HI, I am not a mechanic nor am I at all familiar with what is what with cars, in fact you could call me a "oil change only" kind of guy, but I have a problem that has stumped 2 mechanics/engineers and I want to ask in the forum just in case anyone has had a similar experience.
Problem: For 6 months now, when I drive sometimes every now and then the engine seems to shudder and it feels a little like the car is being buffeted by high winds or maybe it feels like I’m dragging an anchor. I then feel a loss of power. But it'll still do 80 mph if on a motorway, so we’re talking maybe a 10%-15% reduction in performance. Usually around the 2-3000 revs. If I declutch into neutral however the revs are fine and will top end, but if I re-clutch in gear it's like it's dragging something. I pull over. I switch off engine and take out key. The problem is gone. The problem comes back a few weeks or days later.
Solution 1: I took the car first to a garage I know and trust, they run a computer diagnostic engine management check and (as sod's law says) the car runs perfectly and say that the car computer IS reporting a intermittent injector problem but when they inspect the injector it seems fine, and the injector failing would not really give the symptoms that I describe, they recommend I go to VW direct.
The errors they got:
18074 valve for pump injector cyl1 electrical problem in circuit p1666 intermittent
16685 cyl1 misfire detected po3ol intermittent
Solution 2: I then took the car (not to VW they are insane prices) to s VW specialist calles Audi VW servicing. He immediately tells me over the phone that this is a common problem and he'll check the computer because it's not the injector 1 he says; it's something else the old "key in and out" routine is a giveaway he says. Some other part ( I forget name) that is a common problem. In fact he prompted me and told me the key-in-and-out-will-fix thing before I mentioned it to him, so my trust that he knows his stuff is high. I take car to him. He spends half a day driving the car with a laptop checking injector 1 says it works fine. He says he can see it working fine. He says that the 2 error codes from previous check are still there though. But he says they don't explain the symptoms I describe. He says that I should drive to him when the next time it happens so he can check it OR he can replace injector 1, replace 2 other parts that give the key-in-and-out-fixes-it-routine all for a total of £900 and STILL he can't promise it'd fix it.
I am stumped, any ideas what I should do?
Topic: 2002 Golf TDI - engine ill but no garage can help (Read 3643 times)
