hartless
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Hi everyone
Just thought I'd post up a story of a recent problem I had with my Ibiza, a Mk4 130 tdi - an 03 plate thats done about 96,000 miles now.
Very inconspicuous start to it all, I was pulling out of a T junction and accelerating away into second and the engine stalled. Thinking I was just being a muppet, I went to start the engine again and found it wouldnt turn over at all. No warning lights on the dash, plenty of coolant/fluids etc and no big 'bang' or anything so it was a bit of a head scratcher.
The RAC guy took one look and confirmed that its wasnt going anywhere, as the engine would only make a quarter of a revolution or so before stopping. After a tow the guys at the garage first suspected the timing belt had gone / jumped, then a failed valve. Having a good look around and taking the head off the engine proved both of these to be incorrect.
It turned out in the end that the selector fork for 1st/2nd had broken off (a failed rivet apparently) and fallen into the gearbox, fouling a couple of gears and preventing the engine turning over. To resolve this required a full strip and rebuild of the gearbox. Needless to say this was a pretty expensive one!
The interesting thing was that after getting it back my mechanic has said that he's seen it on a few VAG cars with this type of gearbox, particularly the more powerful ones (which to be fair this Ibiza isn't, compared with, for example, Audi S3s etc). I dont exactly drive this car to the max so I'm a little surprised that it happened really, especially on one of the components which is supposed to be one of the rock solid German bits!
I was wondering if anyone (especially those with remaps etc) has seen this problem before?
Just thought I'd post up a story of a recent problem I had with my Ibiza, a Mk4 130 tdi - an 03 plate thats done about 96,000 miles now.
Very inconspicuous start to it all, I was pulling out of a T junction and accelerating away into second and the engine stalled. Thinking I was just being a muppet, I went to start the engine again and found it wouldnt turn over at all. No warning lights on the dash, plenty of coolant/fluids etc and no big 'bang' or anything so it was a bit of a head scratcher.
The RAC guy took one look and confirmed that its wasnt going anywhere, as the engine would only make a quarter of a revolution or so before stopping. After a tow the guys at the garage first suspected the timing belt had gone / jumped, then a failed valve. Having a good look around and taking the head off the engine proved both of these to be incorrect.
It turned out in the end that the selector fork for 1st/2nd had broken off (a failed rivet apparently) and fallen into the gearbox, fouling a couple of gears and preventing the engine turning over. To resolve this required a full strip and rebuild of the gearbox. Needless to say this was a pretty expensive one!
The interesting thing was that after getting it back my mechanic has said that he's seen it on a few VAG cars with this type of gearbox, particularly the more powerful ones (which to be fair this Ibiza isn't, compared with, for example, Audi S3s etc). I dont exactly drive this car to the max so I'm a little surprised that it happened really, especially on one of the components which is supposed to be one of the rock solid German bits!
I was wondering if anyone (especially those with remaps etc) has seen this problem before?
something else to worry about then.
Bloody clever guys then.
Just what i was thinking!
