VW Cabrio 2001 - Evap Pump needed (Toronto, Canada)

what's the fault code? They, the pump usually doesn't go bad.

Mechanic says it's "malfunction".

This happened before. The first time, it said "Gross leak". The mechanic spent hours looking for it, but couldn't find it. I took the car to the dealer (his suggestion), and they too spent hours looking for the leak. But finally, they found it, and said it was the charcoal canister.

So I had that replaced. System was fine. But the light came back on - after a day or two, and driving the car for about 45 min. Took it the mechanic, he did the test, and the system was ok. I saw it. Light went off immediately after, but it came back on.

I took the car back, and that when the test came back as "evap malfunction". He talked to a few people, and came to the conclusion that maybe the pump went faulty trying to compensate for the leak? He's not sure it'll fix the problem.

I can get the fault code on Monday though.

Thanks for the reply.

Mel

Lost > what's the fault code? They, the pump usually doesn't go bad.

Yeah post all of the DTC information if you can.

I had to replace a few components to take care of an evap malfunction on a '97 GTi VR6. IIRC one of the components was the pump/valve and another was the cannister. I think I even replaced the large intake boot since that was falling apart along with installing a dealer gas cap to replace the aftermarket one. You could tell the difference with only changing the gas cap such as a smoother idle and seemingly more power.

My vag-com tool allowed me to activate the pump, and other components, to test to see that it did not work at all.

Now this is the first time that Engine check light has been off for years I'm told. lol

Okay. I'll do that.

But does anyone know of places where I could find reconditioned parts like these? That's my biggest quandry at the moment. Mel

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