Say what???
Try driving it with your foot lightly on the brake and the other hard on the accelerator. it won’t go. I know when next doors Polo wouldn’t start, they would fiddle with the brake switch and away it would go!
Say what???
I don't have anything to check the errors (if present), should I bother? Any thoughts or obvious/easy things to change or other insights? It's a while since I fixed my own cars but could probably do some simple stuff, otherwise book it into my local garage, VW specialist or I do have a Bosch garage not so far away? My plan at the moment is to just drive it as normal (avoiding motorways etc) and book it in to my local garage which I expect will be next week unless it fails in the meantime.
He has one. See post #5Well worth getting a code reader and sourcing a list of codes to print out.
Thanks, these are the kinds of things I can get onboard with! I'll dig my (unopened ) Haynes manual out, I noticed on the Haynes YouTube fuel filter change video they removed and discarded all of the leftover fuel in the filter housing, is that strictly necessary? Guess it matters not as I'll need to get (one of those red fuel tanks) with some spare fuel to top up the new filter in anycase.
No! It’ll be full of shît that couldn’t get through the filter! Get rid of it - I tip old fuel filter drainings in with my waste oil for disposal.I just pour it back in the tank.
I did discard it all, turns out diesel doesn't taste quite as toxic as one might imagine!No! It’ll be full of shît that couldn’t get through the filter! Get rid of it - I tip old fuel filter drainings in with my waste oil for disposal.
However they have said that in this model of Golf the crank sensor can only be changed by disconnecting the gearbox - is that the case? Naturally if they are disconnecting the gear box they are recommending changing the clutch/dual mass flywheel at the same time and I would not necessarily have a problem with that as as long as this is likely to fix the engine problem as ideally I wish to keep the car long term, they're going to give me a price for the crank sensor/flywheel/clutch job.
You cant just let people guess at faults and load the parts cannon, its a recipe for disaster.
I would seek out a real diagnostics expert who will be able to test the crank sensor correctly.
That is mostly true.I agree, it's always expensive, using a diagnosis technique of throwing parts at a problem.