It's been five days since this post and I am wondering if this dude
ever decided to fix it. What's a good price for the car? If he is
interested and I'll pick it up with my Jeep and a dolly...

My Jeep almost has 200K miles on it. You just can't kill that straight
6 engine...




In article <1110719618.a49294d987a8bc536bacaf4c69bb0674@teran ews>,
Dave > wrote:
>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)?
>>
>>"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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