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Engine Specific Info and Questions => TDI Engine -General Info => Topic started by: catlin_cava on December 08, 2010, 07:44:51 pm
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Posting this for a Friend.
after my cars warmed up if i am doing say 80 km's and let off the pedal and go to accelerate again my car will smoke and die to 1000 rpms and stay there for about a minute then will clear up, and when i start it it dont matter if its cold or warmed up it will rought idle at 1000 rpm weather i give it fuel or not and ALOT of white smoke then after about 2 minutes it will idle smoothly and work perfect, 1998 jetta tdi 1.9
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Get in with a scanner preferably vag-com, and check the timing when it's running bad. It may be going into a fail safe timing mode- the timing will be 255 instead of 50-70 or so. There is a way for there to be a bad connection going to the pump and not cause a check light.