Afternoon all,
Last Friday my car suddenly lost power when trying to pull out at a junction. A quick restart presented a number of errors;
Engine limited to 4000 rpm
Stop start not available
48v battery error
Please do not continue to drive and seek assistance.
(not 100% sure on the exact wording of them).
Basically the car was stuttering and not moving well. Managed to get it 30 seconds down the road into a carpark.
Called seat assistance and an hour later a VAG technician came out to look at the car. After almost an hour of diagnostics, he believed there was an issue with the fuel pump or perhaps an injector was stuck open. Basically only about 25% of the fuel was getting into the engine, the rest out the exhaust.
After then waiting almost 3 hours for the recovery truck
it was finally taken to my seat garage. I was told they would have a quick look on the Friday, but run full tests on Monday.
To give Seat some credit they organised a hire car for me, and have been driving round an almost new Audi Q3!
After hearing nothing since Saturday when I dropped the spare key off, I decided to phone today.
So turns out they've hit a brick wall, and have had to order a specialist tool to continue investigating the issue. Only kicker is the tool is being delivered between the 4th-7th August. So I'm looking at 2 weeks without the car. Its nice to have the Audi but I'm always on edge driving hire cars, you never know what they will try to claim!
Anyways just wanted to share this with everyone, and if anyone has had the same issue, please do say!
TLDR: My first edition turned a year old and broke down, potential fuel pump issue. Garage has no idea what's wrong.
Last Friday my car suddenly lost power when trying to pull out at a junction. A quick restart presented a number of errors;
Engine limited to 4000 rpm
Stop start not available
48v battery error
Please do not continue to drive and seek assistance.
(not 100% sure on the exact wording of them).
Basically the car was stuttering and not moving well. Managed to get it 30 seconds down the road into a carpark.
Called seat assistance and an hour later a VAG technician came out to look at the car. After almost an hour of diagnostics, he believed there was an issue with the fuel pump or perhaps an injector was stuck open. Basically only about 25% of the fuel was getting into the engine, the rest out the exhaust.
After then waiting almost 3 hours for the recovery truck
it was finally taken to my seat garage. I was told they would have a quick look on the Friday, but run full tests on Monday. To give Seat some credit they organised a hire car for me, and have been driving round an almost new Audi Q3!
After hearing nothing since Saturday when I dropped the spare key off, I decided to phone today.
So turns out they've hit a brick wall, and have had to order a specialist tool to continue investigating the issue. Only kicker is the tool is being delivered between the 4th-7th August. So I'm looking at 2 weeks without the car. Its nice to have the Audi but I'm always on edge driving hire cars, you never know what they will try to claim!
Anyways just wanted to share this with everyone, and if anyone has had the same issue, please do say!
TLDR: My first edition turned a year old and broke down, potential fuel pump issue. Garage has no idea what's wrong.
