24-03-2016, 01:01 AM
I had a 1997 (P plate) meridian 1.6 ph1 (in Diablo red) was my first uk car, and like yours it had a bit of a problem when idling (misfired quite a lot, was fine when revved) and the brakes were absolutely crap too. I never looked at the problems as didn't know much about mechanics nor did I had the place to work on it. It served me well especially as it costed me literally nothing to buy (£200 iirc). It had avout 100k when I bought it. Scrapped it at 120k (for £75) two years later as I bought a gti6 and couldn't have two cars.