Little Jack
Veteran Member
The timing belt on my 2001 Golf (with 140 thousand miles) was changed on June 2nd by a mechanic using the TB kit from Idparts. Afterwards the car sat in my garage until I took a 50 mile trip to get my emissions test for the car's registration. My car tested with the lowest emissions it had ever had in its life. A week later, my wife, my dog and I took a trip from Colorado Springs to Boulder. On the trip up, we were cruising at 75 with the AC blowing nicely. On the way back we had a major problem. That section of Interstate 25 has construction with cement barriers on either side of the highway and no shoulder. We were going 70 when I heard a muffled pop and started losing power. The engine continued to run but was rapidly losing power. The cement barriers had about a 100 yard opening with access to a shoulder. My Golf saved our lives by making it to that opening before it completely died. If that catastrophe had happened 5 seconds earlier or later with no way out, we may have been killed or at the very least caused a horrible traffic jam. AAA and the State Troopers were called along with Lyft to give us a ride home.
My beloved Golf has been sitting in the mechanic's parking lot for 5 days. They finally got it into the bay for diagnostics and said it was possibly a fuel delivery issue, but couldn't tell for sure. Could this problem have anything to do with the timing belt change? It ran great for roughly 170 miles.
My beloved Golf has been sitting in the mechanic's parking lot for 5 days. They finally got it into the bay for diagnostics and said it was possibly a fuel delivery issue, but couldn't tell for sure. Could this problem have anything to do with the timing belt change? It ran great for roughly 170 miles.