Wooly
06-03-2007, 11:12 PM
I recently purchased a mk3 Golf 1.4 and when I picked it up it misfired slightly. Having now been in and out of the garage 3 times its ar worse! Its tickover is eratic (will suddenly drop almost stop then pick up or not) it feels like its misfiring when you get it to drive and every now and then it coughs and dies on me then doesn't want to restart but eventually does.
Basically its running like a pig and so far its had a new distributor (code says its the hall sensor so another new distributor was sourced and fitted and it still says hall sensor!) also had a new coil, ht leads, spark plugs, o2 sensor checked, new temp sensor , air cleaner and had the throttle body swapped plus the ecu been re-programmed.
So its a wee bit annoying that the thinhgs still useless can't drive it as you are never too far away from it dieing on you in the middle of a rounderbout or main highway.
So can you tell me whats the problem please ????
MAF Sensor (Mass Air-flow Sensor) do I have one and could this be the fault ??
Regards
Tony
Basically its running like a pig and so far its had a new distributor (code says its the hall sensor so another new distributor was sourced and fitted and it still says hall sensor!) also had a new coil, ht leads, spark plugs, o2 sensor checked, new temp sensor , air cleaner and had the throttle body swapped plus the ecu been re-programmed.
So its a wee bit annoying that the thinhgs still useless can't drive it as you are never too far away from it dieing on you in the middle of a rounderbout or main highway.
So can you tell me whats the problem please ????
MAF Sensor (Mass Air-flow Sensor) do I have one and could this be the fault ??
Regards
Tony