VW Polo Cuts Out Intermittently

[jaydoubleu]

I have a VW Polo 1.6 GLX 1996 (P Reg) 74,000mls.

The car runs well apart from a niggling problem of cutting out intermittently.

I can be driving along fine and the engine/ignition just cuts out - I pull into the side of the road, switch off the ignition, switch on again and the engine re-starts immediatly.

It sometimes dies as though it is about to cut out but I can (sometimes) manage to get it to cut in again if I change down a gear - this can happen 2 or 3 times within 20 or 30 yds and then it will drive great for the rest of the journey.

I have recently had a diagnostic test which gave an error message of "00519 ma,fold Absoltute Pressure Sensor Not a plausible signal occurs intermittently"

This resulted in having the M.A.P Sensor replaced.

However, yesterday I took the car on a journey (approx 40 mls round trip) within approx 1.5 mls the problem returned, the car ran great for a further 15 mls before reoccuring.

It is allways when I am in 5th gear and mostly when going driving up hill.

This is the general pattern of things.

I would appreciate any suggestions on how this problem might be resolved.

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