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While driving along the Calder at 110km/h in our 15 month old Caravelle with 11,500kms on the clock, it started shaking and then I noticed the engine had cut out.
I managed to pull up off the highway, turned everything off and tried to restart it.
It took ~20 seconds of turning it over to get it going, and when it did it was idling very roughly and I couldn't increase the revs when I touched the accelerator, then it would cut out again soon after.
I tried starting it several times and I ended up with the warning message 'STOP. Low oil pressure' (or something along those lines) and it wouldn't start at all! Yes, there is oil in it.
So I rang VW assist who got someone (RACV) out to us and they towed it locally until Monday when they will take it to the closest VW dealer which is in Bendigo (We're from the Northern suburbs of Melbourne).
This was a 3 hour 'ordeal' yesterday afternoon with 4 young kids in the car!
Luckily we were only 20 minutes from my parents who live in Castlemaine which is where we were going.
In addition, the car has been difficult to start for the past week or two, and by difficult I mean it wouldn't always go first turn of the key, sometimes taking 5-10 seconds of turning it over to get it started (something that I was going to have checked soon too).
So, does anyone have any thoughts on what the problem might be?
I managed to pull up off the highway, turned everything off and tried to restart it.
It took ~20 seconds of turning it over to get it going, and when it did it was idling very roughly and I couldn't increase the revs when I touched the accelerator, then it would cut out again soon after.
I tried starting it several times and I ended up with the warning message 'STOP. Low oil pressure' (or something along those lines) and it wouldn't start at all! Yes, there is oil in it.
So I rang VW assist who got someone (RACV) out to us and they towed it locally until Monday when they will take it to the closest VW dealer which is in Bendigo (We're from the Northern suburbs of Melbourne).
This was a 3 hour 'ordeal' yesterday afternoon with 4 young kids in the car!
Luckily we were only 20 minutes from my parents who live in Castlemaine which is where we were going.
In addition, the car has been difficult to start for the past week or two, and by difficult I mean it wouldn't always go first turn of the key, sometimes taking 5-10 seconds of turning it over to get it started (something that I was going to have checked soon too).
So, does anyone have any thoughts on what the problem might be?
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