I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough to diagnose engine problems, and even if I did, if it turned out to be something I'd have to tear the engine apart for... I've only got one day off, which is tomorrow. I do have Saturday and Sunday off, but that's rare enough when working in fast food that no amount of gearhead cred will convince me to give that up (sufficiently extortionate labor costs, however, might convince me to give up Sunday).
It really isn't that complicated. With the internet, anyone who knows how to read can work on cars. I have a friend, who knows absolutely nothing about cars, fix a bucking problem in his Altima by taking it to Autozone to pull the CEL code, then watching a youtube video on how to address said code. Ran great until it shot a rod through the side of the block.
No, the bucking was caused by a misfire, which was caused by a worn out spark plug. The car had just over 200k miles on it when the engine gave out, so I'm sure that had a lot to do with it. I also wouldn't be surprised at all if it didn't receive timely oil changes throughout its life. It may have burned oil and canibalized itself, I dunno. He only drove it for a couple hundred miles before it blew up
Anyone here know anything about Suzuki Esteem's? I've taken interest in them, specifically the wagon, in manual and 1.8L engine. They seem to be really cheap, practical, relatively fun and very reliable, quite an ideal first car. They're not very popular it seems (in North American at least) and there isn't too much information about them. I'd also imagine that many parts would be quite difficult to find in North America.
I recently found out I might get a chance to drive a Baja Bug and learn how to drive a manual so I'd like to know, how important is double clutching and rev matching?
Not at all important for day to day driving. However Rev matching can make the clutch last longer and allow for faster gear shifts. It is an advanced driving technique, learn how to drive a manual normally before you try other things. There are some exceptions to this though.
Double clutching isn't really needed in normal driving. However rev matching comes pretty much natural quite soon after you're driven manual for a while. Rev matching makes the ride smoother and doesn't stress the clutch as much.
Good luck driving a manual if you can't handle the absolute basics of driving a car, without having a clutch and gearshift to deal with.
Good to know, I wasn't sure how advanced beetle gearboxes are beetles are pretty basic cars with few luxury features so I wasn't sure if it would have synchronizers but thats more of a drivability thing I gues... but so are automatics oh and here I was thinking you needed to do things like use a clutch and shift oh how wrong I was, should I hit the Vtec before or after turning on the electric turbo? I can handle the basics of driving just not when it comes to depth perception and knowing the width of the vehicle, luckly I wont need to as much because there will be nothing around but sand and a few motorhomes which will also help with my paranoia.
I didn't specify for the vehicle you would be driving. Just that in general in manuals it is not an issue. When it comes to speciality vehicles that are custom made how is anyone here going to know if it has one or not if we don't even know what engine and transmission it has in it? Your best shot at an accurate answer is to contact whoever owns the vehicle. Perhaps someone might know a general rule for that particular category of vehicle.
Well I'm pretty sure it has a stock engine and transmission and I thought most baja bugs did as well.
