Ok so I got my first car yesterday, a lovely little 1.2 Clio, and I thought every seemed just grand, until earlier today.
I'd just filled up at the garage, but when I restarted the engine started idling at (I'm guessing here, because I don't have a rev counter) about 3000 rpm, and seemed to want to keep rising. Now, I'd started it a couple of times before this, (from both cold and hot) and not had a problem. I had a look at the throttle cable and it wasn't caught on anything, and the actual throttley bit (yeah I'm really technically minded) was returning to as low as it could physically go, as in it was in the idle position.
A bit of tinkering with the idle throttle position by the mechanic from the garage where I bought it seemed to fix it. But then earlier when I was stopping at traffic lights the car starts revving away again. It actually freaks out the car in front to see some confused 17 year old behind them absolutely gunning it in neutral.
But to make it more confusing, sometimes it works just fine, and will happily sit idling and not do this, so I'm at a bit of a loss to what it could be, but I'd like to have some ideas as to what could be wrong before I get mechanics involved.
Any ideas or suggestions would be most heartily appreciated indeed.
Cheers,
Loz.
Edit: Sorry was useless and forgot things. It's a 1998 1.2 biarritz special edition (how is that even 'special' anyway?).... and erm, it's red... and it's erm lovely.
Cheers.
I'd just filled up at the garage, but when I restarted the engine started idling at (I'm guessing here, because I don't have a rev counter) about 3000 rpm, and seemed to want to keep rising. Now, I'd started it a couple of times before this, (from both cold and hot) and not had a problem. I had a look at the throttle cable and it wasn't caught on anything, and the actual throttley bit (yeah I'm really technically minded) was returning to as low as it could physically go, as in it was in the idle position.
A bit of tinkering with the idle throttle position by the mechanic from the garage where I bought it seemed to fix it. But then earlier when I was stopping at traffic lights the car starts revving away again. It actually freaks out the car in front to see some confused 17 year old behind them absolutely gunning it in neutral.
But to make it more confusing, sometimes it works just fine, and will happily sit idling and not do this, so I'm at a bit of a loss to what it could be, but I'd like to have some ideas as to what could be wrong before I get mechanics involved.
Any ideas or suggestions would be most heartily appreciated indeed.
Cheers,
Loz.
Edit: Sorry was useless and forgot things. It's a 1998 1.2 biarritz special edition (how is that even 'special' anyway?).... and erm, it's red... and it's erm lovely.
Cheers.
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