Opel Club Cape Town

So I know all the symptoms of a dirty ICV (high revs, dificulty starting sometimes, etc) and how to fix it. But I have never done it before and I don't know what the thing looks like. So now on Sunday my mom tells me her car is revving high and I tell her to bring it over so I can sort it out. So I take out the air intake and start working on removing the throttle body (bear with me). While I'm at it, I take out what I think is the airflow meter and give it a quick clean. I look at it and wonder how this this with the spring that kind of looks like a thermostat is supposed to measure airflow, but whatever. Then I get back to trying to remove the throttle body so I can get to the "ICV" on the back (bear with me). But I don't have a small ratchet for the 10mm socket I need to remove the two bottom nuts.

So I give up after 2 hours and a lot of swearing and tell my mom I'd need to buy a small ratchet and try again this coming weekend.

And then I go on youtube to look how other folks have done it and I see that the weird "airflow meter" I cleaned was in fact the ICV and that the actual airflow meter is in the piece of piping that goes between the air filter and the throttle body.

Which means I actually did what I wanted to do 15 minutes into my 2 hour job and the other 1 hour and 45 minutes was me trying to do Lord knows what.

I felt like a complete fool, but at least I accidentally did the right job.

And this is what happens when you have lots of "book knowledge" and not much practical experience.

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2007 Subaru Forester XT
197kW and 380Nm of home-cooked, GTI embarrassing tuning. With a little help from Powerflow
ex:
2005 Coupe 168kW 350Nm From Evo Performance

But well done!!

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2007 Opel Corsa Utility 1.4
2022 Toyota Corolla HB 1.2T
2024 Toyota C-HR 1.2T

Exes:
2015 Ford Ecosport 1.5
2014 Ford Focus ST 2.0T
2014 Opel Corsa OPC Nürburgring 1.6T
2005 Opel Corsa OPC 1.6T
2008 Volkswagen Golf GTi 2.0T
2005 Ford Territory TX 4.0
2004 Citroën C2 VTR 1.4
2001 Ford Fiesta Zetec-S 1.6
1998 Kia Sportage 2.0
1995 Fiat Uno Beat 1.4

I take out the ICV and tps in 10min

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10 Ford Bantam XLT 1.6 i

EX: 04 Opel Corsa B 1.4 i SOLD Very Sad
EX: 95 Golf MK1 1.3 SOLD

Ja ne. It helps if you have tools. I have a nice set of small sockets and 3 ratchets. But no adapter so I can use the small sockets. Well, that changes tomorrow. But in hindsight I guess it was a blessing I didn't have the equipment because I might have ended up doing the headgasket too LOL.

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2007 Subaru Forester XT
197kW and 380Nm of home-cooked, GTI embarrassing tuning. With a little help from Powerflow
ex:
2005 Coupe 168kW 350Nm From Evo Performance

Issue sorted ? Lokl

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'SOFAKENWAT'

Almost. Just have to put the engine back in the car XD

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2007 Subaru Forester XT
197kW and 380Nm of home-cooked, GTI embarrassing tuning. With a little help from Powerflow
ex:
2005 Coupe 168kW 350Nm From Evo Performance