revs sitting just under 2000 rpm when i am not even on the throttle

[slob]

When I am driving the revs sometimes sit just under 2000 when my foot is not even on the throttle and if it wasnt for the clutch I would be going up the back of people! This is very annoying not to mention unsafe! When it does do this say once or twice a week I have to turn my engine off at the lights and turn it back on the engine settles at normal revs.

 

[oliver9523]

yo fellow Edinburgher, is it a ph1 or ph2?

 

[mantis946]

Sticky throttle cable ? (assuming its a ph1)

 

[slob]

Where about in Edinburgh do you live. It is a falling to bits phase 2.

 

[The Boosh!]

Clean out your throttle body

 

[aucky]

Clean out your throttle body

WD40

 

[oliver9523]

Where about in Edinburgh do you live. It is a falling to bits phase 2.

...aren't they all?

Just up the road from Canonmills, yourself?

 

[slob]

I live up at Fairmilehead. I am no mechanic so could someone please tell me how i would go about cleaning out a throttle body with wd40 cheers. Although i think the problem is the ecu ect as it only happens now and then, an old clio phase 2 I had would rev up to 3000 when i turned the key and nothing would happen when i went on the throttle ect I sold that for someone else to deal with, (for a discount I might add) but i think i must be cursed with clios or are they just all crap lol.