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Originally Posted by pugram  @Zappo : What is the solution to this. Looking back, yes i made an almost non stop 6 hr trip with 4 fully grown adults in this car. But my speed was restricted to < 80 kmph most of the time, as the GST road was fully crowded with buses on account of karunanidhi's 50th year in the legistlative assembly blah.. blah... The temperature guage needle was in the middle all the times, which does indicate a normal position. |
I know... your temperature gauge stays in the middle. The same happened to me as well. I think its the frequent declutching that causes this problem. As Steer said... predominantly a heated up clutch.
There is probably no direct solution to it. If this has already happened the only way out is to park the vehicle and let it cool for a while (pretty impractical in the jammed roads of a city) or else be cautious from the word go.
I now have become more cautious. In fact a tad overcautious. I now have this thread running at the back of my mind continuously that I have to be cautious about the usage of clutch in those jammed roads. Try crawling on the 1st gear rather than frequent usage of clutch in crawling traffic. You will realize that in 1st gear if you slowly release the clutch without the accelerator the car rolls at a very very slow pace. That is better than using light accelerator on second and then again immediate braking. Because that will require more clutch usage. Typically we all are loathe to drive on 1st and try to shift to 2nd at the first chance.
My idea is that in the current weather a 5-10 minutes of bumper to bumper crawl with intermittent usage of clutch heats up the damned thing. I never faced this issue till date. It seems to have come in with the onset of this dry hot summer.