onwhen it happened im not one for ragging a car constantly unless provoked lol i was following another car at about 30mph.

afterwards one of the lads reakened they buckled there alloy on that same one.

and ive heard of cases where damage has been paid for even on lowered cars but i dont hold much hope. and if there not interested it means i get to mouth off at some misurable tosser ill feel bette.r about it.

[Liam]

Thats it couldnt think of the name :p

Liam to the rescue. :)

[Mystic]

Don't worry about snapping your cam either... Ever ;)

[dj_russell]

Don't worry about snapping your cam either... Ever ;)

ay why????? im lost lol:wacko: im having that changed soon and a new waterpump as im not 100 percent on if its done

[Mystic]

Ah, you were talking about the cam belt i guess. The cam is just a chunk of metal, you would have to do something horrendously wrong to snap it whilst its in the engine ;)

[dj_russell]

sorry mate i meant cambelt lol was gonna say.

[Tontsy]

there was a stupidly big speedhump in one of our local spots, was put in there to stop up drivin up and down at speed... it was so high even normal height cars had problems going over it, the ammoutn of people with lowered cars that had exhausts / sumps ripped off by it was stupid... the council had to have it removed and apologised for all damages.

argue that you pay your road tax to drive on a safe and well condition road...so you will charge them for the damage to your shock, which was obviousluy an AST coilover worth 300 quid lol... but on a serious note, do it.

[dj_russell]

bloody joke aint it. had a quick look everything looks alright.