Hi!
One day, all of a sudden my Passat '01 V5 became troublesome to start. The engine cranked, but there just was no ignition. After 5-6 tries, the engine started, and ran without problems. This behavior has became more and more frequent, though
I have read some forums, and the things to suspect are the coolant temperature sensor and the cam/crankshaft position sensors. I went to a friend who has a small repair shop and read out the diagnostics codes, which were as follows:
2 DTCs found:
17755 - Bank2: Crankshaft/Camshaft Pos. Sensors: Sign. Out of Sequence
35-10 - - - Intermittent
16717 - Knock Sensor 2 (G66): Signal too High
35 - 10 - - - Intermittent
The crank/camshaft thing sounds suspicious. Has anyone seen anything similar? "Out of sequence" sounds pretty dangerous, but I guess that the ECU gets pretty puzzled if the sensor starts to fail reporting....
Regards! /Thomas