Engine Idleing

[Raining]

Evening all,

As stated over here somewhere <----- I own a 1995 1.8 Rsi, which I bought recently.

The other day just after I started my journey to work, I stopped at a junction waiting for my gap to pull out, and I notice that my rev counter was going up and down around the 1 mark ( or 1000 or whatever the hell it is ) so much that it was nearly stalling then it would bounce back up higher and drop again etc etc. I mean its all fine and it runs ok, im just sure it shouldnt do that. At first I thought it might be the automatic choke, and I havent looked into it yet, but I just thought I would ask your thoughts on the problem first.

Cheers, and thanks in advance for any help.

 

[mr bognor]

have a go at cleaning the throtle body out can get dirty and make it idle funny . Sure the other boys will tell you what it is

Alan

 

[edde]

Idle control valver it will be needs cleaning.
Common problem.

 

[Raining]

Idle control valver it will be needs cleaning.
Common problem.

Do it show you how to do this in the haynes clio manual, do you know?

 

[crow]

is it a difficult jib as ine dioesa similar thing!

 

[edde]

Its in the Haynes I'm sure easy to do though.

 

[Raining]

Cool nice one ill try it out once I get my Haynes book from eBay

 

[Raining]

Ok I cleaned out the idle control valve and the car is idleing much better now. But it still is a bit doggy. Inside the icv it was still a bit stiff, just wondering is it safe to spary some wd40 inside to loosen it up a bit better?

Cheers

 

[riche]

Also have the same problem even though i have changed the idle control valve :s

anything else it could be?

Rich.

 

[Andy_J]

main problems are icv's and throttle bodies..

check your plugs and leads too, check air filter isn't clogged.