Hi All, went out to the GTI this morning (temp outside was -1.5 degrees) started the engine.. and as always it fired up instantly! Then all of a sudden as the idle dropped to normal the engine cut out! started it again.. done the same again, it done this a fair few times one after another. engine would run for a around 6 seconds then just cut. while this was going on I tried giving it a bit of throttle... and every time I tried.. the throttle would do nothing, as if someone had unplugged the pedal! so give up and took the kids to school in the touran!
come back and tried again.. same thing! I tried numerous times! I had a similar issue last month with a cold start but it didn't cut out.. drove ok but throttle response was terrible and laggy (almost like putting it in 6th gear and booting it and 25mph) like that kind of laggy.
anyhow, so I tried starting the car with the throttle 10% down... car started and I had throttle control but once id let go of the throttle the revs would fall to idle then it'd cut out again! As revs was falling... the throttle wouldnt work once id let go of it. I started it with the throttle in again and held the revs around 2k for a minute or so to try warm it up. but nope... still cut out once id let go. started engine again and cut out again!
I gave up, came in and had a coffee, went back out after.. car started.. idled where it should then ran... tried throttle, all worked fine. let go of throttle and car returned to Idle!!! so yeah.. like the cars FINE again! im like.. wtf.
so i have no idea with this one.. but im wondering if I got a dodgy sensor that doesn't like the freeze.. as it almost seemed like the car had 10 minutes to defrost after I had engine running for few mins.
anyone else experienced this? I have no fault codes either.
