I am wondering where the ISV is located on these engines (vRS) to be honest i didnt have a clue what it looked like lol , my car aint idleing aswell as it use to so am i right in thinking cleaning the ISV can help this? I have a bit of free time this week so i fancy tackleing this, if anyone can help that would be great

Common causes of poor idle on 1.8T are. Vac/boost leak, dirty throttle body, faulty coolant temp sensor, coil pack failure.

Edited 23 November, 201015 yr by pauldazzle

I am wondering where the ISV is located on these engines (vRS) to be honest i didnt have a clue what it looked like lol , my car aint idleing aswell as it use to so am i right in thinking cleaning the ISV can help this? I have a bit of free time this week so i fancy tackleing this, if anyone can help that would be great

There isn't a separate ISV, as the car has an electronic throttle body (which stabilises idle speed).

Cleaning the throttle body will help though.

Where is the throttle body located on these engines? is it a fairly straight forward job to carry out? cheers

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/129943-cleaning-throttle-body-1-8t-engine/

that should help

cheers andy thats great , i must start using the search option more often though

cheers andy thats great , i must start using the search option more often though

Good luck, most of the time its a complete P.I.T.A. it's not the best search tool

Yeah, search function on this forum is woeful.