HELP HELP PLS

[vwwvgolf]

my 1.4 used to average 200 miles per tank.
and mine ran fine, as far as i know. i didnt ever have it plugged in and read, but it never had idle issues or anything like that.

also got to think about stuff like stuck brakes and things. the rear brake cylinder was completely gone on mine which didnt help.

[itavaltalainen]

I was told by the garage that the mk3 don't need to be reset its the mk4 and up tbh i dont think they know what i was going on about. Throttle body was from vw. The bloke I got the car from said the lamba sensor was new. I did fill it right up and got 210 miles. Think the best thing to do is get it plug in again some where else. Thanks for the help mate. Just need to sort out the petrol I got the 1.4 so it was good on petrol it's costing me boom to run I might as well got vr6 lol

210 miles to a full tank - I get more than that (well more) when i drove only 3 miles to work and back for a month during winter! and that's in my 1.8 estate.... on a 1.4 you should manage 40mpg fairly easily unless you're only doing short trips round town.

Even if it got a new lambda doesn't mean it's working correctly, could be wrong part or as simple as a wire is broken and ecu is not getting a correct signal.
go on google and search for vdcs map from vwaudiforum.... sure there must be someone in kent with vcds that can do a proper log while you're driving... that will tell you a lot more than fault codes (mk3's are early OBD cars and not very good in reporting faults precisely).

[xionsolaris]

200 miles per tank is awfull i atleast get 300 miles with a 2 litre i know those single point injection engine was a amazing idea to replace a carb but multi point just slammed it into the ground with being more efficient the only good thing about single point injection is that it keeps the throttle body clean i dont think you can align a throttle body with vagcom as it dosent have a stepper motor on the tb  it would only be a idle  setting if you could align it like the agu mk4 engine uses the alignment for idle but the rest is cable

[itavaltalainen]

 

procedure for aex (if you really got an aex) is to clear fault codes (adaptation does not work without)
but before that would clean the TB and check if any tubing is brittle and/or broken, brake servo vacuum lines for example

then with vcds or registered vcds lite (dunno if you can do this with old shareware vagcom):

go to 01 - engine ecu
go to 10 - adaptation
go to 00 - delete values
go to 06 - back
go to 04 - basic setting
go to 98 - throttle body

that should solve the issue if it is tb related.