Technical Just after some ear bending and conformations of my thoughts

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Technical Just after some ear bending and conformations of my thoughts

bravorider

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My 1.4 1997 bravo sx "seems" to be able to get about, however the idle is erratic at the most!
Sometimes it can be high but when engine gets warm its a cougher and splutterer, now i initially thought, coil pack, dud spark plug or lead, changes all still got that issue.
So then after a bit more driving, it was stalling and kangarooing on acceleration from low rev points.
So i thought id try cleaning the camshaft sensor, which seems to have helped a little but the idle issue is still present.
which leaves me with the idle air solenoid or possibly another sensor, i did try an obd microscan code reader on it but it keeps saying link error, something to do with the ecu type maybe.

Ok so in summary when i pull off the connector for the IAS it goes from a bog to higher revs, plug back in it bogs, out revs up, in bog, so im guessing it could well be that im going to have to burn £100 in my back pocket for one of these solenoids unless any other bravo owners have had similar symptoms and managed to rectify it :worship:

All the best

Stu
 
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I had a problem like this with my Brava '96 1.6 16V, when starting, rough idling, high idling, 1100 rpm after it was up to operating temp, and so on. I solved my issue after the crank position sensor replacement. So maybe that's it.
 
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