No, not me, the car. Late for work this morning, rushed down to car, started... stalled. Again... stalled. Again... would run - idling at 2-400 rpm, then stall.
Came back, snarling, swearing to sell the f*kka and get something sensible, pulled the fuses, started, ran fine, idle normal. Tried 10 minutes later - back to starting and stalling, unless I blipped/held throttle.
The first thought was 'a hose has popped off' but clearing the fault codes should prove that is not so - car ran fine for a couple of mins once cleared.
So - just about to get the fault codes again, but trying to find out where the pages are with all the details - on Paul's S2 site? If so, under what? Anyone got a direct link to the pages/procedure? It's been so long I can't remember quite what to do.
Yesterday the car ran fine. Took it for a blast after warming it up, then trundled home from work, all as normal, sat in traffic fine, got home fine, idled for a minute to let fan shut off, shut car off as normal, all fine.
This morning? Well, I was late for work anyway (woke up at 3am I was on at 3am) so didn't need this!
First time the car has 'let me down' so to speak since rebuild.
NNNGH. Must. Try. Fix. Problem. Before. Setting. Fire. To. Car.
PJ
Came back, snarling, swearing to sell the f*kka and get something sensible, pulled the fuses, started, ran fine, idle normal. Tried 10 minutes later - back to starting and stalling, unless I blipped/held throttle.
The first thought was 'a hose has popped off' but clearing the fault codes should prove that is not so - car ran fine for a couple of mins once cleared.
So - just about to get the fault codes again, but trying to find out where the pages are with all the details - on Paul's S2 site? If so, under what? Anyone got a direct link to the pages/procedure? It's been so long I can't remember quite what to do.
Yesterday the car ran fine. Took it for a blast after warming it up, then trundled home from work, all as normal, sat in traffic fine, got home fine, idled for a minute to let fan shut off, shut car off as normal, all fine.
This morning? Well, I was late for work anyway (woke up at 3am I was on at 3am) so didn't need this!
First time the car has 'let me down' so to speak since rebuild.
NNNGH. Must. Try. Fix. Problem. Before. Setting. Fire. To. Car.
PJ
). Test driving the 160ps cupra tdi Ibiza tomorrow. I'm agonising over getting a different car, but I have to face facts - if I go for a tdi it's gonna pay for itself in reduced fuel and insurance costs, and the mileage I do - need reliability and low cost, not speed 
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