Scarry Biscuits!!!!

[mr wong]

My Mk III has started doing what allot of people on here have experienced and is now cutting out!!!

This has progressively got worse and today comming up to a junction I put in the clutch and the b1tch cut out on me leaving me with no power for braking or steering. I was about 1 foot away from the car in-front of me and still travelling when thankfully they pulled out of the junction otherwise I would have smacked their back bumper!!! That would not have been funny!!!


I know there are loads of threads on this and I have booked my car in to get checked out, but my mechanic is busy and wont be able to do it for 2 weeks! What is recommended that I try and do first of all myself?? Remember that I am car illiterate and will need careful step by step guidance.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[vanish]

There's a whole stack of threads on this subject, try a search with "cutting out" or "stalling" and you should have lots of possible causes and remedies.

[mr wong]

Ok ch3ears, but it gets worse for me,

Last night I was driving home from work. I was sitting about 80 on the motorway and what I would best describe as a stalling action started in the engine. The rev counter would fall right down and the engine would cough and try to cut out before comming back to life again. It did this about 4 or 5 times.

Anyway I got to within about 500 yards of my house when the engine died altogether on me. I was left to push my poor wee baby home in the rain and she still wont start!

This stalling type action has happened a few times before in the past month. As I have already said, I'm not mechanically minded but I would hazard a guess at the fuel pump playing up and now finally has died?

Anybody else got a theory or wish to hazard a guess?

[adyh]

I would get your coil checked .

[Dom Mk3]

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=2080.0

[mr wong]

Well my dignity has truly gone my baby is away on the back of a transporter to the garage. Cant believe that my reliable VW has been subjected to this.

All my neighbors keep telling me how nice and shiny she is but I should be driving something newer and faster, maybe they are right!  Maybe nows the time to bite the bullet and wave bye-bye to Colour Concept after she is fixed!

[Overseer]

Like someone said above.. sounds like coil... happened to me once

[Len]

Coil - possibly

If not tell them to replace both ECU and Fuel Injection relays.

[mjoe]

same here also - egine died for split second while driving along - happened several times in one journey - but not for some time now.
I havent much knowledge of the engine but i can do a basic service - and i did notice that when chaging the spark plugs - taking them out especially - there was a lot of dirt in and around the treading - i'm sure i knocked some it when installing them (careless  :embarassed:) so i was expecting a bit of complaing at some point - anyway, next time i changed the plugs (brothers car), i used a hand held vacuum cleaner to collect up all the dust and dirt before installing - and he's had no problems whatsoever since then (his car was cuting out occasionally before the service also).

[lisa30]

Sounds the same as what happened to me luckily it was on my drive,called aa out they said 80.00 to replace the coil
Got onto my mechanic he got the part from euro car parts for 39.99

Fixed hurray