Re: Problems with my 16V

["Casey Webster" <tinfool@home.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>I am having the exact same problem with hesitation as you guys are having.
The only thing is that my car is an 8v, there is no knock sensor on an 8v
right?  any suggestions?

Casey
84 8v wolfsburg


> >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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