Noticed something interesting about my Volvo today (C70 2.5 ME7 on a 2000 plate).
The car is perfect and gives me no cause for concern. However, today, whilst stuck in a traffic jam (facing down hill), I was stationary and had the handbrake on and the car wasn't in gear. The traffic started moving forward very slowly and then stopped again. The car in front of me had moved about 5 feet. I simply released the handbrake and let the car roll forward a few feet in order to "close the gap".
As I was rolling forward for that short distance, my rev counter dropped from the usual rock steady idle of 900rpm to about 500rpm and then as soon as I stopped, she went straight back to 900rpm.
I've now been trying different things out with the car tonight in order to re-create the rev drop.
Basically, I've found that if my car is moving and not in gear, the revs drop to 500rpm and will stay there until I either touch the throttle pedal or come to a complete stop. The engine doesn't stutter and none of the dash lights dim, but she's definitely dropping to 500rpm (I can hear the revs die down as the counter drops to 500rpm).
So what's the problem? Or is this just a normal characteristic of the ME7 engine?
Bookmarks