paulobrien
Member
Hi!
I have recently bought a 03 A2 1.6 Colour Storm in the gorgeous blue colour, what I think is a pretty basic spec model (no DIS, rear e/w etc.).
I'm massively impressed with it, but it is having a problem with warm starting that is completely defeating my ability to trust it - quite an issue obviously!
The car starts first time every morning (albeit with the trademark 'FSI rattle') and performs fine on the journey. The problem occurs if it's warmed upo and I stop for a short while (e.g. to pop into Tescos), that's when the lottery begins...
Sometimes everything will be fine, but around 50% of the time now I get a few yards down the road and you can feel the car starting to die. It stutters, coughs, struggles and eventually stalls. If you try and restart it won't play, no matter how hard you mash the throttle ;-)
A few times i've managed to coax it into not stalling when I feel this happening (by luck rather than judgement, pumping the throttle which feels like you are managing to 'clear' the problem - it has a 'big cough' then clears the problem), but generally speaking this doesn't work.
When this happens, the only solution seems to be to leave it for a while, then try again (half an hour or so later) and then it will start up.
I had this happen last night (annoyingly with a chinese takeaway in the car!), and once I got going again (with a cold chinese) the EPC light stayed on for about 30 secs after starting.
Now, the car is a recent purchase and I have a 3rd party 3 month warranty, but as usual, that won't cover main dealer rates, and they cover a fix *up to £500) but not the diagnosis (particularly if the garage can't find the fault).
I took it to the local reputable private garage when this first occured who found the fault code P1020-17428, which so far as I can tell means 'Fuel pressure regulation:control range exceeded'. The garage said there is no way of knowing how long this fault code has been in the system, they cleared it and said come back next time it happens (which i'll do this week).
Obviously i'm loathed to take it to a main dealer (the purchase was actually meant to be a way of reducing our motoring costs!) but that said I need it fixed and need it 100% reliable.
Finally, in my eternal optimism I picked up a fuel filter from the local motor factors and changed that, but it seems to have made no difference.
Any assistance would be much appreciate, there seem to be lots of knowledgeable people on here who might be able to assist.
Cheers!
P
I have recently bought a 03 A2 1.6 Colour Storm in the gorgeous blue colour, what I think is a pretty basic spec model (no DIS, rear e/w etc.).
I'm massively impressed with it, but it is having a problem with warm starting that is completely defeating my ability to trust it - quite an issue obviously!
The car starts first time every morning (albeit with the trademark 'FSI rattle') and performs fine on the journey. The problem occurs if it's warmed upo and I stop for a short while (e.g. to pop into Tescos), that's when the lottery begins...
Sometimes everything will be fine, but around 50% of the time now I get a few yards down the road and you can feel the car starting to die. It stutters, coughs, struggles and eventually stalls. If you try and restart it won't play, no matter how hard you mash the throttle ;-)
A few times i've managed to coax it into not stalling when I feel this happening (by luck rather than judgement, pumping the throttle which feels like you are managing to 'clear' the problem - it has a 'big cough' then clears the problem), but generally speaking this doesn't work.
When this happens, the only solution seems to be to leave it for a while, then try again (half an hour or so later) and then it will start up.
I had this happen last night (annoyingly with a chinese takeaway in the car!), and once I got going again (with a cold chinese) the EPC light stayed on for about 30 secs after starting.
Now, the car is a recent purchase and I have a 3rd party 3 month warranty, but as usual, that won't cover main dealer rates, and they cover a fix *up to £500) but not the diagnosis (particularly if the garage can't find the fault).
I took it to the local reputable private garage when this first occured who found the fault code P1020-17428, which so far as I can tell means 'Fuel pressure regulation:control range exceeded'. The garage said there is no way of knowing how long this fault code has been in the system, they cleared it and said come back next time it happens (which i'll do this week).
Obviously i'm loathed to take it to a main dealer (the purchase was actually meant to be a way of reducing our motoring costs!) but that said I need it fixed and need it 100% reliable.
Finally, in my eternal optimism I picked up a fuel filter from the local motor factors and changed that, but it seems to have made no difference.
Any assistance would be much appreciate, there seem to be lots of knowledgeable people on here who might be able to assist.
Cheers!
P
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