Power down - help!

[zedmeister]

Hi there,
I have a MK3 Golf 1.8 driver with the ABS engine. Its my wife's car so I don't drive it much. I drove it recently and it seems really down on power - when you try and accelerate hard, the trottle response is very jerky (is that what they call misfiring?) - a few months back I had the distributor changed on it - could that be the problem? It was the whole distributor - does it need tuning or something?
Thanks for any help & advice!

[zedmeister]

Anyone?

[zedmeister]

bump

[tombradbury]

well im not expert, but my VW was misfiring a while back due to one of the HT leads failing.

its worth getting them checked out, cost around 40 quid for a new set

[zedmeister]

Thanks for that - I'll check them out. I had a word with someone yesterday and they said that it is misfiring under load, as it seems to rev okay when standing still. Any other ideas?

[Dollso]

Download the Vag-Com program and buy a cable from ebay, found the fault with mine in 5 mins. cable is £15 and program is free (shareware) but not the full program, if you use torrents you can get full version. Best £15 i ever spent.. plug cable into car, other end to laptop and Vag-com tells you whats going wrong in mins. Also get Elsawin program and with both tools you can narrow down and fix almost anything

[zedmeister]

Download the Vag-Com program and buy a cable from ebay, found the fault with mine in 5 mins. cable is £15 and program is free (shareware) but not the full program, if you use torrents you can get full version. Best £15 i ever spent.. plug cable into car, other end to laptop and Vag-com tells you whats going wrong in mins. Also get Elsawin program and with both tools you can narrow down and fix almost anything
Thanks! sounds really useful - I'll try that.

[zedmeister]

Seems to be getting better the more I drive the car - I think it may be a dirty injector - I had the Tesco petrol problem and although work was carried out, I do not know if they cleaned the injectors. Hopefully it will improve.