Starting issues..

[EsSeX dAn]

thats quite unlucky. ive put about 60k onto mine and probably spend £800 in fixing things. thats over 2 1/2 years. hope u get it all sorted, but as said once its done youll love it

[Tezmax]

H.Q Leicester here, i meet u half way and vagcom your mk4 if you like.

like Nino says if we all help each other we end up with a nice car and change in our pockets

[Ant1981]

It couldnt be the starter motor because you would be able to hear that? there is no noise.. just 1 quiet tick when i turn the key and then nothing.. mechanic reckons its the brake light bulb.. i mean alternator 

That's why I say starter motor, becuase you can't hear it, only the solenoid click and the engine doesn't start as it's not turning over which is the job of the starter motor.

Your mechanic is no mechanic, the altenator is for charging the battery - you've already eliminated battery/enough starting charge.

[Ant1981]

100 quid and a new starter motor later... its working..

Good.

im starting to regret buying a mk4, back to mk3 i tink..

You're in good company.

[Ralphy_GTI]

H.Q Leicester here, i meet u half way and vagcom your mk4 if you like.

like Nino says if we all help each other we end up with a nice car and change in our pockets

what is vagcom? could you explain because im abit of a newbie 

[Nino]

If you look at the bottom of your Center unit, just above your sliding ashtray, you should ether see a pannel there that can be removed (Unless the previous owner lost it) then behind it will be a what looks like a Computer serail port that you can plug into a laptop (using a special cable) backed up with software (Vagcom) that is used to read the brain of the car (ECU) See below....



which tells vagcom if there is any problems stored in the cars memory and it will be in a form of a code, e.g 17705 which paired with this website....

Click me before I fall off a huge wall and hurt myself arrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

You can then Trail and error, by fixing this, and changing that to hopefully fix the problem and save you £££'s 

Hope this helped

[Ant1981]

It doesn't have to be VAGCOM, that's going the expensive route when all you need to do is read the fault codes.

[Ralphy_GTI]

will have to try it.. but not any time soon because ive literally spent every last penny getting it onto road..