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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: mr wong on 10 October 2005, 11:18
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My Mk III has started doing what allot of people on here have experienced and is now cutting out!!! :angry:
This has progressively got worse and today comming up to a junction I put in the clutch and the b1tch cut out on me leaving me with no power for braking or steering. I was about 1 foot away from the car in-front of me and still travelling when thankfully they pulled out of the junction otherwise I would have smacked their back bumper!!! :huh: That would not have been funny!!! :angry:
I know there are loads of threads on this and I have booked my car in to get checked out, but my mechanic is busy and wont be able to do it for 2 weeks! What is recommended that I try and do first of all myself?? Remember that I am car illiterate and will need careful step by step guidance.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. :smiley:
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There's a whole stack of threads on this subject, try a search with "cutting out" or "stalling" and you should have lots of possible causes and remedies.
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Ok ch3ears, but it gets worse for me, :cry: :cry: :cry:
Last night I was driving home from work. I was sitting about 80 on the motorway and what I would best describe as a stalling action started in the engine. The rev counter would fall right down and the engine would cough and try to cut out before comming back to life again. It did this about 4 or 5 times.
Anyway I got to within about 500 yards of my house when the engine died altogether on me. I was left to push my poor wee baby home in the rain :embarrassed: and she still wont start!
This stalling type action has happened a few times before in the past month. As I have already said, I'm not mechanically minded but I would hazard a guess at the fuel pump playing up and now finally has died?
Anybody else got a theory or wish to hazard a guess???? :angry:
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I would get your coil checked .
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http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2080.0
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Well my dignity has truly gone :cry: my baby is away on the back of a transporter to the garage. Cant believe that my reliable VW :undecided: has been subjected to this.
All my neighbors keep telling me how nice and shiny she is but I should be driving something newer and faster, maybe they are right! Maybe nows the time to bite the bullet and wave bye-bye to Colour Concept after she is fixed!
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Like someone said above.. sounds like coil... happened to me once
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Coil - possibly
If not tell them to replace both ECU and Fuel Injection relays.
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same here also - egine died for split second while driving along - happened several times in one journey - but not for some time now.
I havent much knowledge of the engine but i can do a basic service - and i did notice that when chaging the spark plugs - taking them out especially - there was a lot of dirt in and around the treading - i'm sure i knocked some it when installing them (careless :embarassed:) so i was expecting a bit of complaing at some point - anyway, next time i changed the plugs (brothers car), i used a hand held vacuum cleaner to collect up all the dust and dirt before installing - and he's had no problems whatsoever since then (his car was cuting out occasionally before the service also).
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Sounds the same as what happened to me luckily it was on my drive,called aa out they said 80.00 to replace the coil
Got onto my mechanic he got the part from euro car parts for 39.99
Fixed hurray
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I own a mk3 gti 8v had these problems tried changing fuel pumps coils,dun nearly everything,relays,plugs leads,dizzy,dizzy cap,rotar arm, fuel filter, the lot now n its still doing it cuts out try n start it chugs for a minute n cuts out leave it for about 5 mins starts perfect drive down road for about 5-10 mins n cuts out again startin to become a big problem now n becomin dangerous now n again wen it cuts out half away across junctions has anyone got any info on this n has anyone ever sorted this problem out for good???
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My car is now in the car and a full diagnostics check shows no faults what so ever :shocked:! Mechanic says the coil is working fine and plugs are producing a spark, however when you turn the ignition the engine is just flooding and not starting :angry:?
This has pissed me off and made up my mind to punt the car.
Answers on a post card please if anybody has a scooby do what the problem could be!
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try taking ya idle control valve off n cleaning it it situated on top ov ya cam cover round barrel wiv an electric plug on end and a rubber band round it,jus pull plug off,n all jus pulls out clean inside it wiv carb cleaner jus squirt in al the holes n jus empty all the black ming out ov it,failing that try cleaning ya throttle housing out,either do ya self or get someone to do it for you depends how mechanically minded you are m8.if you read a post a wrote few weeks ago gives you a whole host ov things to try wether they work depends on wats up wiv ur car m8,tried all sorts on mine now n still does can get expensive wen ya changiong things jus to eliminate one thing n start on summit else.look on thi site its called things to try on mk3 2.08v wen cuttin out,jus sum ov the things ave tried might help you sort it m8,might not gud luck m8
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Take it to a stealership and get them to check it!! :smiley:
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Well picked my car up from the garage today, had the fuel lines bled and cleaned and changed the fuel filter. As I said diagnostics did not show any faults and the coil and sparks were working perfectly well.
The advantages of knowing the mechanic meant that including the tow-in to the garage, work and labour charge came to a pricely sum of £10 which was for the fuel that he put into the car to replace what was drained! :wink: :grin:
Looks as though I will need to buy him a nice bottle of malt!
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Excellent. Now keep the fecker and don't get a derv monster!
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No it will be going.
Just test driven a GT TDI year 2000 X plate, 130bhp. 6 Gears and very tasty, only 67k on it. May just bite the bullet. Very tempted.
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Just a note folks.
The relay fault does NOT show up on a diagnostic check.
I even took off my ECU and sent it away for a full check - it came back as perfect!