Recent content by baileymk3golf

Ok, so here's the update... I cleaned out the MAP sensor and EGR sensor along with the throttle body again. Put it all back together and it was driving nice and the revs weren't bouncing around at idle (or at least that I could notice) I done a 300 mile round trip over xmas and now the rev...

Cleaned out the crankcase breather pipe but not had the crankcase breather box off to clean it. anyway. I've just done a 130 mile round trip and there's now no gunk coming from the breather pipe (for now anyway) but the cars idle is still jumping from about 600 to 800 rpm continuously. I...

Check out my album for a few pics of the mayo gunk http://www.diynot.com/network/baileymk3golf/albums/23267/87008

Hey people, Just as soon as I've got rid of one car and got another, I've got a problem with it again! It's a mk4 Golf, 2001 1.6L 16v. 110K on the clock I bought it from a dealer just over a week ago and it was taken in part exchange so I got a fairly good deal on it. It looked in...

The Haynes manual says it should be around 7bar which is just over 100psi. A low reading in all cylinders. I disconnected the lead to the rotor and spark leads, took out all the plugs, took the fuel pump fuse out and pressed the accelerator pedal all the way in while i turned it over with the...

I done a compression test on the golf today and the readings are - Cylinder 1 Cylinder 2 Cylinder 3 Cylinder 4 Dry - 60psi 75psi 70psi 70psi Wet - 75psi 85psi 75psi 76psi Any thoughts on these readings? They don't look too bad to me but cylinder 1 does look a tad low and cylinder 2 a...

Sorry, I mean O2 sensor low voltage problem, not CO!!!

The car passed the natural idle speed but failed at fast idle. The readings are, at fast idle... CO - 0.546% Fail HC - 66ppm Pass Lambda - 1.031 - Fail I've since had other tests done and the car was passing on Lambda, but only just, so I think it's mainly a CO problem... I got a...

Hey, I recently got my beloved VW Mk3 Golf MOT'd, I was considering scrapping it and buying something else but we've got a lot of history togetherso wanted to keep her going. Before The MOT I got 2 new tyres, tracking sorted and a whole new exhaust system because the Cat had gone (except...