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Old May 19, 2004 | 10:50 AM
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Default Juddering from cold

Only had my Scooby for one week so everything is new. I need some advice.
From cold the first 5 to mins of driving at a cruising speed like 45mph it feels like the car is slightly pulling then smooth then pulling. A slight judder feeling but when its warm it goes away. I'm not explaining it right, I can feel like the turbo wants to cut in but I'm not letting it, is this normal?

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Old May 19, 2004 | 05:01 PM
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MIne does the same dont worry about it
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Old May 19, 2004 | 06:24 PM
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It's just the lambda sensor not being hot enough - the ECU switches to closed loop (using the lambda sensor for fuelling estimates) before it's hot; this leads the ECU to underfuel a little, so as it tries to fluctuate around stoichometric (14.7:1AFR) for which the lambda is feeding it the wrong info, you feel the car feeling being ok/not ok, which can lead to juddering when it's lean.
There's only 2 ways I can think of to get round it (other than just putting up with it!), which is leaving the probe to warm up before driving (it's self-heating, I think!), or changing the ECU to one which doesn't run closed-loop, which is a tad expensive if that's all it's for
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Old May 20, 2004 | 03:46 PM
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Default Cheers guys

I'm glad its not a huge problem. It only does it very slightly, not even passengers can feel it. Thanks for your help guys.
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