Funkmaster
New Member
Hi, my name is Stephen, I’ve been following this discussion with great interest. I have a Audi A2 TDI 1.4 on a 2004. During the winter months it became increasingly difficult to start. Thought it may be a battery problem, so gave it a full charge.
Manage to get it started, but now had the engine management light permanently on. The glow plugs warning light, flash continuously, so I changed them all. The car now would start and drive perfectly, although the glow plugs light still remained flashing.
Then the engine began cutting out whenever traveling at low speeds or stationary. Starting probably came back with vengeance, although after it would restart after between 10 minutes and in excess of an hour.
All the symptoms discussed throughout this discussion, I had been experiencing. The Audi continued to sporadically stop or wouldn’t start, to the point I needed to call the RAC. I was told I needed a new battery, RAC where very keen to sale me one at cost of £159. I politely declined and replace it at a much reduced cost from euro parts.
Wrongly thinking I’d cured the problem. The symptoms persisted, with exactly the issues discussed with in this forum.
Cutting to the Case, I bit the bullet and took it to a local VW Audi garage, who ran a diagnostic check and was advised the crankshaft censor needed replacement. £325 later the Audi is back to its trusted and reliable self again.
The only disappointment, is that I too researched the cost of purchasing the crankshaft sensor and found it to be remarkably cheap from Euro parts, and after watching a few YouTube videos, thought it wasn’t outside of my comfort zone to try and fix myself.
So after replacing the glow plugs and battery unnecessarily and parting with a substantial amount of cash, I’m now a happy bunny enjoying the pleasure of owning and driving such a Icon car.
