Car dies at idle...

[djbobbins]

Has it got a carb or is it fuel injected?

 

We had similar symptoms on a carburated VAG engine, it was a fleck of crud in the slow running jet that was stopping fuel getting through.

[wicklamulla]

had the same fault on my pickup a few weeks back, twas a rusty fuel pipe at the tank end and it was drawing air so wouldn't idle properly.

[Burgess]

Has it got a carb or is it fuel injected?

 

We had similar symptoms on a carburated VAG engine, it was a fleck of crud in the slow running jet that was stopping fuel getting through.

 

 

2003 with a carb? wasn't the last carb masss produced cars in the early 90s?

[djbobbins]

2003 with a carb? wasn't the last carb masss produced cars in the early 90s?

 

 

Maybe; the car I'm thinking of was about 1987 age. Just thought the symptoms sounded identical.

[sloth]

Carb, or should I say throttle body assembly? Dunno...

... Anyway, very nice mechanic I'd not been to before (I only moved to this area a year ago) was booked up for a week or two, but spent half hour explaining possible causes. I went away and checked and cleaned a few bits and it turned out to be a stuck idle control valve. It only cost me a new can of carb cleaner and an hour of quality time with my 4.5yo son - time and money well spent, and a drink owed to Mr Mechanic I reckon...

[eggsarascal]

Carb, or should I say throttle body assembly? Dunno...

... Anyway, very nice mechanic I'd not been to before (I only moved to this area a year ago) was booked up for a week or two, but spent half hour explaining possible causes. I went away and checked and cleaned a few bits and it turned out to be a stuck idle control valve. It only cost me a new can of carb cleaner and an hour of quality time with my 4.5yo son - time and money well spent, and a drink owed to Mr Mechanic I reckon...

 

Result! Could you nip round and sort my van out (That I thought was fixed)?

 

I'll be able to send this hire van back if you can.

[sloth]

No can do eggs, sorry - I'm washing my hair...

[eggsarascal]

No can do eggs, sorry - I'm washing my hair...

 

Story of my life.