My 1.4 is ill!!!

[l99amm]

As you may have guessed, my car doesn't like to idle. When you leave it running it will be ok for a short while and then it will start trying to die and sometimes stall. It even does it coming to a stop and my fuel economy is really bad. I've tried cleaning the idle speed control valve with no luck. Any body got a list of ideas as to whati should do??? Any help would be most grateful.

BTW, anybody got a superchip for the 1.4 CVH (PTE)????

[Muzz]

As you may have guessed, my car doesn't like to idle. When you leave it running it will be ok for a short while and then it will start trying to die and sometimes stall. It even does it coming to a stop and my fuel economy is really bad. I've tried cleaning the idle speed control valve with no luck. Any body got a list of ideas as to whati should do??? Any help would be most grateful.

BTW, anybody got a superchip for the 1.4 CVH (PTE)????

 

A) If you superchip your 1.4 i'll personally chop your nob off with a rusty pen knife.

B) I had the same problem with my 1.4 and it was down to rusty wiring .

[stevietec]

As you may have guessed, my car doesn't like to idle. When you leave it running it will be ok for a short while and then it will start trying to die and sometimes stall. It even does it coming to a stop and my fuel economy is really bad. I've tried cleaning the idle speed control valve with no luck. Any body got a list of ideas as to whati should do??? Any help would be most grateful.

BTW, anybody got a superchip for the 1.4 CVH (PTE)????

Try adjusting the idle speed itself, or your air to fuel ratio may be wrong. Does your car smell like its burning petrol all the time?

[l99amm]

it don't smell of petrol, but at the moment it is only doing about 220 miles to a tank

why is it a bad idea to superchip this motor???

[ScORTED]

vacuum leak... putting 10p on it being that... spray wd40 around the inlet and air piping whilst its idling if it reacts to it theres a vacuum leak