Golf starts then fades out;(

Anyone any ideas?.

Daughters Boyfriend went and bought this year 2000 1.8 petrol Golf from a mate of hers gen 62,000 miles!. I had to drive it home a few days ago drove fine, now when you go to start it, it runs for around 2 or 3 seconds then dies/fades out. Restart then the same happens, Got some fresh petrol in it was running OK before we stopped using it from the trip home.

Anyone any ideas on that at all?..

Cheers..

Reply to
tony sayer
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Low fuel pressure caused by a blocked filter in the pump. They are take apartable by someone with a bit of nouse. A fuel pressure check will show it up quickly. It is a common problem.

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MrCheerful

Thanks for that Mr C in the end it turned out that there is an immobiliser fitted that sometimes misbehaves and causes that according to the original owner!.

Advised him to remove the bl^^dy thing, no one is likely to nick it!..

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tony sayer

If the immobiliser (assuming the standard VW one) is triggering you'll probably see a key symbol on the dash when it fails. Running for a few seconds is typical, and a 2000 car will almost certainly have a factory immobiliser.

The pickup coil around the ignition lock is often the problem. It reads a RFID chip in the key- do you have a spare?

You cannot remove it without having the engine ECU remapped to suit. The immobiliser is built into the instrument ECU, and that talks to the engine ECU to enable starting.

If you have access to VCDS it will show the fault "engine start blocked by immobiliser".

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Chris Bartram

No its an add on, it's got a two pronged key you have to insert in it.

You have to open the car with the key fob, get in and then lock the doors with the standard keyfob, plug in the immobiliser key, then unlock the car gain whilst still in it again, and then the car will start!

Bloody amazing but it seems its been like that for years so says the original owner!!...

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tony sayer

Get rid of it :-)

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Chris Bartram

Yes but he's very short of the readies at the moment etc but now we have the immobiliser removed it runs fine its done relatively few miles..

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tony sayer

I meant the immobiliser :-)

Reply to
Chris Bartram

Gone .. to a better place;!...

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tony sayer

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