Urgent Advice please

[irish_ram]

Hi All,

Wonder if anyone can help me before I take the car to a garage if need be.

I was driving home today doing around 75 in 5th gear when all of a sudden the Warning Light came on and started flashing orange. From then on for the next few miles whenever I pressed the accelerator the car juddered and there was no power surge as I would expect as the Boost gauge on the dash went up. I actually heard a wining sound. I parked up and left it for 10 minutes, when started the whole car was juddering quite a bit and when pulling away and the boost gauge went up I heard a high whining noise but no power injection.

I have AA Gold cover and likely I need to take it to the garage but wanted to check if anyone had any ideas of what likely I could do, check or what this is at fault

Picture below of the warning light that came on flashing orange

[Marc-5-GTI]

Well thats the engine management lamp but I couldn't comment on what it might be... get her plugged in

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/owners/warning-lights

[irish_ram]

Thanks for the advice,

I have read a lot of forums where this can just be a sensor malfunction however my car is juddering and no real power injection at all. Seems as thought it has reverted to a normal 1.4 with no turbo or supercharger power injection.

Me thinks a call to the garage is needed but hopefully my AA Gold cover will cover it all 

[chrispygti]

Very similar happened to my old fabia vRS and it was the turbo that had blown.

[irish_ram]

Very similar happened to my old fabia vRS and it was the turbo that had blown.

I am no expert but the light came on as I was overtaking so accelerating and now when it drives and I put my foot down the boost gauge goes up but the turbo/supercharger power is not there and can hear the whining sound.

Along this have the juddering but that does not seem to be there once the car is in motion

I have £1000 cover on my RAC Platinum so I am hoping it is not serious 

[doylebros]

Few more details on your vehicle would be handy - then get a VCDS scan from someone local off the list

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,120.0.html

It could be a simple fault(split hose etc) so the scan with list the fault codes would be my starting point!

[irish_ram]

Few more details on your vehicle would be handy - then get a VCDS scan from someone local off the list

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,120.0.html

It could be a simple fault(split hose etc) so the scan with list the fault codes would be my starting point!

I drive a MK5 Golf 1.4 TSI GT Sport 170. It is an 07 model.

I am going to ring my RAC Cover tomorrow but depending on what they say may contact the VAG contact in derby

Even though I am not an expert and hope I am totally wrong, but the fact the car judders quite a bit when starts to the point where it feels like it is gonna blow before it calms down makes me think there is a serious problem

[Marc-5-GTI]

hopefully it wont be too much, if the engine is jumping about all over the place it could be as simple as your having a misfire... one of your sparks may be dead.. you won't know for sure until its plugged in.
I'd get it plugged in before you send it to a garage so they dont take you for a ride..

[irish_ram]

hopefully it wont be too much, if the engine is jumping about all over the place it could be as simple as your having a misfire... one of your sparks may be dead.. you won't know for sure until its plugged in.
I'd get it plugged in before you send it to a garage so they dont take you for a ride..

Well I think I am going to ring the garage and RAC cover and see what they say. If they say they will inspect it and repair under the cover and no hidden charges then will let them. If they come back and advise I would need to pay any upfront fee for stripping engine etc then I will get it scanned myself first so I can be confident it is something they cover so will hand it back and let them do what they will

Issue s as with all warranties, I have read several times but some of it is still gibberish as to what it means, I mean it says it cover all electrical and mechanical parts and factory fitted turbo but advise they will not cover the cost of striping down the engineer for diagnosis unless the issue is found to be something they cover as otherwise they will charge me for the diagnostic work

[Marc-5-GTI]

I wish you luck!

[Leigh200sx]

Good be a coil pack to be honest

[irish_ram]

Good be a coil pack to be honest

I am far from mechanical in knowledge but the coil pack seems to be the response most people are coming back with.

I am due to ring the garage this morning to get them to check this under my RAC Cover and will take it from there. If it is a Coil pack then I hope I am right in thinking this is classed as mechanical which is covered so hopefully be okay 

I might get them to also look at the issue I have with the coolant warning light which only seems to come on when I park at an angle on the kerb but lets get the serious issue sorted first.

[spimmers]

i had the exact same thing happen, took it to vw it was a coilpack, had them changed for free under the recall. happy days

[irish_ram]

Bit of an update which is not good,

Local Garage scanned the car and found a misfire issue on Cylinder 2 and 4 on Coil Packs.

RAC authorized the repair so they swapped them over however issue still there and same error on coming up on computer scan.

After garage rang around a few vw specialists they come to the conclusion after a compression test that one cylinder had no compression at all

They seem to think it is now a possible valve or piston issue so sounds serious.

Problem I have is as RAC do not cover diagnostics would they class stripping the engine to check piston and valve as diagnostics or if the fault is found to be one of them then surely to fix it the engine would had to have been stripped anyway.

I am ringing them and the dealer I bought it from as it is only 3 months old so need to see what the dealer say in terms of they sold me a car 3 months ago that now may have this serious issue :(

[Marc-5-GTI]

Sheeeeet sooooon