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  1. Poor cold start and flat spots

    I have a 2001 Cupra 1.8 turbo 20v In the morning on cold starts it idles fine but if I move within 20 seconds the revs start to flucuates if it wants to stall. If i turn off the igniton and restart it, it's fine. If i sit and lightly rev in for 30 seconds it is also fine. When going along, in...
  2. hon_n_gem

    Black tar like spots on paint

    Hi all, I have quite a few, and very annoying, black tar like spots over the car. They were on there from when I bought it but, I cannot seem to get rid of them. Ive tried a few things but nothing seems to work?! Any ideas?! Or shall I get a professionl car detailer?! Cheers, Hon
  3. icestorm81

    Tar spots on car

    I washed my car this afternoon using turtle namo shampoo, whiched failed to remove all the tar spots on the car, esp on the drivers and passenger door. Tried waxin the car, but all it does is smear the tar everywhere and make it worst. Iv noticed there are alot of tar removing products on the...
  4. Buying a Seat Ibiza 2005 1.4 Spots

    Hi all this is my first post, love some of the pics of your Seats As the title suggest we are looking at buying a 2005 Ibiza 1.4 sport 75. We took it for a test drive it drives quite nice, the one question I have is it seemed a bit clunky/hard when going over bumps would this be a fault...
  5. binkylad

    flat spots

    ive noticed that if you gun it in 1st gear then click second the car splutter for a second then picks up again, im guessing this is a common problem and would need a remap to get it sorted,also noticed other flat spots in places, cheers
  6. DV + Filter done, remap questions..?? Flat spots still...

    Took advice and got me a Forge007p DV, with green air filter at the same time. trying to cure the flat spot I seem to have (up to around 2000rpm). Although this did seem to make the problem less prominant, I can still feel it, especially on a cold morning, or when crawling along in traffic...
  7. ben-ducky

    Diesel spots on rear...

    This question has probably been answered a thousand times but I am terrible at searching therefore thought this was easier. Whats the best thing to use to get the spots of diesel oil on the rear of my car off? Noticed them since I remapped my car especially and simply washing it does not get...
  8. Guinness

    black spots on drive?

    Right slightly scared got black oil like spots on the drive, however they are all around the car so Im thinking it could be dirt and its dripping from around the wheels. Is this a diesel thing or could it be worse. My oil level is fine (checekd before) and cant see anything else obvious but the...
  9. hot spots for sound proofing

    from a few google searches i am thinking that the 2 parts are damping (to stop bare metal from vibrating) and sound proofing (to stop noise getting into the cabin) can people recommend what products to use for the sound proofing (damplifier, brax, sheets of sponge, etc) and where they put it...
  10. In the back of the car some followed spots after 2.000km of a trip!

    My Cupra has 13.500km and after a 2.000 trip of km I came across that it registers it back had oleo dots, for who nao knows a new car exactly the retainers of the turbo leaves to pass a fast oleo for its retainers, mainly in reprise or load, but liked to know if ja happened here to some? I am to...
  11. muttly

    spots on windows...

    hi ive got some kinder of marks or stains on my cars windows kinder of like spots .. not sure if there water marks or etching or wat..ive had them tinted today and they now show up even worse... is there any good products that will removed them.. ive tried mr muscle window cleaner and...
  12. SEAT leon 007

    Flat Spots While Drivin

    Im getting lots off this flat spots while drivin my 110 tdi seat leon ive had it remapped to 140 and now, and seems to blows a little bit more black smoke than usally it did, when been driven hard and experiencing lots of flat spots it mainly happens when i let go off the accelerator and then...
  13. seat leon blank spots

    hi. i have a seat leon 1.8 se(i know..i couldn't afford a cupra at the time) like the car though. has anybody had a bit of a lull in acceleration..engine doesn't really accelerate till bout 3000/3500 rpm then it takes off rather well.. its just the bit before the 20v kick in.seems abit flat...
  14. jetsetjimbo

    Removing spots of paint from paintwork

    Hi guys The front of my parents car has gotten splattered with tiny little spots of white masonry paint when their next door neighbours painted the front of their house. I only noticed this at the weekend when cleaning the car, it must have been this way for a little while now and there's...
  15. Tree resin spots

    I have small spots of what looks like tree resin or something on my paintwork, that is proving hard to remove. Does anyone know of any product or substance that will soften and remove it without damaging paintwork ?
  16. Heat spots on discs

    i was doing bout 80 last night and was coming to a roundabout so did dum fairly hard braking and got a really bad noise coming from the passenger front wheel! i took it to the garage today and they think its the disc thats the problem, they think that there are heat spots on the disc where it...
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