Yes my mate Ben..  Big Bad Ben!!

 lol, me and Ashmond know him as Bodger. lol. What night is Brands mate i haven't been for ages?

 Lol.. I know Ash pretty well as well. small world!

Brands well 'PREPT'' next Wednesday the 6th August, should be a good one, there are having a shine and shine, hopefully a BBQ and DJ's the guy from VW Players will be attend as well I believe!!  who ever there are...   lol...

 Sweet mate well should see you there then. Let us know if you find out anything bout your prob before hand.

Hi Mate.Im based in Croydon and can have a quick look if you like and check some of the pipes that could be giving you issues.Also have Vag com.
Pm me if you want me to have a look for ya.Sure ive spotted you on my travels.
Which part of croydon you from?

 Cheer Mo.

If you could that would be great! I will PM you my number etc.  where about in Croydon are you, be happy to pop over one evening afternoon etc.

FOUND The PROBLEM.. at long last..

Firstly, a MASSIVE BIG UP to MO!!

What a Diamond he is, for his Vagcom and knowledge, Well I met up with Mo on Tuesday evening, Mo went though the engine bay, checking all hoses were on, cleaned on the sensors, and Vagcom on the car, which there were two faults,

Firstly the Lambda sensor was playing up and the Temp Sensor also shown up as a fault, Mo cleared the faults, like you do, we went for a drive and then rechecked, but no faults were found this time around.

Buy the now it was around 10pm or so, plus Mo had to shoot off, so we left it as that, Mo advised he will vagcom again on Thursday.

SO last night met up with bad boy Mo!! lol.. and had another look on Vagcom. again the only two faults that shown up was as follows..

Address 01: Engine

2 Faults Found:

16514 - Oxygen (Lambda) Sensor B1 S1: Malfunction in Circuit

P0130 - 35-10 - - - Intermittent

01252 - Fuel Injector for Cylinder 4 (N33)

29-10 - Short to Ground - Intermittent

So its look like me investing me a new Lambda which from dealer is £82 plus the dreaded VAT!

Also if anyone knows which one is the Fuel Injector for Cylinder 4, is it on the left or right as from the front of the engine bay?

Will order a new Lambda today and be fitted tomorrow, So buy tomorrow after all this time, of searching for fault my Vdub will be finally back to full bad boy full power again!

Well I bloody hope so...

 All down to my new good mate MO!!!!

So all you lot but your hands together for MO!!

S-Star

ha ha great news steve... let us know when its all back up and running smoothly mate. 

Hats off to you "Bad Boy" Mo

Well, its not fixed yet.. so fingers crossed this is the cause!!

Bloody hope so..

..If is'nt not then Im Stuffed!! lol

thats good to hear that. hope it all solves the problem :)

 Cheers matey. I hope so too..

as per above.. I  will replace with the new Lambda on Saturday, but I wont be able to tell you all till the following week as I'm away on hoilday!!  Whoopee...

 At long last mate good to here it.

Lambda's are easy to fit and you'll notice your power back when you've changed it as i had one go twice on me when i had me golf.

As for the cylinder 4 fault it sounds like the coil pack could be knackered, i had one go before and it is rare that they go. They're around £25 from GSF.

Best way to check is to undo the bolts that hold the coil pack down, turn the engine on and lift the coil pack. you should here a ticking noise where the coilpack is trying to create a spark and the engine note should drop and shudder slightly. If nothing happens e.g. no ticking or engine note change then its knackered.

 Cheers mate!!

Well, I did clean the spark plugs on Wednesday and I did notice on of the coilpacks had spilt around the bottom of the rubber! didnt think much of it..

so this could be the dodgy one!!  Will check on saturday as well..

 Could be that then mate if the seal around the coilpack to the spark plug isn't 100% then that could well be causing the fault.

 Can I just seal it back up or will I have to buy a new one??

Touch of the old super glue..  me thinks..lol

 i wouldn't chance it mate super glue is flamable. lol!

 Lol. I was only messing with ya matey!!

Will buy a new coilpack as well while at the dealers this afternoon!!

then im off the to MotorShow in Excel.. so happy days all round!!

be sure to check out honda dreamscape show i was down there yesterday and it was great. also the power boat run is good too.

 I will, been looking forward to going all week!!

today being Payday as well.. and the dub being finally fixed.. im in for a good weekend!! lol

Just need to win the lotto tomorrow and Happy Days...

S-Star

Dont forget you promised me a spin once the lambda is sorted , ha ha Will keep my fingers crossed it will be finally sorted.

 Yes mate.. a spin you shall have!! hold on tightttttttttttttttttt...

say thanks again !!

No worries.

BlackMagic20vt:

mk4golfgti_uk:

coz doing all the VAG com wont help much and you will be wasting money and time with computers, its a mechanical thing so get the pipes changed. i have wasted time and money behind vag com for boost leaks.

 

Not strickly true..  If a person learns to use the tools properly its a very powerful tool..  If you you didnt have VAGCOM how would you know you had a boost leak on your AUM then?  unless you have a rolling road and boost leak testers in your garage?

VAGCOM = £200 

Flashy trim/sound/ wheels etc etc = £alotmore

I know what I would invest in first........not mentioning the amount of money you will be saving yourself everytime you had an airbag light/service light etc etc or similar this will pay for itself in months.  Dealeres charge what £80 to run a diagnostic session on your car? Thats to tell you what the problem is? 

Yes something are mechancal but to say VAGCOM is a waste of money is ill founded...

 

VAGCOM then?  Did you not scan it when you first started to have the problem....  I know that you have them faults but seen as you have an AGU dont quote me on this but I wouldnt have thought the lambda sensor would kill that much performance on a AGU.  Reason being is that the AGU's only have one sensor after the CAT and my understanding is that its only used for emmisions where as the ARZ AUM and AUG come with two and the B1S1 sensor on these corrects air/fuel ratio on the cars by making it lean or rich depending on the car where as the AGU's dont have this sensor and the B1S1 sensor is very important on the latter cars but you dont have one before the CAT yours is after the CAT.

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