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Offline stainesy

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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #10 on: 09 November 2011, 15:56 »
I got my new coil from German Swedish. Or any parts place really should do one.
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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #11 on: 09 November 2011, 16:18 »
Order/fit a new coil and you should be on your way! give it some love and it will reward for miles & miles!
I had big issues with cutting out. fitted a new crank sensor and now its belting! Clutch next  :undecided:
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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #12 on: 09 November 2011, 16:25 »
if you have a Eurocarparts nearby go online and order to get Forum discount! :wink:
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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #13 on: 09 November 2011, 16:47 »
Jimmer,welcome to the joys of owning a Mk3 :grin:.Sounds exactly what happened to me m8.Everything was working great until i decided to go for a drive.Got to my destination,parked up for a couple of hours,got back to the car and tried to start her up.No joy,no spark but engine was turning over.Got a mate of mine to come and have a look and straight away diagnosed a dead ignition coil pack.1hr later, with new coil picked up and fitted, the old girl was back on the road.Common fault this buddy.Good Luck.


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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #14 on: 09 November 2011, 17:13 »
I got the same problem mine is sat on the drive now. I have fuel and a spark but nothing. Gonna try the crank sensor next. Let me know how it goes mate sounds as tho we got a similar problem
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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #15 on: 09 November 2011, 17:30 »
Ignition coil, mine did the same (after 195k)  :smiley:
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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #16 on: 09 November 2011, 17:36 »
Ok, will do... will keep everyone up to date.

After the overwhelming number of people pointing towards an ignition coil im going to leave the ECU where it is.
Ordered the ignition coil, 25% discount. £27.85  :shocked:

Tomorrow I'm going to attempt to replace it myself, haven't got my Haynes manual through yet, and I'm pretty useless...
But I'm going to try! (I'm sure i can find a guide on here somewhere?!)

After this doesn't work i'm going to take out the ecu (reverse psychology :smug:)
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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #17 on: 09 November 2011, 17:44 »
Quote from: Junior74 on 09 November 2011, 17:30
Ignition coil, mine did the same (after 195k)  :smiley:

could it still be the coil even though he still has a spark?
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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #18 on: 09 November 2011, 17:53 »
No need for a guide really mate, it's all very obvious and will take u literally 2 minutes to do.  :smiley:
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Re: HELP: First day owning my First GTI, First NIGHTMARE.
« Reply #19 on: 09 November 2011, 17:55 »
Quote from: NERF 69 on 09 November 2011, 17:44
Quote from: Junior74 on 09 November 2011, 17:30
Ignition coil, mine did the same (after 195k)  :smiley:

could it still be the coil even though he still has a spark?

He said he has an into rant spark with poor spark so yes.
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