Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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very urgent.
took my girlfriend home this morning and drove the 10 miles there, on the way home about 1 mile from my house, i was slowing down coming to a roundabout, went to change into 3rd gear from 5th and suddenly lost all power, all dash board lights came on except petrol/handbrake and could not start it up again. had to crawl into a lane.
couldn't get it started for ages so went away and my dad left it for about 20 minutes and it started instantly as though nothign was wrong.
he drove it home and it cut out again right next to my house. could not get it to start immediately after so had to leave it for about 15 minutes.
i drove it once i got back from work (must have been left for a couple hours) and started fine first time, went out and as i reached my destination it cut out again....
drove home and as i was slowing to a rounabout again, it suddenly cut out YET AGAIN as if i had complete stalled it and would not start at all.
left it for half an hour and started fine again.
anyone know what it's most likely to be? i'm thinking a sensor?
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flybikeslee
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Registered: 2nd Jan 07
Location: Liverpool
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egr valve, mine did similar, or something to do with the map sensor, i snapped a wire and it just threw the fuel in causing it to cut out when it dropped below 2k revs.
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Sounds more like the ICV to me, or the speed sender from the gearbox.
Is your speedo working properly?
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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everythings working as it should. speedo is working fine too.
it's an intermitten (sp?) problem so i don't know when exactly it will happen.
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mattievRS
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Registered: 20th May 06
Location: Leicester
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ICV as mine did the same caused first time by the connector coming loose and 2nd time by damp getting in.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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what does the ICV do?
robin mentioned about the speedo but my speedo is fine.
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mattievRS
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Registered: 20th May 06
Location: Leicester
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ICV is the idle control valve,it what makes the car idle at around 800rpm on tick over.It has a small motor which adjusts itself when driving to alter the revs so they drop and rise fluently and smoothly.If this is either stuck or fubar then it wont work properly and cause the engine to not idle correctly,hence it cutting out and stalling etc!
[Edited on 30-04-2007 by m17tty]
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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rev counter is fine though, as is speedo etc.
temperature has been fluctuating (sp?) quite a lot recently (went up to 100 c whilst doing 70mph) so don't know if that is anything to do with it.
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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SOunds like ICV to me. Same symptoms as mine had.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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is it expensive to replace do you know?
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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Autovaux do them for quite cheap. OEM ones too, so no shitty quality.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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cheers will have a look 
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Ben G
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cant find them 
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Dean_W
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Registered: 13th Dec 05
Location: Downham Market, Norfolk
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Call them up.
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Go t a scrapyard and get one off another Vauxhall 
I fixed my C14SE with an X16XE one, they're the same part throughout the 1.4 + cars.
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