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Offline ashman86

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Little help please?? (Well actually a lot of help!)
« on: 12 September 2011, 17:30 »
Hi Guys, I have had a few problems with my golf recently its a 1996 GTI 8v (AGG), firstly the idling of the engine is very erratic. The car then smells like its over-fueling and blue smoke comes from the exhaust before the idling causes the engine to cut out. I have changed the following, plugs, leads rotor arm, dizzy cap and also cleaned the throttle body.

Not sure if this is relevant but the fuel pump seems to be quite noisy of late.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm getting to the point of desperation!!   :cry:

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Re: Little help please?? (Well actually a lot of help!)
« Reply #1 on: 12 September 2011, 18:07 »
Hi Guys, I have had a few problems with my golf recently its a 1996 GTI 8v (AGG), firstly the idling of the engine is very erratic. The car then smells like its over-fueling and blue smoke comes from the exhaust before the idling causes the engine to cut out. I have changed the following, plugs, leads rotor arm, dizzy cap and also cleaned the throttle body.

Not sure if this is relevant but the fuel pump seems to be quite noisy of late.
Anyone have any ideas? I'm getting to the point of desperation!!   :cry:

Answer your own question lol

maybe check your injectors, one maybe stuck open.

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Re: Little help please?? (Well actually a lot of help!)
« Reply #2 on: 12 September 2011, 19:13 »
Thanks for the reply, I used a free version of Vagcom to scan for faults which picked up: 01250 - Fuel injector for cylinder 2 (N31) Short to ground. How can i fix it?


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Re: Little help please?? (Well actually a lot of help!)
« Reply #3 on: 12 September 2011, 19:16 »
Short to ground? sounds like a bad earth but they all would be out.

Only way to fix it is replace it im afraid

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« Reply #4 on: 12 September 2011, 19:47 »
Cheers mate seems like all it wants is my money with no return at the minute.  :angry:

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« Reply #5 on: 12 September 2011, 22:25 »
If you need an injector loom, I have one that u can have for postage mate
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