I've tried searching and was surprised to find very little on this problem.
My 2000 115 PD Golf GT TDI is running on 3 cylinders.
I drove about 300 miles on the motorway and then the car developed a misfire. I pulled into the services and checked what I could and then decided that as it was after midnight and I was about 75 miles from my destination I should try to carry on. I found that if I held it at 75mph it was ok so long as I didn't need to accelerate. I got to my hotel and then the next day found a VW specialist who kindly spent about 2.5 hours looking at it.
I put it out of my mind for the weekend and then had the car recovered home with the AA last night. There is a lot of smoke and unburnt fuel coming out of the exhaust and the sump has got diesel mixed in so I can't really afford to drive the car anywhere.
I'm going to try to get hold of a compression tester but have a feeling it will be a dead end.
Has anyone had a similar problem and if so can you suggest where I should look next?
My 2000 115 PD Golf GT TDI is running on 3 cylinders.
I drove about 300 miles on the motorway and then the car developed a misfire. I pulled into the services and checked what I could and then decided that as it was after midnight and I was about 75 miles from my destination I should try to carry on. I found that if I held it at 75mph it was ok so long as I didn't need to accelerate. I got to my hotel and then the next day found a VW specialist who kindly spent about 2.5 hours looking at it.
- First they connected it to diagnostics and found that the problem was at cylinder #1.
- Removed the valve cover and tried making better contact from the loom to injector #1. No change.
- Next swapped injector #1 with injector #2 to see if the fault jumped across. No change.
- Next they checked voltages/resistances on the injector loom etc. and were not able to find a fault (I replaced the loom within the last 2 years when diagnosing a shudder fault which turned out to be the DMF)
- They had the computer connected for some time and as far as I could see were going through various screens.
I put it out of my mind for the weekend and then had the car recovered home with the AA last night. There is a lot of smoke and unburnt fuel coming out of the exhaust and the sump has got diesel mixed in so I can't really afford to drive the car anywhere.
I'm going to try to get hold of a compression tester but have a feeling it will be a dead end.
Has anyone had a similar problem and if so can you suggest where I should look next?