Any idea what went wrong? - terryb
Joining the A3 yesterday morning, I was just getting up to 70 when a car 2 in front of me (R reg Astra I think) caused us all to take precautionary evasive action. There was a loud "pop" - couldn't really call it anything worse than that - and a large puff of blue smoke. He hit his hazards and made his way swiftly onto the hard shoulder.

Can any of you experts suggest what might have happened? Just curious!

Terry
Any idea what went wrong? - Chas{P}
Timing Belt?
Any idea what went wrong? - Graham
ran over a hedgehog? do they pop loudly?
Any idea what went wrong? - Big Vern
ran over a hedgehog? do they pop loudly?


No but your tires do when spiked by a hedgehog :0)


Any idea what went wrong? - Toad, of Toad Hall.
Weasels pop.

I should know!
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These are my own opinions, and not necessarily those of all Toads.
Any idea what went wrong? - Big Vern
ran over a hedgehog? do they pop loudly?


Dunno, but I've heard stories of Weasels doing this :o)
Any idea what went wrong? - Big Vern
Just beaten to it by TOTH!!!
Any idea what went wrong? - Big Vern
Yep its a Vx, therefore most likely timing belt tensioner / timing belt as covered at length on this site.
Any idea what went wrong? - Peter D
I'm going with the Hedgehog theory.


Peter
Any idea what went wrong? - Dorian
Maybe the driver opened a tube of Pringles that happened to contain a smoke bomb?

:)
Any idea what went wrong? - Jonathan {p}
Blown turbo?

This happened on my nissan 200sx. Sudden loss of power and a large plume of blue smoke.
Any idea what went wrong? - Paul Mykatz-Tinks
"Yep its a Vx, therefore most likely timing belt tensioner / timing belt as covered at length on this site."

Mine did that, not a sign of smoke. Definite pop, though.

Was there an incoming smoke trail? Might be arming Gatsos in your neck of the woods.
Any idea what went wrong? - Jon Cunningham-Smith
Petrol or Diesel Terry?

JS
Any idea what went wrong? - rg
Should have bought an Citroen XM. Then the driver would be used to this kind of of event.

Oh, and it could have dumped 10 ltrs of LHM on the tarmac.

:))

rg
Any idea what went wrong? - terryb
Rob
Not bitter at all are you?
:o)
Terry
Any idea what went wrong? - rg
no, just trying to drive used prices down even further by a rumour campaign...

What economy did you get on yours, terry, owing and solo?

If it was the 2.1, any head gasket problems.

rg
Any idea what went wrong? - terryb
Rob

First one got around 40 solo, high 20s towing 1300kg.
Second one not so good, 35 solo, low to mid 20s towing.

Used to have full mpg records, but hard disk failure put paid to that!

No gasket problems, but the second one did dump a load of LHM on the drive when new - some french production line worker failed to tighten a union properly. So much for pdi!

Terry
Any idea what went wrong? - David M
Should have bought an Citroen XM. Then the driver would
be used to this kind of of event.
Oh, and it could have dumped 10 ltrs of LHM on
the tarmac.
:))
rg

>>

Only if someone was in the back opening up half a dozen extra bottles! XMs and other hydro-cits do rather a lot of miles per litre of lhm - and don't take many litres to fill up. How much greener can you get than that? :)

David M

You know Citroens make sense in an up-and-down world......
Any idea what went wrong? - terryb
Dunno - I was doing 70 at the time so I couldn't look that closely! Smoke looked more petrol than diesel though.
Terry