2.2 idling

[old cruiser]

Anyone with the 2.2; how smooth do you find the car idles, I don't find mine is particularly smooth as such , having said that it doesn't misfire as it were it's just that you can feel it through the seats if you know what I mean and notice it more after about 10 secs or there abouts after I come to a stop, my last car was a Focus and with that you couldn't feel anything on idle so much so that sometimes I thought it had cut out!! as it was so smooth, other than that these Vectras are quite a joy to drive it has to be said!!
Cheers Pete

[BlueRob]

Have you check the idle valve being clean mate?
Or the plugs?

[old cruiser]

Good point mate, did plugs, throttle body clean out, air & fuel filter change, but didn't think about the Idle valve as I thought it was purely governed by the ECU on these, so it has got this vlave then?
Cheers Pete

[Gsi3.2]

of sorts... it's all part of the throttle butterfly.. if it's clean then it will help no end

[rushy]

You could also check you have no air leaks on any vac hoses and mounting point of the TB?

[Matty H]

My car is new and is the same. As you say, it doesn't misfire, you can just feel the odd very minor burble in the tickover

[old cruiser]

Cheers guys , the more I think about it my old Omega 2.2 I had before the Focus I think was a bit like this, but with the Omega I seem to remember you could see the Tacho needle fluctuating also , whereas on the Vectra needle is well steady.
Cheers Pete

[rushy]

The Omega was a x22se not the z22se that you have now.

[Vid]

I would agree that the problem is likely to be the throttle body.

Get it off and get it cleaned.

[old cruiser]

Already did that mate and didn't make much difference
Cheers Pete