172 Ph2
Right, here's the story so far
When I collected my car last week (from Dannyboy172) we knew there was a bit of a problem with the idle speed and the emmisions light was lit on the dash. Danny had popped the car down to Renault and they claimed it was a lamda problem but as I was collecting the car on the sunday we have no time to try one out.
When I arrived at danny's and took the car for a spin the cat broke! This then seemed like the obvious cause of the dash light and funny idle. I drove the car home from danny's and had a new sports cat and new exhaust fitted. The light wnet off and all seemed fine!
I drove the car to Sheffield yesterday (150 miles) on BP ultimate and there were now problems whatsoever, infact the car went brillantly and averaged 35.4MPG. On the way home, having filled up at Morrisons on normal unleaded, it was still going fine. I'd covered 100 miles when I started to encounter a bit of a problem. When a was leaving a small village following a slower car I dropped it down into 2nd for a tight bent and the car almost cut out. The revs jumped a bit and then settled down again. I thought that it was a bit weird and kept a close eye on things. The car ran perfectly until coming into my parking area when it did the same again! Loss of power for a split second them a jump in revs, then it settled down again. I took it for a quick spin but couldn't get it to do it again! Has anybody got any ideas of what it might be?????
I was thinking Dodgy Fuel, Idle control Valve or Lamda!
When I collected my car last week (from Dannyboy172) we knew there was a bit of a problem with the idle speed and the emmisions light was lit on the dash. Danny had popped the car down to Renault and they claimed it was a lamda problem but as I was collecting the car on the sunday we have no time to try one out.
When I arrived at danny's and took the car for a spin the cat broke! This then seemed like the obvious cause of the dash light and funny idle. I drove the car home from danny's and had a new sports cat and new exhaust fitted. The light wnet off and all seemed fine!
I drove the car to Sheffield yesterday (150 miles) on BP ultimate and there were now problems whatsoever, infact the car went brillantly and averaged 35.4MPG. On the way home, having filled up at Morrisons on normal unleaded, it was still going fine. I'd covered 100 miles when I started to encounter a bit of a problem. When a was leaving a small village following a slower car I dropped it down into 2nd for a tight bent and the car almost cut out. The revs jumped a bit and then settled down again. I thought that it was a bit weird and kept a close eye on things. The car ran perfectly until coming into my parking area when it did the same again! Loss of power for a split second them a jump in revs, then it settled down again. I took it for a quick spin but couldn't get it to do it again! Has anybody got any ideas of what it might be?????
I was thinking Dodgy Fuel, Idle control Valve or Lamda!
