Wondered if anyone knew what might be wrong with my mark 4 golf gt tdi (130bhp)
Just driving it to work this morning, got on the motorway fine but after about 4-5 mins of driving at around 80mph in sixth gear the engine light came on (the little yellow triangle inside a circle with an exclamation mark), as soon as this came on the car responded badly to acceleration as if it were only running on three cylinders or very lumpy. the whole car was shaking quite roughly every time i put my foot on the gas.
i took the next junction and turned around heading back for home. was going to stop and have a look but feared id end up stranded. the car reacted in this same way in every gear. i found if i applied the gas VERY VERY gradually it would accelerate without shaking the car to pieces.
i got it home and turned it off, left it for a minute, and turned it back on.
the little yellow light did not come back on and the car was running fine.
i took it up an A road near me and took it up to 80mph in sixth gear and it didnt seem to have any problems
now im back home and have called in work sick to try and find out whats wrong.
the car has done 165,000 miles and ive had it from 60,000 and changed oil every 6000 - 7000 miles.
anyone know what going on or had same problem???
Many thanks,
Confused golf owner.
