GTI cutting out, oil light flashes

[patch900]

Hi,

Got a R reg 98 Mark 3 GTI 8V.
The problem your on about has happened to me the past 2 mornings when I have gone to start the car.
Turn the key, car turns over but wont start and oil light flashes.
When I get it started the revs die when I put the accelerator down.
Eventually I can get it running and then its OK.
Having it looked at tomorrow. Sounds the same problem as your having.

[BombadierX]

Hi scott ime Harry and i Have a mk 3 GTi golf 8 valve and while my dad was driving down the motaway and
The oil light flashed and a very loaud alarm went off so he pulled over and had a look but it was to bad to
touch so he called the AA but they coudnt fix it but he said it was the oil pumb was broken or clogged
so he drove him home and at the weekend we took the oil pump out and clened it out because there
Was metal in it so we clened it out With petrol and it started a treat But here i am Kicking my self
It wont Start at all it fire`s but then cuts out its been like this for about a week   
Could any one help me PLEASE PLEASE! ime killing my self

[Scooterist007]

well its still an active forum i started! 

BombadierX the oil light flashing sydrome i was having was just that, the oil light flashing, no buzzer sounding, and also the engine cut out!

I also have come across so many people with this problem that seems to affect '96 - '97 - '98 year motors as vw were sourceing their relays from south america i believe! and it also annoys me that they (meaning vw) must know about this problem but are charging owners lots of money looking at everything else first before changing a £11 relay 
I also think vw should have this as a recall for crap faulty parts!

well thats my two penniths worth!

have fun

[BombadierX]

Yea it still wont Start and its not relay so i dunno  so its making me
cus i need it but whatever TRevet   

[Scooterist007]

Have you tried vag-com to see if it has listed any fault codes? it wouldnt be the oil pump that stops it from working, (unless it seizes!) so it sounds like an electrical or fuel problem, so a good place to start is to get any fault codes looked at.

[kam motors]

if i remember rightly its the 109 relay try changing this 90% certain will cure your problem also if the cars not running and the fault memory is checked it will bring up a fault with the speed sensor until the car is running then the fault goes also worth changing your ign switch as these play up for a past time   

[BombadierX]

Hey Its me again Fixed car now guess what was wrong put spair key in
and it worked and then put main key in it fired then cut out so the key was warn how weard ime getting
a new one but how weard lol  ime so HAPPY.

[earl]

Hi, wondered if anyone can help me cos i'm banging my head against a brickwall!  
I have a 1997 P reg gti 2.0l 8v and the problem i'm having is that the car keeps cutting out on me, it doesnt matter if i'm travelling at speed or not (infact its just happened while I was on the dartford crossing bridge at 5pm! very scarey) When it cuts out the oil light flashes and the rev counter goes straight to zero, now somtimes it will start straight away and somtimes it takes ages to start, when it doesnt start, the engine turns over as normal but the oil light flashes.
Now the first thing I checked was the Oil (duh!) But the oil is ok, when i take the oil filler cap of, there is presure there so I think the oil pump is ok, and I dont think its an oil problem cos if there was a problem surley it would do it all the time, somtimes its weeks before it would cut out and somtimes it does it several times a day! I once went to a party when I met a guy who is a salesman for vw, and he reckons its the hall effect sensor, now I dont know wether this is true, after all he just sells the dam things!

Please can anyone help me?

[Rich 2]

earl, it's the crank angle sensor.

the hall sensor is the thing on the distributor and if it was that it would start over pretty much straight away or not at all.

Rich

for the record, the crank angle sensor will cut out around when the oil reaches 70 because of the viscosity of it at higher temperatures.

Rich

[BombadierX]

  Hey earl ime Harry
Have you tried a differant key or the barrel or like rich said  the crank angle sensor or the fuel pump relay
I think its the problem we had it wasant cutting out but when my dad was going down the motorway
the car cut out completely so he pulled into the hard shoulder (Very Scary)  and he restarted th engine
and it started but sounded like a diesel engine Hello its petrol so dad had 2 ring the AA they said the car was very (SICK)
so he towed my dad home anyway we took it in the garage and took The sump Off and the OIL pump and cleaned it
with petrol but it was a bit of a nightmere because there where like 20 bolts holding the sump ON but when we had Finnished
  YIPEE it worked a treat so there you go not very complicated.