No power

[chewy]

Been out in the car most of the day, went and put some fuel in. Now we dont have any power and the Emission light is flashing. Any ideas?

[TDI_Burd]

dodgy fuel??? had a batch of this in the scoob thought it was the spark plugs renewed them then read on a forum it was major dodgy batch of fuel from surrounding stations!!! It seems it can happen!

If u have limited power it sounds as if u have been put in a limp home mode get some vag com on to the car!!!!!

[drewbar]

get it vag-com'd mate, where did you fill up? defo put correct fuel in it lol.

[chewy]

Trying to find someone with vag com lol

Yeah put £20 vpower in, as I do now and again

[chewy]

Had the fault code read and its a misfire on cylinder 4

So going to replace the coil pack this week, hope that sorts it out

[drewbar]

nice one mate, what engine have you got out of interest?

[chewy]

1.4 100bhp, Any one know which cylinder in number 4?

[drewbar]

should be gearbox end mate, counted 1 to 4 from cam belt to gearbox.

[chewy]

Changed to coil pack on cylinder No.4 today and all is well

Piece of cake to do. Going to get a guide up soon

[tim80bwi]

I had an identical problem on Monday. Thought I would be kind and drive my mum to work in the snow! Was letting the engine tick over at idle, then suddenly...500rpm WTF? In a 3-cylinder engine, losing 1 leaves you with what basically resembles a lawnmower!

The annoying thing was, it was not caused by the snow whatsoever...wrong place wrong time I guess. Didn't stop me having to wait 2.5hrs in the freezing cold for a tow truck though.

I don't have access to any sort of vag-com so had to get this done by a garage.

...£170

[chewy]

£170 to fit a part that cost me £30.66 from the dealer and took me about 5 mins to fit.

But if you say anything to them they use the "we had to plug it in to the diagnostic machine" line

Going to buy myself a vag-com for when I get another light up

[RUM4MO]

Or, if you don't intend to get too deeply involved with engine fixing, why not just go for one of these VAG + CAN jobbies from Gendan (www.gendan.co.uk) they are just £39.10 including postage. I've got VCDS for home use and big jobs, but got one of these Gendan things a couple of months ago - just to keep in the car. They cover ENGINE + AUTO TRANS + SRS + ABS - so that is enough to sort out most small problems. One thing, if you do buy one, I'd search elsewhere for a comprehensive listing of VAG codes as the first two times I used mine, the codes did not exist on the small booklet that came with this tool. A few minutes searching on the internet provided a proper list though - so don't find youself in the situation that I did - ie picked up the codes and cleared them but then had to go away and find out what they really meant.

[RUM4MO]

Changed to coil pack on cylinder No.4 today and all is well

Piece of cake to do. Going to get a guide up soon

Now get ahead of the game and find a NOS one in ebay for half that price - for the next time - stangely that's what I did before my first one went a couple of years ago, then a month or so later got a report of "engine running rough thing it is running on three cylinders" said wife, I grabbed VAG-COM + new coil - VAG-COM said cylinder 2 - air cleaner off coil 2 out - new coil in - clear logged fault - car now okay. I've since managed to get another from ebay - just in case!

[tim80bwi]

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EDIT: How easy is the interface to use on the Gendan device? I take it you need to device itself and a code reference list?

[chewy]

Yeah been looking at one of those on eBay £30 delivered.

As for the new coil pack I am getting a friend to buy me three with his trade discount and going to change the rest all at once