Re: Hard starting (now hot starting issue)

[Geordy Rostad <grostad@thresholdnetworks.com>]

I was having my first starting troubles ever with my Jetta tonight and I 
come back to check
my email and all of the sudden, I'm not the only one, someone beats me 
to it!  I'm having a hot
starting issue.  So I need to re-ground the battery to the chassis with 
4ga or ?  and then I need
to ground the battery to the back of the head with ?ga? and then I need 
to re-ground the coil?

This is a HOT starting issue I'm having, I had to bump start it at qfc, 
it sounded like the starter
was doing ok but it wasn't catching for some reason...

Mike VanAmburgh wrote:

> Sounds like the typical ground problem.  My 87 was doing the same thing
> when I first got it.  Adding an additional ground from the battery to
> the back of the head (where the coil is grounded) solved the problem. 
> It's been starting on the first crank ever since.
> 
> Mike  
> 
> SmAsH wrote:
> 
>> My scirocco is hard to start in the morning or after its been sitting around
>> for a while. Its a 16v 1988 Scirocco. The battery is working fine. i started
>> it earlier and the idling rpms were at like 2000. maybe its flooding? i
>> dunno any input is good. thanks in advance!
>> 
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