00513 - Engine Speed Sensor (G28)

[Khare]

It's about £55 including vat from eurocarparts,if it's a 96 engine it probably is the AGG which are the engines that suffer with the crank sensors.

It's an ABF mate.

[Reasty]

Derrrr course it is! :embarassed: ha ha didn't realise it was 16v Even tho there's a massive 16v scrollling across the screen  sorry bud,well apariently the abf's also suffer from the crank sensors aswell.

[Adam]

Thats a tad expensive don't you think!

[Khare]

Thats a tad expensive don't you think!

Just a tad! It's a rip off, even in GSF terms!

I gave the earths under the battery tray a damn good clean today and a soak in WD40 so we shall see if that cures the problem. Looking at the sensor wiring there is no breaks or cuts, only on the part of the main engine loom, but that seems ok, although could be better.

Just a quick note though, the 3 earth points under the battery tray were all earthing on the same spot, should they be earthed separately like on the Leon's pic below?

[Leon27]

Get some pictures up of the suspect wiring chap. As Reasty said the wires break up more near the head of the sensor and its very hard to see that section without ripping stuff out.

Got mine from ECP made by Siemens and paid £50 odd and that was with garage discount

[Khare]

The suspected wiring is this:



Badly focused on. Them two things you see in the yellow/red wire are some plastic shrink wraps protecting the soldering on the wire.

[Leon27]

The green wire entering the plug looks at a bit too much of an angle? Is it ok or is the picture funny? That section of the wiring could definately cuase your fault if the contact of the repair is poor. I would suggest with the engine running give the repaired section a gentle tug and move about to see if you can get the fault back.   

[Khare]

well once cleared the fault wouldn't come back, going to scan it again to see if it's back or not. If it's not I'll wiggle it and see what happens.

[Khare]

Scanned and had the code show up, cleared, wiggled, scanned, nothing, did this 3 or 4 times and got no error codes. By the way, in the pic it looks at a strange angle but it's not. Is there any vagcom tests or some way of testing the sensor at the plug so I can confirm it is the sensor and not the wiring? Don't want to fork out £43.50 on something I don't need!

[Khare]

Still happening. I presume I will need a new sensor soon.