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[Petestar69]

Hi all,

Firstly a quick thanks to everyone that helped me with my questions regarding hard suspension and heavy steering - turs out the coilovers were on their hardest setting and with the car being lower than standard with slightly bigger wheels the steering is going to be heavy. Anyways new day new problem...

So I was driving the car home from town, £25 parking ticket in my pocket -THANKS - and was sat at some temporary traffic lights the car started to go up and down in revs, from about 1K RPM - apx. 2K RPM. The car was really feeling like it was going to stall so I held the revs at around 2K. The car was making some popping and banging noises out of the exhaust and then, despite. Me having my foot down just stalled. I restarted it and drove off feeling a little embarrassed! Anyway, when actually driving in 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc seemed to run fine but when I got home and slowed in 2nd the car stalled again? I started it up again and had to rev the engine to about 3K just to poodle onto my drive? Have ran the car in neutral for a while today and seems to idle fine? A little bit up and down but nothing major?

Any help would be great as I'm looking to sell and cannot pass it on like this to any prospective owner!

On the plus side she's SUPER clean now as I have spent all weekend washing, waxing, hoovering etc. these cars look sooo nice.

BTW I'm still sticking with FRST's - when this one sells I'm going to spend around £5K on a really nice example - as close to standard as I can find

[sam-si]

idle control valve? or vacume pipe leaking? at a guess?

[Petestar69]

How would I go about diagnosing these?

Thanks

[sam-si]

How would I go about diagnosing these?

Thanks

well i have a 1.6 fiesta si (zetec 1995) and as i'd slow down to the trafic lights, sometimes it'll rev at 2000rpm before droping to the usual idle (about 1000rpm) and sometimes i'd slow up put my foot on the clutch (no throttle just idle) and it would stall. so i took the idle control valve out cleaned it with contact cleaner and it was fine then (gets carboned up!)

but if it starts running propper rough then i'd say have a look for a air leak on your vacume pipes. these are the pipes that carry air usually coming either too or from the inlet maniford or simular. what engine is it?

[Petestar69]

Thanks for the info. I'll have a look in the morning. It's 2.1 ZVH by the way

[sam-si]

Thanks for the info. I'll have a look in the morning. It's 2.1 ZVH by the way

to be fair i know nothing about that one lol but thats all i can think of atm?

[Petestar69]

Haha no worries I know about the same amount! Your suggestion is a good place to start one the less