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ok i took my car 2 a mechanic 2 get it serviced new belts ect 1800 dollar job car ran fun untill the next day here is whats happening and i dont know what the f u it is

starts car aircon ect comes on automaticly revs up to 2k revs for about 1 min then slowly falls and dies

second sometimes my car dosent start now and when it dose it strugles it just makes a churning noise but its not the battery ive check its power and its fine

also how can i check what ecu says maby it will tell me whats wrong please help me im so mad

sorry i meant car ran fine

also there was a fuse coming from the negitave terminal mechanic said he didnt know what it was for as u dont put fuses on negative terminals so he removed it

and now my emobeliser alar goes off when im un emobilising the car takes like 6 presses for it not to work

sounds like starter motor mate

if it was startor motor once its started it would stay ideling that could be part but why wont it idle

Sounds like Stepper Motor

perhaps you could finger point the alternator as well... they can cause some odd things to happen when they don't completely fail

Or worst case scenario (like mine) your whole throttle body could be stuffed.

Dan22 wrote:Or worst case scenario (like mine) your whole throttle body could be stuffed.

I have never heard of a TB failing...........EVER.

Ok answer this question.......
Start car turn a/c off. Then go to start car again and a/c is on????

ok tryed that na once ac is off it stays off now so madd atm need my baby

ok tryed that na once ac is off it stays off now so madd atm need my baby

I have never heard of a TB failing...........EVER.

My mechanic reconditioned my stepper motor the other day - still screwed up.
He then replaced stepper motor - still screwed up
Inspected throttle body - said something was amiss (can't remember what he said) and best solution would be to buy new throttle body.

Now you can say you've heard of a throttle body stuffing up

its your starter mate read other posts if it doesnt crank correctly basically it will stall at idle

ok but whu is my alarm playing up? and my imobiliser going of when normaly it dosent thanks. i think i might know the idle problem i unhooked my battery lastnight and it was unhooked all night maby that reset the ecu and i need 2 drive it for a bit i only unhooked the negative terminal.but it still had problems starting the day before i unhooked the battery

?????

Dan22 wrote:

I have never heard of a TB failing...........EVER.

My mechanic reconditioned my stepper motor the other day - still screwed up.
He then replaced stepper motor - still screwed up
Inspected throttle body - said something was amiss (can't remember what he said) and best solution would be to buy new throttle body.

Now you can say you've heard of a throttle body stuffing up

You can't JUST recondition or replace a Stepper Motor, they need to be calibrated or they won't work!

Dan22 wrote:

I have never heard of a TB failing...........EVER.

My mechanic reconditioned my stepper motor the other day - still screwed up.
He then replaced stepper motor - still screwed up
Inspected throttle body - said something was amiss (can't remember what he said) and best solution would be to buy new throttle body.

Now you can say you've heard of a throttle body stuffing up

Sorry Bro, I dont believe he knows what he is talking about. but thats just my opinion.
Stepper motor's are a throw away item they dont get recond.

He was trying to save me money by cleaning it out and seeing if that helped, rather than just replacing it straight up. Maybe "reconditioned" wasn't the best word to use. But yea, as I said, even the new stepper motor we tried didn't work...

I literally sat there and watched him tinker with different settings and sh*t for like 3 hours so I'm pretty confident he knew what he was talking about.

Dan22 wrote: watched him tinker with different settings and sh*t for like 3 hours so I'm pretty confident he knew what he was talking about.

That proves my point right there. 3 hrs on a stepper motor

Sorry who's car is this?

Dan22 or kl95fto or are you the same person?

Sorry who's car is this? Dan22 or kl95fto or are you the same person?

If you're referring to the fact that we hijacked this thread.... you started talking to me first!

That proves my point right there. 3 hrs on a stepper motor

Lol, well I'd be more than happy for you to take a look at it if you think he is an idiot. I wish I knew more about cars myself, but I don't and it was hard enough to even find a mechanic that would touch my car, and he seemed decent enough so yea. As I said, I don't know anything, and I'm not trying to prove anyone wrong, I'm just the guy in the middle who likes to hand over money to people...

Dan22 wrote:

Sorry who's car is this? Dan22 or kl95fto or are you the same person?

If you're referring to the fact that we hijacked this thread.... you started talking to me first!

That proves my point right there. 3 hrs on a stepper motor

Lol, well I'd be more than happy for you to take a look at it if you think he is an idiot. I wish I knew more about cars myself, but I don't and it was hard enough to even find a mechanic that would touch my car, and he seemed decent enough so yea. As I said, I don't know anything, and I'm not trying to prove anyone wrong, I'm just the guy in the middle who likes to hand over money to people...

Oh i see what happened here lol

Oh i see what happened here lol

huh?

Dan22 wrote: I literally sat there and watched him tinker with different settings and sh*t for like 3 hours so I'm pretty confident he knew what he was talking about.

Biggest I have ever seen on here

Tinkering for 3 hours is to make it LOOK like he knew what he was doing, because the owner was standing over him!

I didn't bother reading the entire thread, but I suppose you took it to a mechanic too right? Anything electronic, straight to an auto sparky. Never let a mechanic loose on electrics (and don't fool yourself, Idle problems are always electronic unless there is a leak somewhere, but you can fix that yourself), they just aren't the same field of expertise!