To rule out the battery / starter wiring , take a set of jumper leads and connect them directly to the starter motor. If the starter spins the motor at normal speed then the problem is with the starter / wiring / battery connections and you might need a new starter or wire up a relay. Also clean the 2 battery connections and grease the outside. Oh and while we are talking about battery's check the charge rate , it might be under charging
Regards Desmond Wright -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 26 August 2003 07:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] Jetronic hardstart/rough idle/bucking Well, I had another symptom occur today. I drove to work, made my daily stop at 7-11 on the way(about 2 blocks from work). When I came back out to the car, it had a REAL hard time turning over, almost like the battery was going dead. It took 4 or 5 attempts to get it to start. Holding the gas down while making these attempts seemed to make it worse. Thoughts? -Dave '88 Jetta GLI 16V(mine) '88 Jetta GLI 16V(hers) '81 Scirocco S _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above. see listinfo link above.
