Another new owner with problems

Alan Morriss

Alan Morriss

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My water was over pressurising and overheating.
The guy I bought it from got his mechanic to fix it, which he has, but now it ticks over like a dog and is a pig to start.
He says it is the EGR valve but does not sound too sure. I think I should get someone else to look at it.
Recommendations?
 
Alan Morriss said:
My water was over pressurising and overheating.
The guy I bought it from got his mechanic to fix it, which he has, but now it ticks over like a dog and is a pig to start.
He says it is the EGR valve but does not sound too sure. I think I should get someone else to look at it.
Recommendations?
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Hi,

If you want to pop over to Wraysbury I will run a scan on it for you to see what error codes it has.

Not too far from you and home during the day most days!!!

No charge of course.

Steve B
 
Alan Morriss said:
That is very nice of you. Can you do tomorrow?
Where are you?
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I am around all day tomorrow until around 4.

Right next to Sunnymeads train station.

Send me a PM and I will give you the full address and contact number.

Steve B
 
Jags C20LET said:
Hope you get it sorted..........you do seem like a thoroughly good egg, Mr. B.
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WOW, thank you for that comment !!!

I will do my best. A few minutes of my time (and the magical cable!) to try to save someone a lot of time and money, seems like a no-brainer to me!

Steve B
 
Alan Morriss said:
My water was over pressurising and overheating.
The guy I bought it from got his mechanic to fix it, which he has, but now it ticks over like a dog and is a pig to start.
He says it is the EGR valve but does not sound too sure. I think I should get someone else to look at it.
Recommendations?
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I hope Steve's diagnostic proves otherwise, but these are the EXACT symptoms displayed by my partner's Skoda Fabia (now gone, thank heavens). Pressurised water system with overheating usually only means one thing: head gasket. The cheater's fix is to remove the thermostat to try to force the car to run cooler, and also to bridge the contacts on the cooling fan so it runs all the time. The more the car is used like this, the rougher it becomes (bore wear, loss of compression – eventually a warped head) and the harder it gets to start. Like I say, I hope the diagnosis provides otherwise but it does sound VERY familiar. Good luck.
 
Mr B certainly is a thoroughly good egg and has more or less sorted it with the magic VAG Com!
After several re-starts and fault clearing I am left with a car which is running like a dream and a small issue with an inlet flap which I will sort shortly.
I was beginning to think I had been sold a pup but my A2 enthusiasm has been restored.
Thank you.
 
Glad it's worked out, but I'm intrigued - what did anyone do to stop the overheating/pressurising? On my partner's car, the fault codes were reset and the car ran OK for a few days, then it all kicked off again.
 
KSCarrera said:
Glad it's worked out, but I'm intrigued - what did anyone do to stop the overheating/pressurising? On my partner's car, the fault codes were reset and the car ran OK for a few days, then it all kicked off again.
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The overheating had already been resolved but there were plenty of errors that looked like they would have been caused by the overheating problems.

The one remaining fault after the rest were cleared was the notorious flap error 17439.

So I recommended Alan to het it checked out as soon as he gets chance.

Steve B
 
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