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Hey,
I've owned a few VAG cars (VW Golf and Audi A6) back in the day and I had been looking for a bigger car after moving here from London.
So being a VAG fan, I bought myself a 2005 Touareg V6 a few weeks ago, the car has 49K miles/80K kms on the clock. I had it inspected before I bought it and it didn't really show me any problems except cosmetic issues and a fuel pump/battery issue.
I used ClubTouareg to do a lot of work on the car myself and a few things with the help of the local workshop.
- Battery Replaced (CT DIY Guide) - Original was a 80Amps, I put in 88Amps
- Fuel Pump Replaced (Mechanic)
- New VW Rear Badge (Simple Enough)
- Paint retouch on the the driver side door (Simple Enough)
The car was pretty much perfect apart from that. I ran it for a couple of days, took it to the detailer to get it cleaned up. Did a decent enough job of it. So all cool, car ran fine for a few days, no issues... Until a couple of days and now today it gave up on me!
Initial Symptoms
- When I press down on the accelerator, it would lose power, no acceleration but it would be fine on lower revs.
- I thought it might be water on the coilpack/airbox/sensor so I opened it up and cleaned it just in case but no change.
- The car ran a bit better today, even responding up until 4K RPM and then the same slacking/lack of power/refusal to accelerate/stalling behaviour.
Current Situation
- When I got into the drive way, the car sorta spluttered(?) and died.
- I waited a few seconds, tried to start it up again and it sprung back to life and then a few seconds later, just died again.
- Third time I tried, it comes on again and I got a warning on the MFI saying 'ALTERNATOR WORKSHOP' and the car died again.
- It starts up but dies in a few seconds of that. I don't know what's up.
Anyone want to read through and offer me some advice? The VW shop here has a bit of a bad rep and terribly expensive! I got all the work done in-house (Thank you ClubTouareg DIY's)/local workshop who did an alright job.
What do you guys reckon? Any tips for a fellow owner?
I've owned a few VAG cars (VW Golf and Audi A6) back in the day and I had been looking for a bigger car after moving here from London.
So being a VAG fan, I bought myself a 2005 Touareg V6 a few weeks ago, the car has 49K miles/80K kms on the clock. I had it inspected before I bought it and it didn't really show me any problems except cosmetic issues and a fuel pump/battery issue.
I used ClubTouareg to do a lot of work on the car myself and a few things with the help of the local workshop.
- Battery Replaced (CT DIY Guide) - Original was a 80Amps, I put in 88Amps
- Fuel Pump Replaced (Mechanic)
- New VW Rear Badge (Simple Enough)
- Paint retouch on the the driver side door (Simple Enough)
The car was pretty much perfect apart from that. I ran it for a couple of days, took it to the detailer to get it cleaned up. Did a decent enough job of it. So all cool, car ran fine for a few days, no issues... Until a couple of days and now today it gave up on me!
Initial Symptoms
- When I press down on the accelerator, it would lose power, no acceleration but it would be fine on lower revs.
- I thought it might be water on the coilpack/airbox/sensor so I opened it up and cleaned it just in case but no change.
- The car ran a bit better today, even responding up until 4K RPM and then the same slacking/lack of power/refusal to accelerate/stalling behaviour.
Current Situation
- When I got into the drive way, the car sorta spluttered(?) and died.
- I waited a few seconds, tried to start it up again and it sprung back to life and then a few seconds later, just died again.
- Third time I tried, it comes on again and I got a warning on the MFI saying 'ALTERNATOR WORKSHOP' and the car died again.
- It starts up but dies in a few seconds of that. I don't know what's up.
Anyone want to read through and offer me some advice? The VW shop here has a bit of a bad rep and terribly expensive! I got all the work done in-house (Thank you ClubTouareg DIY's)/local workshop who did an alright job.
What do you guys reckon? Any tips for a fellow owner?