Morning lovely people!

Finally got a chance to go and fill up the lil red Felicia - the guy I bought it from dropped it off to me on Christmas Eve with a glowing fuel light! :irked: First petrol station - was being refuelled. Car cut out twice and I was starting to panic.

Limped up to Asda - their fuel pumps weren't working :eek: Car completely cut out! Fortunately I was in a parking bay but I was thinking please God, let this be because of the fuel and nothing else, please please please...

Lovely lady at Asda said if I was paying cash, they could put me through, so a quick jog up to the cash points, then back to the car. Stuttered up to the pumps, and for the grand total of £33.92 the tank was full

So now to find out whether it was lack of fuel or whether I had managed to buy a lemon with my last pennies... The drive home was amazing!!! :D I still need to get used to the clutch cos it is well high compared to my Rover, but I suddenly realised I was doing 32 mph with no effort at all.

So am I safe assuming that the reason the car was cutting out was that I was driving on fumes?? :confused:

it comes with no warning on even surfaces, but uneven surfaces you get a jolt or two (but thats the carburetor model, different fuel rail and pump position)

Edited 28 December, 200817 yr by Cepheuz

Hiya - can you put that into non-car girlie speak please?!! So the shuddering was it's way of telling me that the fumes were running out? Ta

Yep. Sounds as if it was cutting out because of low fuel.

Thanks Captain, am feeling much reassured. Now just need an excuse to go for a proper drive