Sod's law ain't it. I sell a car this morning, a car that has not let me down in over 4 1/2 years and my remaining car only goes and throws a major strop.
Is there any way to repair the fuel metering unit on a 1988 Golf GTi
16v?
Bloody typical....help
Jan 25, 2004
9 Replies
16v?
Is that what the layman would refer to as a gauge :-)
Stuart Sharp
Only if you are a thick layman :-)
Well it depends what's failed but they're expensive enough I've always got them from a scrapyard.
The fuel metering unit has failed. I don't want to get one from a scrappy as that may fail too.
I just posted in the hope that someone might be aware of a repair method. It's either that or I'll have to bash the credit card for a new part.
Wouldn't like to think of myself of thick, but quite possibly ignorant :-). Seriously, though, what's a FMU - is it like a regulator?
Stuart Sharp
It's not that common a problem, I've not had the one from the scrappy fail yet. What's wrong with it though?
Heh.
Yup, It regulates the fuel into each of the injector hoses.
I guessed it's not that common a problem from what the recovery man told me earlier.
I generally have no problem getting some stuff from the scrappy but for some reason I don't feel comfortable doing it in this case. Maybe I don't know a good enough scrappy.
What's wrong with the unit? It's not working, petrol is getting to it but not on to the injectors.
Hmm, okay have you continuity on the electro magnetic reed control?
17.5Ohms to 21.5 Ohms is the expected range. However if there's no flow at all when you operate the air flow arm then it does sound like it's died big time, I'd change the fuel filter before I fitted a new one as I can't easily see how one would fail totally, normally they just get sticky & run crap mixture.Join the Discussion
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