Campaign 23H9 - 103kW/125kw TDI PD Piezo Siemens Injector Failure

[manol]

lol oh dear..

It's true, when you car goes in to get serviced or something fixed as per VW Australia. The car has to come out exactly the same way and working, if it doesn't you go back and you get it sorted.

It's not like ABS AUTOMOTIVE or L & M MOTORWORKS or some generic company where any old hack can work on the car and somehow get a solution.

If a Volkswagen Dealer royally **** up and their workmanship is a complete mess you have an invoice and a list of works they have done which they are liable for.

[manol]

carried out a online update of the engine ecu and was fine after that... installed injectors after too..no issues since... owner had been going to a back street garage for over a year to try and fix it! and yes it was only now and then when its faulted....VDUB...

See above.

[Greg Roles]

Again today my 125kw diesel was hard to start , took over a minute of cranking before it fired up, Ive got it booked in for the injector recall on the 16th, It has done this on a few other occasions in the past, does any one think it could be associated with the injectors ??
Only does it now and again ?

My vote is check the battery. You have to have a healthy battery to spin the motor fast enough to actually start. As it grows colder, otherwise decent batteries start to struggle. I am on my third battery in 5 years, granted I swapped to a smaller one at first, but the last one that just gave out was a top dollar Odyssey, and only got two seasons. It was taking a few goes to actually start, new battery and it's back to starting like a charm.

Just one possible reason I have never found to be an issue on petrol cars.

[ian]

My vote is check the battery. You have to have a healthy battery to spin the motor fast enough to actually start. As it grows colder, otherwise decent batteries start to struggle. I am on my third battery in 5 years, granted I swapped to a smaller one at first, but the last one that just gave out was a top dollar Odyssey, and only got two seasons. It was taking a few goes to actually start, new battery and it's back to starting like a charm.

Just one possible reason I have never found to be an issue on petrol cars.

Its not the battery as it usually fires up first time ,its just occasionally it just refuses ,even after one minute of cranking its going strong
its just some thing intermediately .

[vdubmotorworx]

when the injectors of this campaign do fail the car never starts again. thats why i would rule out injectors and have a fault code check done.. hopefully it has logged something....VDUB...

[sn809]

Its not the battery as it usually fires up first time ,its just occasionally it just refuses ,even after one minute of cranking its going strong
its just some thing intermediately .

Is the sound harsher than normal and does it go high in revs??

[ian]

Is the sound harsher than normal and does it go high in revs??

Once it starts its as normal ,and can be reved with out any problem/

[Greg Roles]

When was the last time the fuel filter was replaced?? No fuel getting through possibly??

EGR flapper gummed up and sticks shut?? Car still idles like that though....hmmm

[sn809]

Just got a call from Ian's, my car needs the replacements, but they need to order the injectors in so I cannot drive the car as the car is now suddenly "dangerous". I am surprised they hadnt ordered the parts already.
Now I am stuck with a petrol Polo till Monday.

[poyta]

I cannot drive the car as the car is now suddenly "dangerous". I am surprised they hadnt ordered the parts already.
Now I am stuck with a petrol Polo till Monday.

Nonsense! We've all been driving these ticking time bombs for 5 years now -I'm sure a few more days wait won't put you into any danger. If it truly was as dangerous as they say they would have done a recall years ago when they knew the problem existed.