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Offline jakejay92

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Won't rev above 3000rpm eml on
« on: March 12, 2016, 05:22:50 pm »
Hi

I was driving my golf gt sport tsi (170) earlier today when the eml came on, now it won't rev above 3000rpm, feels fine in some lower gears. But when I get to full boost it feels like it's holding back, goes flat all off a sudden.

Any help would be great cheers

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Re: Won't rev above 3000rpm eml on
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2016, 05:31:10 pm »
Limp Home mode. It's protecting the engine by not letting it rev past 3000rpm. Scan for fault codes.
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Re: Won't rev above 3000rpm eml on
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2016, 02:43:23 pm »
I had this last week. Got fed up and parked the car up for a few days. drove 50odd miles and the fault hasn't come back. May be worth getting a handheld obd2 scanner so if it happens again, you can scan it and see what the problem is

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Re: Won't rev above 3000rpm eml on
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2016, 06:42:41 pm »
I got back in the car on Sunday mate, and it's running fine, took it up the garage today and it brung a fault code up, boost pressure sensor

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Re: Won't rev above 3000rpm eml on
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2016, 01:51:51 pm »
happened to me days after buying my first GTI, was a simple coil pack that had gave up.