And the fun continues! Megane 225

[robbocop33]

Yes, the car will be punted soon, please bear in mind most of this fun started after changing a sodding battery! Anyway, Rac called out again, started car up and it idled, byt accelerator done sod all! Two codes came up, fault in either throttle potentiometer at pedal, or throttle housing/body.
He cleared codes, sprayed inside throttle housing and car responded to throttle, well at idle anyway! After rac guy scarpered when i first drove the car it felt ok until i started boosting it, felt like clutch was slipping?? Revs going high but not accelerating!! Wtf? Clutch i know is good, pedal feels like it always has, no thrust bearing noises, clutch burning smells, clutch takes up perfectly.
Even done a few things to test clutch, dtove in 3rd,dropoed clutch into 2nd and revs rose when letting the clutch out, it seems fine, coyld this faulty potentiometer/throttle housing give this effect?? Surely a clutch can't slip for the first time in a one day period?

[GreenV8S]

robbocop33 said:

it, felt like clutch was slipping?? Revs going high but not accelerating!! Wtf? Clutch i know is good, pedal feels like it always has, no thrust bearing noises, clutch burning smells, clutch takes up perfectly

For a manual transmission car, if the revs and road speed don't vary in proportion with each other then either it is not in gear or the clutch is slipping.

[robbocop33]

Well, i disconnected battery for half an hour, it's not doing it now? I'm taking it a battery disconnect doesn't cure a slipping clutch? :-)
This car has always pulled really well, rac guy cleans throttle body, then car reacts like my clutch is slipping? Really odd, well it's French!

[robbocop33]

Well that was surprising, just an update. Car was giving I pretty exact symptoms to a slipping clutch. I've been putting it off for a while thinking it wouldn't do sod all, but stuck on my used throttle pedal/potentiometer assembly, cars fine now!:-)
I honestly can't believe it, i've actually driven a car, and a motorcycle before with a slipping clutch and it was exactly the same symptoms!
Bloody cars!