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Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:25 pm
by pvr
I had a search and only saw threads on the GTI forum where camshaft sensors were blamed. On the 1.4 8v, would that be the same cause when accelerating a bit harder and reaching higher revs that the engine hesitates?
This is each time when putting your foot down.
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:56 pm
by alexperkins
They have a different sensor set to the GTI mate - I would recommend getting it scanned with vagcom as that should shed some light on the faulty sensor
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:19 am
by dub6n2
as alex said have it scanned... mine sort of did the same, used vagcom and it turned out to be a worn out HT lead
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:15 am
by pvr
Ok, sound advice.
The HT lead sounds like an option as I had to move them out of the way when I serviced the car a couple of weeks back to get to the air filters.
Will one of those cheap ebay VAG COM be sufficient? (i.e. £9).
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:17 am
by alexperkins
indeed it will
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:27 am
by pvr
Bought now
Will let you know what it tells me.
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:38 pm
by alexperkins
happy days
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:43 pm
by dub6n2
pvr wrote:
The HT lead sounds like an option as I had to move them out of the way when I serviced the car a couple of weeks back to get to the air filters.
yeah then have it scanned with vagcom...it will tell you exactly which cylinder is misfiring so you don't need so buy all the leads
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 5:38 pm
by pvr
You wonder why you service the car sometimes
It was ok before I provided TLC a few weeks back and treated to all new filters and oil ...
Got gradually worse, so a lead sounds like the most likely guilty party.
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 7:06 pm
by dub6n2
pvr wrote:You wonder why you service the car sometimes
It was ok before I provided TLC a few weeks back and treated to all new filters and oil ...
Got gradually worse, so a lead sounds like the most likely guilty party.
that's why I prefer doing every possible service on the car myself hehe ... I know exactly what it goes through ad I take good care
unlike what I suspect service garages do!
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:32 pm
by pvr
I did the service myself ...
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:59 pm
by pvr
Well, bought the VAG COM, plugged it in, ran the software - get an error "this car is not OBDII compliant"
Great ...
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:55 pm
by alexperkins
interesting...
what version of the software have you got installed
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:20 pm
by pvr
It says:
VCDS Lite release 1.0, 7770 Codes loaded
Device driver: VAG COM 409.1 Cable Driver
Re: Hesitation at higher speed / revs
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 9:33 pm
by alexperkins
Hmm very interesting indeed. Can you get a screenshot of this?
Try installing the 409.1 vagcom. Just uploaded it here for you
http://www.qfpost.com/download.do?get=9 ... ff9ce86ee7