How many of you have suffered from a cutting out 8v engine?

[growla666]

I've only had my Golf mk 3 GTI for two weeks and so far it has spent a week in my local VW dealer. It just started cutting out inexplicably whilst driving. Having only done 100 miles since I bought it I'm now £352 worse off for a speed sender replacement (courtesy of the VW dealers diagnostic machine saying the engine speed sender was defective). The dealer changes the part, empties my wallet of a wad of cash. Happily I take my keys, drive off home and the car does exactly the same 20 f******g yards down the road ! The car is now back in VW Chalfont, red faces all round and I'm seriously off VW golfs and their expensive, ineffective stealerships.  I'm gonna remind them about them ECU relay that seems to be cropping up all over the forum as well as celaning the butterfly valave thingy. Anything else I should be telling them to check - at their expense??

How many of you have had the same problem?

[vwagain]

Make sure you get the money back from the stealers for the part they wrongly replaced Or at least demand they charge you £0 for any other work they do.  It seems dealers just replace anything and everything until they happen to stumble across the faulty part these days. And thats not just the VW dealers either. I have read many a similar story on Merc and beamer forums too. It seems the cars are just to complicated for their (so called)technitions to work out

The best place to find out whats actually wrong with cars nowadays is on the owners forums!!!

Good luck and i hope you get it sorted soon mate.

Stu

[bampotman]

Yeah a lot of people have this problem. Its happened to my car a couple of times and i've been meaning to get it sorted. Last time I was doing 70 on a near Oxford, let go of the gas a little and bang its dropped the revs. The relay, butterfly thingy and also try cleaning your throttle valve body thing.

Golf's ain't bad but dealers take the p*** and are useless. Find yourself a VW specialist in your area. They know Golfs and won't rip you off. Lion Garages are good VW specialists

[Bender]

An speed sensor costs £149 inc vat and is a 1 hour job to fit yourself,most people who have a mk3 have mk3 disease it's not uncommon when they go wrong they seem to do it all at once..

[Y I GTI]

problem its a pain in the arse .ya go to dealerships get work dun drive off n same thing happens ave replaced a hell ov a lot on mine relays ect,everything ave read on here ave dun still doing it.Puts ya off vw's in a way specially wen the people who make n deal wiv these cars day in day out the people ya expect to know whats what.wen infact they know nothing put quite happily take ya cash.jus a case of elimination a think ya see people sorting their cars out wiv different quick fix solutions.wish a cud jus get to bottom ov my cutting out problem vw's huh who's have them..lol 

[yellowgti]

trying to figure mine out too! its been cutting out mainly when its cold the revs just drop and die but now even when its warm it cuts out!, im going to clean the isv in a min to see if that makes a difference, other than that im going to put a new engine in!

[carl]

if youre car wont idle you should clean the throttle butterfly out ,make sure you take it off the car and clean it properly,
i took mine off and cleaned it with parafin and it came up a treat or you can use carb cleaner ,very easy to do,you just take the throttle cable off and undo it with a alankey ,make sure you clean it with a smallish paint brush as you will do damage to the butterfly otherwise,
hope this helps .

[Cra1g]

Carl what is this butterfly thing your on about? Will my MK3 1.4 8v have this? And would it make the acceleration smoother?

Cra1g

[carl]

sorry ive not replied craig
ive been in hospital for 9 days i came home at weekend and went back in again,
if you take your airfilter off your car and pull the throttle cable the butterfly thing will open and close on the top of your carb,
but to be honest there is only a problem with the ones on gtis so you should not have any problems with yours anyway,
but it wont hurt if you clean it out anyhow,
see you,carl

[mr wong]

My car did this for a while and after the throttle body was cleaned out (it was full of shyte) the car is now driving like a dream again.