Hi, can anyone pls help? i have a 1995 golf cabrio 2lt GTIthat has a problem when i start it, when the engine is cold anytime of the day or night it will not kick in straight away i have to keep my foot on the accelerator till it warms up and then it is fine!![&:]im really lost as to what the problem is the car had beenstarting fine until this problem started. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

 

here some tips that may help:

1 keep your car sheltered in a garage or sth as much as possible
1.2 If in freezing temperatures, keep your battery shielded from frost, most probably with cardboard or sth, NO STYROFOAM
2 Before starting turn on your lights, wait 2 sec. and turn 'em back off, this will warm up the battery.
3 Don't know if you have to pre-glow but if you have to, do it 2-3 times before actually starting the engine, it's a form of warming up for the engine.
4 if manual choke, pull it out, if auto-choke, never mind... ;-)


hope this will help

plz pm with further developments.

 

you realize its a fuel injected motor and "pumping" the gas dosent work like it does on a carburated motor so prolly cut that part out of your staring routine

 

Yeah, stupid of me.

I edited my post, hope the rest is still okay... :P