Stalling for first few minutes

1999 Volkswagen Polo 1.4 L
Car: Volkswagen Polo
Year: 1999
Variant: 1.4 L
Categories: Running Rough, Starting & Power Loss
Past couple of days my Polo has been stalling when slowing down/pulling away for the initial minutes of driving. It'll stall completely silently, and I'll only notice through the power steering and battery light on the dash.

It starts up fine again (1st time) and we're away again, it'll do this perhaps 2-3 times and then be fine for the rest of the journey.

I've tried to see if this correlates with the weather, it seems most of the time it is when it has been sat for a prolonged amount of time (6 hours+) in the damp.

Another issue which perhaps could be related is when idling the car will fluctuate in revs, dropping below 1000 RPM - act as if it is going to stall and then recover, it does this every 10 or so seconds. Not severely, just engine shudders a bit and exhaust rattles a little. This has always been present, since I owned the car.

I've read this could possibly be the Idle Control Valve or air entering through somewhere or the throttle body? What is it most likely to be?

Recently had cam belt, water pump and new radiator.

Cheers all
Problem added: Oct 29, 2009 (14 years ago)
This could be your problem http://www.bba-reman.com/content.aspx?content=vw_polo_1_4_throttle_body as suggested .
Answered Oct 30, 2009 (14 years ago)

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