engine management light problems

[peter_green]

Hi there folks,

i have a 99 1.2 16v sxi and tonight i took a short journey to the local shops and the first thing i noticed was the hot air coming quite quickly - usually taking 5 mins or so to heat up normally, anyway i shrugged this off as i had been driving 2-3 hours earlier. when i stopped at the shops the engine management light came on and the engine started revving funny - it started almost throttling itself between 1 and 1.3 revvs then as soon as i sunk my boot in it ran normally on idle. the light came on about 3 or 4 times nearly every time i stopped lol - slight panic as it already needs 4 new tyres and 2 cv joints which will come in over £300 all in....


any clues what could be doing this?

[matt_gsi_rep]

well it would be hard to determine this so your best chances are to get a diagnostist test(cant spell) and have it checkd that way, best not to drive the car at all with engine management on as you have a high chance of doing alot more damage to something that could be so cheap and simple. have a look under the bonnet for your self see if you can see any faults first though!

[Adam-D]

look for any loose connectors under the bonnet, clean the throttle body out with intake cleaner, and get some tyres and cv's

[peter_green]

how much cleaner are we talking about spraying in here? i took the black box off and cleaned all the guff from the butterfly flap thing and the filter is in a1 condition but its still revving funny...any more ideas

[Duncan]

i had simler problem with my corsa, it turned out to be a air hose come loose under the bonet, popped that back in and light went off and ran perfect

[jobba]

my engine management light came on on sunday i also have a 1.2 sxi corsa took it to local garage put it on the diagnostic machine and came up with 3 faults,the lambda sensor,the rpm sensor and the air mass sensor.sorry to put a downer on things.what are the symptoms???