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Thanks Bob for your help last time, ended up just being a blown fuse. Saved me an auto electrician and only cost my pride for being so stupid.

Have another poser for you thoguh which no1 has been able to help me with yet.

For a couple of years now my climate control has flashed on and off, (when on it drops my revs by a couple a hundred RPM). Just over a year ago it stopped altogether, so I bought another controller and plugged that for exactly the same problem. Then I took it to a electrician who put a extra wire and fuse out of the fuse box. This made it work for awhile but recently it has started flashing on and off again and sometimes won't come on at all.
I thought it may just be a faulty relay or something. What do you think and if you reckon it may just be a relay which one is it?
Wouold be great if yyou got an idea because being a black car and the weather warming up it is kinda needed

Cheers:rip:

 

Thank you Bob will go to holden this weekend and get another
Cheers

 

i have a 92 vp calais v6 spedo is broken and the digital setting dont work there on but dont work i took off the negative lead on the battery to reset the computer now its shows the litres used keep going up slowly with the ign on is it a chip proboem and do i need to change the cog for the spedeo thanks..

 

Hey Dr Bob, I finally got my car looked at re: brake problem to find out that there isn't any fluid in the rear brake lines. I've only been braking on the fronts.... Dodgy master cylinder replaced and good as gold.
Cheers Ryan

 

VQ engine into a VN or VL

My Bro has just crashed my VQ 5L in Perth:rip: and I was looking at sending up the engine and Exhaust system up to my place in Thailand. But I can only get hold of a VN or a VL and was wondering if the engine and exhaust will fit into these cars easly enough? also just spent a good wack on the suspenion and was wondering the same with that would it fit the VN or VL any info would be good cheers.

 

hey im gunna chuck a l67 into my vr and just wiring loom and ecu wise do i need to change the loom or will even a normal ecotec loom go onto it and also i have a kalmaker ecu so i wnt to know if that needs to be changed r i can get it adjusted it to suit the s/c ecotec?

 

Hi Bob,
I have an 08 Clubsport and it doesn't have a glove box light. but the hole is there to clip the light into but it doesn't seem to have the wiring behind it to plug it in? would this be a big job to get done ?

Cheers
Johnsy

 

Hi Dr Bob....89 VN V6 - On Friday my engine decided it didn't want to idle no more. Its not holding its revs at all unless I keep me foot on the accelerator, an then it is running rough and tends to surge a lot. I put another IAC & TPS on today, but its still the same. Also when I start the engine (which is firing ok) the thermo fan is kicking in straight away. I'm not getting any error codes because I haven't been able to fix that problem with the wiring from the computer to the cluster yet.

 

The not holding revs sounds like a vac leak to me :whistling It will be rough in Park (possibly stalling too) and in Neutral will rock the car. In drive and reverse it wont be that noticeable, but best get that checked.

 

A vac leak wont cause the fans to come on, but i'm thinking there could be more than just one problem with that. Vac leak leading to the fluctuating RPM's and an electrical problem for the fans.

 

hey mate well my check engine light has been flashing on and off every now and then it will stay on then go off. it all started when i was reversing out of my driveway slowly and it just popped up. now most mornings it will idle pretty rough and felt like it was gunna stall this morning. when im slowing down nearly or complete stop then take off it kinds of chugs. when it warms up it seems to be alright no hassles but this is when the check engine light is coming on not when its a bout to stall. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

what to do ive takin it in under my warrenty but they said they cant find a fault? wtf i thought it logged it if the check engine comes on?
i can smell fuel in my cabin when i give it a bit also seems to have lost a lil power

for vy ls1 engine--- few people have mentioned TPS throttle postion sensor or a cracked hose or fuel line any help and how to check these things appreciated cheers

 

Joey_19, Your VY is still under warranty? What warranty is it under? Is it through Holden? I'd suggest finding out what the error code actually is and finding out through here what it suggests. Most mechanics are to lazy to check it. However if you took it to them and they idled the car they would probably have seen that there was a problem. Did you take it on a weekend? Most mechanics wont do quite a few jobs on weekends (e.g. pressure test).

When you say it idles rough, does your car rock (from side to side, maybe not visible but you can feel it)? And it only happens in Park and Neutral (pull up to a set of lights and put it in Neutral)? In Drive it's a little noticeable when your coming to a stop?

Funnily enough this sounds like the same problem i said above to the other guy, vac leak. However a fuel hose could be the problem if you can smell fuel in the cabin. When you smell fuel in the cabin, get out and see if the smell is from the bonnet, under the car or the rear of the car, that might explain a little too.