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It jumps up and down a bit when sitting in traffic maybe between 900-1000rpm. But when side lights are switched on its not as bad. - youtube.com/watch?v=IewZIe69xmg New coil pack, dizzy cap, rotor arm, leads and iridium plugs. Checked the base timing, its about 8 BTDC. As I suspected, it was stinking with carbon build up. It still seems to be doing it though. I started to replace some of the vacuum hose as well thinking it could possibly be a vac leak. But again still doing it. I did notice today there is a hell of a lot of white smoke from the tail pipes. Doing a quick google search it seems that is normally a coolant related issue. I check my oil regularly and there is no mixing in the sump and the car is not overheating so I don't think I'm losing masses of coolant. It's hard to see the coolant top up bootle so I am not sure of the level has dropped. I haven't checked the compression. But I don't think it's a head gasket at this stage as there's no water in the oil, not over heating, plenty of hot air a the heaters and generally driving well apart from the small up and down and idle. What's the best way of testing the throttle position sensor? Rev 4 non turbo, I'm guessing it's from factory? I will be from now on. From memory i think it is fairly heavy on warm up but less noticeable when warm (through the rear view)