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From: Tim Watts on 16 Jun 2010 12:28 On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:42:53 +0100, Tim Watts <tw(a)dionic.net> wibbled: > Hi, > > Car ran fine uptil yesterday. Done 34k miles to date. > > Just tried to start it now, and it won't. After a few seconds, the dash > came up with STOP then "Oil pres" (or similar). Checked the dipstick - > on the minimum, so added half a bottle of the correct grade. > > Left it - tried again, nothing. Cranks OK (well no crunchy noises or > labouring that I can hear). > > Obviously won't touch it until it's been towed and checked out. > > Just wanted to prepare my mind for the horrors that are awaiting the > bank balance. > > On balance, finger in the air, is this likely to be one the the oil pump > problems that I've read of affecting Passats with similar sounding > engines, or more likely to be the sender gone? Would an oil pump work > one day then just break? > > If it is the latter, I will be less than pleased with VW for such a low > milage car. > > Sadly I do not have a code reader. > > Cheers > > Tim OK - the mystery is solved. Joe's Garage in T Wells spent 6 hours figuring it out as the computers had no fault codes at all... (Though they said they will charge 3 hours which is pretty decent of them - full marks so far). Throttle body failed. I haven't seen it and not sure how it failed (will look tomorrow). Not a component I've heard of dying before. Then again, recovery bloke mentioned some of the VWs had been having water pump problems because VW decided plastic impellers were a good idea. People have been making cars for over a century and yet they seem to be going backwards these days *sigh*. -- Tim Watts Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.
From: Chris Whelan on 16 Jun 2010 13:32 On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:28:26 +0000, Tim Watts wrote: [...] > People have been making cars for over a century and yet they seem to be > going backwards these days *sigh*. Bit difficult to manoeuvre if they didn't. (Sorry.) More sensibly, today's vehicles are better in pretty much every respect of those from even 20 years ago. Compared to those of the sixties, for example, they're bloody marvellous! Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply.
From: Mrcheerful on 16 Jun 2010 15:52 Chris Whelan wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:28:26 +0000, Tim Watts wrote: > > [...] > >> People have been making cars for over a century and yet they seem to >> be going backwards these days *sigh*. > > Bit difficult to manoeuvre if they didn't. (Sorry.) > > More sensibly, today's vehicles are better in pretty much every > respect of those from even 20 years ago. Compared to those of the > sixties, for example, they're bloody marvellous! > > Chris Oh yes, they are marvellous now, it took me all of an hour to get my viva started after it had stood for twenty years, no cost other than battery and petrol.
From: Chris Whelan on 16 Jun 2010 17:10 On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:52:56 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote: [...] > Oh yes, they are marvellous now, it took me all of an hour to get my > viva started after it had stood for twenty years, no cost other than > battery and petrol. How many average folk would want to leave a car standing unused for 20 years, and then be able to use it though? Today's cars in the main are safer, faster, cheaper to buy, cheaper to run, less polluting, more comfortable, and much more reliable than many from only a couple of decades ago. I can still remember with surprise and a measure of disbelief, reading of owners in the motoring press claiming their car had covered 100,000 miles on the same engine. Chances are they had at least one top-end rebuild in that time, and oil changes at least every 6,000 miles. Today, oil changes can be up to 20,000 miles, and you would expect to get 200,000 miles out of an engine. Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply.
From: Chris Whelan on 16 Jun 2010 17:09
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:52:56 +0100, Mrcheerful wrote: [...] > Oh yes, they are marvellous now, it took me all of an hour to get my > viva started after it had stood for twenty years, no cost other than > battery and petrol. How many average folk would want to leave a car standing unused for 20 years, and then be able to use it though? Today's cars in the main are safer, faster, cheaper to buy, cheaper to run, less polluting, more comfortable, and much more reliable than many from only a couple of decades ago. I can still remember with surprise and a measure of disbelief, reading of owners in the motoring press claiming their car had covered 100,000 miles on the same engine. Chances are they had at least one top-end rebuild in that time, and oil changes at least every 6,000 miles. Today, oil changes can be up to 20,000 miles, and you would expect to get 200,000 miles out of an engine. Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply. |