jenson
02-08-2006, 11:54 PM
My 2000 Bora 2.0 has started to play up....
My car has been drinking more and more Oil over the past few months, then last week it started chugging and shaking like a tractor with 1 cylinder misfiring...i got it to the VW dealer and after a morning of tests , they said that cylinder 3 has low compression. Oil was leaking into the cylinder and covering the spark plug with crap, leading to the misfire. Changing the spark plugs is only a temporary measure, the engine needs to be opened up and checked out - £2000 minimum cost. the question is, do i bother with this work, or do i keep changing the spark plugs every so often? Is this a terminal issue or something that will sap power and drink oil for years?
Thanks!
My car has been drinking more and more Oil over the past few months, then last week it started chugging and shaking like a tractor with 1 cylinder misfiring...i got it to the VW dealer and after a morning of tests , they said that cylinder 3 has low compression. Oil was leaking into the cylinder and covering the spark plug with crap, leading to the misfire. Changing the spark plugs is only a temporary measure, the engine needs to be opened up and checked out - £2000 minimum cost. the question is, do i bother with this work, or do i keep changing the spark plugs every so often? Is this a terminal issue or something that will sap power and drink oil for years?
Thanks!