Thanks for everyone's input. I changed the fuel filter about 10000
miles ago. I'm not quite convinced that it's the injection pump. At
least I wan't to check out all options before I sink money into a new
pump.
Dave


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:16:30 -0500, "Erik Dillenkofer"
> wrote:

>How often did you change the fuel filter (routine maintenance)?
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>"Dave" > wrote in message news:1110502015.6683db5bdf67a943c704bab011c49670@t eranews...
>> 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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