its gone pop....again

[Sunglasses Ron]

As has already been said, i'd be awazed if VW didn't honour it. Especially as it was only serviced recently.. 

[Greeners]

Scary Pics there Phil 

That would bring me to  if that happened to me! 

[E30m3]

the fact that you said you had it serviced worries me ?

who serviced your car ?  Leicester VW ?

My coil packs caused a juddering/misfiring and the car sounded like  a suburu flat four, when hooked to a diagnostics machine the car only said it had a misfire/ignition problem.

When the VW breakdown reeovery technician came he looked at the engine bay and immeaditaly noticed the problem,

 THE COIL PACK WAS 1/2mm upwards, ie not fitted correctly ! This caused 2 coilpacks 2 fail, lucky it wasn't worse.

The thing was I just had the car serviced and it was a week old in my hands !!!! Leicester VW did the servicing, the tech looked at the engine bay and checked the plugs and coils, he said the car hasn't been serviced for atleast 5 months !!!

Leicester VW suck balls. 

[T88OMM]

Hope it does turn out to be the coilpacks and not anything more serious. Good luck mate, hope all goes well 

[The wheel man]

the fact that you said you had it serviced worries me ?

who serviced your car ?  Leicester VW ?

My coil packs caused a juddering/misfiring and the car sounded like  a suburu flat four, when hooked to a diagnostics machine the car only said it had a misfire/ignition problem.

When the VW breakdown reeovery technician came he looked at the engine bay and immeaditaly noticed the problem,

 THE COIL PACK WAS 1/2mm upwards, ie not fitted correctly ! This caused 2 coilpacks 2 fail, lucky it wasn't worse.

The thing was I just had the car serviced and it was a week old in my hands !!!! Leicester VW did the servicing, the tech looked at the engine bay and checked the plugs and coils, he said the car hasn't been serviced for atleast 5 months !!!

Leicester VW suck balls. 

Not what i need to hear!!!!  Its being collected in about an hour so we will see what happens later.  this has been a s**t week, need the front screen replacing as its goning to fail the MOT that is tomorrow too...  This is hurting my pockets 

Where in leicester are you E30M3

[E30m3]

Ben im near Houghton on the Hill, but am at other places in Leicester sometimes, most of the time however im in Lutterworth or London.

You say you car was serviced 8 weeks ago, if it is a coilpack, ask was it not possible to spot the fault at service?

I hope the dealer sorts you and looks after you under goodwill.

Also i wouldn't worry too much, i think the service dept now at Leicester VW is alot better than before, but i would not touch Leicestr VW's sales dept across the road. Hopefully Ben it should be cheap fix with no major worries or cost ! :)

I always use Arthur prince now for any work, maybe far and there courtesy cars are a bit long, but they have proper customer service and qaulity work.

about the Window , you can get it replaced on your insurance for whatever the windowscreen excess is, mines was £50 direct line.

If your not sure ring your insurance company and tell them where an you get your windscreen fixed .

again Ben hope it all goes well with minimum of hassle and cost.

Raj.

[vRStu]

I wouldn't think it would be seen at service and wouldn't have been damaged as a result of service unless the plugs were changed.

They are simply coils that can, and do, break down and fail.  When they fail they can draw a lot of current which is what causes the small fires.

As the pics that Steve posted show, if the coil manages to burn enough to catch the engine cover then that's when your problems will start.

[RedRobin]

As the pics that Steve posted show, if the coil manages to burn enough to catch the engine cover then that's when your problems will start.

....So changing the stock plastic engine cover (with fat flammable panel filter inside!) to one such as the aluminium EVOMS one might just reduce the spread of a coilpack fire?

[Top Cat]

As the pics that Steve posted show, if the coil manages to burn enough to catch the engine cover then that's when your problems will start.

....So changing the stock plastic engine cover (with fat flammable panel filter inside!) to one such as the aluminium EVOMS one might just reduce the spread of a coilpack fire?

Yes it would Red but it is very rare for that to happen, thats like saying if i wrap my fuel tank in kevlar will this reduce explosions. 

[RedRobin]

As the pics that Steve posted show, if the coil manages to burn enough to catch the engine cover then that's when your problems will start.

....So changing the stock plastic engine cover (with fat flammable panel filter inside!) to one such as the aluminium EVOMS one might just reduce the spread of a coilpack fire?

Yes it would Red but it is very rare for that to happen, thats like saying if i wrap my fuel tank in kevlar will this reduce explosions. 

....Hushhhhh!! You'll be giving Hurdy more ideas for carbonfibre!

[stealthwolf]

As soon as the pics came up, there should have been a warning sign. Some of us might be very upset at seeing a burnt GTI!

 

[vRStu]

Any news yet?

[The wheel man]

Just got the call from VW.  It was the coil pack and they are do the work under warranty!!!!!!!!

Very chuffed although it will be tomorrow before i get the car back...

All in all not too bad, ive been stressing about what else went wrong and could see a bill of 1K coming my way......

Thanks for the info though guys, i mentioned that it sounded like the coilpack and mentioned that there seems to be lots of problems with this and it seemed to make them pay attention to what i said.

Ben

[182_blue]

nice one, glad you got a good result 

[WhiteGTI]

Congrats!