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Offline Rich 2

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GTI dying on me. no idea really why.
« on: 10 September 2006, 22:07 »
hey.

my mk3 colour concept has started cutting out at 70 and then not engaging the fuel pump till the temp gets below 60.

anybody got any idea's what this could be as I really don't want to have to pay a garage to sort this.

I am fairly mechanical and can take a 1.4 to bits and put it back together, just this is stumping me.

I'm thinking it may be electrical.

appreciate any help given.

Rich

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Re: GTI dying on me. no idea really why.
« Reply #1 on: 10 September 2006, 23:57 »
Hello mate, try replaceing the fuel pump relay as they are known to be a bit dogey if you have the ones made in tunisia fitted. Same thing with the ECU relays. 

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Re: GTI dying on me. no idea really why.
« Reply #2 on: 11 September 2006, 01:22 »
yeah, I just noticed and read the massive thread and now I want to stick my head in the oven.

I've got the black ones so I'm assuming I need the grey proper one.

just a bit miffed as I thought with something this common VW would have come up with a decent solution by now.

Rich

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Re: GTI dying on me. no idea really why.
« Reply #3 on: 13 September 2006, 18:03 »

I've replaced relay 30 with the grey one, replaced 167 with a new one. It's still doing it. It's an embarassment to go anywhere as it keeps cutting out and refusing to start. Sitting at the roadside for ten minutes.

I start uni again in two weeks and without this I'm doomed. I've got a 97 colour concept with an AGG engine, I'm assuming it's just on this and I can't really afford to go the path of replacing everything.

it's not the throttle body or the breather pipes as I've cleaned out both of these thoroughly. I cleaned the dizzy cap, rotor arm, these were kinda filthy but this did nothing. There is a spark coming from the HT's. The plugs have been replaced recently, about 1k ago.

I'm thinking that someone may actually be onto something when they say the oil pressure sensor hidden behind the oil filter, surely this would explain the oil light coming on and it only happening when it reaches a certain temperature ?

My relay 30, not the old nor the new has never been excessively hot and changing it did nothing. It's only cutting out when I'm driving it, not when it's left to idle as then it's rising up and not proving any issues.

This is really stressing me out and I'd appreciate any help given, I'm really loosing hope in my car. I've done 10k in it since I bought it so my saving grace is that I know I probably didn't buy it with this problem, should I check the wires or anything at the sensors? Where are they located? Should I kick myself hard. I love my car, I'm not going to part with it, I just wish it would show me the same kind of love back.

Rich

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Re: GTI dying on me. no idea really why.
« Reply #4 on: 22 September 2006, 20:57 »
bttt.. come on guys can anyone help??

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Re: GTI dying on me. no idea really why.
« Reply #5 on: 24 September 2006, 15:29 »
With all you have done to it and still having the problem, the only advice I can give is get it checked at a dealer. Or if anyone near you has a code reader.
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Re: GTI dying on me. no idea really why.
« Reply #6 on: 24 September 2006, 15:55 »
the fecker is in durham!