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Been out in the car most of the day, went and put some fuel in. Now we dont have any power and the Emission light is flashing. Any ideas?

dodgy fuel??? had a batch of this in the scoob thought it was the spark plugs renewed them then read on a forum it was major dodgy batch of fuel from surrounding stations!!! It seems it can happen!

If u have limited power it sounds as if u have been put in a limp home mode get some vag com on to the car!!!!!

get it vag-com'd mate, where did you fill up? defo put correct fuel in it lol.

Trying to find someone with vag com lol

Yeah put £20 vpower in, as I do now and again

Had the fault code read and its a misfire on cylinder 4

So going to replace the coil pack this week, hope that sorts it out

nice one mate, what engine have you got out of interest?

1.4 100bhp, Any one know which cylinder in number 4?

should be gearbox end mate, counted 1 to 4 from cam belt to gearbox.

Changed to coil pack on cylinder No.4 today and all is well

Piece of cake to do. Going to get a guide up soon

I had an identical problem on Monday. Thought I would be kind and drive my mum to work in the snow! Was letting the engine tick over at idle, then suddenly...500rpm WTF? In a 3-cylinder engine, losing 1 leaves you with what basically resembles a lawnmower!

The annoying thing was, it was not caused by the snow whatsoever...wrong place wrong time I guess. Didn't stop me having to wait 2.5hrs in the freezing cold for a tow truck though.

I don't have access to any sort of vag-com so had to get this done by a garage.

...£170

£170 to fit a part that cost me £30.66 from the dealer and took me about 5 mins to fit.

But if you say anything to them they use the "we had to plug it in to the diagnostic machine" line

Going to buy myself a vag-com for when I get another light up

Or, if you don't intend to get too deeply involved with engine fixing, why not just go for one of these VAG + CAN jobbies from Gendan (www.gendan.co.uk) they are just £39.10 including postage. I've got VCDS for home use and big jobs, but got one of these Gendan things a couple of months ago - just to keep in the car. They cover ENGINE + AUTO TRANS + SRS + ABS - so that is enough to sort out most small problems. One thing, if you do buy one, I'd search elsewhere for a comprehensive listing of VAG codes as the first two times I used mine, the codes did not exist on the small booklet that came with this tool. A few minutes searching on the internet provided a proper list though - so don't find youself in the situation that I did - ie picked up the codes and cleared them but then had to go away and find out what they really meant.

chewy wrote:Changed to coil pack on cylinder No.4 today and all is well

Piece of cake to do. Going to get a guide up soon

Now get ahead of the game and find a NOS one in ebay for half that price - for the next time - stangely that's what I did before my first one went a couple of years ago, then a month or so later got a report of "engine running rough thing it is running on three cylinders" said wife, I grabbed VAG-COM + new coil - VAG-COM said cylinder 2 - air cleaner off coil 2 out - new coil in - clear logged fault - car now okay. I've since managed to get another from ebay - just in case!

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EDIT: How easy is the interface to use on the Gendan device? I take it you need to device itself and a code reference list?

Yeah been looking at one of those on eBay £30 delivered.

As for the new coil pack I am getting a friend to buy me three with his trade discount and going to change the rest all at once