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Title: 1.6 Auto sluggish/ Fault codes help
Post by: Wrensup on 04 December 2013, 13:57

Anyone got any advice?
My girlfriends car seems to have an issue,
When driving and coming up to a junction, she'll be slowing down and rolls to the give way markings. Then when she wants to pull off again the car reacts slow (almost like you're in a manuel and you accidently try pulling off in 3rd) then all of a sudden the car will kick back down the gears fine and start to pull off alright.
Thats the best I can describe it really.

Any ideas?

thanks!

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: Jasikasisback on 04 December 2013, 16:12

I had this. try topping up gearbox oil. either it is leaking or simply needs toping up.  It may need a gearbox filter and oil change and you can do this yourself if this has never been done. vw say some are lifetime but they expect you to drive a car for 100000miles and less than10 years. does your gearbox have a dipstick??make sure you use the right gearbox oil. don't overfill it.

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: Wrensup on 04 December 2013, 16:44

Arh right thanks I had a supsusion it could be that, I'm not sure about the dip still ill have to take a look.
Funnily enough this has just started to happen with the car on 102,000 on th clock.

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: Jasikasisback on 04 December 2013, 18:30

good luck and i hope you do have a dipstick as that will make life very easy for you...just top up and see if it makes any difference...

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: Wrensup on 06 December 2013, 23:04

Anyone with any other suggestions, the girlfriend took it to a garage and they checked the car over apparently and couldn't find anything wrong?

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: Wayne on 06 December 2013, 23:07

I would get the oil drained and replaced plus the suction filter cleaned.

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: Jasikasisback on 27 December 2013, 22:38

The VW dealer told me that the gearbox never has to be serviced as it is "lifetime"..I then asked if the oil in it was a special blend that doesn't break down after 20 years of use and then the line went silent and after I heard that it would cost £120 to have the gearbox oil and filter changed....so if the dealer didn't open the box and look inside then you had better do it yourself..:)

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: tsr_adi on 28 December 2013, 22:53

If by some bad luck your gearbox is at fault, I will soon have a perfectly working auto box available for beer tokens as I'm swapping to manual :)

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: Jasikasisback on 08 January 2014, 05:54

Hi which box do you have available?

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish?
Post by: Wrensup on 18 January 2014, 12:31

Not sure, how can I find out?

I scanned the car, and found these fault codes:

00520 mass air flow sensor
00523 air intake sensor
00533 idle air control regulation
00525 oxygen sensor

I got a feeling these wont be helping?

Anyone know what course of action I should take first?

I know the throttle body needs cleaning for 00533
but for the others I'm not so sure?

Thanks

Title: Re: 1.6 Auto sluggish/ Fault codes help
Post by: itavaltalainen on 18 January 2014, 17:13

all these errors have to do with fuel air mixture.... unlikely for MAF, lamda and throttle to have all gone wrong. more likely just one of them.
are you running a sport air filter?

could just be bad MAF - unplug and see if that helps. if it still runs sluggish more likely something else is at fault.
would need to read measuring blocks from ECU (not just fault codes), with that you could check if sensors are actually reading anything sensible back...