Edjet
14-05-2007, 06:02 PM
Hello from Atlanta Ga, USA. This is a link from tdiclub.com web pages http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=176286&highlight=stumble
We have been beating our heads on this problem, may come down to trying another MAF from another car. Thanks for your input. Edjet
http://forums.tdiclub.com/images/icons/icon1.gif Odd stumble at idle up to 2k rpm
I've been reading to see if anyone else has ever seen this problem and can't find anything, so I'm asking for everyones help and suggestions. Let me set this up and get all the info I can. 2001 Jetta 107k miles. TB was just changed as this man had just bought the car and the belt was never done. He did it with some buddies that have changed them before however they didn't have Vag Com. Since the change he has had a hard start problem and several other issues. He came over and we hooked up the vag com and his timing was retarded but not terrible high 40's. We bumped it up and seem to have fixed the hard start. The car doesn't appear to have any mods except the muffler and cat are no longer there.
He is getting a flashing glow plug light with an associated CEL. However when I hooked the vag com up the lights went away and I wasn't able to pull any faults. Sitting at idle the car stumbles intermittently. Also up to 2k and down from 2k rpms it stumbles. Under acceleration it stumbles bad enough to chirp the tires. About every 5 starts or so the lights go out and don't come back till the next cycle. It will occasionally die when idling to a stop like a stop light or parking spot. It has a bad shudder letting out the clutch in the lower gears, 1st 2nd. The cruise control still works with the flashing glow plug light on, which when this happened to my 99.5 jetta the cruise wouldn't work as the brake switch was bad. He hasn't had the car long and doesn't believe that it was doing any of this before they did the belt and since he is a jet tech himself I believe that he would most definetly have noticed this problem as we tend to be a very picky and **** group. Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance. This is his first TDI and I would love to be able to help him get the real feel of these cars.
Forgot some thing. There doesn't appear to be any power issues as it pulls hard in all the gears.
Last edited by TNTKNC : 05-02-07 at 11:04 AM.
We have been beating our heads on this problem, may come down to trying another MAF from another car. Thanks for your input. Edjet
http://forums.tdiclub.com/images/icons/icon1.gif Odd stumble at idle up to 2k rpm
I've been reading to see if anyone else has ever seen this problem and can't find anything, so I'm asking for everyones help and suggestions. Let me set this up and get all the info I can. 2001 Jetta 107k miles. TB was just changed as this man had just bought the car and the belt was never done. He did it with some buddies that have changed them before however they didn't have Vag Com. Since the change he has had a hard start problem and several other issues. He came over and we hooked up the vag com and his timing was retarded but not terrible high 40's. We bumped it up and seem to have fixed the hard start. The car doesn't appear to have any mods except the muffler and cat are no longer there.
He is getting a flashing glow plug light with an associated CEL. However when I hooked the vag com up the lights went away and I wasn't able to pull any faults. Sitting at idle the car stumbles intermittently. Also up to 2k and down from 2k rpms it stumbles. Under acceleration it stumbles bad enough to chirp the tires. About every 5 starts or so the lights go out and don't come back till the next cycle. It will occasionally die when idling to a stop like a stop light or parking spot. It has a bad shudder letting out the clutch in the lower gears, 1st 2nd. The cruise control still works with the flashing glow plug light on, which when this happened to my 99.5 jetta the cruise wouldn't work as the brake switch was bad. He hasn't had the car long and doesn't believe that it was doing any of this before they did the belt and since he is a jet tech himself I believe that he would most definetly have noticed this problem as we tend to be a very picky and **** group. Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance. This is his first TDI and I would love to be able to help him get the real feel of these cars.
Forgot some thing. There doesn't appear to be any power issues as it pulls hard in all the gears.
Last edited by TNTKNC : 05-02-07 at 11:04 AM.