vw mk3 golf petrol 'thinking time'

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Tue 27 Sep 2005 17:17
vw mk3 golf petrol 'thinking time' - Editor
Hiya. I'd like to address an annoyance in the above car, which showed up during tour of France some while ago. Essentially it seems to need thinking time between pressing the accelerator for a swift overtake & actually doing it. What I was hoping is there a nice quick & cheap fix for this? A known issue?

Don't need anymore power, it's a cab so not much point & besides it's done over 150k.

Any thoughts? It's only a 'would be nicer.' Lived with it for 5 years!

Thank you all for looking at this.
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Tue 27 Sep 2005 19:38
vw mk3 golf petrol 'thinking time' - Steptoe
Just a general, rather than a specific, pointer; carbs have some means of enriching mixture when throttle is floored, usually an accelerator pump on a downdraught or a damper if an SU ( anyone remember these? )

A cheap fix would be a disconnected or worn linkage or a blocked accelerator jet, easy to check, take off air filter, operate throttle and you should see petrol squirting out inside the carb venturi.

If this doesn't apply to Golf, i.e. if it's fuel injection, my apologies, I've not owned one.
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Wed 28 Sep 2005 00:40
vw mk3 golf petrol 'thinking time' - Editor
Sorry Steptoe (like it!) it's injection. Yes I do remember SUs, my dolly had twin ones!

Thinking about it I recall from somewhere there's a daft bit of routing of the crankcase emissions back into the intake, remedied in the mk4 design. Also when I 1st had it (at about 70k) the garage cleaned out the throttle bodies which made a slight difference. Anyone know if I'm looking at this the right way? Have tried a tank or two of optimax in it just in case. Not a lot of difference I feel.

Or put it another way is there a decent Golf forum out there? I can see loads on Google, but the few I've delved into aren't very good.
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Fri 14 Oct 2005 19:09
vw mk3 golf petrol 'thinking time' - Editor
Stuck some more optimax in it. Drives very nicely indeed now!

Any thought son how to clean throttle bodies WITHOUT having to replace gaskets please?

Also I have a crease in the curved part on the top of the boot (long story invovling a toppling fence post). Do you think these 'dentman' services lot could do much? I can see vacuum working on straight panels, but on a roll of metal??

many Thanks
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Fri 14 Oct 2005 21:52
vw mk3 golf petrol 'thinking time' - HarlequinVW
Or put it another way is there a decent Golf forum
out there? I can see loads on Google, but the few
I've delved into aren't very good.



www.clubgti.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=24
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