Car still won't rev over 2k

[Zsolt Kovacs]

Thanks Brett, the car has new breather hoses. So that can't be it. AFAIK
-and please correct me if I am wrong- it just gives me a speed sensor
error, but doesn't refer to anything specific.

Zsolt

Brett Dikeman wrote:

> At 3:17 PM -0600 4/25/02, Zsolt Kovacs wrote:
>
>> We still can't figure out why my car won't run over 2k. It's a 90 V8q,
>> with 185k km.
>>
>> The code says speed sensor, however the one sensor is new already. Also,
>> according to the manual (thanks George) it shouldn't even run if it were
>> the speed sensor. The car starts fine, and runs well until it hits 2k.
>> That is where it just chokes and losses all power.
>>
>> Please help. Why are we getting the speed sensor code? Could it be
>> something else?
>
>
> Which speed sensor?  There are several, at least on the 200q20v, for
> example.  There's a hall sensor on the distributor, and two sensors
> by the flywheel, etc.
>
>   It's normal to get an RPM sensor fault when the engine is not
> running...should be a note about it in the Bentley.  It should
> disappear with the engine started.
>
> We had problems with Theron's V8 at the fall foliage tour(it died
> within a few miles, and right in front of an auto parts store :-)...I
> don't remember the exact symptoms, but it sounds familiar.  We turned
> the car upside down before figuring it out.  Turned out to be a
> completely disintegrated breather hose that literally fell off up
> front; we did a biopsy(cut off part of the hose), and handed it to
> the rather amused clerk at the store("What's this from?"  "Uh, that
> Audi over there with all the people standing around it.  Got anything
> about the same size and yae long?")
>
> Certainly can't hurt to the breather hose(hoses?) given how
> relatively easy it is.  None of them should be stretchy/squishy, and
> certainly no big holes :-)
>
> I didn't see anything about this problem before...did you have any
> symptoms before it started acting up this seriously?
>
> Brett
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