Car won't start

[Baxter]

my car is dead.

Driving around earlier NO Bother with th car at all, no noises, no smoking, no overheating

Anyway....

Parked up at my mates for a bit, then got back in the car to go leave and my car wouldnt start....sounded like when an engines flooded. anyway my mate had a look, took of my air filter box cover and there was all this CRAP on it..looked like baileys..when my mate checked..was petrol and oil together and checked the pipes around the carb are all blocked too with this crap.

i checked oil straight away, no change,
I checked oil level, normal,
i checked coolant, no oil in it

any ideas

1.4 8v btw

 

[Black TDI Turbo]

Blocked breather system?

 

[Baxter]

im not sure..wont start tho..had to leave it in my mates drive..was just loads of crap on me air filter, and blocked pipe next to the carb...carb was clean tho inside..but its nowhere else....oil, coolent etc..

 

[martin_hill_198]

clean all pipe work up clean carb pour fresh pertol in carb see if starts then

 

[Baxter]

yeah it worked then, but what caused it tho

 

[Bentley1989]

did you have all this stuff in that small pipe that goes into the air box?

i got the same problem mate, mine starts tho....

 

[M4TTYF]

my engine is also like this changed the whole throttle body helped a little but not alot mine is on an aex engine 1.4 8v have had no joy in a remedy though let me know if you find one

 

[Cupra Kid]

The small pipe into the air box is the oil breather pipe, disconnect it and put a small cone filter on the end will solve the problem. Its another crap MK2 design.

That or keep the car fully serviced and the airbox cleaned out regularly.