Thank you all for your responses and advice.
The fault causing the high CO reading at idle was eventually traced to a very small air leak at the throttle body/inlet manifolf joint.
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VW Golf 1.6 BAG FSi 2004 - Hunts badly, fault code 19490 - Fixed # - Ron Piper March 24, 2011, 4:15 pm
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