Its as if its running out of petrol

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jimbob
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Its as if its running out of petrol

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when first starting my car in the morning and driving up my street my car seems to loose revs like when running out of petrol but by the time i reacht he end of the street it is back to normal. Has anyone else had this problem if so how did you overcome it
LogIK
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Post by LogIK »

I used to have similar problems and also with starting. Turned out it was a bad connection of one of the vacuum pipes that go to the airbox.

What engine do you have?

Also, try cleaning out the throttle body with some carb cleaner, as I found this really helped when I had trouble with cold starts.
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