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hey just registered. ive got a mk1 gti cabriolet-rivarge. wanted one for ages and landed on with abeauty. few probs tho. one with starting. i turn key and she takes bout 5/6 long seconds of firing befoire she actualy starts up??? ive changed plugs, checked battery checked dist cap anyone got any ideas?
ive also experienced flat spots where i seem to lose throttle then it comes back and shoot off. ive ran oil cleanere thru and fuel injector cleaner. im also thinking of changing the back speakers and the front but need to know the size of the speakers and how to get to the rear ones.
thanks

the motor is a lovely dark blue with a dark blue hood and big 15" standard rivarge rims.
oh yeh its totally standard aswel and is going to stay that way.
any emails will be appreciated. see you all soon at a meet!!!!!

hello, welcome aboard. my girlfriend has a rivage. hers was a bit slow and so i cleaned out the air pipes and throttle body and that helped . not 100% but i thought rivage wheels are 15 inch ?  anyway any problems people on here are very good at solving problems.

thanks corrected promptly your right.
 
cheers wheres the best place to post to get replies?
i put a new filter in noticed a diff straight away. wudnt know how to clean throttle bodies dont even know where they are or what they look like


glad to be aboard………

click onto forum, different catergories .  from the top of the air filter follow the large plastic pipe along and that goes to the throttle body, this has a butterfly type flap inside herE  gets a layer of gunk around it, worth cleaning out pipe also.  where are you based at ?

My cab needed a fuel accumilator when it started doing that also changed the pump and relay at the same time

good luck and welcome

in in west yorkshire not far from leeds…really want to get her to a meet so can view others and get advice.
ill see if i can clean them i usually only do things i know i can incase i make things worse.
oh yeh when she does fire up she revs upto 10 tho then bumbles back down yo below 5 then back up again then back down then it levels out at 10 thousand revs.
what is it?

how do i actualy clean the throttle bodies?
what with-wd 40?

We always use a spray brake cleaner on throttle bodies at work. Seems to do the trick although only lasts for 6 months or so sometimes. Its a Wurth product. I would take the throttle body off the car totally to clean it as the brake cleaner is not good stuff to run through your engine 8O

The throttle body sits between the rubber air intake hose and the inlet manifold.If you take the rubber intake hose off you will be able to see two flaps that will open/close as you operate the throttle. Thats the bad boy there :mrgreen:

golf_cab_gti said

… i turn key and she takes bout 5/6 long seconds of firing befoire she actualy starts up

Does this happen every time, or only after overnight or standing for over (about) 6 hours?

If so, your injectors may be leaking, flooding the cylinders.

Test: Start up in the morning, run for a minute, then switch off. Re-start, and if it starts immediately the second time, then the injectors are the most likely cause.

Let us know, either way…

id say it does both mate. if i poull over for some petrol it wioll start first time after a second. but i came home from weeks hol and she started exactly same.

dont fancy taking throttle body off car-i am useless ha ha

golf_cab_gti said

id say it does both mate. if i poull over for some petrol it wioll start first time after a second. but i came home from weeks hol and she started exactly same.

dont fancy taking throttle body off car-i am useless ha ha

I presume that you mean it started ok after the week's holiday, that might be because the fuel in the cylinders has a whole week to escape past the piston-rings into the sump (bad for the oil, and the bores, by the way).

It could be other things, but you can't yet rule out the injectors - here's the definitive test:

Get 4 clean jam-jars, and tape them together like this: "OOOO" (helps stop them falling about the engine-bay).
Pull out the injectors in the evening, after driving the car (spray in some lubricant, they can be stiff, but persevere - be careful not to damage the braided hose or the crimped end just above the injector body.
Put one in each jar, and leave them overnight.
If there's any fuel in any of them in the morning, you need a new injector (or injectors). If they're all dry, it's something else.