Josh's White 9N.. Problem solved... Power is back !! :D :D

[maxrobot]

is it a diesel? because then yes its on safety mode but otherwise not sure.

[samways-polo]

is it a diesel? because then yes its on safety mode but otherwise not sure.

Nah mate its a 1.2s 65bhp petrol, a friend said it will just be a sensor but would be good to know so it can be fixed.

Could it be another sensorr as to why i get awful fuel consumption (excluding poor driving)

[blazeguarder]

surely somebody has had this problem before ? a common break in the seal or small hole in the cluster etc ? and an easy procedure to fix it !! please its getting on my nerves if i have to take them off to dry them all the time

Bit of a long shot, but maybe a seal around the boot door is not correctly fitted or something? Might be worth emptying a bucket of water over the top of the boot to see if any is leaking in round the edges or something like that?

Regards the loss in power, have you checked the coil packs? Common problem on these engines.

[samways-polo]

surely somebody has had this problem before ? a common break in the seal or small hole in the cluster etc ? and an easy procedure to fix it !! please its getting on my nerves if i have to take them off to dry them all the time

Bit of a long shot, but maybe a seal around the boot door is not correctly fitted or something? Might be worth emptying a bucket of water over the top of the boot to see if any is leaking in round the edges or something like that?

Regards the loss in power, have you checked the coil packs? Common problem on these engines.

yeah its a simple idea, il give it a go mate, to be honest since i have dried them out they seem to be keeping quite dry but we will see after the simple bucket test, cant belive i didnt even think about it !...

how do i check the coilpacks ? :/ there seems to be so many little common faults with these cars..
hopefully i will get a diagnostic check run on the car might show up a fault

thanks alot for the help mate

[Dub_Dan]

yeppp i agree with blazeguarder mate 90% sure its most likely your coilpacks when they went on my moms 1.4 auto the car felt slower than an 80's mini lol
get them checked out by the garage mate... unless someone can shed some light if you can do it yourself... good luck
dan

[K.I.T.T.]

Was about to mention coilpacks after just reading the title. They're notorious for playing up on these models. Never worked on petrol engines myself, so don't know how much they go for...would suggest replacing all three and see what happens. Do you have access to VAGCOM / VCDS?

And re: the brake lights not working with the EPC warning light on suggests a dodgy brake light switch. This happened to my Polo a couple of years ago (another common fault). Managed to fix it temporarily at some motorway services, but replaced the switch a few days later. The part number has been superceded, and the revised switches are of a new design. Thw switch is about £6 and takes less than 10 minutes to replace.

Ash

[samways-polo]

cheers guys i will be getting it loooked at tomo, think alex perkins has the vagcom and hes looking at it , you have all said coilpacks so we shall see tomorow wont we ! hopefully it wont be too expensive whatever is wrong with it,

and k.i.t.t the epc light went off when i next started the engine, was just abit weird that it came on when i was trying to max the car which i then discovered it would only go 85mph so was thinkign it could possibly be related or just a complete coincidence.

[Dub_Dan]

definitely sounds like the coil packs mate if it would do 85 as my aunties did 110 pretty well and yer with my moms we changed all four saves you having to waste time and do them individually as there could be a chance the other ones will go again! just my opinion though

[samways-polo]

definitely sounds like the coil packs mate if it would do 85 as my aunties did 110 pretty well and yer with my moms we changed all four saves you having to waste time and do them individually as there could be a chance the other ones will go again! just my opinion though

exactly 85 is well slow !.. well how much did it cost you mate and was it hard to do etc ?

[JamieG172]

I had my coilpack go and the AA came out to replace it and it cost £70. However, the guy said that worn spark plugs can increase the liklihood of coilpack failure, so had them replaced as well (lets face it, there's only 3 to change )

J

[samways-polo]

I had my coilpack go and the AA came out to replace it and it cost £70. However, the guy said that worn spark plugs can increase the liklihood of coilpack failure, so had them replaced as well (lets face it, there's only 3 to change )

J

oh thats not so bad then! omg seems like a much more common problem than i thought it was!.. yeah will probably worth changing a couple of bits to get it upto speed again

cheers guys this is helping lots

[wildman_33]

The EPC light is definitely the brake light switch i had it on my old polo and while it came on an off for a few moths it eventually went completely and i ended up having to go the whole way home from uni with no brake lights which is rather dangerous. Unless you know what you are doing i would get it done my a vw specialist or a dealer becaus ethere is a certain way to fit the new ones and they are very easy to break.

[K.I.T.T.]

It's not hard to do the brake light switch, it was the older ones that were a bit fiddly to do. Took me 5 minutes to do without even reading how to do it. It's so easy even my mum could do it!

Ash

[samways-polo]

Went to a mate who had the vag-com software, came up with an error with the brake light switch (thanks for teh heads up guys) nothign about coilpacks though..

cleared the fault and the power came back apparently errors can do al sorts of funny things :L.. so yeah no coilpack issues and saved me a ton of money so happy days for now !


thanks for all your help guys

[g__humm]

Yer I had one saying glow plug fault.

Turns out it was a hole in the rad playing havoc with the sensor. The description never really makes sense it's the number of the code put type it on google or something to find out what it really is. That's what I had to