What a morning! Car troubles!

[elusivek]

Geezus, with frights like that my life span can surely get cut down by units of 10years!

So my lovely car (Toyota Echo Yaris over here) is like, 12 years old now. Yearly mandatory car inspections start when the car is 10 years, so my car just went for inspection 2 weeks ago. It passed.



I think I've mentioned before, we don't have a "family doctor", but we do have a "family mechanic". He was the one to take my car in 2 days before the inspection, get it fixed, take it for inspection, and bring it back to us. No difference this year.

But the car started to feel funny after 2 days. It's like, I've put the car in D-gear, but no matter how hard I step on the accelerator, only the engine runs, but the car won't move. It's like the car is in the N-gear. Or in case of manual gear, it's like I haven't released the clinch. The car moves very slowly.

We still managed to use the car for a couple of days until this morning. We were taking the dogs out.

I live in a hilly area, once I'm out of my building's car park, it's a one-lane one-way slope going up. We go up. Around 5 meters out, the car just won't move.

D-gear, 2-gear, L-gear, nothing works. And the car started to slide backwards even in D-gear.

Geezus, that was the fright of my life.

But we were lucky as it's the summer holidays and it was early. No cars behind me.

And because I'm a show off as well...

I just asked my sis to open the car park gate, put the car in N-gear and just let the car slide down and I manouvered the car back into the car park. Then in R-gear, very slowly manoeuvre the car back to somewhere near our park spot, and then the car died. Back to N-gear and we had to push the car back into the designated spot. All in one go, no need to front and back and front and back *makes a childish victory sign*

And we had to use the other car to take the dogs out.

Already left the mechanic a message and he will come over to look over it later.

That was certainly the fright of my life.

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you are ok! That's crazy!

[evilcoc0nut.livejournal.com]

Wow sounds like a transmission problem.

[notte0.livejournal.com]

It was the oil tank! There was a leak and so the oil tank is empty!

I did notice the ground being oily and asked my dad of it but he was all "nah, it's the neighbour's car"...

Now I know. I should trust my instincts more.

[notte0.livejournal.com]

It was the oil tank! There was a leak and so the oil tank is empty!

I did notice the ground being oily and asked my dad of it but he was all "nah, it's the neighbour's car"...

Now I know. I should trust my instincts more.

[chiiruchan.livejournal.com]

Wow. Good thing no cars were around when it stopped!!!!

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you weren't injured. I hope the fix is easy in inexpensive (not likely, I know), but still! *hugs* and good luck!

[mayu-kkg.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was definitely a scary experience. Glad that everyone was ok and that you managed to get the car back into the car park!

[evilcoc0nut.livejournal.com]

That's good, transmission repairs are expensive lol. Although, an empty oil tank could have been bad too but it must have had some failsafes that shut it down or something.