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KPerryGTi wrote:Cheers

Hmm thinking mine is on it's way out, it's getting quite stiff, and makes a crunching noise going into 4th now and again... Does that sound like it's going?

mine went when you hear the pinion bearing making noice when your foot is off the clutch. when you put your foot on the clutch noise goes away.

bradley1983 wrote:

KPerryGTi wrote:Cheers

Hmm thinking mine is on it's way out, it's getting quite stiff, and makes a crunching noise going into 4th now and again... Does that sound like it's going?

mine went when you hear the pinion bearing making noice when your foot is off the clutch. when you put your foot on the clutch noise goes away.

ohhhh ok haven't got that yet lol so hopefully will be ok for a while

when you hear that noise, start saving!!!

My GTi has a cold! On way to work today it Kept sneezing and cutting out! It's been doing it for a while and I found out it's the camshaft sensor, need to get to vw to get a new one! Sharpish!

Camshaft sensor replaced!!

Drove to VW today at half 8 and bought a new camshaft sensor! came home and replaced it, now I just hope that it fixes the problem!!!

Early GTI's came with Air conditioning whereas slightly later mid 2000 onwards GTI's came with Climate control.Same time they changed the silver colour as there are two silvers the GTI came in.


Hope you got your car sorted dude,has the new sensor managed to cure it?.

Yeah i only got air con lol

Isn't the other silver diamond silver? think I heard that sumwere...

Yeah all sorted I think haven't had any problems yet, I'm at college again tomorrow so will run diagnostics on in to clear the old codes, then drive it about for a bit and make sure the code doesn't come back

cool! i so didnt know that!

I think its Reflex silver (the most common silver i do believe) then the other silver is Satin Silver which i picked up were on the late 2001 polos.
but then again im not sure cose Ive had one polo really late 2001 and the one i have now is early 2001 and they are both reflex silver.
so maybe it was the other way around year wise?

The two silvers were Satin Silver which appeared on the earlier models and then Reflex silver which appeared on the later ones

bradley1983 wrote:

KPerryGTi wrote:Cheers

Hmm thinking mine is on it's way out, it's getting quite stiff, and makes a crunching noise going into 4th now and again... Does that sound like it's going?

mine went when you hear the pinion bearing making noice when your foot is off the clutch. when you put your foot on the clutch noise goes away.

Mine's been making quite a bit of noise lately. It's strange, I've tired recording it but it's not quite loud enough to get the noise on camera. What's the pinion bearing noise sound like Bradley?

Hey guys turns out that camshaft sensor didn't fix the problem

seemed fine for a couple of days but then yesterday it started stuttering again and cut out 3 times in a 1 mile trip... I also have another thread on here about my camshaft sensor, anybody got any ideas what it might be??

Have you tried cleaning the throttle body mate?
I must admit it does sound more complex than a simple throttle body clean but its certainly worth a try.

Normally when a car is stuttering is due to a fueling/air flow issue

My Astra coupe did that and it was a filthy throttle body. I cleaned it and all was well. I hope this works for you.

6N2 GTI 00 wrote:Have you tried cleaning the throttle body mate?
I must admit it does sound more complex than a simple throttle body clean but its certainly worth a try.

Normally when a car is stuttering is due to a fueling/air flow issue

yeah that was one of the first things I did, didn't help gunna have to spend money and take it to a garage I think...

i've got a similar problem, every so often the car will judder and reduce power. i've knocked the code off with vagcom a few times but it keeps doing it. i was told it's ether the cam sensor, or the crank shaft sensor. done the cam sensor, still doing it, crank sensor is behind the starter motor (so im told) and needs to be removed to get to the sensor, haven't got around to doing this yet, need to order the sensor from vw as euro carpart don't do it. then hopefully that will cure it.