Eunos Chump

Vel Satis is now fixed, after bleeding the clutch slave cylinder.  It's fed off the brake reservoir, and the level had got a bit low in there - didn't ping up an alert though, perhaps it's not working.  Need to watch the fluid level for a bit, maybe there's a leak somewhere.

BETRAYAL! The Vel Satis broke down the other day on the way home from work, with clutch hydraulic failure.  Spent about 3 hours waiting for the RAC, only for them to call me to say it would be another 2 hours at least.  It appears the fluid is shared with the brake reservoir and that did seem a bit low, so bought some fluid and topped it up but no change. Once the roads were quiet I drove the 20 miles home without a clutch, which was an interesting challenge with the added burden of an electronic handbrake.  Will have a look at fixing it over the weekend, with any luck it just needs bleeding.

 I'm still enjoying the Vel Satis, still unsure why.  The Mercedes rides better, handles better, sounds far nicer, is considerably faster and uses the same amount of fuel as this, yet the Renault is great.   Doh!  This error is pretty normal for this car though, it still works fine.  Apart from when it failed to disengage when I drove away once - I think it was because the car didn't full stop though, and it became confused.  Went down the road like a dog dragging it's arse along the ground until I manually released it.  Then there was a cow in the road, having a massive piss.  This was in Guildford, btw.  That was a very odd day.  I used a soft upholstery brush to clean all the surfaces, they've come up well.  The plastics have a thin layer of latex (presumably to improve the feel of them), but it scratches and muck gets encrusted within, which you can't shift easily.  Little clock tells time and lets you ...