Rickie
Member
Hello everybody. I have been here a while, but only registered today.
I am out of state, 1500 miles from home, and have a problem with my TDI. 2000 Jetta TDI ALH, automatic.
Today I suffered a series of events that clearly takes me out of the pan, and into the fire. I left my tool that reads the system at home. Please help me figure out what I did. My car is dead!
Needed to change right front blinker bulb,
Drove my Jetta to the auto parts store to get the bulb and the car ran perfect!
Brought car home and replaced the blinker bulb. It works now.
I happened to noticed an electrical wire conduit up against the pulley/belt of the engine at the right/front of the engine compt.
Plastic conduit was chewed through by moving pulley
The 3 or 4 small gauge electrical wires that were inside that chewed conduit were half eaten through by the spinning pully.
I peeled back the conduit. Having no black tape, I used duct tape and wrapped every individual wire, then I taped around all the "taped wires" to hold it all together and zip tied the whole kaboodle back to something so they couldnt fall near the pully again.
I started the car and backed it into the garage. At this time I have no idea if I was in limp mode. As far as I knew the car was running perfectly.
I vaccumed the the car floor and under the seats, and alongside the seats, sometimes jamming the thin vaccuum nozzle indiscriminately down along side the seats, and under the seats at all angles. (possibly unseating or breaking wires to the computer?)
I vaccumed the trunk
I started the car to go somewhere and realized that the turbo was not doing its thing.
(. Ihad done 2 things to the car which may have caused this. Taped those wires, maybe breaking one, and vaccumed the car.)
I brought it home and checked all the fuses that located on the drivers side of the dash.
Fuses all looked good.
I dont remember what I was thinking when I decided to un hook the battery for a few minutes.
After hooking the battery back up, the car would not start at all. The starter functions, and the engine turns over lickety split, with plenty of rpm, but the car does not start. I noticed the glow plug light in the dashboard was not functioning. It always had before.
I replaced relay 109 with the spare in the glovebox, because I remembered the last time the glowplug system had an issue, relay 109 was the issue. I thought maybe I burned the relay when I re-hooked the battery, incidentally, against my better judgement, I only unhooked the positive batttery terminal.
Still no start.
Checked fuses again. Appear fine.
Still no start.
You see I have 2 problems.
The turbo does not function is the first.
The engine does not start is the second.
I think I created both issues by doing different things. Having a really really bad day.
I left my tool in CT., like an idiot...and cannot read the computer. I always take that tool with me when I drive out of state!
I suspect the following possibilities:
1.) When I was taping the half chewed wires, I unknowingly broke one, and disabled the turbo. These wires are hard to reach, and I only want to manipulate them again if I am certain it is necessary. I would like to eliminate all other options before touching those wires again, because I am afraid they WILL break if not already broken...I would rather save that option for last.
2.) When vacumming the car, I broke or unplugged a wire under the seat with the vaccuum wand.
3.) When unhooking the battery cable for 5 minutes-ish, my computer lost memory?
4.) When re hooking the battery, (only the positive cable) I burned something out.
I dont have much money. I had to come here on a family medical emergency, had to beat that snowstorm on the east coast last week because my tires were bad, and have been forced to buy tires on my arrival. So I really need to get this fixed without paying a garage.
l
I could have my family fed ex my scan tool if needed.
I am out of state, 1500 miles from home, and have a problem with my TDI. 2000 Jetta TDI ALH, automatic.
Today I suffered a series of events that clearly takes me out of the pan, and into the fire. I left my tool that reads the system at home. Please help me figure out what I did. My car is dead!
Needed to change right front blinker bulb,
Drove my Jetta to the auto parts store to get the bulb and the car ran perfect!
Brought car home and replaced the blinker bulb. It works now.
I happened to noticed an electrical wire conduit up against the pulley/belt of the engine at the right/front of the engine compt.
Plastic conduit was chewed through by moving pulley
The 3 or 4 small gauge electrical wires that were inside that chewed conduit were half eaten through by the spinning pully.
I peeled back the conduit. Having no black tape, I used duct tape and wrapped every individual wire, then I taped around all the "taped wires" to hold it all together and zip tied the whole kaboodle back to something so they couldnt fall near the pully again.
I started the car and backed it into the garage. At this time I have no idea if I was in limp mode. As far as I knew the car was running perfectly.
I vaccumed the the car floor and under the seats, and alongside the seats, sometimes jamming the thin vaccuum nozzle indiscriminately down along side the seats, and under the seats at all angles. (possibly unseating or breaking wires to the computer?)
I vaccumed the trunk
I started the car to go somewhere and realized that the turbo was not doing its thing.
(. Ihad done 2 things to the car which may have caused this. Taped those wires, maybe breaking one, and vaccumed the car.)
I brought it home and checked all the fuses that located on the drivers side of the dash.
Fuses all looked good.
I dont remember what I was thinking when I decided to un hook the battery for a few minutes.
After hooking the battery back up, the car would not start at all. The starter functions, and the engine turns over lickety split, with plenty of rpm, but the car does not start. I noticed the glow plug light in the dashboard was not functioning. It always had before.
I replaced relay 109 with the spare in the glovebox, because I remembered the last time the glowplug system had an issue, relay 109 was the issue. I thought maybe I burned the relay when I re-hooked the battery, incidentally, against my better judgement, I only unhooked the positive batttery terminal.
Still no start.
Checked fuses again. Appear fine.
Still no start.
You see I have 2 problems.
The turbo does not function is the first.
The engine does not start is the second.
I think I created both issues by doing different things. Having a really really bad day.
I left my tool in CT., like an idiot...and cannot read the computer. I always take that tool with me when I drive out of state!
I suspect the following possibilities:
1.) When I was taping the half chewed wires, I unknowingly broke one, and disabled the turbo. These wires are hard to reach, and I only want to manipulate them again if I am certain it is necessary. I would like to eliminate all other options before touching those wires again, because I am afraid they WILL break if not already broken...I would rather save that option for last.
2.) When vacumming the car, I broke or unplugged a wire under the seat with the vaccuum wand.
3.) When unhooking the battery cable for 5 minutes-ish, my computer lost memory?
4.) When re hooking the battery, (only the positive cable) I burned something out.
I dont have much money. I had to come here on a family medical emergency, had to beat that snowstorm on the east coast last week because my tires were bad, and have been forced to buy tires on my arrival. So I really need to get this fixed without paying a garage.
l
I could have my family fed ex my scan tool if needed.
