When I click on various links in the HJ web pages, I get messages at the bottom of the page...i.e. connecting to ads tang0-zebra, or waiting for honestjohn to connect, read ukintellitxt, transfering data from etc etc etc.

The pages won't load until these things go thro' their motions. Takes quite a few seconds. Anyone else get this and can I get the damn thing to speed up? Read more

{Several separate threads recently all discussing pretty much the same thing, so I've combined them all into the one thread. DD}

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I went to fill up this afternoon and was surprised to find that the price of petrol had overtaken diesel. Is this happening in other places?

For the record, diesel was £1.06, petrol was £1.07 Read more

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{Clickable links to vid clips aren't allowed. If you wish to view the clip then copy/paste the link into you're url address bar/ DD} Read more

I think this is motoring but my apologies if it's not.

And I am surprised to see the 'inane babble' post by DD, thought that would have gone down a lot during my absence!

Back to the point - I have read loads about youngsters under 16 now getting free bus travel in London, from yesterday - but what I haven't seen anywhere is if this is time-restricted? I admit to being lazy and not doing loads of research here, but does anyone know if this free travel includes rush hour (ie school travel) or not? If it doesn't it's really not that helpful!
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It's a 91 J reg 1.3 fuel injection Vdub polo GT

Always from cold (pretty sure about this) it starts fine. Sometimes when started from hot or after driving a bit. The car appears to hit a flat spot on the accelerator But I usually attribute this to carburettor models ..this is a fuel injection so what gives?

The problem in more detail:
When the car is acting up. and for example you are at traffic lights, if you press the accelerator down too fast the engine will jerk and miss a beat almost cut out, till you release the pedal, then if you re-apply the pedal as gently as you can you can bring the engine up to speed (not all the time sometimes it takes a few attempts). when you finally get going the car can whilst driving jerk and jump, you as a passenger or driver are pushed forward as the engine effectively stalls and relights itself.

Things I have done:
I changed the fuel filter, last time was a couple of years ago and they had fitted it backwards! it's now correct. I also opened the fuel tank and changed the fuel pump filter screen. This car has two fuel pumps one in the tank and one under the car both appear to be working.

Can it be dirty injectors if is only an itermittant fault?

I also noticed the garage had broken and then superglued and thus blocking up a small plastic pipe 3mm in diameter, it is part of a vacuum switch which is on the air inflow duct over the throttle chamber. The function of this switch is to open a flap (by vaccuum pressure) in the air intake (before the air filter box) when the engine is cold it is supposed to take air from across the radiator, when the engine is hot it is supposed to move the flap to take air from across the ehaust manifold heat shield. This switch was well and truely broken so I removed it, went to a scrap yard and took one and fitted it, different colour switch (orange as opposed to a purple one) but the VW parts man said the same switch had been fitted to all VW's from 1985 (or what ever) till 1997 (or whatever) and the car in the scrap yard fitted into this timeframe. In refitting the new one I had difficulty obtaining a good seal and I'm sure it is leaking a bit, I don't have anything to "listen" to the area with - can you reccommend a tool I can use for listening to vacuum leaks?. I have not yet taken the flexible air hose off this flap valve to see if I can see if the flap is functioning correctly or not. I will have a go at looking at this sometime.

I'll leave it there for now. please help.

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