throttle gone on a 2002 renault laguna

vax2002

the alternator light, Do you mean the engine management light, an amber lamp with a picture that looks like an alternator on it ?
Is this a manual or Automatic ?

spaceman5

vax2002 wrote: »

the alternator light, Do you mean the engine management light, an amber lamp with a picture that looks like an alternator on it ?
Is this a manual or Automatic ?

yes i do mean the engine management light, i always confuse that with a alternator:o, it is a manual

atrixblue.-MFR-.

dont listen to the bullcrap that people spout about renault, they are just as bad as everyother car out there.

sounds like the VDO throttle unit, a simple take off clean with carb cleaner and refit cures the problem.

symptoms, car starts OK'ish when cold sometimes, but when warm or after a few starts will struggle to hold revs and stall from start up, (can be confused with the dephaser pully failure symptom), holding foot on brake and accellerator to start then holding revs to 3000rpm for 15 seconds alows it to idle correctly. EML will flash up for this as the VDO unit is monitored, first disconnect battery when attempting to clean the unit out. pictured here labelled D

also the pencil coil packs can fail causing limp mode and also a common failure.

Delivery_Driver

Have a read of this thread.Same engine and likely faults.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3670639

Premier_2

spaceman5 wrote: »

Spot on too all the people who said it had nothing to do with accelerator, just started it up and it revs fine, although the alternator light is now on, but there must be more to it than that as I can't imagine an alternator going would make it go into limp mode, anyway it is booked in to be looked at Monday morning so hopefully will get to the bottom of it then

spaceman5 wrote: »

yes i do mean the engine management light, i always confuse that with a alternator:o, it is a manual

That'll be alerting you to the fact it is still in limp home mode.
You probably can't tell whilst stationary, but you will notice the lack of power when you start driving it.

Delivery_Driver

Turning it off then on again often clears it too.Of course it will come back but it works in the short term.

spaceman5

Premier wrote: »

That'll be alerting you to the fact it is still in limp home mode.
You probably can't tell whilst stationary, but you will notice the lack of power when you start driving it.

the power is fine now, took it for a spin earlier everything is back as it was, except the engine management light beng on, booked in on monday morning, let them hook it up but will also tell them i have read on varius sites that it could just need a clean, would not want them to try and sting me unnesaccarily now would i:(:eek: