Hi guys, got a new (kind of) problem with my Charade. I say new, the problem has been there ocassionally in the 3 years I have had the car, but in the last month or two has happened everytime.

When the car is cold, idle starts at about 1500-1600 RPM as normal. After a few seconds though, the revs drop right down to 700-800. It stays like that for a second or two running roughly, then sputters a couple of times and revs back up to 1500. Then drops back, revs up, and repeats this until it has warmed up. Can be interesting getting off the drive/out of the street if you catch it when it's dropping.

It does mainly get used for short runs, the car has only done 15400 miles. I do give it longer runs sometimes, which I feel like makes it run better in normal circumstances but this problem remains. I don't have a warning light, but I have hooked it up to the diagnostics anyway and don't see any faults. The car just passed MOT on Tuesday with great emissions readings, and I gave it a good run before the test, and as I say it runs fine otherwise.

Car is a 2005 Charade with the 1.0 EJ-VE. Thanks.