Funny behaviour.

[Black20VT]

It's been well documented on here about flat spots on the 20VT's.

I've been having a similar situation, so have been trying a few things.

One of my findings (proper scientist me!) is in 3rd gear. If I'm accelerating in 3rd to just over 2K and then lift my foot slightly from the throttle, it slows accelerating as expected, but then for some reason, it starts accelerating like it was before I lifted my foot and I've not adjusted my pressure!? :dunno:

Why would it do this?

I think Bill mentioned a while ago about re-aligning the throttle by removing the battery for 10 mins or something.

Anyone else suffer from this strange phenomenon?

:cheers:

Chris.

[Jimmyboy]

There was talk on here a while ago that rather than flooring the accelerator if you lift off slightly you can get the turbo to spin faster or something and accelerate a lot quicker without the flat spots. Hopefully someone will read this and it will jog someones memory.

:cheers:

[techie]

Originally posted by Black20VT


I think Bill mentioned a while ago about re-aligning the throttle by removing the battery for 10 mins or something.

Chris.

If you disconnect the battery the throttle valve can loose its basic setting and will nedd to be re-adapted.

This is done with VAG 1551 or VAS 5051. It basically gets the engine ECU to run through all the stages with the throttle body and set it up correctly. If the valve is not set correctly it can cause throttle response problems but mainy an unstable idle.

hth's