What is causing the throttle body to malfunction?
Asked by lawrence056 Sep 23, 2015 at 10:58 AM about the 2002 Saturn VUE V6 AWD
Question type: Maintenance & Repair
Hi, I bought my 2002 Saturn Vue V6 in June of this year, since then, I had to change the throttle body 2 time and the same issue is arising again. This morning I was driving to work and the check engine light came on and the car was having a tough time accelerating. When I got to work, I wanted to test it out to see what would happen, so I sped up and it accelerated fine, was able to get up hills and did not stall when stopped. I have not yet checked the codes but this is not something that should be happening since the throttle body was changed 3 weeks ago.
5 Answers
lawrence056 answered 9 years ago
The codes that came up are P1779, P0700, and P0121. The ones that came up a few weeks ago was P1779, P0221, P0700, P2101, and P2176.
Just had the throttle body replaced on my Saturn Vue. When I went to pick the car up from the garage i experienced the same surging and chock I did when I dropped the car off. And both the engine and low engine pressure lights were on. The mechanic told be that there was a second part to the throttle body that may need to be replaced as well. Any advice???
LukMartin613 answered 7 years ago
i have a 2007 mazda 5 that has the same problem ive changed the throttle body(ecm) the gaz pedal and the relay and im still having proplems the car wont rev up past 2000rpm and the check engine light is on with code p2101 that relate to the throttle dody the mazda currently has 380000km on it
Is your key worn down this can cause many problems to all sensors over and over same thing happened to me 2003 saturn vue. Engine light on with reduced power..took it to my moms machanic asked if i had a new key yes i had just got 2 new ones he said inside the key case has several sensors if the key is worn these sensors cause multiple problems there was this weird alarm going off while i was driving too on and off..as soon as her started it up with the new key All lights on my dash went off and no more alarm noise..
Did you ever find a fix Lawrence? I have the exact same problem
