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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: wilson on 29 March 2007, 16:47

Title: Strange Stalling
Post by: wilson on 29 March 2007, 16:47

Took my car out on my lunch break today, (only a mile down the road) and it just would not idle.  was constantly stalling at every junction, unless I held it at around 2k revs.

When I started it to come back to work it was fine, idled perfectly !

This has not happened before.  any ideas?

Thanks
Wilson

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: Gambit on 29 March 2007, 16:51

what engine?

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: wilson on 29 March 2007, 16:55

Quote from: Gambit on 29 March 2007, 16:51

what engine?

Oops Sorry  :embarassed:  16v

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: wilson on 29 March 2007, 18:20

It was annoyingly fine all the way home  :angry:   Is it gonna be one of those things that happens once and then never again ?!   Any ideas why it would happen like that and then be fine?

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: Uruk Hai on 29 March 2007, 18:30

Check all the vacuum pipes as I think a leak could cause this sort of problem, it did on my 16V !

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: wilson on 29 March 2007, 19:08

Had a brief look under bonnet, but it was brief had a look around the inlet etc for obvious leaks but saw nothing.

Not had much experience with these engines before, which are vacuum pipes, are any particularly common for breaking etc?

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: Dub-77 on 30 March 2007, 22:37

Broken wire somewhere???

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: GT3 Turbo on 31 March 2007, 03:31

Vac leaks are normally a continuous problem, could be isv trouble, check your all engine sensors/isv for electrical terminal corrosion....

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: wilson on 31 March 2007, 10:11

Quote from: Mr. Ballistic on 31 March 2007, 03:31

Vac leaks are normally a continuous problem, could be isv trouble, check your all engine sensors/isv for electrical terminal corrosion....

I'm gonna have a look round today, just clean up some connections etc have a good clean around...  It stalled again once since above happened, but only once on start up and was then ok.

It does seem to miss slightly sometimes on start up for a few seconds, it done it before and after last service, where leads were all replaced, and it done it before and after cambelt and tensioner was replaced, and timing all checked.

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: wilson on 02 April 2007, 16:40

Happened again over weekend, and wouldn't sort itself out this time, so I took the opportunity to had a good look araound, I cleaned some various connections and then found that the throttle assembly was fairly dirty and wasn't moving freely enough, causing it to not always click the little button on idle..  I'm assuming this was the problem, so I cleaned it all up, and is now moving back into position correctly.

Seems to have sorted the problem, or at least it hasn't happened again!

Thanks for help

Wilson

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: tom26 on 02 April 2007, 17:13

i'm still having the same $hit with mine. i have stripped my throttle assembly down, cleaned it up and re-built it, but it still doesn't always return enough to hit that tiny switch. I'm thinking one of the spings inside isn't doing it's job properly?

Title: Re: Strange Stalling
Post by: wilson on 02 April 2007, 18:03

Quote from: tom26 on 02 April 2007, 17:13

but it still doesn't always return enough to hit that tiny switch

What, even with plenty of slack in the cable?