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1st June 2014, 09:35 PM
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Well it happened again today, when the car was totally warmed up near the end of an 80-mile run.
 I was leaving the M25 after several miles at "motorway" speeds, down a reasonably long slip road, so braking gently for maybe 200 metres to a roundabout under the motorway. At the bottom I had to come to a complete stop as there was traffic (one small car!) on the roundabout, I then entered the roundabout and took the next exit, following it. As I moved off I could tell it was misbehaving again, but it's a very quiet junction with nothing behind me or even in sight apart from the car I'd waited for, so I just lets things develop. It moved off quite gently, even though my foot was down a reasonable amount, revving up to maybe 3500 before changing up a gear then carried on the same. It was a bit like driving a manual car with a slipping clutch. It was in full auto mode so I don't know what gears it used. After the gear change I got bored and "blipped" the throttle, reverting everything to standard behaviour and overtook the little car (empty dual carriageway with 70 limit). Does this give any clues anyone can interpret. Fuel today was Sainsburys "Super" (97?) as we had a 10p off per litre voucher to use!
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