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Hi guys,
The Mrs' car (a 2008 Golf GT TDI 140) has been totally fine all weekend. We've done about 150 miles this weekend without an issue. This morning she sets off to work, gets 2 miles down the road, it starts to jerk then just cuts out and won't restart.
RAC come to recover her. The guys scanner shows no faults at all. Apparently the RAC guy sprayed "something" on "something" lol. I've just got home and the mrs pointed at the air intake and said he sprayed something in there to get it started but it wouldn't stay started!
It all sounds like a fuelling issue of some sort. So I've scanned the car with full VCDS and there are no faults, none at all out of the norm! I've had injector issues before on my old car and I know they log lots of info when a fault is detected with them. So I checked all the fuses and can't find any blown. Battery is fine, dash, lights, radio etc. all working fine. Car turns over fine but just won't fire.
So I need suggestions please. Due to no Injector faults I'm thinking the fuel pump may have died but the car has only done 80K on a stock map so I'd be very surprised if it was that tired. I've also read about injectors on the newer engines (mainly 170ps) just packing in, and when 1 goes they all short out!
Anyone had this before or got any ideas for what I could try?
The Mrs' car (a 2008 Golf GT TDI 140) has been totally fine all weekend. We've done about 150 miles this weekend without an issue. This morning she sets off to work, gets 2 miles down the road, it starts to jerk then just cuts out and won't restart.
RAC come to recover her. The guys scanner shows no faults at all. Apparently the RAC guy sprayed "something" on "something" lol. I've just got home and the mrs pointed at the air intake and said he sprayed something in there to get it started but it wouldn't stay started!
It all sounds like a fuelling issue of some sort. So I've scanned the car with full VCDS and there are no faults, none at all out of the norm! I've had injector issues before on my old car and I know they log lots of info when a fault is detected with them. So I checked all the fuses and can't find any blown. Battery is fine, dash, lights, radio etc. all working fine. Car turns over fine but just won't fire.
So I need suggestions please. Due to no Injector faults I'm thinking the fuel pump may have died but the car has only done 80K on a stock map so I'd be very surprised if it was that tired. I've also read about injectors on the newer engines (mainly 170ps) just packing in, and when 1 goes they all short out!
Anyone had this before or got any ideas for what I could try?