This car has been around a few owners lately but now resides with Craig who contacted me for some support. It was (supposedly) running but idling at 2500rpm for a few seconds then stalling out.
It arrived on a truck - battery flat, no clutch pedal, obviously hadnt run in quite a while. Brilliant. Cue the owner getting a somewhat angry phone call lol. I got it running anyway and got it around back, did not sound great. Expansion tank cracked...
Coolant was FILTHY with rust, TPS wires all shredded
Swapped it out for a spare pending repair and still wasnt right. Idle valve was brand new so obviously someone had tried to fix it before and failed. I took the ECU out and tested the idle valve wiring and it was OK, so I popped open the ECU and...
So I think whats happened is the old idle valve has gunked up and jammed, and thats burned out the control electronics.
Fitted a new ECU, and all of a sudden we had an idling car
It arrived on a truck - battery flat, no clutch pedal, obviously hadnt run in quite a while. Brilliant. Cue the owner getting a somewhat angry phone call lol. I got it running anyway and got it around back, did not sound great. Expansion tank cracked...
Coolant was FILTHY with rust, TPS wires all shredded
Swapped it out for a spare pending repair and still wasnt right. Idle valve was brand new so obviously someone had tried to fix it before and failed. I took the ECU out and tested the idle valve wiring and it was OK, so I popped open the ECU and...
So I think whats happened is the old idle valve has gunked up and jammed, and thats burned out the control electronics.
Fitted a new ECU, and all of a sudden we had an idling car
