On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:28:39PM +0000, JRH wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have just acquired a 1998 406 GLX, with the XU10J4R 2.0 16v engine, on the 5
> speed gearbox.
>
> It has an annoying intermittent fault in the injection system.
>
> Basically, what is happening, is the idle is suddenly becoming very erratic,
> and in some cases is rapidly up and down, to the point where the rev counter
> needle is dancing all over, and banging against the bottom stop, and the
> engine almost cuts out. On driving, it appears to hesitate on pulling away,
> the suddenly will want to play, and sit you back in your seat. On letting off
> the gas, the whole car will lurch forward, as if the engine has been turned
> off, but then it will recover after a few seconds. Driving slowly in first
> gear at a constant throttle level will produce violent kangarooing of the
> car.
>
> The whole time that this is going on, the Warning light on the dash is
> indifferent to whether it will light or not. Sometimes it will light and the
> car is behaving itself, and other times it will be playing up, and the light
> will stay out.
I would say throttle position snsor... TPS.
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Received on Sun Feb 19 12:33:28 2006
