2011 Golf 6spd Start Issue

llancaster12

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Sep 19, 2014
Location
Nashville
TDI
2000 Jetta
Hello there. My girlfriend recently purchased a 2011 Golf with ~50,000 miles on it. For the past month or so she's been having issues with it starting weird. I can't think of how to describe it, so I threw a video up here. There doesn't seem to be one thing that's causing it, and I can't seem to reproduce it. Just seems to happen.
If anyone has any ideas of things I could try or should look at that would be great. Thanks for the help.
 

brian_e

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Joined
Jul 3, 2004
Location
Farmington NH
TDI
2001 Silver Jetta
Looks like a bad battery to me....have you checked the voltage to look at the state of charge?
 
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kcny

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Joined
Mar 30, 2012
Location
NYC
TDI
2012 Golf TDI, Man.
Stick a multimeter across the battery terminal. Set it to read voltage. Start the car and see what's the min. voltage is during the start up process. If you're getting less than 10v during the start up process it's most likely a bad battery.
 
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