Hey guys
I was driving earlier and my glow plug light started flashing as I was goin up a hill and had a serious lack of power. Luckily I was dropping of the other half which was 50m away from where this started happening I parked up turned the engine off and restarted and the flashing stopped and had normal power.
I was next to a garage so I popped in spoke to a mechanic he said it needs a vag computer onit to see what the error was but could be something to do with emissions. He wanted to charge me to plug computer in but I know a friend who has one so that was my next stop.
I drive to his and he plugged in his vag and he checked it and it had no codes on whatsoever, he seemed to think the fact I have stopped an start the engine a few times could be the reason the computer was not picking any thing.
The car is a 2012 A3 with 39000 miles onit had no issues with it since buying in may.
So my questions to you guys are first what could the flashing glow plug mean and what could it mean and also why would a vag computer not pick up the error code or why was the car not giving an error code?
Side note just recalled before all this happened I was parked up and the engine was off via the stop/start and when I pressed the clutch the engine restarted but a red symbol popped up regarding brakes I didn’t have time to read what it said before it went back off
Thanks in advance for any help or info!
I was driving earlier and my glow plug light started flashing as I was goin up a hill and had a serious lack of power. Luckily I was dropping of the other half which was 50m away from where this started happening I parked up turned the engine off and restarted and the flashing stopped and had normal power.
I was next to a garage so I popped in spoke to a mechanic he said it needs a vag computer onit to see what the error was but could be something to do with emissions. He wanted to charge me to plug computer in but I know a friend who has one so that was my next stop.
I drive to his and he plugged in his vag and he checked it and it had no codes on whatsoever, he seemed to think the fact I have stopped an start the engine a few times could be the reason the computer was not picking any thing.
The car is a 2012 A3 with 39000 miles onit had no issues with it since buying in may.
So my questions to you guys are first what could the flashing glow plug mean and what could it mean and also why would a vag computer not pick up the error code or why was the car not giving an error code?
Side note just recalled before all this happened I was parked up and the engine was off via the stop/start and when I pressed the clutch the engine restarted but a red symbol popped up regarding brakes I didn’t have time to read what it said before it went back off
Thanks in advance for any help or info!