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nissan micra 1993 kangarooing and loosing power ?

NEED HELP PLEASE!!!
I have a 1993 micra. It began with rough idle, car turning off at stop lights, exaust smell, lost of power. Took it to my the mechanic, initially he didnt know what was wrong, eventually he found a fuse which had rust, cleaned it and the car for a few days worked great! but eventually whent back to the same. I've read that Micras have problems with the Air mass meter/Throtle body, I mentioned this to my mechanic, he inspected the car and founf a loose plug connection that goes to the throtle body, again car worked great for a few days, but whent back to the same. Couple of weeks later out fo no where the car began to KANGAROO, intermiten jumping, which would get worse and worse once it started to KANGAROO, to the point where you would loose all speed. Eventually i noticed that when the car is cold you have about 30 minutes before the car start to kangaroo, also, notice that once if posible, I get the car above 60 kmh in a long drive without stoping, the car drives great again!!
I dont know what to do anymore, am a medical student, and I really depend on this car, but I am also on a tight budget so a different car is not a real option. My mechanic seems to be at a lost..I was thinking of replacing the Air mas meter/throtle body????? Any sugetions, comments please !!

Manny
October 2010

Nissan Nissan Micra K11 Vehicles, Cars Power Help Idle

I have same problem with my nissan which is K reg and automatic. I took it to the mechanic at first he suggested it was plugs so I changed them then it still had same problem i.e jerking, loosing power when idle, high fuel consumption etc then he said it could be the distributor but after changing that nothing happened now he is saying that the problem is in throtle body ?! any one here has nissan micra from 1993 era? (automatic) ? is the throtle body of automatic and manual same? will it fix the problem of my car? please help thanks

Hassan
February 2011

Thanx Gary,

I decided to replace the throttle body. Hopefully it will take care fo the problem.

Manny
November 2010

Hi, I have just fixed the same problem on my 1994 micra 1.0L, it could be a electric fault on the air mass meter/throttle body, the fault is caused by a dry solder joint on a circuit board inside the throttle body which causes the engine to kangaroo by giving a false reading of how much air is entering the carb go to http://www.micra.com.au/technical-articles/cg13de-throttle-body-resoldering-guide.pdf, this pdf file shows you how to fix it, also look on www.micra.org for more advice about air mass meter/throttle body, apparently this a very common problem with the micra which is very easy to fix and wont cost hundreds of pounds, good luck.

Gary
October 2010