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Offline jensonm

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advice needed
« on: 17 December 2013, 16:20 »
Hi guys just wondering if you could help.. Its a mk4 golf 1.8t ... Ever since purchasing the car I've been getting erratic idle when stationary after booting it ( full all way on pedal) then it will rev up.. then level out.. then rev up and so on.. so I unplugged maf and it worked perfect so I replaced the maf with a genuine bosch and it was working faultless for 3 days now it's back again .. vac leak? Tb ?? Little help would be good
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Offline james2

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Re: advice needed
« Reply #1 on: 17 December 2013, 16:37 »
Clean the throttle body should sort it out.  :wink:
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Re: advice needed
« Reply #2 on: 17 December 2013, 16:43 »
Could be a number of things, have you scanned for fault codes?
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Re: advice needed
« Reply #3 on: 17 December 2013, 16:51 »
No fault codes unfortunately
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Re: advice needed
« Reply #4 on: 17 December 2013, 19:06 »
Can I use electrical contact cleaner for the throttle body?
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Offline james2

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Re: advice needed
« Reply #5 on: 17 December 2013, 19:22 »
I used carb cleaner and a cloth ,open the butterfly by holding the throttle down with engine off  :nerd: and clean out all the crap in there. Mine did this after a remap and r-tec cleaned it out for free but stole my old cloth.  :evil:
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Re: advice needed
« Reply #6 on: 17 December 2013, 22:04 »
Exact same thing happened to my AUM, cleaned the throttlebody and boom problem fixed :)
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Re: advice needed
« Reply #7 on: 17 December 2013, 22:43 »
Cheers guys will give it a clean at weekend mines Aum too... Map booked at Rtech in 3 weeks so need it sorted.. it's annoying lol
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