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• paws4thot commented on Press release
  92 (for now anyway) - I'm guessing, but it may be a failed "dual mass flywheel". In this case, the bill is probably "only" high end 3 figures including labour and Osborne's balloon! It is sort of "one of those things", but you can probably preven a recurrance by keeping the revs in the 1600 to 2600 range for normal acceleration, and using more when hard acceleration is needed. 97, 104 and 107 - I've heard of the technique too. I'd agree with David L about how much to loosen the nuts, and stop driving as soon as you hear...
• Charlie Stross commented on Press release
  Do you expect the trilogy to be published annually for three years, or will there be a shorter gap? No idea. I don't think Tor know, either, at this stage....
• Charlie Stross commented on Press release
  The garage -- who are gearbox/clutch specialists -- have removed the gearbox and are stripping it down today/tomorrow to figure out what broke. (They established that the problem was internal to the gearbox last Friday.) I'm just hoping the cost of the repair is less than the value of the car, at this stage ......
• paws4thot commented on Press release
  A failed DMF is pretty obvious once you've got the gearbox out, which is pretty much essential to both a clutch change and a gearbox strip....
• Charlie Stross commented on Press release
  Post-mortem verdict: the sixth gear disintegrated at speed. The gearbox would be repairable, if Volvo sold the parts separately. They don't: they only sell entire gearboxes. Luckily $GARAGE located a Volvo that had been written off in a crash and arranged a transplant organ. They replaced the clutch (with a new one) at the same time. Total cost including labour and tax was about half the price of a new gearbox from Volvo, but still mildly eye-watering -- it's the most expensive auto repair I've ever paid for....