im a right daft sod sometimes lol!

think today when i start it up will be the proper test to see if it is that or not, but u will be right :)

thankies!

haha you had one sat there, I'd pretty much guarantee it being that with those symptoms

started it up and it seems fine... gona give it 3 or four days to give it a decent test :)

even tho i have the blue sxi sitting in the garage outside :S
bak soon! :lol::rolleyes::o

dont know anyone with same car as mine.

this one has never seemed as nippy as my other sxi and seems to be getting worse...

i doesnt always do the hesitation while driving only low and again.

gona try and find an afm and swap them around :D

thx 4 replies

Sounds like Mass Air Flow meter, mine did the same when it had been stood a while. Started it up and it would'nt rev up at all, just misfired and spluttered like buggary, then was fine after 5 mins of warming up. Also used to hold back at about 4,000 rpm, would'nt go over 80mph in 5th gear.

You know anyone with the same engine as you, you could borrow theirs and see if it fixes the problem, if it does you know whats wrong. The MAF off the 1.0 12v is the same one too.

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Originally posted by marklaruk
I have been having this problem for quite abit now where i start the car up on a morning and it sometimes idles abit high (just over 1000 revs) and when i rev it the engine lacks power and will not rev, but keeps running. Usually when i strat it up it sits below 1000 revs and all works fine... (after leaving it for 2 or 3 minutes it's fine)

It seems to be early morning when its not really warm (say 8am) as it always seems to start up later on in the morning or afternoon. And it only does it when it has not been running for afew hours... overnight.

I very rarely rape my car or drive it hard at all.

Today while i was driving in 3rd gear at just over 3000 revs the engine was lacking power and really wasnt pushing and afew seconds later the engine management light came on :| so i laid off and the light went off.

It seems ok in first and second and i didnt get to check 4th and 5th

ANY IDEAS??? im confused. :boggle::boggle:

[Edited on 26-07-2006 by marklaruk]

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it did it again tonight while i was trying to overtake a car!!!

car just wasnt producing much power at all and engine management light came on... i was shiting it!

im gon ahave 2 take it to garage, but just wanted 2 try whatever i could before i sent it in and i duno what else to do

right i started it up today and it was abit dodgy but soon righted itself...

when i disconnected air mass meter sensor cable it wasnt having any of it... was dying when i revved it.

isnt that going to happen though if you disconnect it?

when i reconnected it and plugged it back in it was fine.

suggestions please :P

no induction kit... silly bastard things! lol

erm i need to work out how to unclip the airmass thing... and see what happens

I thought it was always doing it at just over 3000 revs, but it doesn't always do it i was been thick...

will have to have a gander around the air mass meter

air mass metre

I had this on my 1.2 16v

Have you got an induction kit on it? If you have the afm might have gone, it did on mine

:(

bump

how does that little shit house of a clip come off?

im assuming you mean the one inbetween the air pipe from the box to the actual meter thing with all the sensors n shit in?

tyr unplugging the afm and see if that helps. if it does you know the problem.

after about 3 seconds or so of my foot constantly on the accelerator pedal to see if it sorted itself out it came on, then a second or 2 after i took my foot off it went off.

i thought it might have managed to pick itself up and when i saw the light come on i thought erm ok maybe i will take my foot off...

[Edited on 26-07-2006 by marklaruk]

how long was the light on for?

sorry m8 1.2 16v sxi corsa b

i have a blue sxi and it has never seemed as nippy as that...

[Edited on 26-07-2006 by marklaruk]

what engine?

I have been having this problem for quite abit now where i start the car up on a morning and it sometimes idles abit high (just over 1000 revs) and when i rev it the engine lacks power and will not rev, but keeps running. Usually when i strat it up it sits below 1000 revs and all works fine... (after leaving it for 2 or 3 minutes it's fine)

It seems to be early morning when its not really warm (say 8am) as it always seems to start up later on in the morning or afternoon. And it only does it when it has not been running for afew hours... overnight.

I very rarely rape my car or drive it hard at all.

Today while i was driving in 3rd gear at just over 3000 revs the engine was lacking power and really wasnt pushing and afew seconds later the engine management light came on :| so i laid off and the light went off.

It seems ok in first and second and i didnt get to check 4th and 5th

ANY IDEAS??? im confused. :boggle::boggle:

[Edited on 26-07-2006 by marklaruk]