1854sailor
Resident Curmudgeon
So, the Golf went into limp mode with the flashing GP light about a month ago. Turned it off then back on and it was fine again, so I didn't worry about it. Drove it down to Baltimore without any problems then, a couple of days after fueling up, it happened again, this time also with a MIL. Hooked up VCDS and found two fault codes, 5211 and 39742. Looking at the Ross-Tech Wiki, among the possible causes was clogged fuel filter. I changed the filter and the old one looked very dirty with only ~17 K miles on it, so I assumed that I got a bad load of fuel. There was neither water nor metal shavings in the filter canister. After changing the filter all was back to normal and I could put the pedal down without issues. After a week or so, it happened again while I was accelerating through a turn, so I put in a new filter, but this time it went into limp mode the first time I tried to accelerate hard. The car drives fine even easily getting up to highway speed as long as I am gentle on the pedal, but goes into limp mode if I try to push it. The car has ~56K miles on the clock. Thoughts?