Sentences with phrase «engine blew up»

I have a 2002 Audi s8 it is financed car loan company I owe $ 3,719 on it the car engine blew up on me the other day it is going to cost more than I owe on the car to get repaired what should I do can I do a voluntary repo with this?

When the engine blew up, I bought a Civic and have always been satisfied since.

«There was one big incident when a prototype's engine blew up and a number of cars spun on that oil,» Gavin recalled.

The engine blew up once.

That car lasted for about 15 years and was at about 190,000 miles when the engine blew up.

It kind of echoed Perez's attitude last race when he said he didn't care if the engine blew up.

Well, he did take the lead at one point in Austria, but his engine blew up before he could cross the line.

He started fifth, led laps and looked in contention for a good result before his engine blew up with just over 20 laps remaining.

He had such a good time in IndyCar at the Indianapolis 500, was on course for a good result before his engine blew up, but was still very competitive.

Fernando Alonso was in 10th place and on course to score McLaren's first point of the season when his Honda engine blew up

More recently, the company's next generation rocket engine blew up during a test.

In short, as harrowing as these incidents are, the passenger jets we fly on are sturdy enough to survive literally having an engine blow up.

The up - coming game is seemingly so realistic, it features McLaren driver Fernando Alonso's Honda engine blowing up

We're used to seeing Honda engines blow up, less so Renault power units.

Once the sensor was taken out and refitted the engine fired up again, but Verstappen said he'd rather the engines blow up rather than go into a «safety mode».

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Not exact matches

Despite blowing up an experimental upgrade to its go - to rocket engines, SpaceX says it can continue its record - setting year.

If you don't come up with a maintenance plan now, and the engine blows one day, your counselor will ask you the same thing any good mechanic would — why haven't you come in before now?

But at this moment, as the powerful new engines are fired, their thrust and roar shakes and stresses every part of the ship and may cause the whole thing to blow up before we can steer it on its way.

«You can handle maybe getting a flat tire, or getting caught up in a wreck, or a blown engine, something that actually happens on the race track.

Luckily for him though he didn't have to trudge back through the woods as Schumacher picked him up, and a helmetless Fisi rode back astride the engine cover, hair blowing in the wind.

«Because we blew up a few engines at the beginning of the season, they have built a kind of safety mode.

Gerhard Berger was an absolute beast at Hockenheim, and in 1996 he was looking set to win until the Renault engine in his Benetton cruelly blew up with just three laps to go.

«They want to play safe and not to blow the engine, but I prefer that [it blows up] than it shuts down the engine and it runs again at the next restart.»

Sadly, just three laps from the end, the Ford engine in de Cesaris's Jordan blew up along with his chances of a fairytale result.

This temperature differential, the engine of Asian monsoons, creates winds that blow from the Indian and Pacific oceans into Tibet, which drag with them the pollutants piled up in the foothills.

A nice sharp knife can carve a theft portal and your left sitting on an engine, or worse, depending on the pressure, go sailing up like letting go of a blown up balloon.

But since there aren't sufficient polyphenols to mop up all those reactive oxygen species (ROS), their diet and exercise will, over time, lead them to suffer rampant inflammation, probably leading to the human equivalent of blown head gaskets and cracked engine blocks.

Although the 1.8 T still isn't as efficient on the highway as some of the rivals» engines, the Passat's TDI model blows them all away with EPA ratings of up to 43 mpg on the highway.

Most car engines are open to the road on the underside so dirty, oily water and dust will splash and blow up from underneath.

Midway through the 1986 model year, though, a 124 - mph gust of fresh wind blew into dealers — a hopped - up engine made the Scirocco 16V the fastest and most powerful Volkswagen ever.

I refilled the radiator with antifreeze and let it warm up, and same thing; engine heats up and holds at just under half of the gauge, and blowers blow cold - slightly warm air.

The cooling fan which is on top of the engine, blows air on this vane as the engine speeds up, actually causing the butterfly in the carb to close, slowing down the engine.

When you install the turbo start with low pressure you do nt want to blow up the engine.

«resulting in blowing up the entire engine» - How long / far did you drive after the red oil pressure warning light turned on?!

I think a reason why overfilling a piston engine mightn't be as bad as overfilling a wankel engine is that in a piston engine there is a much larger distance between where crank is whipping up oil and the vents which are often both in the head, where as a rotary engine seems to have much smaller volume (timing gear inside of the rotor) where extra oil can be whipped around with blow - by gasses furiously blowing by.

After nearly 3 months and 3,000 miles driven, the oil drain plug fell out, resulting in blowing up the entire engine.

We had to hitchhike the last several hundred miles from Pensacola, where an inept VW dealership had blown up Joe's engine on its new chassis dynamometer when we sought counsel on odd noises (it was just sticking valves caused by cheap gasoline).

Electronically - controlled valves close off two pipes at lower engine speeds, then open up to unleash the full - blown hellish din at full throttle and crackles under deceleration.

The cars were designed for kids who wrapped them around telephone poles or blew up the engines before the warranty expired.

It depends on many factors, but maybe as much 50 - 100 + miles (80 - 160 km) before the engine «blows up.»

Note that shorter trips, where the engine does not get too hot for too long, could delay the «blow up.»

As the engine speeds up, the air from the fan blows harder, which pushes the vane.

Colin Chapman once described the perfect race engine for his Formula 1 Lotus cars as one that would blow itself up as soon as his car took the checkered flag.

At the last ChumpCar race you blew the engine up on your racecar going up the hill toward the corkscrew at Laguna Seca.

With the electric motor and combustion engine providing a total output of 369hp and 420 lb - ft of torque, the i8 Coupe and i8 Roadster more than live up to the sporting heritage of BMW — blowing through 0 - 60mph in as little as 4.2 seconds.

Move on up to the next engine option, and prepare to really be blown away.

Just don't expect the blown unit to offer up same razor - like throttle response or alluring aural qualities as the engine it replaces.

Offered with three different engine options, the 2018 Volkswagen Jetta offers fuel economy ratings that blow much of the competition away, including Up to an EPA - estimated 40 mpg on the highway.

Given the size of the engine, LaCrosse drivers are not likely to be blowing speed limits, but as an added measure, a heads - up display projects the car's speed on the windshield.