My daughter's partner drives a Leon, 2002 vintage I think.
He has encountered a "won't start" situation over Xmas, with a smell of burning, and when I asked daughter a few questions it appears that "last time it was the coil". He knocks up a fair mileage as he works freelance.
Is it a known fault with the model, does anyone know?
Gordon H gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
That's about the era that VAG had a shedload of coil pack failures.
go here and do a search - loads of info
If one's gone the others will follow.
Yes, as others have said. The 1.8T was worst affected, with many, many coil failures, affecting Seat, Skoda, VW, Audi.
It could be a flat battery if it will not start. A smell of burning could be from a starter motor sticking and the coil shorting out. Just because a car has had a previous fault, it doesn't mean it will have the same one again. It could be anything this time. Why did you ask her questions to relay to the newsgroup if you didn't know what to ask? It would be easier to get one of them on the newsgroup so that direct questions could be asked, then they can go in to the various diagnostics modes and give some readings. No fancy test stuff required. It would tell us exactly what the fault could be at the time. The only other way would be to get one of them on the phone and time it so one of us could be on the newsgroup so you could relay the questions and give the answers! It is easier to direct them to the newsgroup.
You do talk a lot of bollocks don't you?
Well Vag-Coms not fancy but it's the simplest thing that will extract any usefull information from that era Leon
Where we'll all tell you to ignore the local morphing idiot.
Indeed - my 2003 Cupra had one go - ran just on 3 cylinders and the 'check engine' light on (follows me around that one).
SEAT replaced it FOC outside warranty - known fault apparently.
Rob
There was one good thing about Ian T's most recent post, it reminded me that I can use the block sender function
Regards
Tony
In message , TMC writes
Thanks for those two useful pieces of information. ;-)
And for the other advice. Does look like it could be the coil...
Well if you're bored you can test it, if you think you're going to keep the car then find someone with/ buy a copy of Vag-Com.
In message , Duncan Wood writes
Not my car, belongs to daughter's partner.
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