Danc

Hi

Have recently bought myself a 2002 MG TF 160, which has been lots of fun but is starting to cause a few problems.

The orange engine warning light has come on a couple of times, taken to a garage and they have had a look and saw no major issues and cleared it and said come back if it comes on again. Over the last few weeks the light comes on every now and again and from the obd2 reader i have bought myself shows error code p1521.
I can clear the code and everything runs fine for a while but light comes on again after a few days driving.

When i start the car up in the morning it starts and runs ok, iddles at about 750 rpm as i understand its ment to, but after driving for a while it starts to idle higher at around or over 1000rpm and idles quite rough making a sort of wub wub wub noise, excuse my non technical language. When running like this it seems to take more throttle to get the thing moving off as usual, and have found that 2nd gear is reluctant at low revs to move but then seems to pick up at higher revs, its just inconsistent do drive overall. Today just as i got home from a 45min drive and pulled onto my drive the engine cut out, i could get it started again by giving it a decent amount of throttle while trying to start it but had to hold some revs on otherwise it would just fall and cut out again which made parking somewhat challenging.

I've read various things about how it could be that the vvc solenoids are incorrectly plugged in but the car revs beyond the 5000-6000rpm mark ok when running normally, the other thing i seem to read about is a dodgy cam sensor. Anybody got any ideas what could be going on?

On a side note the handbreak seems very weak and doesnt really hold the car on anything more than a slight hill, is there an easy way to adjust this.

Thanks for any help in advanced.