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Sluggish VW Bora

Hello,

I do not know if I am posting this in the correct grouip, as this is my 1st time, but I was wondering of someone could help me .

I have a '99 2.0 VW Bora SE, which I have been driving for the last 6 months and it has been spluttering whilst driving.

This weekend I found a vacumm pipe from the fuel pressure regulator had perished. When renewed and put back onto inlet manifold car started OK but drives still sluggish but now has very errattic idling too the extent of that it stalls. When I removed the pipethe car idle speed is steady, but still runs sluggish.

the exhaust is blowing slightly, could this have any impacton the situation as I do not want to replace the exhaust before i have sorted the idle problem.

Thanks in advance for reading my post, and apolgies again if it is in the wrong place

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mjkendal
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Is there any fuel coming out of that regulator when the hose is disconnected?

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dave AKA vwdoc1

Thanks for the reply but there is no fuel coming from regulator, somebody told me to restrict the air going into inlet manifold by blocking off tube but this made it just as bad as fitting to the regulator. cheers.

Reply to
mjkendal

Oh I just handled one like yours and the timing belt tensioner was not tight enough and the cam was 3 notches retarded. It set the Camshaft Position Sensor code though.

SO start with the basics: Check the timing belt timing Check the spark plugs and ignition system. Check the fuel system

I am not familar with the Bora so I am not sure what their weaknesses are. Is there any fuel coming out of that regulator when the hose is

Thanks for the reply but there is no fuel coming from regulator, somebody told me to restrict the air going into inlet manifold by blocking off tube but this made it just as bad as fitting to the regulator. cheers.

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dave AKA vwdoc1

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