Running problems on my ABF...........

[metaleg]

Can anyone help, my car is running like a pile of the finest at the moment. I've started at the cheap end of diagnosing things:

Clean TB
Changed Relay 30 and 167
Reset the ECU

It hessitates even when cold.

Can you help with the photos below? The pipe in my fingers doesn't go anywhere, any ideas?

http://s920.photobucket.com/albums/ad42/metaleg_photos/?action=view&current=001.jpg

http://s920.photobucket.com/albums/ad42/metaleg_photos/?action=view&current=002.jpg

in the above photo is the MAF one of the items near the air box?

Cheers in advance

[Mikester]

On mels polo there is one of those pipes that goes from the air box, but i cant remember where it went, i just put it back on the air box when refiting.

And the maf is what the plug is plugging into on the pipe after the airbox.

[metaleg]

Cheers, you just put it back on the air box? So it just goes no where?

I'm trying to eliminate all possible causes.

[Mikester]

No. I meant that i know it comes from the air box, but im not sure where the other end should be. But doubt its anything to do with your running problems if honest.

[metaleg]

Ok thanks

[Mikester]

Ok thanks

Is it just a rough idle? Or does it not pull that well? Do the revs drop bellow idle level when you slow down or dip the clutch? Is it ok when warm/cold.

Is it all the time, or some of the time?

[metaleg]

Tends to be all the time, goes well when i rev it hard. The revs have never been below 900

[Mikester]

Are you sure its just not because its a mk3 16v. They dont do anything until about 4k! lol

[metaleg]

I hope not, is that banter against the 16v community?

[Mikester]

I hope not, is that banter against the 16v community?

No.

Just you say it idles ok, and doesnt go till you rev it.

So i cant understand what its not doing? lol.