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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: Urgent! Engine rpm goes up to 5000! HELP!
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 20:35:48 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov15.191230.27881@colorado.edu> <BxrMy4.H5y@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1e65jhINNevu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, neves@anchor.cs.colorado.edu (NEVES RICHARD K) says:
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- >In article <1e65jhINNevu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer) writes:
- >>
- >>In a previous article, jchen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jonathan Chen) says:
- >>
- >>>
- >>>Here is what happen:
- >
- >[stuff deleted]
- >
- >>>I consult the Haynes manual (sorry, I don't have the good one ). They say
- >>>there will be a throttle switch, but I can't find one. I really have no
- >>>idea now.
- >>>
- >
- >I've also had a strange idle problem. We have a 91 passat with 25,000
- >miles on it. For the last thousand miles (or so) it will get "stuck"
- >idling around 500 rpm OR around 2000 rpm. If I turn the car off and
- >start it again, it would "reset" and idle normally (until a few blocks
- >later when it would do the same thing again).
- >
- >I took the car in several times. The computer wasn't showing any
- >faults and they "couldn't reproduce the problem" (I hate that). The
- >second time, VW did a recal on the engine monitoring chip. This
- >helped the problem, but didn't fix it. The third time I took the car
- >in I really yelled at them. They drove the car around for 50 miles
- >with the diagnostic screaming codes. THEN THEY FOUND THE PROBLEM: Bad
- >throttle switch. The replaced the throttle switch and that fixed
- >everything. It runs great now.
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- his should be different than yours, as his hasn't a computer control
- unit..but this isn't to dispute anything else here!
- >
- >But I'm disturbed by the fact the computer didn't generate a fault
- >when the car was consistently idling abnormally low or high. What
- >gives? What is the point in having a computer monitor the engine if
- >it can't catch stuff like this?
- >
- >Check those throttle switches! (whatever the hell they are) :)
-
- can't hurt!
- DREW
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