With my DOGE CARAVAN XT 2008 before you reach that RED LINE the vehicle must have been speeding in the air I still dey find SMOOTH STRAIGHT ROAD to cross that RED LINE to the end.

paix:
Do you mean when the mechanic is driving the car or just revving the engine when the car is stationary?

Not sure it's quite possible to redline while the carb is in motion. In the case of an automatic transmission car, wouldn't the gear shift thereby reducing the tachometer gauge? Perhaps with a manual transmission car you could get close?

twinskenny:
Is there anywhere they do engine flushing in lagos?

Is there a sludge in your engine? If so flushing it is a 50/50 chance

paix:
Even at that, some cars don't REDLINE.

I believe the redline speed is to be reached slowly. Maybe on a very long smooth road, you take it up gently so the car can adjust by itself all that needs to keep the car ok .
Butbif you force it to suddenly redline, it will not work for safety reasons.

Just like your seatbelt. If you lean forward slowly, you can pull it and even touch your toes. If you jerk forward suddenly, it does not extend at all.

wagazala:


Revving while stationary. It still irks me when the tachometer gets to the red part.

If it's an old car, they will tell you that they are flushing the carbon from the exhaust pipe or better still tell you that they are making sure the spark plugs are firing fine.

uuzba:
Mechanics do this s*** so you will know they have arrived; are in control. Usually with the door open and one leg out

Vo--Vo-Vo-Vo-Vo-VrooooooMMMMMM!!!
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I don't know any useful purpose this does for the car.

To comot dorty for d engine!

uuzba:


I believe the redline speed is to be reached slowly. Maybe on a very long smooth road, you take it up gently so the car can adjust by itself all that needs to keep the car ok .
Butbif you force it to suddenly redline, it will not work for safety reasons.

Just like your seatbelt. If you lean forward slowly, you can pull it and even touch your toes. If you jerk forward suddenly, it does not extend at all.

I think so. But even on 240km/h which is my car's max speedometer; it never gets there. It stops at 8,000 rpm.

paix:
Even at that, some cars don't REDLINE.

Yeah.. The do have governor that cut off the fuel supply once you reached the red line.. I love the feeling of depressing the pedal to metal on manual Toyotas, the car will accelerate till it reaches the red line, giving out sounds like (Chit Chit Chit) the tacho stick will be bouncing on the red line by then, eventually, the engine will go dead, engaging the second gear will bring it back to life which rocket acceleration...

Sunymoore:

Yeah.. The do have governor that cut off the fuel supply once you reached the red line.. I love the feeling of depressing the pedal to metal on manual Toyotas, the car will accelerate till it reaches the red line, [b]giving out sounds like (Chit Chit Chit) [/b]the tacho stick will be bouncing on the red line by then, eventually, the engine will go dead, engaging the second gear will bring it back to life which rocket acceleration...

Yea, it's common with VW kombi bus back then.

I eventually Sold the car the following week. However, I felt Sad.

uuzba:


Probably the piston rings were not lubricated fast enough and burnt out. Now the car will continue to smoke and chop engine oil. Till you change the engine.

paix:
Yea, it's common with VW kombi bus back then.

Yeah.. I'll miss internal combustion engines.. They're being phase out

paix:
I think so. But even on 240km/h which is my car's max speedometer; it never gets there. It stops at 8,000 rpm.

If it's an automatic in "Drive" mode and you somehow found the road to do reach 200km/h, and the car is at 8000rpm, there would be so much wind resistance blowing on the car at such speeds the car might never quite reach 240km/h. To achieve this by force, you would "gear down" in a manual or shift to "L" (beyond Drive) At such speed the car cannot decieve itself again. It will max out at the highest RPM to go beyond that 200km/h in a lower gear. It gives the engine more power to overcome the wind resistance and reach 240km/h but at the cost of a dangerously high RPM.
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I sometimes do this at lower speeds if I want to overatake some useless tipper spraying sand on my car. And the car is still gently accelerating (thinking that I'm playing or something).

But note that only new cars with tight tolerance in pistons and cylinders can actually achieve their hightest rated speeds. As you use your car everyday, it gets older, the piston tolerance increases (the pistons wobble about more in the cylinder) and the car will never generate enough power to reach the max speed ever again. My car can't do more than 130 km/h pedal to metal. It's has tried. It's just a traffic jam champion.You might be surprised how low your speed will actually be if you do pedal to metal one clear fine day

brightnelly:
With my DOGE CARAVAN XT 2008 before you reach that RED LINE the vehicle must have been speeding in the air I still dey find SMOOTH STRAIGHT ROAD to cross that RED LINE to the end.

it's because its automatic. if it is manual, leave it in gear 1 or 2 and continue accelerating, it will soon hit the red line

uuzba:
They say modern cars can't redline.
I don't know if it is good or bad.
I'm not liking modern cars. I think they've become ITK cars (I know too much).

In the 1st image, a student was to take HER (female!) driving test in an AUTOMATIC car (Automatic for test ke? What are you testing?). She didn't know it was in "Drive" instead of "Reverse". She jammed the driving test center with the instructor inside the car with her. (The effizy of Automatic).

The 2nd image,
This guy, Anton Yelchin (Star Trek man), drove out of his gate to go out. He " thought " he put the car in "P". He didn't know the thing set itself back in "N". The car rolled backwards the slope and plastered him on the gate column and iron. (The effizy of Automatic).

Über wanted to start driverless cars. The car was carrying a passenger. The driver put the car into total automatic. He commot hand from steering. The car by itself, saw someone crossing the road and finished the person.

Me, I am not tripped with any fu***king latest automatic nonsense. Many can carry it on their head.

how tragic, just like the bmw that choped off someones thumb, some idiotss still praisr the ride ad being perfect, maybe its meant for butchets.

wagazala:
Wish I could tell my mechanic this.

These guys are meant to know this but you see them redlining cars all in the name of testing. This annoys me all the time.

OP thanks for the tip. At least now I know it's called redlining. Used to call it 'raising'..

Don't mind them, there was a time my car was jerking in Benin. after servicing the injector if you see the way they were revving the car as if that'll make the car work fine only for me leave their workshop the problem started again.
Nigerian mechanics

adekennis:
There are some cars that no matter how hard you press the throttle it will never redline..A car like Chrysler Sebring...Some european cars like that..

even opel

Octaves:
it's because its automatic. if it is manual, leave it in gear 1 or 2 and continue accelerating, it will soon hit the red line

That might knock the engine naa

brightnelly:


That might knock the engine naa

exactly. its not advisable. that's why you have to change gear at some point to reduce the RPM

IkpuNnegiEwu44:



To comot dorty for d engine!

Lol! Mechanic spotted

some transport company's drivers do it o. I have seen some. They would push it so hard DAT d engine will be cutting revving.





That was how a Rev father kaput his 04 Camry DAT was already smoking. I overtook him with my small corolla and he got angry. In other to impress me with 'shock and awe', he fired d smokey and I saw rocket approaching, overtakinng a d blinding me. Holly molly!!! Next thing I heard was a loud bang. And d Rev father pulled over.

As for me, I just honked po-po-po and continue my sojourn.

This is poor driving skills.... My battery ran down in traffic after continuously using AC for 2 hours and after that started tuning of the engine at every stop. I ended up jump starting the vehicle with a booster battery and my idle speed became messed up. In order to keep the vvehicle engine running i had to rev up. On one ocassion I did not know I over stepped on the accelerator pedal and it redlind. My engine check light came on immediately. I went to my autos workshop and took the car for diagnostics.... Report stated engine cylinder misfire. ..so for fairly driven cars with 150k miles 4 plug engines, with redlibi g, you are sure of engine misfiring and that is not good for you....lessons learnt

uuzba:


It's just a traffic jam champion.

You are very funny, bro.

uuzba:


Probably the piston rings were not lubricated fast enough and burnt out. Now the car will continue to smoke and chop engine oil. Till you change the engine.

Or do an engine rebuild

Sunymoore:

Yeah.. The do have governor that cut off the fuel supply once you reached the red line.. I love the feeling of depressing the pedal to metal on manual Toyotas, the car will accelerate till it reaches the red line, giving out sounds like (Chit Chit Chit) the tacho stick will be bouncing on the red line by then, eventually, the engine will go dead, engaging the second gear will bring it back to life which rocket acceleration...

Hiace n hilux does that when u push it hard

egesie:

Hiace n hilux does that when u push it hard

Yeah.. The feeling is out of this world...