missing a little

[frank_grimes]

Just wanted to know if this is normal, but my Gti 8V misses a little at idle, sometime. Which is the strange thing, it will be the perfect car sometime then all then sudden it misses a beat

It not a major miss just annoying, vie changed the spark plugs, leads, fuel relay, cleaned the Air flow meter as well as the idle one, fuel injector cleaner, changed oil and fuels (bp ultimate). It went from a car that had an idle problem to one that now misses..Is this normal or is there any thing left that I can change or clean?

I've read the previous threads and did what they said just wondering whether im fighting a losing battel.

 

[__B3NNY__]

Tryed changing the dizzy cap and arm? injector cleaner? Fuel Filter?

 

[andythom]

Dizzy cap or rotor arm most likely.....

Depending on age the ignition coil carbon brushes could be breaking up....again not expensive....£60.00 IIRC

 

[frank_grimes]

coil has been replaced, i guess its time for the dizzy cap and rotor arm. Not that expensive in the UK but im in Adelaide Australia, my search will begin soon. Never changed the dizzy arm do i have to do anything special?

Where is the fuel filter is it in the back or engine bay.

 

[__B3NNY__]

No its easy.. unbolt dizzy cap pull off arm (could be stuck on) replace with new arm and cap easY!


Fuel filter is located under the petrol tank in the middle near the beam.. just unclip both hose`s and pull out (beware of gettin petrol in your eyes ) and reverse the process ti replace with the new one.

Hope that helps

 

[frank_grimes]

thank you all for your help will do all of that very soon and post back to tell you if it worked..

 

[fuey]

have a butchers at
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=57144

 

[andythom]

If you have bother getting the parts give us a shout and we can maybe arrange to send them over....

 

[frank_grimes]

thanks andythom i think i might have found a VW dealer whom sells allot of seat parts local..there's no seat dealers left in Australia, well i haven't seen one..

You guys have a access to a lot more performance bits then we would. Most thing would need to be custom made.

 

[fuey]

just receive my dizzy, and arm
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6448/dizzyrotor7np.jpg

 

[frank_grimes]

how much did that cost you?

 

[fuey]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuey/sets/1661252/

sorry for late reply, cost £10.22 from Euro Car Parts, Leeds. (
Don't know how much it's cost to ship over to you tho.

link above shows the 'crud' on the contact points in the dizzy cap itself, and the corrosion on the rotor arm

 

[edc]

thanks andythom i think i might have found a VW dealer whom sells allot of seat parts local..there's no seat dealers left in Australia, well i haven't seen one..

You guys have a access to a lot more performance bits then we would. Most thing would need to be custom made.

Most of the stuff is VW anyway. If by performance you mean exhausts and suspension then yes that is typically SEAT only with no crossover, unless you want to go mix and matching suspension.