bad revving problem please help

[vtrash]

as soon as i turn the engine on the revs are going up to about 5000 revs so i have to turn it off again before it blows up, and also something is killing the battery could it be a sensor cheers

[VT_CONVERTION]

there really are alot of these treads mate, do a search.

basicly it could be an enormous amount of things, including sensors yeah.

[bluearmy]

as soon as i turn the engine on the revs are going up to about 5000 revs so i have to turn it off again before it blows up, and also something is killing the battery could it be a sensor cheers
have a look at the idle control valve m8 take it off and give it a good clean, or the throttle bodie too come to that, also i had an old vauxhall caviler that use to do this and that was the throttle cable that use to get stuck

[vtrash]

cheers im gona try changing the icv and the coolent sensor 2morro

[RAL]

I had this problem mate with the revs, my acceleration cable was sticking and the revs wouldn't drop below 2000 revs, so under the bonnet were the acceleration cable is I just sprayed 'a lot' of wd40 on the cable, and on the black accelerator thing... also inside the car were ur accelerator peddle is the cable there I sprayed wd40.

This worked for me so maybe will help you, but my revs were lower than yours. hope info is useful mate

[jacknav]

its a hard job but if you drive it at 5000 for a small while it will go down, it happend to me a few times when i jump started ma car

[vicj69]

ive also got this problem, my car is revving tself, i looked at the accelarator pedal and it was moving down on its own! now my battery is flay everyday for the past 4 days, have to keep using jump leads every morning. i replaced the lambda sensor but made no difference, i have bought a new coolant temp sensor and will be getting my bf to fit it at the weeknd, so hopefully that will help. my battery is only 18 months old but have jut found the receipt and its got a guarantee so will take it back to the auto facotrs for an exchange.
any ideas or help? i dont know much about cars being a girly girl

[vicj69]

i got a new battery and replaced the engine coolant temperature sensor and this seems to of fixed the problem.