bmautosport
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Hi All, this is my first post so hello to all!
Im really hoping that someone maybe able to shed some light as to my problem.
I found my Mum a nice 2004 A2 TDI done 64,000 with full history. For the first year it has been good as gold and she loves it, but last summer time around august it started to run very rough.
She had filled the car up as normal and used it though the week, she does very little miles to probably only 30-40 during the week, which it ran fine on. Then she made a trip to Gatwick (about 45 miles from us) and on the way up (30 miles or so into the trip) she said it started to make a funny noise and also lose some power and feel alot of vibration through the car and gear stick, unfortunatly she continued there and back with it running like this, she said it seemed to get worse (but not a great deal) by the time she was back.
I went and had a look and it sounded like the car was running a cylinder down, so having only 3 to start with made it sound pretty rough, it also caused alot of vibration through the engine and you could see it moving around and this is also felt through the gear stick.
We took it to our Mechanic and he had found that there was petrol in the system even though we have no idea of how it got there as even traced back the last time it was filled up and that was with deisel.Because it was found with petrol running through it the injectors were thought to be the problem, they were sent away and tested and were all found to be 30% down so we had the injectors changed (best part of £750!!!) but it has made little to no difference, we then have also tried another pump (as this was suggested as a problem area if petrol had gone through it) from another A2 TDI and this made no difference, the car has even gone to Audi (not the main door but a friend) on there diagnositcs and they cannot find anything out either and their only suggestion weas to start replacing parts (which is not what we wanted to do as the cost would of been massive!), everything elcetric has been checked over and all the sensor's has been tested and belived to be ok.
The Turbo also seems to be fine with little play, but it was suggested they had a funny set up on them with the veins and the way they work but this all seems to be ok.
It has now been going on for over 8 months and we just dont know what to do, the car will start first time everytime and will also drive but just sounds like a bag of nails and lacks power!
We have spent over £1000 on it and still have no idea so are getting to the point that we either cut out loses and get what we can for it or maybe buy another engine and hope that this will solve the problem.But the last thing we want to do is fit another engine and then it be the same!
The engine code is bhc if that makes any difference.
Because there are not many of the cars my mechanic is having trouble finding anyone with any experience with them.
Please please can anyone suggest anything or have had a similar thing happen.
We just dont know what to do?
Im really hoping that someone maybe able to shed some light as to my problem.
I found my Mum a nice 2004 A2 TDI done 64,000 with full history. For the first year it has been good as gold and she loves it, but last summer time around august it started to run very rough.
She had filled the car up as normal and used it though the week, she does very little miles to probably only 30-40 during the week, which it ran fine on. Then she made a trip to Gatwick (about 45 miles from us) and on the way up (30 miles or so into the trip) she said it started to make a funny noise and also lose some power and feel alot of vibration through the car and gear stick, unfortunatly she continued there and back with it running like this, she said it seemed to get worse (but not a great deal) by the time she was back.
I went and had a look and it sounded like the car was running a cylinder down, so having only 3 to start with made it sound pretty rough, it also caused alot of vibration through the engine and you could see it moving around and this is also felt through the gear stick.
We took it to our Mechanic and he had found that there was petrol in the system even though we have no idea of how it got there as even traced back the last time it was filled up and that was with deisel.Because it was found with petrol running through it the injectors were thought to be the problem, they were sent away and tested and were all found to be 30% down so we had the injectors changed (best part of £750!!!) but it has made little to no difference, we then have also tried another pump (as this was suggested as a problem area if petrol had gone through it) from another A2 TDI and this made no difference, the car has even gone to Audi (not the main door but a friend) on there diagnositcs and they cannot find anything out either and their only suggestion weas to start replacing parts (which is not what we wanted to do as the cost would of been massive!), everything elcetric has been checked over and all the sensor's has been tested and belived to be ok.
The Turbo also seems to be fine with little play, but it was suggested they had a funny set up on them with the veins and the way they work but this all seems to be ok.
It has now been going on for over 8 months and we just dont know what to do, the car will start first time everytime and will also drive but just sounds like a bag of nails and lacks power!
We have spent over £1000 on it and still have no idea so are getting to the point that we either cut out loses and get what we can for it or maybe buy another engine and hope that this will solve the problem.But the last thing we want to do is fit another engine and then it be the same!
The engine code is bhc if that makes any difference.
Because there are not many of the cars my mechanic is having trouble finding anyone with any experience with them.
Please please can anyone suggest anything or have had a similar thing happen.
We just dont know what to do?
