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Offline local.litw

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high idle
« on: 22 July 2012, 16:36 »
My car is idling at 1100 and sounds like a diesel!! It's a 1.8 gti 1999. Sometimes it will drop to about 900 and sound normal. Is there anything I can do to fix this!!

Any advise welcome
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Offline vwkevgti

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Re: high idle
« Reply #1 on: 22 July 2012, 16:40 »
Clean the throttle body pal chances are its black as the ace of spades with carbon deposits use a can of carb cleaner on it remove it from the car to do it :)
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Offline local.litw

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Re: high idle
« Reply #2 on: 22 July 2012, 16:43 »
sweet cheers will give it a go
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