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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: ANDY597 on 04 January 2006, 08:36
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8v digi 90spec gti
Freezing cold this morning, had to scrape the car, freezing fog.
The car started on the money, first turn of the key.
Driving to work however, was a total nightmare. Power, then no power, power then no power. It felt like it was totally misfiring, then firing properly again.
It actually stalled altogether approaching a couple of roundabouts and I had to dip the clutch and bump start it
Finally limped it to work, but getting into the car parking space was a nightmare, it was running like a big bag of bolts, cut out again when I was reversing to square it up. Ive never heard it run so rough.
It had a big service around about October, new silicon leads etc, and I replaced the blue temperature sender from GSF only a couple of weeks before Christmas. In fact, if you were to look back in the forum you will see that I posted it as my Xmas pressie to the golf.
Any ideas, comments, advice are welcome. As the golf is my daily driver, I really could do with the help.
Cheers
A
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no offence mate but it could be the leads.... in my experience stick with genuine, bosch or beru. seen alot of cars drive like sh!t with ''performance'' leads.
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Plenty of antifreeze?
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Have a look inside the dizzy cap for moister, and check the dizzy itself for oil leakage :)
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Take on board the point about performance leads, but the car was running sweet as until this morning.
They are blue ignitors and they came with a lifetime guarantee.
Did about 140 miles in it at the weekend, through ice and snow and it never once missed a beat, sharp as a tack.
Checked for moisture today, and bings of antifreeze fitted last month.
On the way home tonight it got a whole loads worse, idleing really badly, cutting out at every slowing down opportunity, had to bump start it back to life several times. Stopped at the garage to put petrol in it and it was just hunting from say 500 revs to about 1500.
The funny thing was though, there is a short bit of bypass on the way home and it was fine at high revs.
The blue temp sender that I fitted was a GSF one, and I have this sneaking suspicion it might be that, anybody else had a problem with gsf blue senders ? Local stealership want £20 for one by the way.
Cheers
a
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VW ones should be £11, make sure you get the blue one that says 'for models equipped with catalyst' as this is the right one although they'll try to tell you it isn't ;)
Part number 025 906 041 A
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I am waiting on a VW blue temp sender as my GSF one seems to have knacked after a whole 2 months of use........ Buy cheap buy twice as a yorkshire farmer once said to me!! :grin:
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Rubjonny,
Are they all the same ? mines a two pin.
TT5th.
How do you know that your GSF is knackered, if you dont mind me asking, dont want to spend the money unless I have too.
Cheers
Andy
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There is a resistance graph in the Bentley manual that shows the resistance against temperature of a working sensor so i stuck my multimeter on it. At zero mine was supposed to be somewhere between 6500 and 8000 ohms. Mine was showing 96000 ohms! It wasn't that cold i promise!
And for some reason VW want £17 for my sensor rather than £11.... might have to check on that!
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What was the running symptoms of your car ?
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You could try disconnecting the sensor and seeing how it works, i am currently running mine like that. Essential trips only and its a b!tch when cold but runs fine when hot! Full details are in my thread "Starting problems - just checking...." about 3 posts below this one.
Edit: Oh yeah the symptoms started as just not starting but got to the point that with the sensor connected, even when the car was hot, it ran very similar to what you are describing.
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The £11 one is the 2 pin sensor, perhaps the older ones are more expensive? Either way the later 2 pin blue ones are definitly £11ish :)
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Tried running it last night without the temperature sender. It didnÂ’t even start.
Got up this morning, expecting a rough ride to work. Weather was quite mild this morning.
The car ran sweet as to work, never missed a beat. Managed 43 mpg
Going off to VW today to buy a new original vag item and the seal to go with it, as I have convinced myself that this GSF one is faulty.
Theres a post on here somewhere that I remember reading stating that the GSF one wasnÂ’t a good fit on their car either as it leaked water.
GSF- Good for everything apart from blue senders it would appear.
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yep without the sender connected it will be almost impossible to start, keep us posted :)
Its running better than mine, I can never get over 30mpg average!
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My cars just crazy i think, starts and runs loads better with the sensor off than on at the moment! New one tomorrow though whooooooo..... :grin: