Over revving losing power

My C3 today started to over rev yet lost power and eventually stopped. Smell of burning any ideas what it is?

Hello rod_259

rod_259 wrote:My C3 today started to over rev yet lost power and eventually stopped. Smell of burning any ideas what it is?

If it smelled of burned plastic, then it could be the wiring loom has shorted out and burned. But its only a guess, I think you may have to do a bit of investigating to look for a damaged engine loom

If it smelled of anything else, then it may not be the loom, but what did it smell of? Could it be something not part of the car that had been burned? maybe some rubbish? But I don't know how it could affect the engine....

Hi - it is the 'burning' smell of a clutch overreving I think definitely not rubbish. Whilst on M62 car revving but slowing down and then you go smell which was no doubt result of the problem

rod_259 wrote:Hi - it is the 'burning' smell of a clutch overreving I think definitely not rubbish. Whilst on M62 car revving but slowing down and then you go smell which was no doubt result of the problem

This sounds like classic clutch failure.

I thought you meant the car revved itself, but now it appears no matter how many revs you give it, the car gets slower and makes a burning clutch smell.

I would say 'Clutch'