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Re: hesitation at low rpm's




it did rain yesterday and i drove a lot in the rain (including filling up 
my tank)
but, this morning when i drove it to work, it was fine. strange...
i'll keep an eye out for this next time.
thanks

At 05:30 PM 2/4/00 -0800, David McGowan wrote:
>Has it been raining ? Coudl have got water somewhere it isnt supposed to.
>And maybe evaporated later i the day.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David Liu" <dyliu@pacbell.net>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 4:09 PM
>Subject: hesitation at low rpm's
>
>
> > '87 16v
> >
> > it happened again today... (last time it happened was months ago)
> >
> > i started the car and drove out of the parking garage. the moment i came
>to
> > a stop, the engine almost quit. then i put the trans in first, started off
> > and it felt sloggish and was hesitating like there was low fuel supply..
> > but as soon as the engine rev'd past ~3K it seemed to run fine.
> >
> > almost everytime i came to a stop the engine would almost quit. upon
> > acceleration, it would seem to hesitate until i hit ~3k.
> >
> > i parked the car, went to lunch, came back.... no problems.
> >
> > what's going on?
> >
> > i don't think it's the fuel pump - i had replaced the internal one (the
> > external is not making any strange noises)..
> >
> > thanks
> > dave
> >
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