Joining the queue of Passat owners with injector problems (TDI wagon carked it)

[Umai Naa!!]

MK5 TDI GTs were PD (unit injection), as were Passats until MY10, from memory.

This also affects 103kw engines, too.

[richdave]

Fwiw. I am seeing a 10% reduction in my fuel usage post injector replacement !

I'll monitor a little longer.

[passatpout]

Richdave, I thought mine improved too... But the pump/km figures haven't really changed after 3 months... The main difference is that previously the MFD was optimistic by about 0.2l/100km, now it's about 0.5-0.6l/100km....

[Greg Roles]

MK5 TDI GTs were PD (unit injection), as were Passats until MY10, from memory.

This also affects 103kw engines, too.

Jesus, this makes it a pretty large number of cars that could die at any time.

Can't say I'm real impressed about that

[Don Sarasota]

Hi all, just new on this forum but thought I'd share that my MY 2008 125TDI Wagon also stopped as per same symptoms described here. That was 14 or 15 October 2010. Parts were alleged to be coming from Germany and I got the car back after a week. No details of what exactly was done other than that they had replaced injectors which were apparently most expensive parts (did not tell me how much though). Having done 54000 k's at the time, I am not impressed. Complained to VW Aust but never heard back. Warranty runs out in April this year. My questions; is there a warranty on the replaced injectors and should I pay for extended warranty which has been quoted at 3500 and would that warranty cover the injectors? All in all a very disappointing experience with my first european car, my VW dealer and VW Australia....

[Don Sarasota]

Joining the queue of Passat owners with injector problems

Hi all, actually went about this the wrong way and posted under the "Passat" header first instead of the "Newbie" area. My car is a MY 2008 125TDI Passat Station Wagon which was my pride and joy until it stopped. So, after reading this forum's content for some time now, I thought I'd join. Although the car is fixed now, the experience has left a bitter taste in my mouth and I was all set to trade it in for a new Polo GTi. Got in early, paid deposit etc. for delivery end of this month, when unfortunately it turned out that "the car was not on the ship after all" and delivery would be more likely later in the year. Got my deposit back okay but am now facing my Passat's warranty running out in April and not sure wether or not to "invest" the quoted $3500 or so in extended warranty..... It's done nearly 60000 so will have to take that into account as well. I wonder if there is a warranty period covering the newly replaced injectors? Any advice would be much appreciated.....

[antone_86]

I feel your pain Don!

See: http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f27/...elp-52764.html

Did you have all 4 replaced?

[Don Sarasota]

That's what I was told and what it says on the paperwork....

[ope126]

That's what I was told and what it says on the paperwork....

Hey mate, sad news.
Quick question though; what is your Build Date (not compliance date) of your Passat?

As for the injectors, VW offers a 2yr warranty on Genuine Parts from the date of purchase / repair. So you should be right for some time...

[Jmac]

That's what I was told and what it says on the paperwork....

Some do some dont, and the loom must be replaced too. At that amount of ks and year date wernt you still under warranty?? or worst case you surely should have had some goodwill. ill just add here for new readers ive done a few injectors but out of the amount of passats ive looked at or serviced its been 1 in 10 for me.
Cheers
Jmac

[balkanac]

I was thinking about getting a diesel passat as a daily and i took one for a drive today (06 model) but after reading this thread i'll stay away from diesels. Such a shame, they are beautiful cars

[Don Sarasota]

Hey mate, sad news.
Quick question though; what is your Build Date (not compliance date) of your Passat?

As for the injectors, VW offers a 2yr warranty on Genuine Parts from the date of purchase / repair. So you should be right for some time...

Hi, I'm not that familiar with technicalities, more a consumer.... If you tell me how I can find out about the build date, I'll let you know.

[Don Sarasota]

Some do some dont, and the loom must be replaced too. At that amount of ks and year date wernt you still under warranty?? or worst case you surely should have had some goodwill. ill just add here for new readers ive done a few injectors but out of the amount of passats ive looked at or serviced its been 1 in 10 for me.
Cheers
Jmac

Thanks for the information. Yes, it was still under warranty, which runs out in April this year. Would you recommend taking out extended warranty, especially if the whole lot was replaced and supposedly subject to a two year warranty period according to another reply here? I might just ring VW Aust to confirm that my parts are indeed guaranteed for two years. It was quite strange; first, at the beginning of the week they said it would be at least 10 days as the parts had to come from Germany and then, at the end of the week, the car was suddenly fixed....

[OilBurna]

If you intend keeping your car for a while extended warranty is a no brainer if something goes wrong it could get expensive I had the same when my injectors failed they said it could be over a week but only took a couple of days

[Transporter]

That's a good sign, it looks like that they keep the injectors in stock now.