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I seem to have the same problem right now. Drove it home yesterday from work and the car was ok. Nipped in the house for 5 mins and when i got back in the car and restarted the engine it was idling rather funny. When accelerating to around 2000 revs the car shakes a bit. No idea what it could be but ...

*UPDATE*

My car was billowing puffs of black smoke occasionally so i took it to the garage and of course, as was stated by alexperkins, they pointed pointed out that the 5w/30 oil was indeed too thin so i'veh ad a full oil change and my breathers cleaned out.

Fingers crossed that fixs the problem!

My coolant is pink, the G12 type i believe. The wrong type maybe the problem however i was advised to buy 5W 30 (not 5w 40 as previously posted - my bad!) by castrols website and a sales assistant in halfords said 10w 40 or 5w 30 didnt really matter apart from the synthetic/semi synthetic choice ...

Hi all, first post!!!

Basically my 1999 1.6GL Polo is consuming what i deem to be too much oil. I bought the car in mid Jan and by the end of Feb on, the way back from a long trip, the oil light came on and the engine was loud. Luckily i was 5 miles away from my girlfriends house. I stopped there ...