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Re: another day, another failure


When it was driving at normal speed, how was it? If it was just dying when you 
came to a stop it could just be that the idle is adjusted too low, but if there 
were problems while at speed then that's different.

On 26 Aug 2003 at 11:25, janina wrote:

> the engine was dying more and more frequently. every
> time i came to a stop, and i'd try to get going again,
> the car would die.
> --- Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote:
> > On 25 Aug 2003 at 20:24, Aaron Clow wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > --- Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote:
> > > > On 25 Aug 2003 at 18:40, janina wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > it's a 71 squareback. she's fuel injected and
> > > > > automatic.
> > > > > 
> > > > > it was getting
> > > > worse
> > > > > and worse as the car heated up. is it possible
> > > > that
> > > > > the car is overheating? if so, how do i fix
> > that?
> > > 
> > > Jim, could this also be caused by a faulty FI
> > sensor?
> > 
> > Sure, but we really don't have enough data to narrow
> > it down yet. I don't know 
> > what exactly was getting "worse and worse" and we
> > don't know whether this has 
> > to do with warmup (likely) or just something going
> > wrong at that time (less 
> > likely.)
> > 
> > What did "worse and worse" mean? Was the engine
> > getting weaker and weaker? Was 
> > the engine missing, more and more frequently. Was
> > the engine dying more and 
> > more frequently? These are all different things with
> > different sets of possible 
> > causes.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jim Adney
> > jadney@vwtype3.org
> > Madison, WI 53711-3054
> > USA
> > 
> >
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Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA


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