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sadham
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Sun Sep 18, 2016 6:30 pm

Hi,

When starting the car most the time I need to use the accelerator to start it.

It's had new leads, plugs, oil, oil filter, battery. What else could be causing this? Or is there anything I can try to get to the bottom of it?
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Siggo
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Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:12 pm

Did a bit research . Idle control valve not opening till you hit the gas. Or fuel starvation . Just do what I did find out were and what every thing does on the car . Take out sensors clean them
bobbin1982
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Sun Sep 18, 2016 8:19 pm

Have you cleaned the throttle body by taking the rubber boot off and spraying some carb cleaner through it?

You need help with this so someone can rev/idle the car while you spray it


Have a Mk3 golf which does similar things as this and it normally fixes it for months


Andy
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