GTI cutting out, oil light flashes

[nrs1]

When the car packed in and the bloke from the AA had a look he thought that the immobiliser had packed in after a bit longer he told me that there was no enough power getting to the coil he ran a lead straight from the battery had to fit a fuse to stop the engine but got me home.
Posted this some time back
Talking to my local friendly electrician and he told me if the thing starts cutting out check to see if the coil is getting enough volts (12.4v is about right) golf was only getting 6-7 volts.
It?s not always the coil that is faulty but the wiring braking down
rewired the thing for me not a fun job so I just paid him to do it.
if you can get some one to run a tester over the wiring round the coil it might bring up the problem with out costing too much

[redcarboy]

The old 8v did it's usual trick this morning went shopping comes up to the busiest roundabout in town and the fker died on me had to get a push to the road side caused a major roadblock..

first im going to put a new relay ecu relay 30 in as theres no faults on the vag-com .I changed this last year for a so called new one which it seems is faulty.. 90% of cases according to the golf+ can be cured by doing this make sure its a grey relay 30 not a black one made in malasia as these are crap and prone to breakage apparently.?10:80 from vw for a new one thats if they have them in which as usual they didn't,so the car is now off the road until friday.

[mrwotto]

gutted for ya mate, Hope its sorted fro newark

[redcarboy]

Try changing the ECU Relay position no3 pt no 16590638y, this cured mine of the same problem and cost me less than a tenner.

bthornell

Just changed mine again this morning, relay 30 cost me ?11:32 from VW and this one was made in Germany and the problem seems to have been solved boots up no problems now had no cutting out no stalling at all test driving it this morning.

  Good old german car parts?

[dobbin123]

Got a 97P that cuts out "sometimes" but only on the down change and always in 2nd doesnt matter whether its up hill at Round abouts or down hill always re starts, is this also the Hall Sensor? 

[kr1s77]

Mine does the same thing, went to VW to get a #30 relay. First the guy couldn't find the part # for it, so i had to take the one out of the car to show him. Then he tells me theres none in stock. The one i have i the car is a black one made in germany. When i put the relay back in, the car fired up straight away (Think because it had time to cool down) and drove excellent for a while, then went back to normal? , think the relay may be getting too hot.

[Overseer]

^ too hot?

plenty of power sources in a fusebox.. time to wire up a cheap 12v PC type cooling fan in there?

[dobbin123]

So if i get this right 1. i have to replace the#30 Relay and 2.Install a small PC fan? Fuse box doesnt seem that hot too me!
is there a part number for this Relay or will it only be available thru VW?

[hempy72]

At last its resolved had mine on the diagnostic check it was coming up with the hall sender code it turns out to be the cam shaft sensor ?60 replaced it now running like a dream 2weeks not a problem hope it helps

[redcarboy]

VW part number for the 30 ecu relay is 165 906 381 make sure it's made in germany and is a grey colour one ..?11:32 from VW.
Mines running like a top now and the fuel consumption problem seems to have sorted itself as well now getting 36 mpg was getting 29.8mpg..