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***Car conked out on me!***

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RetroRaz:
could be the ECU

LukeNarey1993:
Sadly no one in the surrounding area has any VAG etc, but i just wanted to try get a view of what it could be before getting it towed to a specialist in the area, i literally plan on getting it fixed and selling it so i can get a GTI !

J6JCC-GTI:
Sounds like the Immobiliser to me, common on vw, will run but only for one second! Get it scanned for sure and see what it brings up.

PaulED30:
This happened to me on my old megane, would start up then die strait away, if I kept revving it slightly and not letting it die it was fine after about 30 seconds, but sometimes when it was cold it would drive fine (after the start up routine) for a while and then die when lifting off the accelerator (coming up to a round about for example so f*cking annoying/embarising if I could have got out and there's people behind)

Turns out it was a cam shaft sensor, it was a cheap fix but problem came back after a couple of thousand miles

GTI-Ross:

--- Quote from: LukeNarey1993 on November 03, 2014, 01:33:47 pm ---the AA recovered the car but he thought was my timing belt, one of the lads on my camp used VAGCOM but it couldnt reach the engine? any clues?

--- End quote ---

Rather than just trying to read the engine module, did he set a full scan going? If so, was it at this point the engine was un-reachable?

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