84.5 wolfsburg problems

[jarrett at rpa.net (Jim Jarrett)]

On Jul 1, 2006, at 3:11 PM, matt wrote:

> While driving home this morning  my 84.5 8v seemed to be running  
> fine. About a mile from my house it started to sputter, lose power  
> and then died. After a few minutes it finally started again and i  
> managed to get it home bucking and sputtering the whole way. It  
> didn't matter what gear i was in the car wouldn't rev or go more  
> than about 30 mph. After i got home i shut it off and tried to  
> start it again. it is very hard to start. sputtering and bucking  
> while cranking. the strange thing is once you get it started it  
> seems to run fine.  In neutral i can let it idle and it revs no  
> problem but when i actually try to drive, it sputters. all the fuel  
> pumps seem to be running although the transfer pump seems much  
> quiter than normal. It was always seemed very loud. it is the  
> dreaded vdo transfer pump but it's less than a year old.  i tried  
> to different fuel pump relays with no changes. I'm just looking for  
> any insight before i really start diving into it tomorrow.

That's odd, because when I owned the car, I changed the fuel pumps.   
I KNOW I did the main pump, because it did to me what it did to you.   
I can't remember if I did the transfer pump or not.

At least the transfer pump is cheaper and easier to change.  GL!


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