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Sun 14 Dec 2008 22:00

98 1.6 fast idling and cuts out on acceleration. - gd49

My car's got a problem. It's started intermittently cutting out when accelerating. The revs drop to 0, but it doesn't stall as the motion of the car bump starts the engine. It usually accelerates fine after this. It's also started revving higher when in neutral - the engine revs somewhere between 1500-2500 rpm, when it usually revs at 1000 rpm or less. Any suggestions of the likely problem, and if it's going to be econmical to fix, would be very gratefully recieved.

My car is a 10 year old 1.6 Megane, hasn't had a service for almost two years because it hadn't done enough miles since the last service (which is what the manual recommends). Passed its last MOT in Feb no problems.

Edited by Pugugly on 14/12/2008 at 22:02

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