Throttle potentiometer...again

[FlamingMonkey]

Had the car on the Clip at Nick Hills and it showed up a fault on the potentiometer.

Got 3 options

1, Get a secondhand throttle body and hope it works
2. Get a new pot from renno, and bodge it myself, the settings i mean, pot is about £100
3. Get it to nick hill/renno but be prepared for a big bill

What would you fellas do?

[MatBrown]

I think Nick should be able to supply and fit one for £100.
Call him and ask, 01530 273633.



Mat.

[FlamingMonkey]

Well Renno have just said they will set the values for £38

Wonder if its just the values that are wrong?

Wanna find the best option really, Nick Hill is a good 2 hours away.

I'll ring him now.

[northy]

i'd go new rob.

You know the history and its got a years warrenty as well.

[Lunner]

Get reno to set the values on yours

The failing that get a new one and get it set up

[FlamingMonkey]

Get reno to set the values on yours

The failing that get a new one and get it set up

Yep thats what im doing on weds, renno are gonna check the values, and if they are ok and pot is still gay they are gonna replace it, hopefully its just the values so my card wont take a battering

[Swervin_Mervin]

Best get your credit card ready then. :P :wink:

[FlamingMonkey]

Best get your credit card ready then. :P :wink:

:P already have, bastards

[BRUN]

Intermotor make one mate, will be cheaper than a Renault part

ive got one sat next to me here, if ive got the right one the part number is 19938

[FlamingMonkey]

Just got back from Renault. LMAO should of seen their faces, there was about 6 of them initailly looking at the engine, one guy had the XR25 connected, they all had this worried confused face on.

Bloke came up to me and said its got a problem with the ecu, potentiometer and its idleing funny something is not right.

I said yeah its not standard, the cams are why it idles funny and the ECU has been remapped, I want you to fix the potentiometer problem.

I said check the values first before replacing the pot, he said you can't alter the values, I said err you can, he said no they come set on the throttle body, I said no check dialogys. Anyway about 15 mins on the PC he come back with a print out, with the values on it, weirdly they matched what was on the car, so he tried to clear the error off like Nick Hill did, that didn't work, he took the battery off for a few seconds, plugged it back in again and the pot problem had gone away? Gave it a few revs, didn't come back, so off I went 32 quid later for the diagnistics.

Only one guy at the place knew how to use the XR25 properly.

Anyway Renno fella said the XR25 said the car was running rich, he only said this after I had mentioned it thou, but its booked in at Waynes on monday to see if it actually is running rich :P

[Swervin_Mervin]

****ing hell. I could've stood there looking stupid doing that for you for £30 odd quid. :lol: :wink:

[FlamingMonkey]

f***king hell. I could've stood there looking stupid doing that for you for £30 odd quid. :lol: :wink:

I know I could of took the battery off myself :P

Anyway car runs no different, wasn't runnig shite before really, well I dont think it was, sure Wayne will have summat to say on Monday

[northy]

lol, u make me laugh rob.

quality

See what wayne says mate...it might have changed with a new lambarda sensor in.

[FlamingMonkey]

Yeah will do, apparently though doing the "Dave" Lombardo doesnt affect the mapping but we shall see

[BRUN]

what values was it giving you ?

oh and i can do an Intermotor part for about £75 if anyone needs one, brand new

[FlamingMonkey]

Well on the XR25 it had to be between 8 and 13 and mine was on 8

[BRUN]

it says in the XR25 notes on Dialogys that it should be set to 10 but 8-13 is fine

maybe yours is only just a correct value mate