over revving freelander

I have a 1.8L petrol freelander on a W reg, 2000, which is revving high anyway upon start up (but rev to 5K and it goes back to nearly normal). However the next time I need to put into neutral and apply brakes it revs steadily increasing to about 3K. Has anyone come across this problem and know a possible solution?

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Sounds like a sticky throttle body. It's worth upgrading to the 52mm aluminium version, the original plastic one can be known to warp, especially if the clips around the air pipe are overtightened.

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freebiker said:

Sounds like a sticky throttle body. It's worth upgrading to the 52mm aluminium version, the original plastic one can be known to warp, especially if the clips around the air pipe are overtightened.

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Thanks for that freebiker, I'll have a look about see how much I'll have to shell out for one.

Bromsgrove,

Did you change the throttle body, I've got a similar problem, oiling the throttle cable seemed to help for a while, but the problem came back recently?

Cheer.

I seem to have cured my reving problem by re-calibrating the throttle sensor as I found suggested on another thread here: http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/obd-ii-60483.html

Been fine for a week now.

freebiker said:

Sounds like a sticky throttle body. It's worth upgrading to the 52mm aluminium version, the original plastic one can be known to warp, especially if the clips around the air pipe are overtightened.

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Twas a sticky throttle body.
Freelander been sold since before anything else went wrong