johnhenson
06-11-2007, 07:50 PM
Hi,
please please help. This is for my 87 y.o. dad who bought this Golf with his savings and can't afford to pay the useless garage he bought it from to have any more unsuccessful attempts to fix it.
Background...
He uses it maybe twice a week, sometimes less. When not used it is garaged and the floor is level, if that matters.
Sometimes when he goes to start it, it revs up initially for a few seconds and then the revs just drop off and it dies. Sometimes it will start again fine an hour later, sometimes it's days of trying it and leaving it before it decides to play. This happens whether he gives it any gas or not.
Garage have so far:
Cleaned out the "breather" pipe, wherever that is, and
Replaced the fuel filter, although "it actually looked pretty clean", he said.
they stuck it on their computer and it didn't show any faults.
We'd really appreciate any help or suggestions as he really needs his car to be reliable since he can drive fine but can't walk more than about 200 yards and this is making him more or less housebound.
In desperation today he tried for over an hour to start it and eventually flattened his battery...job for me there to charge it up again.
Also the garage said they thought maybe the fuel was draining back into the tank with it being left standing.... doesn't seem right to me somehow, especially when it's parked in a flat garage.
thanks for reading, now please post if you can help at all.
John.
please please help. This is for my 87 y.o. dad who bought this Golf with his savings and can't afford to pay the useless garage he bought it from to have any more unsuccessful attempts to fix it.
Background...
He uses it maybe twice a week, sometimes less. When not used it is garaged and the floor is level, if that matters.
Sometimes when he goes to start it, it revs up initially for a few seconds and then the revs just drop off and it dies. Sometimes it will start again fine an hour later, sometimes it's days of trying it and leaving it before it decides to play. This happens whether he gives it any gas or not.
Garage have so far:
Cleaned out the "breather" pipe, wherever that is, and
Replaced the fuel filter, although "it actually looked pretty clean", he said.
they stuck it on their computer and it didn't show any faults.
We'd really appreciate any help or suggestions as he really needs his car to be reliable since he can drive fine but can't walk more than about 200 yards and this is making him more or less housebound.
In desperation today he tried for over an hour to start it and eventually flattened his battery...job for me there to charge it up again.
Also the garage said they thought maybe the fuel was draining back into the tank with it being left standing.... doesn't seem right to me somehow, especially when it's parked in a flat garage.
thanks for reading, now please post if you can help at all.
John.