Palmy
New member
Hi all, Really frustrating here's my situation:
Start car, not too slow to start, but the colder it is the longer it takes to "turn over" (I live in Phoenix AZ where cold is 50F/10C). Back out of my short driveway, get on street slowly hit the pedal then lack of power, stuttering, super rough, slowly get up to 25mph/40kph) stuttering all the way, I have to get the RPMs up to about 3k and then it shifts. Drive another few hundred yards/meters and it feels like it gets it's groove on and then opperates fine. Been going on for a couple months, full power, full everything after that "warm up" period. Twice in the past month I tried to push it harder and the glow plug light turns on, lack of power/limp mode feeling, I pull over turn off car and then turn on, all is well, i keep driving, no issues all day. Next day, slow/stutter going and not pushing it early, I go back to normal after 3 minutes of driving and slowly getting up to 3k RPM.
I have gotten an oil change recently, no change. I put in Oil additive, no change. I put in fuel/injector cleaner, no change.
So does it sound like an injector issue, pump issue, transmission issue or the glow plugs?
My dealership wants to charge me an arm and a leg to simply determine what's wrong without wanting to narrow it down first...
2012 Passat TDI SEL, 125k miles (201k Kilometers) timing belt recently replaced and oil filter housing replaced (it cracked and had to be replaced). Stuttering was slight before these repairs, statyed slight but evolved over time to be worse.
Start car, not too slow to start, but the colder it is the longer it takes to "turn over" (I live in Phoenix AZ where cold is 50F/10C). Back out of my short driveway, get on street slowly hit the pedal then lack of power, stuttering, super rough, slowly get up to 25mph/40kph) stuttering all the way, I have to get the RPMs up to about 3k and then it shifts. Drive another few hundred yards/meters and it feels like it gets it's groove on and then opperates fine. Been going on for a couple months, full power, full everything after that "warm up" period. Twice in the past month I tried to push it harder and the glow plug light turns on, lack of power/limp mode feeling, I pull over turn off car and then turn on, all is well, i keep driving, no issues all day. Next day, slow/stutter going and not pushing it early, I go back to normal after 3 minutes of driving and slowly getting up to 3k RPM.
I have gotten an oil change recently, no change. I put in Oil additive, no change. I put in fuel/injector cleaner, no change.
So does it sound like an injector issue, pump issue, transmission issue or the glow plugs?
My dealership wants to charge me an arm and a leg to simply determine what's wrong without wanting to narrow it down first...
2012 Passat TDI SEL, 125k miles (201k Kilometers) timing belt recently replaced and oil filter housing replaced (it cracked and had to be replaced). Stuttering was slight before these repairs, statyed slight but evolved over time to be worse.