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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

Reply to
mjkendal
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Unplug the battery for half an hour, reset the ECU - it's probably learned to compensate for the split hose. Worth a shot.

Reply to
Iridium

Dirth throttle body ?

hands up not familiar with this engine.

Reply to
James

Thanks Dan for the speedy reply but how do you reset the ECU

Reply to
mjkendal

disconnect the battery

Reply to
Mrcheerful

Sounds like another dead MAF to me. Disconnect it, and have a short drive. The MIL will be on, but if the car drives no worse, perhaps even alittle better with it unplugged, then that's your problem.

Only use a genuine VAG / Bosch replacement. They are plug and play.

Tim..

Reply to
Tim..

Cheers Tim for your reply, but excuse my ignorance but what is a MAF and MIL where will i find these under the bonnet. cheers Mark

Reply to
mjkendal

Cheers Tim for your reply, but excuse my ignorance but what is a MAF and MIL where will i find these under the bonnet. cheers Mark

MAF - mass air flow sensor

MIL - malfunction indicator lamp (on the dash)

with respect, if you don;t know what these are, then you may be better taking the car to a trusted garage for the work.

Tim. .

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Tim..

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