On my 97 Jetta eco diesel, I went to shut off my car and it just kept running. The rpm dropped a bit and all the electronics shut off. I changed the igniting switch but it didn't help. I was thinking it may be the shut off valve. Thanks Paul
You are thinking right. It may also be drawing oil from the crankcase. At least in the older diesels there was a possibility of pulling oil through a defective part. Of course that would drop the oil level rather quickly so you should be able to check for that quickly.
I didn't know VW made ECOdiesels in 1997?
Anyway, good luck finding the problem.
It's either a typo or it's a Canadian model (the 1.9TD up there was more or less the later/bigger version of the ECOdiesel). The TDI was also offered from '96 on.
I had a 97 Jetta TD (not TDI) which I got in early November 96. The TDI didn't arrive until the spring of 97 in Canada, much later in the model year.
It has to be a typo. ECOdiesels were not 1.9L engines. Besides, 1997 models were A3s go figure, TDI, TD or maybe SDI, not ECOdiesel. I always thought the ECOdiesel was only a 1.6L.
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