Mr Paul [T-28]

2 weeks ago my car started sputtering around 200 RPM so I hurriedly came to AW to figure out what the problem was. I was instantly told that it was my ICV (thanks Kris Hansen) and cleaned it and checked it. I took a reading of the ICV and got around 16 ohms, which I was promptly told was too high and to check again. I checked again, but still got around 16, but I blame the multimeter, and I need to get a new one. But since then my car has not been acting up and seemed if all was normal so I was told that it would be OK if I drove around until the ICV started giving me problems.

Well, that ended up being tonight. As I started to slow, my engine immediately died but started up with no problem, but died again. I could only keep the engine running if I held my foot on the gas. I let the car sit for a couple hours and then started it back up and it was fine. I am going to order a new ICV tomorrow, but I wanted to make sure that this still sounded like an ICV problem to everybody. I have no VAG and couldn't get anybody in my area to respond so I can't tell by myself.

Does this still sound like an ICV issue.
TIA,
Paul

Kris Hansen

we can't tell for sure.. If it runs more or less fine but won't idle, that really points to the ICV.