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hello orgers got a bit of a problem with the wifes car, it's been cutting out as if it's running out of petrol. It's a 1990 golf mk1 cabriolet with a 1.8 carb engine. I bought it privately for her about 15 mnths ago and changed spark plugs, leads, dizzy cap, rotor arm air filter fuel filter, the oil and filter having been changed just before I bought it. It started playing up about April this year with us having only covered about a thousand mile or so in it. We took it to a mechanic that we know and he looked at it and said there was a vacuum pipe that had come off under the carb so we went and picked it up and it cut out again on the way home so we took it back for him to have another look. We then picked it up again after he had cleaned the carb out, road tested it and said it was fine, but it conked out on the way home again. We phoned the AA and a man came out and looked at it and came to the conclusion that the carb was knackered. So yesterday I spent a good few hours taking off the old pierburg 2e2 autochoke carb and replaced it with a new weber 32/34dmtl but it is still cutting out, although with the new carb(manual choke) it has stopped idling as if it was running on three cylinders. Just wondered if anyone out there has any idea of what to try next.