Broken down - turbo issues?

[phil_790]

Hi all,

Had a bit of a nightmare tonight, was driving along at about 40 coming off a roundabout lost a good chunk of power, then the EPC light came on, followed by an orange engine light. Pulled over and then I had a start/stop error and a whole range of lights on, car then ran very lumpy.

Stopped the car, VW assist/AA came out, took it to the dealers, he had to start it up to get it off the trailer, when it produced a pretty large amount of blue smoke after which the engine was running ok.

Frustrated to say the least, waiting to hear back if there is a hire car available at Gatwick airport.

My initial guess is either turbo, or coil packs. The car is totally untouched in terms of tuning boxes or any other mods.

Cheers,
Phil

[JB GTI]

Frustrating for you  but thankfully Volkswagens problem now 
Hope you get it sorted quickly.

[phil_790]

To be fair, vw assist have been pretty good, car taken straight to dealers and rental car arranged, Volvo v40 diesel auto, interesting drive.

Just hope it gets sorted soon!

[peterdoherty]

Had a split new v40 diesel auto from Europcar Gatwick a few weeks ago. Not a bad car but not a patch on the Golf IMO. Took me a while to get used to having a physical handbrake again lol

[phil_790]

The manual hndbrake wasn't too bad, as I sometimes drive my other halves mini. Automatic was weird at first, but after a 15mile drive home it was quite nice. Off to the dealers in the morning to see what's going on with my gti.

[monkeyhanger]

Plume of blue smoke on restart? Sounds like turbo failure with some oil getting burnt in the process. New turbo, new plugs, possible new cat if the oil combustion has poisoned it.

[phil_790]

Apparently when the car was taken into the workshop and wasn't showing any warning lights, no word on what the problem is yet, so I am still using the V40 until tomorrow, VW want to get me into one of their own courtesy cars.

Will have to wait and see what they say tomorrow.

[phil_790]

Hi,

The car has been in the garage for almost a week, they recorded 7 different error messages from the incident, but they don't all point to the same source. They started it up Wednesday and found it be running lumpy, however they have run it again today and reckon it's ok. The possible explanation they have is some dodgy fuel getting through which screwed up the timing and let the oil get through to exhaust where it ignited and caused the blue smoke. They are going to run the car again tomorrow and see how it is.

To be honest I am not 100% convinced of the fuel explanation, but we shall see.

Either way I really don't like the golf SV they have given me, however it has given me the chance to drive a DSG which is interesting.

Any thoughts about the fuel explanation, I have always been a bit picky with fuel and only use shell or bp.

Cheers,
Phil

[corgi]

Not sure how dodgy fuel could cause oil to leak into the exhaust...

[phil_790]

I was under the impression it might be due to the timing being off, but I don't really know a massive amount about cars!! The thing I find really odd is that the car seems to be ok now, don't really want it back until the dealers are happy it's all good.