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Old March 11th 05, 05:36 AM
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Have you visited www.tdiclub.com ? That is one place that dieselheads
hang out. Someone may know what is wrong over there.

(Dave) wrote:

>Has any TDI owners had a problem like this one? Any advice or inputs
>would be most appreciated. Is an injection pump replacement a common
>occurence? The car has 125,000 miles and I changed the fuel filter
>about 10,000 miles ago. If I have no other option but to replace the
>injection pump, is there a good place to get a used pump? Where would
>be the best place to buy a new pump?
>
>
>The Story:
>
>I recently took my 99.5 Jetta TDI on a road trip. Two days driving
>down to FL and two days back to OH.
>
>The trip down was uneventful but the trip back was another story!
>
>The trip back day 1:
>On the way back, after I crossed the GA border (cheaper fuel prices)
>I topped off the tank with diesel. The engine light came on almost
>immediatly after starting the engine and the glo-plug light also
>started blinking. The car was running fine until I stopped for lunch
>in SC. Upon starting the car and leaving the parking lot, it started
>bucking and running like crap. At highway speeds it seemed to do ok
>but I could still feel it "missing" and when I got off the interstate,
>in NC it seemed to run rougher at lower speeds. Finally reached my
>overnight destination.
>
>Day 2:
>I drove to a VW dealer where my brother-in-law works as a mechanic.
>On the way there, the car continued to buck and carry on while at the
>same time sending out a James Bond smoke screen from the tail pipe.
>He hooked up the computer and it had a code for the quantity adjuster.
>The code could not be erased either. He seemed to think it was the
>injection pump going bad. He also said it should make it back to OH.
>To make a long story not as long, the car finally gave out 3 hours
>from home. Just before it died, the idle was very erratic and it
>didn't like the slower stop and go traffic in the small town I was
>passing through. Once it finally decided that it could no longer
>maintain the engine rpm enough to continue, it quit. I couldn't get
>it to start after that. Had a friend pick me up from my home town and
>finally got back. What a long day.
>
>Day 3:
>Let it sit on the side of the road all day in disgust.
>
>Day 4:
>Loaded it on a flat bed trailer. The car actually started and ran
>just enough to get halfway up the ramps onto the trailer and it looked
>like a smoke grenade went off around us. Towed it home and put it in
>the garage where it sits, unable to start.
>
>
>
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Jim B.
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