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Topic: Hill starts, engine stalling problem
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22/7/2013 at 8:12pm
Location: Derbyshire Outfit: ElddisAvante462 Honda CRV SE2.2 i-Dtec
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Well so far so good with our new caravan, but one small question if anyone can help please, on paper, caravan club, what towcar.com, dealers outfit check that they did, our car and new caravan were a fairly good match, and indeed the Civic towed well on our way home from the dealers, about 40 miles away, but approaching the main road onto our estate, we had to stop on a fairly steep hill to allow oncoming traffic to pass before we could turn right. It was a boiling hot day, and we had the air con on full blast, which i know saps power, although in the excitement of the moment of collecting our new van, l had completly forgotten about this fact. Anyway, we stalled the engine, switched off and tried again, still stalled again, and it was only on the third attempt that we got going.
I know that some of the tow reports do say that there can be difficulties during hill starts with this outfit, but it said that about our Zenith, and even fully loaded to max it was still fine. So my question is, would the heat and aircon been partly to blame at the time, or is it something else? Is there anything that can be done to improve this?
We do have plans to upgrade our car to a 4x4 for next season, mainly because we are now using more CLs, and also to give us a more suitable veichle for getting out to my elderly Dads farm in bad weather.but were hoping to get this season over by towing with the Civic.
Julia
------------- Just love to be out amoungst Nature and Wildlife
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