Sudden Shut off in 2006 jetta TID

[TDICHICK]

The car idles smoothly, no glithes or jumping there. It is always consistent. Will check the plug when I get home tomorrow.

[chittychittybangbang]

Then it's most likely not a bad flywheel or timing belt being off.

[TDICHICK]

No, it isn't anything obvious. There have been teams of mechanics going over this car for the three years since the problem has been present (onset the first summer I owned this one). We thought they had the problem fixed when the grounds were bad around the first clutch, but five months after a new clutch was in there was the same problem again. The really unfortunate part is that no one has ever heard of anything like this happening, not on TDI forums or in the VW customer database.

[farmboy98922]

Originally Posted by farmboy98922

My jetta is doing the same thing. It has got so bad that I can't drive it. It is in the shop now. I had it at a dealer in Bellevue but it was not doing it all the time and they could not figure it out. I now have it at a indenpendent shop. i will post the results in the next coulple of days.Mine is a auto transmission It would never die but just drop to a idle by the time i would get stopped it would start running fine. this went on for about a month until it got to bad to drive. I have 102000.0 miles on it.

The problem turned out to be the wireharness from the ecm to the camshaft sesor the pins were not makeing contact at the ecm. $850.00 later the problem seam's to be fixted

[TDICHICK]

The car goes back into yet another dealership on the 1st of April. They have offered me about 15% off whatever deal I can make on a new car -- plus full trade in value of this crazy possessed 2006. The question now is, with the problems the 2010s are having, is this actually a good trade off? Any ideas?

[iceman]

They'll make about 15% off reselling your car to someone else so you'll break even if you had sold it yourself. I'm sure that because of the problem, they'll lowball you anyways. I would be mad because the car was under warranty when you first reported it and they just waited until the warranty ran out. It's practically a scam. I would look into the camshaft sensor that solved the other guy's problem.

[TDICHICK]

Originally Posted by iceman

I would look into the camshaft sensor that solved the other guy's problem.

Well, they might make the money off re-selling it, and we may be able to push for a better deal, but this thing is just plain dangerous. They aren't able to fix it, and probably never will. Should I have to buy a new car because of it? No. and that is what ticks me off too.

Unfortunately, my car is not doing what the other guy's car is doing. It is under 50,000 and just turns off, doesn't do other things while you're trying to drive, etc. I'll have them check it none the less.

[TDICHICK]

The car is in the shop again, and it seems that they may have found a problem with one or more of the fuel injector pump seals leaking carbon back into the fuel tank. Apparently the fuel tank was full of carbon and the carbon in the fuel was shreading the new filters we've put in (6+ in under 50,000 mi). They're currently re-doing the fuel intake system for the car and cleaning out the fuel tank. It'll take a week and we'll see what happens from there.

We'll see if this was the problem, or just another issue with the car. I have a feeling that the problem would have been a lot less intermittent if this was the issue. Regardless, I'll have a very clean fuel system by the time they are done with it this time. Then it will just mean driving it until it turns off again, and then taking it back in...again.

[Gruppe d]

Are they at least doing it for no charge since this should have been fixed under warranty? Perhaps there is a fuel problem with one of the 2 pumps because it's pretty unusual for the fuel filters to get shredded.

[TDICHICK]

Originally Posted by Gruppe d

Are they at least doing it for no charge since this should have been fixed under warranty? Perhaps there is a fuel problem with one of the 2 pumps because it's pretty unusual for the fuel filters to get shredded.

Yes, the car has stayed in an 'extended' warranty due to this problem. The car probably should have been replaced years ago when we realized that they were going to be this unable to find a solution to the problem. The fuel filters were getting shredded by the excess carbon floating around in the diesel tank. It seems that since the carbon was leeching back into the 'clean' fuel around the fuel injector (or more than one of them) that it was then hitting the filter and clogging it and such.

So far, no problems, but it isn't hot out yet, and I am still unsure as to whether or not this is an actual fix. But, the car is under 50,000 miles and now has a new fuel system...