Your Right, I didn't event try to get a refund,
Why, they were cheap !
Were I should of originally put the money towards the S/Hand parts from the wreckers,
In saying that, you learn from your mistakes,
and hope this helps other to NOT do what I did.
Buy Genuine, even in this case S/Hand, as they are not going to waste.
Right, now for the other bit that I forgot to tell you.
Wife typing because I am too tired and would probably take 2 hours to type:
I forgot to tell you something and this could be very important because most of the time when you drive this car and the RPM at idle when stopped goes to 1200 RPM or 1400 RPM or whatever RPM except for 850, my son has told me when the traffic lights go green after he puts it back in gear again (clunk) when he takes off in first gear, it won't change to second until it reaches 2500 RPM and after it reaches 2500 RPM he backs off the accelerator, then it goes into 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Now, I have never experienced this when driving his car but my son complained about this before in the last 6 weeks to 2 months of this issue.
Yesterday as you know, I unplugged the IACV valve, yes, left it dangling there, so he can drive the car without issues, without the car picking up RPM whilst stopped at traffic lights or a stop sign, now its been going very good the last few days, but for the very first time, he pulled up in traffic, yes the car was idling at 850 RPM in drive and when he took off it would not shift into second gear (exactly the same as when the IACV was connected) but its not connected now and for the first time we had the issue of first gear won't shift into second gear and so on and so on. Now, the issue can't be the IACV valve because its disconnected, so by this I suspect the issue is on the TPS circuit, either a new crook not compatible after market throttle position switch or a bad connection somewhere along the line. Remember I have hard wired the three wires in the throttle position switch, so there is no bad connection there, it must be somewhere else if its a bad connection issue.
Next week I will hunt to get from the wrecking yards a genuine TPS switch and IACV valve, maybe I will get two of each if they are not too expensive, because this is the first time I now know its not the Idle control valve thats actually giving extra revs in the engine, its something else commanding the IACV valve to open up and let more air in. The IACV valve is a scape goat for this issue and considering when this car plays up most of the time it also has the problem of going in from first and second gear, under 2500 RPM. Remember, it happened late this afternoon and the IACV valve was disconnected, yet for no reason, the issue struck the car again and the car didn't want to go into second gear until you put the foot down on the pedal at 2500 RPM back off, then it goes into 2nd, 3rd and 4th.
This could be a giveaway, it could the the Throttle Position Switch causing all this issue, because I have a feeling that the Throttle Position Switch has something to do with the automatic gearbox.
