Before Christmas I had a 1999 Mitsubishi carisma 1.8 GDi in with a throttle body fault. After confirming throttle body as the fault I removed and sent to BBA for them to recondition/repair it for me. on recieving the repaired unit it was fitted to car but the revs were stuck at 1500RPM and it was flagging code 92(cant remember exact desription but was a tps feedback fault). I checked the output from TPS and compared to a good un which appeared to be OK so I assumed TB still faulty. As luck would have it I had another car here with the same throttle body (this was a 98 spacestar) after swapping the Carisma ran OK.

As it was Xmas eve I couln't do anything till 5th Jan, so sent TB back to BBA which was collected on the 6th recieved it back today and refitted to vehicle which was spot on. BBA said they had found and fixed the fault but I don't know what the fault was.

Credit where its due they did sort the problem but the lost time AND doing the job twice is frustrating and hard to explain to customers.

I have now had several throttle bodies done by BBA and I recenty purchased a Punto steering column after a motor repair failed to fix it (faulty torque sensors in column).

If this throttle body fault is a one off I am happy to carry on Using BBA but if I continue to have parts returned to me that are still faulty I will have to reconsider.

Mike