I noticed this the other day when I was driving, it's winter an d there's been a fair bit of snow up here so I've been driving pretty conservatively and have been shifting from 1st to 2nd when I hit about 2.0 to 2.5 K revs because of this. However, yesterday I was on some pretty good roads, and tried to take off from the stop sign a bit likely. I was in first gear and between 4.0 to 4.5 K revs I was still only at about 20mph !!
Now this worried me a little, especially as the car drove really well before hand, and I was expecting to rocket forwards somewhat.
The car pulled right up to about 20 mph then the engine continued revving, nothing felt out of place, except my speed didn't increase much. I'm pretty damned sure that the gearing isn't that short that she can't handle more than 20 mph in 1st, the wheels didn't feel like they were spinning either and the road was good and well salted too.
I've only had the car since early December, and I know that it was given a full service before I picked it up. Is it possible that somehow the computer was reset and it's learnt my very conservative driving style and no longer wants to hammer it down in first ? Or would this suggest a bigger problem somewhere.
Also as a note, Air Con was off, as I know this causes power drain as it draws power from the engine (although I'm not sure how exactly).
2.5L Duratec - 98 Mystique LS Sport Edition.
Thanks in advance,
Rabbit.
