HelenButler
27-04-2012, 11:46 AM
Hi
Apologies for the long post, but I'm running out of ideas. I've got a 2005 Golf Plus se Tdi 1900cc with an alarming problem where the engine cuts outs intermittently, regardless of what speed I'm doing.
Last week, 2 minutes after leaving home in the morning, the engine felt like it was going to stall (it was chugging and lost a bit of power) but I just figured this was due to a cold start and me being in too high a gear for the speed (about 30mph). However, 10 seconds later I pulled up at a junction and on trying to pull away, the engine stalled (but the radio stayed on). I couldn't get it started again - the coil and battery lights came on and a message along the lines of 'engine fault - garage!' came up on the display. The RAC guy plugged in his diagnostic tool and got a g28 fault. The car was towed to the nearest Bosch approved garage and they fitted a new camshaft sensor (although I thought that a g28 fault was the engine speed sensor - is this the same thing??). The car was fine for the next 5 days.
On Wednesday, whilst I was doing 70mph on a dual carriageway on the way to work, the chugging started again. Luckily I was able to slow down and pull into a side road just before the engine cut out (the coil light came on again). This time, after waiting for an hour I managed to get it started again, so I took it straight back to the same garage. No fault code had been recorded so they test drove it for a day to try to get it to happen again (which it didn't) and then finally decided that it might be the relay 109, but on inspecting the fuse boxes, couldn't find it. They therefore replaced relay 100, which seemed to cut the engine when it was removed.
Today, the same chugging is happening (intermittently) but the engine hasn't cut out yet. I use the car every day to take my 18 month old daughter to/from nursery and spend a lot of time on the motorway, so I'm really losing confidence in the car.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Apologies for the long post, but I'm running out of ideas. I've got a 2005 Golf Plus se Tdi 1900cc with an alarming problem where the engine cuts outs intermittently, regardless of what speed I'm doing.
Last week, 2 minutes after leaving home in the morning, the engine felt like it was going to stall (it was chugging and lost a bit of power) but I just figured this was due to a cold start and me being in too high a gear for the speed (about 30mph). However, 10 seconds later I pulled up at a junction and on trying to pull away, the engine stalled (but the radio stayed on). I couldn't get it started again - the coil and battery lights came on and a message along the lines of 'engine fault - garage!' came up on the display. The RAC guy plugged in his diagnostic tool and got a g28 fault. The car was towed to the nearest Bosch approved garage and they fitted a new camshaft sensor (although I thought that a g28 fault was the engine speed sensor - is this the same thing??). The car was fine for the next 5 days.
On Wednesday, whilst I was doing 70mph on a dual carriageway on the way to work, the chugging started again. Luckily I was able to slow down and pull into a side road just before the engine cut out (the coil light came on again). This time, after waiting for an hour I managed to get it started again, so I took it straight back to the same garage. No fault code had been recorded so they test drove it for a day to try to get it to happen again (which it didn't) and then finally decided that it might be the relay 109, but on inspecting the fuse boxes, couldn't find it. They therefore replaced relay 100, which seemed to cut the engine when it was removed.
Today, the same chugging is happening (intermittently) but the engine hasn't cut out yet. I use the car every day to take my 18 month old daughter to/from nursery and spend a lot of time on the motorway, so I'm really losing confidence in the car.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks