High revs 'flares' on Corsa S

Calvin_H

I purchased a brand new Corsa S from a well known vauxhall dealership in march 2010. After a few weeks I found that I was getting high revs, described as 'flares' when changing up through the gears.After six long months of the car going back and forth to the dealership and vauxhall it was replaced for a new one. I now have the same problem with the new one.

Is this a problem with modern engines?. I am getting as high as 1000 extra revs when going from first to second gear.

I would like to know if anyone else has ahd this problem, or is it just me.

Yorkie1

My peugeot 306 has been doing it for 10 years ...

harveybobbles

If the replacement car is doing it then I'd be looking at your driving style...

skiddlydiddly

Has anyone else sat next to you and watched how you drive and then driven the car themselves?

forgotmyname

Do you mean the throttle hangs whilst you change gear? Lots of cars do that helps smoother gear changes.

Kilty_2

How much higher do the revs go? All engines will rev slightly higher as the clutch takes the load off the engine?

Calvin_H

Kilty wrote: »

How much higher do the revs go? All engines will rev slightly higher as the clutch takes the load off the engine?

Changing up from first to second the revs counter go up another 1000 revs. The corsa that this one replaced was even worse. Initially the cars were driving perfectly, then after a few weeks we get this problem.

Calvin_H

harveybobbles wrote: »

If the replacement car is doing it then I'd be looking at your driving style...

After forty years driving?. this looks like the old dogs and new tricks theory

hubert_cumberdale

probably crappy throttle potentiometors cant beat a proper cable throttle these new electronic ones arent "real enough"

Calvin_H

skiddlydiddly wrote: »

Has anyone else sat next to you and watched how you drive and then driven the car themselves?

The car that the present one replaced was driven by five people from the dealership with me either driving or passenger, and they all agreed with the fault. But it took six months to get it relaced like for like. It even went back to Vauxhall at Luton and even they couldn't solve the problem. In those six months Vauxhall and the dealership had covered 712 miles in the 87 days they had it.
Now after just a few weeks the replacement Corsa has the same problem.I have been back to the dealership and their advice is to put more miles on the clock to try and rectify it.

hubert_cumberdale

was reading up on this on the net and someone sent there 800 mile corsa back after numerous times and vauxahll fixed it but didnt say what it was which is wierd

the first garage fobbed him off that its the ECU increase the revs as you press the clutch to make a smoother gear change although this would only help really when coming down the box to speed the syncro's up