So I just cleaned my throttle body with Valvoline Carb & Throttle Body Cleaner. I had my father get in the car and turn the key to on so the plate would open. I cleaned it, put everything back together, and then when I turned the car back on, I got a CEL. Does anyone have an idea as to what this could be??

 

Out of curiosity.. why did you clean the throttle body?

 

Because the car has over 147,000 miles on it. The CEL has never came on since I owned the car, so im a little worried

 

let the car run fro a few minutes,turn itoff,undo the battery and let it sit for a few minutes and then reconnect and run car for a few minutes,that should reset it,as long as you sprayed it in after the MAF you did not harm anything that I can think of.

 

147k?:D wow.. nice.. im about to reach 90k

 

ok thanks. Yea I drove the car home and it seems to be fine. It's idling just around 1000rpm where as before the cleaning it was down to around 700rpm.