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You will not believe this we found 2 fuses blown so replaced them, tried starting the car again it started on one cylinder then cut out smoke pouring from the engine. ripped plastic cover off to see no1 & no3 cylinder coil packs melt in front of us. Took battery lead of and got extinguisher on i...

Yes that is the model it is a 1200cc 12valve, some one says they think the first problems misfire cylinders 1 & 3 were because the wrong oil has been put in the car at the service, and on looking it does not look thin enough to be fully synthetic. They say if the wrong oil has been put in it loc...

Sorry one round headlight each side Tony

I have a 2005 Polo 1200cc it has had a misfire on two cylinders and the garage who has just serviced it could not put it right they have changed cam shaft sensor two coil packs and plugs . But yesterday came to start it and it started but cut out and smoke came out of engine bay, now will not start ...

I have a 2001 VW Polo Estate 1600cc engine code AKL , Having loads of trouble with fault codes being logged into ECU. One of which is coolant temperature sensor i changed this only 400 miles ago and the same faults are coming up on my scanner . It had an original VW black plastic coloured one fitted...

I bought a 2001 VW Polo Estate 1600cc only 4 months ago F/S/H 66000 miles . Since buying New full exhaust including cat , New ECU , New Throttle Body , Cannot stop immobiliser faults being logged IE Engine Section , No Start due to Immobiliser , Immobiliser Section , Key Low Signal . Put on New Pick...

You will be better to buy a new Immobiliser from VW they are about £90 you need to geve them your vin number & the number on the immobiliser box you can then just replace it . If you buy a S/H immobiliser you will have to buy the Key coil pick up & the ECU to go with it and i am sure that lo...

I have a Year 2000 Polo 1600cc Petrol Estate S ,and when I put my VAG Scanner Code Reader it keeps coming up in the engine section with error code 17978 - P1570 Engine start blocked by immobiliser . Then in the Immobiliser section Error Code 01176 Key - Sporadic Signal to low . Only thing is the car...

I have a Year 2000 Polo 1600cc Petrol Estate S ,and when I put my genuine VAG Scanner Code Reader it keeps coming up in the engine section with error code 17978 - P1570 Engine start blocked by immobilizer . Then in the Immobilizer section Error Code 01176 Key - Sporadic Signal to low . Only thing is...

I have just bought a Year 2000 Polo S Estate with a 1600cc AKL 100 bhp unit engine and have tried to access the 16 pin diagnostic plug with my Can Bus and OBD scanner Code Reader a Memoscan U581 scanner and it will just not link up to my car . All i keep getting is linking error , i have been in tou...