Start Up Problem / Question

[flaatr@yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

1000!!! that would cause the system to run open loop...
My idle is rock steady 850 and I like it that way.

I think I'll look at the grounds to start.

-RGK-



At 07:53 AM 4/16/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Adjust your idle screw on your Throttle body to 850-1000 on the 8v and
>975-1000 on the 16v, personally I just set mine just below the 1K line and
>this battery light thing never occurs.
>
>Explanation of the reason why the "charging fault" light:
>
>When you start the car, the belt turns the alternator shaft, for the
>alternator to create a charge it requires a certain RPM for the system to
>create load. and that is why (in a simplistic way) you are getting a light,
>until you press on the gas and it goes away, because once you have achieved
>the momentum required by the alternator, as long as the engine runs, you are
>just fine.
>
>its a Volkswagen thing.. It freaked me out the first few times...
>no worries it's all good.!
>
>
>
>=>-----Original Message-----
>=>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
>=>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of EUROROC II
>=>
>=>When I start up my '87 16V, 1.8L CIS-E it does a few things and I was
>=>hoping some one could explain what is actually going on. I'm not saying
>=>that most of it is wrong, in fact it might be normal, but there is a
>=>problem related to it.... Here it goes.
>=>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
><SNIP!>
>
>
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