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A friend of mine heard a funny sound on turning on the ignition but not turning the starter, and he suggested hitting the fuel lift pump with with a hammer so he lifted the rear driver side seat and hit it! (not too ...

does it try and start and then stop, or is the starter running and cutting out or even running at all?

the starter is working fine, but the car will only start for a fraction of a section, maybe one or two firings, then no more, even when i keep the key turned for the entire time.
this process ...

when you said it was getting lazy was it cutting out/slowing the whole car down ?

Lost pretty much all power in each gear changing down, I pressed the clutch before it would stall and it cut out anyway

...check if your fog light warning light on the dash shows up randomly...

No warning lights ...

Hey guys

My faithfull old mk4 had an 'episode' today, it lost nearly all power and eventually cut out and refused to restart!

Doing motorway speeds for 20 mins then 40 on an A road for 10 mins and it got lazy in fifth, i dropped to third and still no response so pulled in,
Oil was low, near the ...

Hey, I got my distributor cap off a while ago and replaced cos it was knackered and causing bad misfiring, but while the cap was off I noticed the rotor arm was fairly busted lookin too.

I have tried pulling the arm off, twisting it loose, and wd40'ing the hell out of it but it wont budge!!

Any ...

kevsnell, or anyone interested,

changed the temp sensor: no difference ( just reads 11deg warmer [90deg at normal now] and gets to 90deg much quicker)

Changed distributor cap, which was fairly corroded, SORTED!! and sanding the ends in the cap made no difference to the problem.
Its driving perfect ...

I wanted an aux-in for the standard head unit aswell, but didnt have the cd changer socket soldered to the pcb at the back(or money), so.... I opened the head unit, put in a casette adapter in, closed the casette flap, ran the 3.5mm jack out the back of the radio and back through the cubby hole at ...

Right, I got one of these off ebay:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/tomtomg_bucket/c7d9_12.jpg

BUT the one in the car looked like this (on the right):

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/tomtomg_bucket/DSC02310.jpg
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/tomtomg_bucket/DSC02311 ...

Tompolo i had a problem like this .... i have recently used 10k boost from halfords and i think i have solved the problem ....

kevsnell/jonny

been and gone to halfords and put a good can of wynn's carb cleaner straight into the inlet inside the breather after giving the opening a good clean as ...

yea i've got the exact same problem recently! (98 mk4 1.0L 120K)

For me it will only occur on a cold start after rain. it will take a fraction longer to start the engine, then it shudders for a second or two but will pull away fine, then after maybe a quarter mile, pulling off from lights, it will ...

Hey, fairly new on here, so hey all again,

Right, basically i've been tinkering about trying to install a cheapo aux line in on the standard head unit in my MK4 but have run into a problem and was hoping some of ye guys could offer some know-how again...

I've knocked out the head unit, cut the ...

trying to bring this post back to life here!!

I had seen these pictures a while back and figured i'd give it a lash
I have bought a paint touch-up kit containing a paint-match, laquer, and polishing compound.
I was planning to over-fill the chips and a few scratches with the paint, then sand even ...