A week or so ago the speedo needle just suddenly dropped whilst I was driving at 70mph on the motorway. I felt a slight loss of power and the radio volume dropped. At the same time my heart came up in my mouth and my legs turned to jelly!

I do the same journey 5 days a week, 10 mins on the motorway and 10 mins either side on side roads from home to work. The needle appears to drop when I've been on the motorway for a couple of minutes. As the days have gone on it is dropping regularly 3 or 4 times on both journeys to and from work sometimes only for a couple of seconds, other times for longer. I have tried avoiding the motorway but when I did this the speedo dropped just as I was approaching a roundabout and then the dashboard was like Blackpool illuminations, although the car stalled it did start again straight away.

This morning on the way to work the needle dropped 5 times on my short journey and the fifth time I drove nearly 2 miles before it came back up again. At this point the traction control light came on and wouldn't go off and my mileage just appeared as a row of short lines. Very scary indeed. Again the car keeps running but does show a slight loss of power initially and the radio volume dipped again.

My husband has replaced the HT Leads and put in a new coil pack. We have a VSS on the way which he will fit at the weekend, so am hoping this will solve the problem.

HOWEVER, the oddest thing about all of this is that hubby drove me to and from work on 3 occasions taking exactly the same route and absolutely nothing happened!! Can anyone explain that?? I've had the usual comments from the men I work with about women drivers so I won't be accepting that one!! I've also been told maybe I have too much static in my body or maybe I am from another planet!! lol

HELP!!!

Alison

Edited by Ali67 on 12/10/2012 at 10:58