Ormar
09-12-2008, 06:27 PM
Ive just registered to this forum yesterday and I did that to be able to read/ learn about some of the golf breakdowns and try to find solutions for my friends not too healthy golf...
He has a vw golf 1.6 auto i think about 97-99' and done somewhat over 100000 miles. Now the problem... or rather the problems are that the car is slugish, the autobox acts strangely, it uses up alot of fuel, not excessive though.
This car though is badly maintained, engine oil was very black, looks like it needs a new thermostat(stuck open) , autobox atf probably not changed anywere last 50000 miles if ever and has been wrong for some time (don't know how long, could be month or a year), and both rear electric windows need help to close properly, the owner does not have much money or knowledge in cars so maintainance gets overlooked.
Now ive driven the car and the autobox is slow to engage gear, shift pattern seams to be a tad wrong, changes up often late and then changes up as soon as you release the accelerator to break for lights or something. It really laks power and you dont really feel like in control of acceleration, and it does not quite respond when giving it more gas when impacient on its slowness, though when letting the engine rev by giving it alot of gas, it suddenly starts to get proper power. It idles ok but still like going up and down slightly, like every 1 second but only like 50 rpms, you hardly notice it on the revcounter, its a minor though. When you stop at ligths or just release the accelerator in gereral it feels like still being given gas and decelerates very slowly and rpm sometimes does not come down. It takes time to gather speed, but it does lock up on higway driving but easy to lose speed.
The problem I think is engine being run cold and rich because of the thermostat (keeps correct temp when driving very slowly, but gets very cold when driving at higher speeds) and is there for feeding wrong fuel blend and asking of wrong gearchanges by the autobox, the autobox in vw as I have read is often quoted with very long atf intervals if not lifetime one by vw and many start to break around 100000 miles (most in passats where i read) so is it silmilar in these golfs? I guess if so it hasn't been done ever and the autobox is suffering. Is it a 5 speed or just a regular 4speed?
Solution: new thermostat, new atf, filter and just cleaning the tranny, engine oil change and see what happens...oh and how expensive to get a shop to do it?
Any suggestions, corrections or advises are higly appreciated
Thanks in advance, Ormar
He has a vw golf 1.6 auto i think about 97-99' and done somewhat over 100000 miles. Now the problem... or rather the problems are that the car is slugish, the autobox acts strangely, it uses up alot of fuel, not excessive though.
This car though is badly maintained, engine oil was very black, looks like it needs a new thermostat(stuck open) , autobox atf probably not changed anywere last 50000 miles if ever and has been wrong for some time (don't know how long, could be month or a year), and both rear electric windows need help to close properly, the owner does not have much money or knowledge in cars so maintainance gets overlooked.
Now ive driven the car and the autobox is slow to engage gear, shift pattern seams to be a tad wrong, changes up often late and then changes up as soon as you release the accelerator to break for lights or something. It really laks power and you dont really feel like in control of acceleration, and it does not quite respond when giving it more gas when impacient on its slowness, though when letting the engine rev by giving it alot of gas, it suddenly starts to get proper power. It idles ok but still like going up and down slightly, like every 1 second but only like 50 rpms, you hardly notice it on the revcounter, its a minor though. When you stop at ligths or just release the accelerator in gereral it feels like still being given gas and decelerates very slowly and rpm sometimes does not come down. It takes time to gather speed, but it does lock up on higway driving but easy to lose speed.
The problem I think is engine being run cold and rich because of the thermostat (keeps correct temp when driving very slowly, but gets very cold when driving at higher speeds) and is there for feeding wrong fuel blend and asking of wrong gearchanges by the autobox, the autobox in vw as I have read is often quoted with very long atf intervals if not lifetime one by vw and many start to break around 100000 miles (most in passats where i read) so is it silmilar in these golfs? I guess if so it hasn't been done ever and the autobox is suffering. Is it a 5 speed or just a regular 4speed?
Solution: new thermostat, new atf, filter and just cleaning the tranny, engine oil change and see what happens...oh and how expensive to get a shop to do it?
Any suggestions, corrections or advises are higly appreciated
Thanks in advance, Ormar