help me please engine trouble ?????????????

[djdeekers]

can anyone help me please???


i bought a golf a few weeks ago 1.8 gti 20v - and the other day when i was driving to work the car just stopped dead - its turning over but wont start, - the timiing belt and all is still in place, but my mechanic says there is a timing chain on the golfs as well and that, and he thinks it may have came off the tensioner - if this is the case, would there be valves and all bent? - would it be better to go on down and take the whole head off and see - or maybe replace the tenisoner and fire it up first to see if it goes ok


what should i do ?

any help much appreciated

[madgti]

hello

[djdeekers]

can u help me out lad

[madgti]

sorry dude cant really advise . bjut i think i'd try the tensioner first . someone will be along soon enough and help you

[Alec]

I thought it was only the VR's that had a chain? Post this in the mk4 section mate and I bet you will get a quick response

[MrBounce]

Greetings and Salutations 

[topher]

Welcome to the site. 

Your car has a cam belt and not a chain.

think he's talking about the chain between the two cams.. but if that had snapped while you were driving you'd have heard a hell of a racket! Get someone to scan the car for fault codes. A failed crank position sender (vw call it the impulse sender - a fault code reader may refer to it as an engine speed sensor) can cause this and won't always put the engine management light on.

[roger1234]

Welcome. 

[GOLF_STU]

welcome along 

[djdeekers]

So if I change this sensor do u think the car will be ok to drive again , would there be any valve damage