Hello, newbie here!


Have just returned from a 2 week holiday in France & guess what whilst on the motorway just south of Paris I got the "engine fault -garage" message showing. Worse still, it was at midnight on Friday night so no luck of a quick fix!

Green Flag could not help immediately as it was on the motorway so I had to fork out €220 for the recovery & also €80 for the dubious pleasure of staying in a minging hotel on the flightpath to Orly airport with the Mrs & 2 young children!

Next day, Green Flag helped with recovery to a dealer & also a hire car so we could crack on with the holiday & they will refund my initial recovery & hotel expenses but it has cost me €1100 to fix the car from a Franch VW dealer.

The receipt states amongst other things "injecteurs" but also a whopping €580 for a "pompe" which I assume is the HP diesel pump. My sister is fluent so I will get her to translate but in the meantime, what has gone wrong & what is yet to come?

I will be calling VW on monday to see if they can at least contribute (FSH, was serviced by main dealer 500 miles before this happened) but I'm not too optimistic as it has done 120k on a 07 plate. It is a 170 bhp sport estate btw.