Mk6 Jetta: Hard Start / No Start - Intercooler icing discussion in here! - Page 18

Blackbug1 · February 16th, 2016, 18:23

I am just curious if I am the only person from around the Nashville Tn. area that has had a major problem with intercooler icing? If you have had problems with it, did VW pay to fix the problem and did the fix work?
Thanks for the replies

RedBug · April 10th, 2016, 03:50

If you are still under warrantee then the dealer, if they can verify the issue, will install the kit. (If the dealer is worth a hill of beans that is...)

If your are out of warrantee, unless you have been complaining to the dealer and have records, they will want to charge you for the kit. You may have to go directly to VW in that case.

The kit reduces the problem but does not fix it completely. I just had my car do it again. Was able to get it started by being patient...
Condition: Sat for a few days after coming home in the rain. Temp going above and below freezing. Sweet spot for this seems to be < 45 Deg and wet combined with sitting for a period of time (to allow condensation I would assume). I have the latest kit....

Can't figure out how to change my vote in the poll as the problem took a long time before it showed up again....
Mercedes has a shutoff for the egr if the temp is below 50. My guess is that that is the correct fix as it is a moisture issue...

GTSLOW · January 10th, 2017, 12:32

So has anyone bent a rod or caused damage from the hydrolocking? Mine started today and immediately died. I immediately pulled the lower IC pipe and sure enough. I doubt a rod or anything bent but I'm weighing my odds.

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kjclow · January 10th, 2017, 13:12

Added my vote to the poll. My wife's car died in traffic before Christmas. From her discription, I think it is the IC. It sat for most of te three weeks since then, so I've not done anything to it. I guess I'll run it up on the ramps over the weekend and drill through the lower hose.

GTSLOW · January 10th, 2017, 13:25

What's your plan for dealing with the potential hydrolock?

kjclow · January 11th, 2017, 06:06

I'm draining the line, or at least taking it apart, this weekend. I noticed last night on the way home from the Y that the check engine light popped on and the engine started running a little rougher. The Golf will probably remain in the garage until the end of Feb when I have the buyback scheduled. My wife will take over driving the JSW.

GTSLOW · January 11th, 2017, 13:25

Mines good to go. Pulled the plugs cranked the water out reinstalled everything and she runs great. 30mins tops.

bennybmn · January 12th, 2017, 06:15

Earlier this week it was below freezing for a couple days. Tuesday it was 17 in the morning and got up into the 30s during the day. I went to start it to go home, and it stumbled terribly and didn't start. Twice. I sat for a minute, tried one more time, and it worked. Is that what everyone is experiencing? All these years and I'd never had a problem...

Side note, can someone point me to a page of the thread with drilling instructions/explanation?

Thanks

bennybmn · January 19th, 2017, 06:07

I guess folks aren't checking this thread much anymore

kjclow · January 19th, 2017, 06:56

Because the drill fix wasn't in this thread: http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=431560

bennybmn · January 20th, 2017, 06:05

Thanks for the link!

Can you confirm the water thing is what I experienced from my description?

kjclow · January 20th, 2017, 11:34

It sounds like what everyone else has mentioned but I wasn't in the car when my wife had issues. I've not had any problems with my JSW. I'm guessing that even though I have a short commute (7 miles), I don't have much stop and go traffic. I can keep her at 45-50 for most of that short trip.

CrazyDazed · September 16th, 2017, 10:04

If any of you are having issues getting this replaced, long story short, I opened a case with the BBB against VW Canada. Then VW Canada then paid for the Winter Intercooler Kit for free, no questions asked. Which made sense it was common sense that it should have been replaced from free in the beginning.

Longer story was that I opened a case with Customer Service. This went on for almost a year as Customer Service was extremely frustrating to deal with. Customer Service would do things like tell me they could only escalate to a supervisor and then later admitted they could escalate higher. And told me they did so. However, when I did not hear back, like many things Customer Service said they were going to do, they had not escalated the issue. They also said that the dealership told them that my issue was not with the intercooler, even though the dealership told me it was. The dealership was so mad, they even cc'd me on an email to VW Canada stating it was the intercooler. Note that this was the second dealership to say I had issues with the intercooler. This issue was so frustrating and so disappointing that this is the last VW I will ever buy.

CRWalker · January 7th, 2018, 08:57

Hey all, I thought I would share what I’ve learned through this issue. I had a P0401 code awhile back and stumbled onto this Intercooler tsb. Thinking this might help cut down on Intercooler sludge and help the engine run more efficiently would thus cut the sloppy egr. Anyway, I purchased and installed on my vehicle (which happens to have the CBEA engine, pretty similar to CJAA for those that don’t know.) I was still getting the brown junk in the Intercooler cold side pipe. Due to a leaking valve cover gasket and wanting to replace the pcv which is the valve cover itself, I ended up fixing most of the sludging! Turns out the particle separator system had clogged at some point and was allowing oily pcv gasses to dump into the intake and turbo and straight into the Intercooler. Now I just need to replace the glow plugs and Jenny shouldn’t any more problems starting even in the current single digit weather.

Hopefully this helps someone who is as frustrated as I was.
CRWalker