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Yes over revving now better, there was an air leak in a sensor and the butterfly was sticking, all sorted by Renault. And yes, an expensive month on my car, which I could have avoided if I had gone to specialists first. Lesson learnt. I love my car. Fuel consumption still not back to previous...
Actually, the price at my local engineers was over a hundred for the part, about sixty at Renault, plus VAT, then the cost of the labour, use of diagostic and other messing about. Incidentally, the injector was highlighted by the diagnostic but my engineer misinterpreted the computer and read...
To continue the story with some successes... I had the injector replaced on two for 250 quid BUT my engineer "dropped a van door on the side of my car" and left a dent big as a CD in the door!, which he then tried to beat out! So I left them, never to return, and went to Renault who have...
Thank you very much for the suggestions, I agree that it might have a lot to do with the sensors as it all started, as I said, leaving the car in a cold and wet carpark at the airport! I will investigate your recommendations. My accelerator has always stuck intermitently but never as badly as...
I bought the car on ebay! A really nice car for eight years (its now done about 130,000) until I left it over christmas, now is sounds like a galopy. I have had a lot of work done on it and for this particular issue I have changed one set of injectors (indicated to be low by the ECU analysis)...