I have only had this car since the summer, and lately we have been having some nights that fall below about 60 deg F. On these mornings it smokes profusely and dies after running for a few seconds, and will not restart, tho it kind of coughs along at idle once in a while for a few seconds. If I give it any accelerator pedal it quits. When I get home from work later in the day, when it has warmed up, it will start fine and run great.
It is throwing a P1562, a P0380 and a P1268 after these events (three times so far). It has had a couple of other ongoing issues, that I don't think are related, one, a P0605 that keeps coming on at low revs, and a P1550 that has stopped recurring, but which came on at high revs when I would have expected the wastegate to open, and which caused a sharp power drop.
The car looked brand new with 136,000 miles on it when I bought it, so I suspect the previous owner rarely got revs high enough to open the wastegate. I think I have exercized it enough that the 1550 is history, as I have not seen it in a month or two, and its likely that the P0605 is the ECM vacuum line.
I'm waiting for my VAG COM gear to arrive, and so only have my OBD scanner, but I have a business trip this weekend and really need some sort of workaround so that I can get it to start in the morning. Does the ECM rack the timing based on temp, either coolant or air ?
My manual talks about a "cold start injector" but what I have read here suggests that it is only a timing advance, is there anything else going on during cold start? I live in So Calif, so when I say cold start I do not mean COLD start. My older VW diesels have a manual advance knob that I never use as it is only necessary at sub zero temps.
Thanks for all the advise you all have posted. This place is an amazing resource that has already taught me a ton.
THANK YOU!
It is throwing a P1562, a P0380 and a P1268 after these events (three times so far). It has had a couple of other ongoing issues, that I don't think are related, one, a P0605 that keeps coming on at low revs, and a P1550 that has stopped recurring, but which came on at high revs when I would have expected the wastegate to open, and which caused a sharp power drop.
The car looked brand new with 136,000 miles on it when I bought it, so I suspect the previous owner rarely got revs high enough to open the wastegate. I think I have exercized it enough that the 1550 is history, as I have not seen it in a month or two, and its likely that the P0605 is the ECM vacuum line.
I'm waiting for my VAG COM gear to arrive, and so only have my OBD scanner, but I have a business trip this weekend and really need some sort of workaround so that I can get it to start in the morning. Does the ECM rack the timing based on temp, either coolant or air ?
My manual talks about a "cold start injector" but what I have read here suggests that it is only a timing advance, is there anything else going on during cold start? I live in So Calif, so when I say cold start I do not mean COLD start. My older VW diesels have a manual advance knob that I never use as it is only necessary at sub zero temps.
Thanks for all the advise you all have posted. This place is an amazing resource that has already taught me a ton.
THANK YOU!