LowlyOilBurner
Veteran Member
I have no clue what is going on here. I have a 2002 Golf TDi with about 48,000miles on it. I began having this problem with it about a week ago. In the morning, after the car sat all night, when i would take off in first gear, when i reached about 2000-2100rpms, the car would buck and sputter like crazy, and make a kind of "clicking" noise, and toss out blueish/white smoke. Sometimes it would stall out. It would do this everyonce and a while till it got warn, then all was fine. In the other gears, no problems at all, full power, normal smoke.
The fuel filter has never been changed since i bought the car new in 2002. (the dealer never changed it, even when i asked @ 20,000miles, but what ever). I changed the filter, filled it with Stanydyne to the top, and the car is much better now, however it will still do what i described above when its cold, after stilling all night, and only in first gear, but not nearly as bad as before i changed the filter... only for a brief second or so.
My question is: Could the pump be going bad, or should i check elsewhere. I have not logged timing or boost yet, to see whats going on in there. I would guess the blueish/white smoke has something to do with injection timing, as does the temps as well. Any info would be real helpful!!!
(The car is also highly moddified Race520, vnt17, RC4.x, ect., and the quality of diesel fuel here in Buffalo NY is not too good at all)
Thanks,
Matt
The fuel filter has never been changed since i bought the car new in 2002. (the dealer never changed it, even when i asked @ 20,000miles, but what ever). I changed the filter, filled it with Stanydyne to the top, and the car is much better now, however it will still do what i described above when its cold, after stilling all night, and only in first gear, but not nearly as bad as before i changed the filter... only for a brief second or so.
My question is: Could the pump be going bad, or should i check elsewhere. I have not logged timing or boost yet, to see whats going on in there. I would guess the blueish/white smoke has something to do with injection timing, as does the temps as well. Any info would be real helpful!!!
(The car is also highly moddified Race520, vnt17, RC4.x, ect., and the quality of diesel fuel here in Buffalo NY is not too good at all)
Thanks,
Matt