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Engine Trouble :(
Guys,
The Golf was giving me a bit of trouble on Friday when I last drove it. I've booked it in to get looked at next Monday but I wanted to ask around and see if anyone wants to have a guess at what's wrong...so I can work out how much it might set me back. Car is a Mk4 GTI.
Basically I was driving to work on Friday, accelerating normally out to merge and the car was not real happy about it. Hard to describe but it was like the turbo was cutting in and out. Boost gauge was reading 5 or 6psi, and then it would drop right back and the car would slow down then pick back up again. Happened 2 or 3 times in quite a short space of time. So I backed right off and nursed it to work. On the drive home from work, nursing it along it was really shuddering when I pulled up at the lights a couple of times. It didn't feel or sound like it was going to stall but it was a lot shakier than it's ever been since I owned it.
Dunno if any of that is helpful, if you've got questions I'll do my best to answer them. Any ideas/comments are appreciated, the car's coming up to 180k kms so I'm due for a timing belt change which is gonna set me back a bit as it is so I'm just crossing my fingers this is a minor problem.
Thanks again,
Alex
The Golf was giving me a bit of trouble on Friday when I last drove it. I've booked it in to get looked at next Monday but I wanted to ask around and see if anyone wants to have a guess at what's wrong...so I can work out how much it might set me back. Car is a Mk4 GTI.
Basically I was driving to work on Friday, accelerating normally out to merge and the car was not real happy about it. Hard to describe but it was like the turbo was cutting in and out. Boost gauge was reading 5 or 6psi, and then it would drop right back and the car would slow down then pick back up again. Happened 2 or 3 times in quite a short space of time. So I backed right off and nursed it to work. On the drive home from work, nursing it along it was really shuddering when I pulled up at the lights a couple of times. It didn't feel or sound like it was going to stall but it was a lot shakier than it's ever been since I owned it.
Dunno if any of that is helpful, if you've got questions I'll do my best to answer them. Any ideas/comments are appreciated, the car's coming up to 180k kms so I'm due for a timing belt change which is gonna set me back a bit as it is so I'm just crossing my fingers this is a minor problem.
Thanks again,
Alex
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