Hey Craig,

I remembered reading about others' experience with throttle rise, and I figured it was all likely due to a sensor going out - At 118,000km I figured it was likely something like that. It started very intermittently, and began to be an everday thing over the period of two weeks. I wonder if the ambient heat/humidity had anything to do with it.

Another thing I noted on one occasion, was that after a run up the highway I stopped and let the car "idle" for about 20 minutes. During that time, the RPMs sat right up at 1300.

I popped the hood, messed with the throttle manually to see if it was sticking - nothing changed. Hopped in the car for the return trip, and the problem seemed to dissappear - its crazy, like you say.

The thing I have to really stress is that it had become an everyday thing at the point I swapped intakes. Since then, I haven't seen it. I'm not saying that the KKM was the cause, but the change seems to have at least confused the car into somehow thinking it's fixed.

Are you still selling??? If so, what are you looking at getting?

Cheers,
Harry


Focus SE Sport Wagon (the wife's) Mazda3 (mine)