Poor starting

Hi to all skoda owners,

The problem that I am currently having from my MK1 vrs octavia is as follows.

occassionaly and it is very occassionaly the car doesn't fire up first time, when it does start at's as rough as a bag of nails, i then rev the engine to try and get it firing on all four, I get a dirty cloud of smoke from the exhaust, it then ticks over at aprox 2k and then settles down and there is no more trouble until the next random occassion. I haven't taken it to my local garage as they would obviously need to see the fault occur and I never know when that will be niether do i get any warning lights on the dash.

I think that this is iether a problem with my "cat" (I do about 20 miles a day) or perhaps a problem with the cold start system.

has anyone else experienced this problem and do any of you know of a fix.

I look forward to flood of info from you.

Many thanks

Ian

Edited 28 March, 201214 yr by #1radioman