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Offline difficultrogue

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Mk3 Gti holding back when accelerating
« on: 25 February 2008, 21:05 »

Hi I have just bought a 95 gti 8 valve I picked it up and headed straight for the petrol garage to fill up for the long journey home - The problem is this when squeezing the throttle slightly at cruising speed the car seems to splutter and hold back - something is clearly not good - I have just checked the paper work and it had a service 3000 miles a go! Your help would be appreciated.
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Offline Kenny_1.6

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Re: Mk3 Gti holding back when accelerating
« Reply #1 on: 25 February 2008, 23:41 »
fuel filter? not something they always replace during a service. replaced mine because mine was doing the same thing and all sorted now  :smiley:
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Re: Mk3 Gti holding back when accelerating
« Reply #2 on: 25 February 2008, 23:46 »
Yep Shes booked in for the weekend - New fuel filter time!
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Re: Mk3 Gti holding back when accelerating
« Reply #3 on: 26 February 2008, 00:44 »
Iceberg in the way?
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Re: Mk3 Gti holding back when accelerating
« Reply #4 on: 26 February 2008, 11:22 »
Sounds like it could be the old Mk 3 standard problem - ECU Relay!

Worth changing it anyway, they all fail eventually!
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Re: Mk3 Gti holding back when accelerating
« Reply #5 on: 28 February 2008, 01:28 »
Quote from: Len on 26 February 2008, 11:22
Sounds like it could be the old Mk 3 standard problem - ECU Relay!

Worth changing it anyway, they all fail eventually!
is this true for all Mk3's or just the GTi's? best site to get them from?
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Re: Mk3 Gti holding back when accelerating
« Reply #6 on: 28 February 2008, 04:16 »
Quote from: difficultrogue on 25 February 2008, 21:05

Hi I have just bought a 95 gti 8 valve I picked it up and headed straight for the petrol garage to fill up for the long journey home - The problem is this when squeezing the throttle slightly at cruising speed the car seems to splutter and hold back - something is clearly not good - I have just checked the paper work and it had a service 3000 miles a go! Your help would be appreciated.

I have this same problem with mine, let me know if you sort it out as I would like to know.

Is it intermittant?

Quote from: Len on 26 February 2008, 11:22
Sounds like it could be the old Mk 3 standard problem - ECU Relay!

Worth changing it anyway, they all fail eventually!

Mine has apparantly been replaced but still does it. any suggestions len?
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Re: Mk3 Gti holding back when accelerating
« Reply #7 on: 01 March 2008, 13:39 »
theres loads of possible solutions for this in the mk3 forum....

fuel pump and ecu relays

throttle body and isv clean

new vac hoses

clean out breather pipes

new coolant temp sensor


etc

check out asome of the similar ones
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