car troubles, stalls.

[MK2 GTI]

mine has a cat and an o2 probe, id assume joshyd_mk2gti does aswell

[benw]

Ive got the exact same problem, the water light came on the engine kept stalling... any ideas.

first off my gti is an 8v digi2.

it first started playing up yesterday. the water level light on the dash was flashing. i only had to go down the street and back (about 5km all up) so i said ill ignore it and check the level tomorrow, top it up if need be (ive only ever had to top it up once before). anyway, when i was coming back home the car started running rough. when i was accelerating the revs would drop and it would stumble, stutter and then come good. i topped up the water today. the car starts up fine and idles fine for around 10 seconds but then the revs drop and it stalls.

any ideas? dead oxygen sensor or something?


appreciate any help