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[Felix_Creme]

well well,

i dont think its the HBV.  When i first bought the car, it would run fairly rough from cold and at idle, but the problem seemed to disappear once warm, or certainly less noticeable.

I spoke o a mechanic friend who told me that the idle control valve on the ecotec is a known issue

then the coolant problem (i.e its thrist for coolant even when goin around the block) went from bad to really very bad

and it seems the button on the dash for the remote boot release has packed up

........why me

hence the hysterical and manic laughter

[Marks DTM Calib]

well well,

i dont think its the HBV.  When i first bought the car, it would run fairly rough from cold and at idle, but the problem seemed to disappear once warm, or certainly less noticeable.

I spoke o a mechanic friend who told me that the idle control valve on the ecotec is a known issue

then the coolant problem (i.e its thrist for coolant even when goin around the block) went from bad to really very bad

and it seems the button on the dash for the remote boot release has packed up

........why me

hence the hysterical and manic laughter

Lol, drive by wire.

Boot release, does it work from the key....if not its a wire break in the loom that follows the boot hinge

[Felix_Creme]

oh so it dont have an idle control valve....unless he was refering to the earlier ones...or do they not have them either


...wonder how much i'll get if i wiegh it in for scrap...its an 1800kg car

[charlie]

THe price of scrap cars was £170 per tonne on monday.

[Felix_Creme]

hmmmm

it would be a shame to scrap it, especially as the body's in reasonably good nick and it has five good (actually four, cos the one is flat) tyres on it