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elviscat
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Joined: 04 Nov 2004
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:54 am |
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hi,
A m8 of mine has a vauxhall Frontera (petrol 2L) injection, similar inlet system to the 19 from looking at it, throttle body + sensor etc.
problem is if drive it up and down the road when planting your foot it's as if it is having fuel starvation, i.e. blurrrrrrrrrrr sound going downwards in the rev range until i take the foot off it just recovers to keep ticking over.
If i stop the car turn the ignition off and back on again, it is fine standing I can rev it up no probs and driving for the first couple of minutes and then back to the same problem.
I'm thinking Throttle position sensor, any other thoughts??
p.s it has plenty of fuel in it, and would have thought it's not the fuel filter either as surely this would show itself at stand still also!
ta for your thoughts |
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Chris H
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:06 pm |
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elviscat
Level 6 User
Joined: 04 Nov 2004
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:14 pm |
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ok so Mass Air Flow sensor,
can you say why u think it might be this? |
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Chris H
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Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:24 pm |
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your description would give the symptoms of a dodgy MAF.
The frontera was a shit car, the 2l is way to underpowwered for it as is the bigger 2.3
also chack the cam and cran sensors |
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bidderman1969
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Joined: 27 Feb 2006
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:40 am |
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i think the frontera is ok, cheap and cheerful, bits are quite cheap too, especially if you cant afford to run a range rover, etc.... |
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Chris H
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:41 am |
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they drive badly, are unreliable, crap off road. so there is no point to them. |
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bidderman1969
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:42 am |
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well, i'd have one if i had a need for towing, etc |
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Chris H
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:43 am |
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why? they can barely move themselves!
1.4 205's are better at towing! |
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bidderman1969
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:44 am |
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bbracer16valver
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:42 am |
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they got well underpowered vectra engines in them there shite! |
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bidderman1969
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:43 am |
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cavalier engines in the first ones i believe |
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bbracer16valver
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:48 am |
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and you wondered why there shite   |
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bidderman1969
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:05 am |
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not a great deal wrong with a good vauxhall engine, take the GSi for example, the rest is shite |
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Farnboy
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Joined: 07 Apr 2006
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Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:54 am |
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I hate vauxhalls bad as rover. If you are on a journey somewhere and you see a car broken down its most likely to a vauxhall. |
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bidderman1969
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:12 am |
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i have a rover 75 estate, auto, diesel, earns me a lot of money, actually a great car, suprisingly |
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bbracer16valver
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:14 am |
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lol my mate bought a MG ZS 4dr salon diesel and it sounds like a tractor! had not even 1000miles on clock |
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bidderman1969
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Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:16 am |
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hopefully should get 300K miles out of it before i have to change it |
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