DX RUNNING PROBLEMS

Is anybody else experiencing running problems in this damp.foggy weather.Just returned from Birmingham yesterday,in my gti,a round trip of 370miles,car ran like a bag of ***** as soon as we hit a blanket of fog

Sqirt some wd40 on electrics,see if that help's :dontknow: is that the only time it un responsive??? :dontknow:

yes,before we hit the fog car was running fine,then the car was juddering like crazy down to like 45mph on the a1.We carried on hit a patch where the fog lifted for about 5miles and the car ran spot on ????

mine was the same when we had the snow. Did the wd40 spray and that sorted it. Give the inside of the dizzy cap a good squirt aswell

Probablies just the air density screwing up your air/fuel mixture

Sounds like it's a bit more than that though, otherwise your car would have to be retuned every time you went from Yorkshire to the seaside, wouldn't it?  

Reckon the moisture content of the fog might be more likely as above?  

I've had a couple of minis and they'd literally invariably die if you followed a wagon down a waterlogged motorway untill I put a big bit of bent plastic in front of the dizzy.  Mended.  

A "get you home" mod was a marigold or surgical glove over the top of the dizzy with a plug lead out of each digit and liberal blobss of vaselene as sealaant.

cheers for all the info,i changed the dizzy cap and rotor arm before i set oof back home,made a bit of difference but not much,could the ignition leads be letting in moisture as well...

if the leads are breaking down they will cause the problems you describe, try giving them a really good clean first with wd40 along the whole length of each and check there is no visible damage. if they are arcing when wet you should be able to see at night :-)

thanks for all the info,cars running spot on changed all the ignition system,plugs,leads,dizzy,and coil,or it might be just the weather has changed.Ahh the joy of owning a classic....