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Drive by wire throttle body clean

  • 14-01-2015 3:20pm
    #1
    mikeycoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭


    Has anybody any experience with cleaning a drive by wire throttle body? I moved the butterfly by hand and now fear I may have damaged the motor as the car won't start.


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  • #2
    burke027
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭burke027


    mikeycoz wrote: »
    Has anybody any experience with cleaning a drive by wire throttle body? I moved the butterfly by hand and now fear I may have damaged the motor as the car won't start.

    What's the car. I presume u cleaned it with carb cleaner r break cleaner. I bet ya the spray wen into the trottle body from the cleaner I would say but if u keep turning it over it will start I promise u that


  • #3
    mikeycoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭mikeycoz


    burke027 wrote: »
    What's the car. I presume u cleaned it with carb cleaner r break cleaner. I bet ya the spray wen into the trottle body from the cleaner I would say but if u keep turning it over it will start I promise u that

    No cleaner just used a cloth. It was full of gunk. It's a Saab 93, piece of sh1t vectra model.


  • #4
    burke027
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭burke027


    mikeycoz wrote: »
    No cleaner just used a cloth. It was full of gunk. It's a Saab 93, piece of sh1t vectra model.

    Wel if it's stuck full of gunk that should be your problem there is it closing fully. I'd buy a can of carb cleaner and spray it out open the buttery fly with your fingers and clean the inside of it to then it should start but normally they need the trottle body reset after being cleaned but that shouldn't stop it starting


  • #5
    mikeycoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭mikeycoz


    burke027 wrote: »
    Wel if it's stuck full of gunk that should be your problem there is it closing fully. I'd buy a can of carb cleaner and spray it out open the buttery fly with your fingers and clean the inside of it to then it should start but normally they need the trottle body reset after being cleaned but that shouldn't stop it starting

    It won't close fully, when I push it closed it springs open again. Just about 3mm. Do you know how it's reset? Does it need to be on a tech 2? Thanks for your help.


  • #6
    burke027
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭burke027


    mikeycoz wrote: »
    It won't close fully, when I push it closed it springs open again. Just about 3mm. Do you know how it's reset? Does it need to be on a tech 2? Thanks for your help.

    Does not have to be tech 2 most diagnostics can do it provided it's not just a code reader. Yeah it sounds like it needs to be reset alright


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  • #7
    PADRAIC.M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,189 ✭✭✭PADRAIC.M


    93 petrol/diesel? Year?


  • #8
    mikeycoz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26 ✭mikeycoz


    PADRAIC.M wrote: »
    93 petrol/diesel? Year?

    It's a 2005 1.8 petrol non turbo.


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