Intake Manifold Failure Code P201400

[Carbon VW]

Well looks like I jinxed myself telling everyone how reliable my early production Mk7 GTi is. Check engine light came on last week , car driving and idling fine. Ran VCDS diagnostic and got code P201400. “Intake manifold damper sensor electrical fault”. Brought it to my local VW specialist and he said it’s a common failure part. Made of plastic with all the sensors and flapper actuator attached to the one part. He said it’s the sensor has failed but he has to replace the whole intake manifold. Price of part is €550 and I’m guessing a good few hours labour as there’s a lot of ripping involved. Will have a check for carbon buildup but I know it’s not an issue here due to the multi port injection that the US cars don’t get. The new manifold is the third revision of the part since 2013, supposedly it’s failed so much on US cars that they extended the warranty on the part, not for European cars tho. Sorry for the long post but just wondering has anyone else had to get their intake manifold replaced. ??

[2007GTI]

How many miles has your car done?

[Carbon VW]

92,000km so 57k miles approx

[mcmaddy]

Seems like any repair at the minute is called a common fault on these. I haven't heard of anyone on here needing one of these.

[fredgroves]

Seems like any repair at the minute is called a common fault on these. I haven't heard of anyone on here needing one of these.

He says its a common fault in the USA... their GTI's use a different engine don't they? In fact a lot of their GTI's build is quite different, not least of which, its not built in Germany.

[mcmaddy]

Built in Mexico or somewhere isn't it. Be interesting to see if any of these faults occur in the UK now that dual port has gone and we are now like the US with single port?

[monkeyhanger]

Built in Mexico or somewhere isn't it. Be interesting to see if any of these faults occur in the UK now that dual port has gone and we are now like the US with single port?

Carson's early MK7 GTI will be a dual port example though.

I wonder if that manifold is an "exchange" part to offset the hefty replacement cost for such a small part of it overall failing.

[mcmaddy]

Built in Mexico or somewhere isn't it. Be interesting to see if any of these faults occur in the UK now that dual port has gone and we are now like the US with single port?

Carson's early MK7 GTI will be a dual port example though.

I wonder if that manifold is an "exchange" part to offset the hefty replacement cost for such a small part of it overall failing.

yes but new ones are single port so it'll be interesting to see if this issue crops up in the UK now.

[Gtiless]

I had this fault come up on a previous MK6 Gti I owned- I had agreed to trade it for my MK7 so I had the warning light turned off and managed to get it to stop off long enough to get rid of it.
It was the same fault with the sensor in the manifold and the cure was to change the manifold.

[Carbon VW]

Picked up the car this evening. problem sorted. €700 out of pocket tho 
As said above it’s quite common in the single port Mexican built engines but rare in the multi port engines. He did say the valves were spotless with no carbon buildup. showed me the old part and said the new part was definitely made with a different composite and that the sensors looked beefier along with a stronger flapper mechanism.