Corsa-B.uk - Vauxhall, Opel and Holden Corsa B Owners Club

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?

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!

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

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

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

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???