Howdy all. Having a bit of a issue with my rex8.
The other day I was driving over a speed bump and heard a clunking noise and then a few seconds later the engine cut out. Tried to start the engine again but all I got was the ticking over. The engine warning light came on as well.
So I parked the car and took a look under the bonnet to see what the noise I had heard was. The bottom half of the heat shield has called off and is now hanging on by a wire which I can only presume as the lambda sensor. On further inspection of this I noticed that the connector for the sensor has kinda melted a bit and fused it to the other end of the connector so I can\'t simply remove it. Which means I now have a dragging heat shield (not that that makes a difference with the cat not working).
Anyway I tried the engine a few more time n it looks to me that no petrol is going to the engine, so I got ahold of a obd2 sensor that gave me thus code.
P2106 Throttle Actuator Control System - Forced Limited Power
From what I\'ve read this limits power to the engine which is why the car isn\'t starting.
My problem is I have no idea how to sort this. Any suggestions?
Also I\'ve been told that the factory heatshield has a 100k warranty and I\'ve only done 42k. If this is the case would the sensor also b included under the warranty seeing it\'s the fault Of the heat shield melting it?
Cheers
James