throttle body

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:13 am

car keeps cutting out and it happened befor VW cleaned my throttle body and it was ok so it needs done again can I do this myself? what does it look like and where is it?

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:21 am

looks like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Volkswagen-Polo-1 ... dZViewItem

and can be done DIY, but my local charged me Â£30 for the cleaning and fault clearing... which i thot was worth every penny, cus i know how annoying it is

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:49 am

cheers m8!

what you doing about knockhill?

sorted · Post by **sorted** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:48 am

I took my air box off. Then took the throttle body off (4 Bolts)

Took me about an hour tops to take off , clean with engine decreaser, and bolt back on - and put airbox ontop.

After cleaning it the car goes a wee bit mad till it gets used to it

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:38 pm

mad as in faster?

so about an hour to do then? might leave it for the weekend was going to atempt it at my lunch break.

AshLeMacq · Post by **AshLeMacq** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:57 pm

Hmm, could this be the problem with my car?

AshLeMacq wrote:Right, after being delighted about fitting my new seat the polo has really come back and bitten my arse.

Took it to the car wash and in the middle it just died. So I guess it's possible some water could have gotten somewhere?

This is what's happeneing.

When you turn it over if it kicks in at all it hovers at about 500rmp for a few seconds and then dies, if you put your foot on the accelerator it dies right away. When my dad and bro towed it back my brother tried to kick it over as it was being towed and it kicked but just died again.

Took the engine cover off and the air filters are pretty clean, my brother thinks it could possibly be a fuel problem?

Anyone had this kind of problem before or sound familiar to anyone?

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:06 pm

could be try cleaning the throttle body, I'll do mine at the weekend

AshLeMacq · Post by **AshLeMacq** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:08 pm

badboypolo wrote:could be try cleaning the throttle body, I'll do mine at the weekend

Check the other post I've just made

Oh dear!

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:20 pm

hope all goes well