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2004 Vauxhall Corsa throttle sensor
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Salpetersaure
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Apr 8, 2013, 2:20 AM
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2004 Vauxhall Corsa throttle sensor
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Year of vehicle - 2004
Make of vehicle - Vauxhall
Model of vehicle - Corsa
Engine size - 1.0
Mileage - 41000
I was driving my Corsa a few weeks ago and the spanner warning light came on and the car went into a sort of 'limp home mode' and I couldn't get above 2.5/3k revs. I took it to the garage I bought it from and they run a diagnostic machine which came back with a fault on the full body throttle sensor. They quoted the repair work at around £550 which seems ridiculous to me so I tried to buy the part myself and get a friend of a friend who owns a garage to repair it but doing some research on it, it seems to be a fairly common problem but I've seen numerous posts from people saying it may be the MAF or crank sensor which is faulty and not the throttle sensor. I would like to get the repair done soon as my insurance runs out next month and I'd like to get rid of the car before hand but I don't want to fork out repair works if it's unnecessary. Would anyone happen to know anything about this problem or have any tips on what step to take? As I said it has been through a DM but I don't entirely trust them as I had an issue with my engine before when an error light was on which the DM never picked up on for 2 years and then an engineer did.
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Hammer Time
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Apr 8, 2013, 3:17 AM
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Re: 2004 Vauxhall Corsa throttle sensor
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We don't even have that car here in the states.
You keep up that line of thinking and I'll bet you end up spending twice what the repair would have cost to do it right.
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