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1.6l petrol 16v 2005 megane, confused idle after electronic throttlebody cleaning

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#1 ·
Hi,

I did a throttle body valve cleanup on my megane couple of months back and have been driving it regularly since to let it learn by itself the new positions for the valve. Seems like the idle is good normally when I start it but gets up to 1500 - 2000rpm when I any of the following:

1. on idle, I press the gas pedal once
2. while driving and slowing down using the engine and press clutch down when rpm is somwhere around 1000.

Any of the above and whoosh! Up in the 1500 - 2000 rpm range again!

I suppose it's not getting better by itself and I haven't found a single good solution for it. All the so-called relearn or reset or reprogramming that I've found haven't worked. I tried also removing battery cable and let it wait few mins but no change.

One funny detail I found out today when the idle was high again is that if I switch the air blower from 0 (stop) to 4 (highest) and repeat it few times, the rpm starts fluctuating up and down in correlation with the air blowing speed. After a few times rpm drops down below 1000rpm and stays there. What in the..? It doesn't help if I keep it high for long as the rpm soon compensates it but twitching it off and high seems to make the fluctuation to the rpm reading.

I don't have any idea anymore on how to try to solve this by myself, any good tips? I'm checking tomorrow if there's any air leak near the TB but I doubt it as the idle is steady most of the time. Maybe I'll stick some glue to the freaking valve so it won't give too much air, getting really irritated with this :frown2:
 
#3 ·
Thanks! What should I check exactly? The switch seems to move smoothly when I checked. Also, I'm wondering could it have anything to do with the problem as I don't need to use clutch to replicate this high rpm problem.. If I keep the car out of gear and don't touch the clutch and press the gas pedal slightly, the rpm jumps and stays around 1500.

I could try cleaning the clutch pedal switch in case there is some contact issue that it can't always determine the correct pedal position.
 
#6 ·
Its not that it needs to come out, as much as return to the stop ..
Would have made more sense as to ask why you needed to clean throttle body really Oops
 
#7 ·
Seems like there was no need to fix the clutch pedal switch. I was today at the local garage to get one of the brake calipers changed and they were kind enough to check why the idle was messed up. All they did was something (this is translation from finnish to english so it's not perfect) "resetting the adapted values of engine control". I'm not sure what the correct translation is but it was just a simple reset, didn't even ask any extra for it as they weren't sure if it helped... but it did. Couldn't get the idles up even though I tried to mess with the gas pedal. Very happy :grin2:. I hope the solution was final to this problem.

So, for anyone with the same problem, ask for the local garage to do that. Don't try the poor elm -reader, it seems to make no sense with megane 2 systems.