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I always ran mine on Tesco 99 and the smoothness of acceleration was great. I found BP Ultimate to be horrid, car always lumpy on it and would choose Optimax over it if you have no Tesco 99 in the vacinity 8)

Somewhere in here is a thread about when my VR6 was doing the very same thing. I spent a fair whack on trying to fix the fault too. Mine also had a very irratic idle at times, between 750-1500 rpm. I changed the ISV and cleaned all the plugs that go into the MAF and that seemed to stop it. Also I had a split hose just after the MAF that was allowing "Unmetered air" into the engine. I do believe it is a common pain in the bum fault with the VR.

I pay £300 for my VR... I'm 31 with 7 years no claims. It's through Premium Search with Jubilee/Lloyds...

Cheers! This "crank case breather", cheap part to replace or STEVE@ can you give a better description of how to remove/bypass :) Thanks Martin

It is split near the bigger bit left of the arrow, you can hear it sucking when the car is running... Will this be effecting my idle? Cheers.

You had a valid point, I've edited my initial post :)

Mate it's the part behind the HT lead... Sorry, not very good on adobe :)

I've highlighted in the pic a part that is split in two... (Ignore the HT lead) I'm not sure though if it is mean't to be like this or it has split (if so it's a perfect break) :? Many thanks Martin.

I've tried to find the thread that had a VR6 engine diagram :up: ... I think I have found the cause of my idle prob, but just want to see what this particular part is. Thanks Martin.

Cheers guys. I've booked it into Volkswerks... I'm no mechanic and this thing is really getting my goat. I don't know what is worse, the car cutting out or the continual nag from my other half about "my useless old skip". Hopefully this will spell the end of it. Martin.

Right... It's doing it again. At virtually every junction or stopping point. When sat in traffic the idle is unsteady and very low, keeps dipping to a point where the battery light flashes and sometimes it will catch itself and send the idle up and others it will just stall. I just don't know what to do next... I am beginnig to hate my car :( Any suggestions, apart from driving it into a wall... Which at the moment is very appealling. Cheers, Martin.

My VR6 went on one and went into fail safe when I went through a large puddle on my passenger side. It's never done it dry and now I steer well clear of puddles :) I thought some thing serious had happened but I guess I just soaked something that should have been dry. Hope you sort it mate.

Put replacement ISV on today. Idle now normal and not cutting out, so I guess that was it! Now to sort erratic reverse lights :)

I bought an ISV and then the car decided to behave so it's been sat in my boot... But funnily enough the thing has started to play up today. I'm not wholey convinced that the ISV is at fault and if it isn't some fuel related problem... I mean, why sometimes does it run sweet as then other times lumpy as fcuk. I thought it could be when you're getting the dregs from the garages pumps in the tank. Surely that would be the equiv of running the car down to no fuel and dragging all the shit through the system? I've found it behave's a little better after a a real good twatting, when you take it to the max, then when back at lower revs it goes normal. I'll whack this ISV on and see what happens... I'd be grateful of any other suggestions... It has no sensor faults from a VAG comp for your info. :wink:

If any one see's a dragon green VR in Teeside ending MRX It's me so flash! :) Never see any C's in Teeside :(