Volkswagen Problems

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The Latest Volkswagen Problems
Gearbox

hi i lost 1 2 gear 3 4 5 6 and rev are all ok

2002 Volkswagen Golf 19 gti tdi
Posted: Oct 4, 2009
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Drinks water like a fish

Got the car just under a year ago and been a great little runner but looking back I can see that its slowly but steadily taken shorter and shorter periods of time for the red water light to flash up on the dash. I literally filled it up a c...

1994 Volkswagen Golf
Posted: Oct 1, 2009
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Cold start problems

1996/7 polo 1 litre fuel injected, to start this car from cold requires full throttle & much cranking when cold. It's had new plugs, leads, distributer cap, rotor, oil & air + oil filters. It's like it's suffering fuel starvation on start u...

1996 Volkswagen Polo 1996/7 (R reg) 1 litre fuel injected
Posted: Sep 23, 2009
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Radiator leak

My 2005 VW Passat TDi was getting very thirsty. I had to top up my coolant fairly frequently in June and thought this strange as had only done 60K. In April my brother in law -who has the same age PassatTDi - suddenly had a warning ligh...

2005 Volkswagen Passat 1.9 TDi
Posted: Sep 18, 2009
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Petrol smell in the car

Hi guys, I have got this petrol smell in my car for some days. It comes out after I start the engine for a few minutes and goes away when turning the engine off. havent found obvious sign of leak. can anybody give any advice? thx

1998 Volkswagen Passat 1.8t se saloon
Posted: Sep 17, 2009
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Spluttering while accelerating fast

I charged the battery and got it running but when you put your foot down to accelerate, the engine splutters? Is it a fuel problem?

1989 Volkswagen Polo 1.2
Posted: Sep 15, 2009
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Indicator kights not working

Both the back and front indicator lights on the left hand side of my car only work sometimes. Can someone tell me how to fix this.

2001 Volkswagen Polo 1.6 GTI
Posted: Sep 8, 2009
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Cental locking & windows

hi all ive now got a passat but when i lock the doors with key they dont lock and it puts all the elec windows down,,if i do it with remote then its fine any suggestions thanx wippett

1996 Volkswagen Passat 2.0 petrol estate
Posted: Sep 4, 2009
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Blower only working at 4 - no air for 1, 2, 3

As the title says basically .... need to turn the blower up full which blasts the air at you - no air at all on lower settings. Any advice would be great..... thanks.

2004 Volkswagen Touran 1.9 TDI
Posted: Aug 23, 2009
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Engine vibrates and keeps going after ignition turned off

When moving slowly (e.g in slow traffic) the car engine begins to vibrate strangely. When I stop and turn ignition off and remove key, the engine keeps going - with the strange vibration. The only way to stop this is to turn engine back on,...

1999 Volkswagen Polo
Posted: Aug 23, 2009
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Won't start

Had the car running for a minute but then switched it off. A minute later it wouldn't start. The starter motor is running, head lights works but no ignition. When rotating the starter key in ignition position no warning lights on dashboard...

2000 Volkswagen Polo
Posted: Aug 16, 2009
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No acceleration

Hi, im wondering if someone can give me an idea of what happened my car as im going to the garage tomorrow. I was drivin home from work today i went into 2nd gear as i was slowing down, next thing i hear was a crack noise. The car just reve...

1987 Volkswagen Polo 1
Posted: Aug 13, 2009
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Car keeps reving itself

My car keeps reving itself, I have had it at a 'VW specialist' he said it was the electronic throttle. It was taken off and sent away to be fixed, it's back and it's still reving

1999 Volkswagen Polo 1.4 16v
Posted: Aug 11, 2009
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Not startin

Basicly we fort that the battery had gone but after charging it we niticed whilst trying to start the car the live from the starter solinoid to the motor was glowing red hot so we cahnge the starter motor for a new one whilst doing this we ...

1998 Volkswagen Polo 1.9 d cl
Posted: Aug 5, 2009
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Re-Fit interior mirror

Any tips on trying to re-fit an iterior mirror on my VW Passat.

2002 Volkswagen Passat 1.9tdi 130se
Posted: Jul 29, 2009
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Gear box and performance

its an automatic 2.0 vw bora and i just done the cambelt the a full service so as the gear box oil but it seem that the car performance hasent changed its still the same as it was and the gear box when you put on D to drive forward it gose ...

2000 Volkswagen Bora 2.0 auto
Posted: Jul 28, 2009
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Intermittent Over Revving

Hi My X Reg VW Golf has an intermittent problem in that it will start fine, drive normally for quite some distance and then start revving to 4500 revs, On stopping at traffic lights etc the car dies, to the point of cutting out all toge...

2000 Volkswagen Golf 1.6
Posted: Jul 24, 2009
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CENTRAL LOCKING

MY FRONT DOORS LOCK BUT THE BACK DOORS AND BOOT DONT, THE ELECTRIC WINDOWS AND MIRRORS DONT WORK

1999 Volkswagen Passat 1.9TDI
Posted: Jul 23, 2009
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When turning the car right, I get a tapping noise

When turning the car right on full lock at a junction, I get a tapping noise. I recently relpaced the cv boot thinking that would solve it. However the issue still remains & is driving me mad....any clues???

2002 Volkswagen Passat 1.9tdi
Posted: Jul 17, 2009
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Cutting out

this is a intermittent fault,sometimes when i go to start the car,it starts then cuts out immediately.after a couple of attempts the car will start normally.

1994 Volkswagen Golf gti
Posted: Jul 17, 2009
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