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Astra won't accelerate.

Car starts, but no acceleration, pedal seems okay, but no response/revs when applying the accelerator pedal, stuck doing 1 mph.

Asked on 20 October 2011 by cambo36

Answered by Alan Ross
It sounds as though one of your sensors is at fault.Rather than guessing it may be better if you just have a diagnostic check carried out,which should then show a fault code which can then be related to which area/sensor.
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