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
Car runs on without key
Dec 20, 2004
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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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