car cutting out!

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:23 pm

my girlfriend had the car last night and it cut out twice,she thought she had just stalled it so we just left it at that, the she was coming up from work today and was turning into a street which is quite a steep hill and it cut out again! only this time the oil light came on and a beeping sound. I just checked the oil and when I looked at the oil rod there was some oil just on the end of it I think it could be doing with somemore but would this cause it to cut out?

loud · Post by **loud** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:30 pm

i'm not sure if it could cause a cut out but it can cause a completely screwed engine... so i'd get topping it up pronto!

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:32 pm

I know but its not screwed yet so what could it be?

Im going to knockhill on the 4th dont want to breakdown on the way!

loud · Post by **loud** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:35 pm

some cars have a system where they cut it if the oil is too low, to avoid the engine getting trashed...maybe 6N2's have this

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:40 pm

yeah maybe, any1 know??

polo2k · Post by **polo2k** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:03 pm

loud wrote:some cars have a system where they cut it if the oil is too low, to avoid the engine getting trashed...maybe 6N2's have this

sounds plausable

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:07 pm

would my oil light not stay on then if it needed topped up?I'll top it up anyway and see how it goes.

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:39 pm

right had a run about in it,she didnt stall it, it seems to happen when I put the clutch down and change gear to turn a corner and the revs just drop real fast below 10 then it cuts out but when I bring the clutch back up it kicks back in. doesnt happen all the time just sometimes.

any ideas??

PhilGTi · Post by **PhilGTi** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:14 pm

Does the car have aircon?

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:54 am

no air con,im sure this happened before but cant remember if it was this car or my pug 205GT

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 8:59 am

ive been told its a throttle body problem,
my mk4 had that and i took it to a local garge to sort it out. should have a fault code coming up on the computer that can b cleared

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:10 am

Yeah thats it! it just came back to me there, I coming on to say its that but you beat me to it!! lol. It just needs cleaned but I dont know where it is or what it looks like I'll start a new topic.

PhilGTi · Post by **PhilGTi** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:13 pm

My GTi did this for a while so i gave the airbox and throttle body a good clean out and its been fine since!

badboypolo · Post by **badboypolo** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:08 pm

I'll clean it at weekend, it happend before and I didnt know what was up so gave it to vw and they said it was that and cleaned it and it was fine

inder · Post by **inder** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:23 am

Just for reference, you can find the throttle body internals, by removing the airbox sat on top of it, if you going to take it out, make sure to buy new gaskets too