yep, done that. try fidderling with the autochoke, cleaned plugs, try adjusting mixture and idle screw, no succes like i said sometime it idles fine and then it suddenly won't idle and dies, and sometime it idles really shit rising and droping a few hundred revs constanly for a few mins untill u rev it and then it might idle fine for a while or might not idle at all, and ones guess, could it be the ignition module on its way out, since the old one packed up now and i got a dizzy of a mk4 escort which i got from the scrappy, think when i get paid im going to invest in a recon dizzy, coil and new set of plug leads. u got any more info or ideas cheers mate.