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I have a 2011 1.2lt Mk6 golf and it recently stopped working.
Whilst i was driving normally the EPC light came on, so did the check engine light, the steering wheel light? (maybe power steering) as well as the traction control light. I completely lost acceleration and I pulled over as soon as i could and the engines idle was quite rough revving to 2k back to 1 at random intervals. I disconnected the negative lead on the battery and waited 20 mins whilst google'ing the problem and figured it may be an engine sensor fault but i couldn't be certain. In any case, i reconnected the battery lead and managed to drive home normally.
I took the car to an NRMA service centre to get it scanned to see if i was right. The following codes were;
P030100: Cyl 1- Missfire Detected
P030400: Cyl 4 - Missfire Detection
P030060: Random/Multiple Cylinder Missfire detected
P130A00: Hide Cylinder
P135500: Ignition Activation Cyl 1 Open Circuit
The NRMA bloke thought it was a timing chain issue but wasn't 100% sure. It would cost me almost 50% of the purchase price of the car for them to dissasemble the engine to find out and even then if they replaced it he said that it may not fix the issue anyway. I decided that was completely unreasonable and seeing i have the tools, i'd give it a crack myself and learn about cars along the way (my forte is bikes).
In any case, i drove the car home from the NRMA and it drove completely fine so it seems to be some random intermittent issue. It either can't start because it can't reach engine idle or works completely normally. When the engine does run 'normally' i do notice an intermittent ticking noise sort of like the sound of a really quick blinker but coming from the engine bay.
From reading on this forum it maybe coil packs? but really i have no idea and would love some ideas so i can start poking around. In my mind the car is a write off anyway so if there is a chance to save it then there's no real downside.
Let me know if you guys need any further info
Cheers
Ed
I have a 2011 1.2lt Mk6 golf and it recently stopped working.
Whilst i was driving normally the EPC light came on, so did the check engine light, the steering wheel light? (maybe power steering) as well as the traction control light. I completely lost acceleration and I pulled over as soon as i could and the engines idle was quite rough revving to 2k back to 1 at random intervals. I disconnected the negative lead on the battery and waited 20 mins whilst google'ing the problem and figured it may be an engine sensor fault but i couldn't be certain. In any case, i reconnected the battery lead and managed to drive home normally.
I took the car to an NRMA service centre to get it scanned to see if i was right. The following codes were;
P030100: Cyl 1- Missfire Detected
P030400: Cyl 4 - Missfire Detection
P030060: Random/Multiple Cylinder Missfire detected
P130A00: Hide Cylinder
P135500: Ignition Activation Cyl 1 Open Circuit
The NRMA bloke thought it was a timing chain issue but wasn't 100% sure. It would cost me almost 50% of the purchase price of the car for them to dissasemble the engine to find out and even then if they replaced it he said that it may not fix the issue anyway. I decided that was completely unreasonable and seeing i have the tools, i'd give it a crack myself and learn about cars along the way (my forte is bikes).
In any case, i drove the car home from the NRMA and it drove completely fine so it seems to be some random intermittent issue. It either can't start because it can't reach engine idle or works completely normally. When the engine does run 'normally' i do notice an intermittent ticking noise sort of like the sound of a really quick blinker but coming from the engine bay.
From reading on this forum it maybe coil packs? but really i have no idea and would love some ideas so i can start poking around. In my mind the car is a write off anyway so if there is a chance to save it then there's no real downside.
Let me know if you guys need any further info
Cheers
Ed
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