Re: Problems with my 16V

["Owen" <mr.peepers@home.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Guys, don't go buying new knock sensors just yet.  I remember Riley had a
very similar problem, that was solved by just cleaning up the connectors
that run to the brain box or something??  Are you out there Riles?

Anyway, i'll try and get a hold of him, cause i think this is exactly what
happend.


Owen
87 Scirocco 16v #38 CD-SS.
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Garage/1571


>I can't help your cause a whole lot but my car does
>something remotely similar.  It will run fine 85% of
>the time but when really drive it hard sometimes it
>develops this hesitation it is a real dog off the line
>and it gets betters as you rev it up.  If an
>unsuspecting driver was in it, they probably couldn't
>take off from a light.  this problem seams to occur if
>I get on it before it is fully warmed up.  (hey I know
>its bad,sometimes you just need to get out into
>traffic) the kicker the solution to the whole problem
>seams to be turn the key off and restart it goes away
>100% of the time.  So my guess on this problem would
>be the knock sensor or the brain box cause you reset
>the computyer by cycling the key.
>sorry about rambling
>if your problem sounds the same and you find a
>solution let me know before I throw in a $50 knock
>sensor that I don't need.
>.02
>Tony
>
>--- J P <rocco16vw@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Here's the deal. When I start my car, it starts
>> fine,
>> runs great, wouldn't know there is a problem. Then I
>> get on down the road and it seems to just "cut out".
>> Sometimes it is real jerky as if it is not getting
>> enough petro, other times it just simply loses all
>> responsiveness, as if it has just leaned out too
>> much.
>> If I turn off the car and start it again, it runs
>> fine
>> for a while. It appears that all cylinders are
>> firing,
>> I can't get it to continue doing this long enough to
>> be sure. Once it created a really irregular idle
>> where
>> as when I put in the clutch and let off the gas it
>> fell to about 5 on the tach and then climbed to 9.5
>> .
>> Another factor on this is that it only seems to do
>> this in colder weather. When it was 60 and 70 all
>> last
>> week it didn't do it. It did this about a month ago,
>> so I changed the oil, filter, air filter and fuel
>> filter. I had recently changed the plugs and wires
>> with the nology setup, so I wouldn't think it is
>> spark.
>>
>> Any ideas fellas? Any input would be great!!
>>
>> Sorry this is so long.
>>                                        Jason
>>                                        87 16V
>> http://www.missouri.edu/~c693933
>> http://www.geocities.com/strictlyforeign
>>
>>
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