silverline Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Hi im a new member to the site, just registered. This is the first decent VW forum i ve come across, unless im missing them? any way i ve recently bought a mk3 golf VR6 which is a fantastic car! but it has a "stutter" which is always there regardless of how its driven. spoke to VW and they said a common problem for that is the distributor box can break down and causing arching, but i dont think its that. they also said about plugs and leads which is another obvious and plausable solution. was just wondering if any of you guys have come across such a problem and if you know of any other ways to cure it? apart from that the car is great, its only covered 83k miles so cant imagine there would be too much of a problem specially being a VW?! any way i appreciate any feed back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritey Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Tobes may be able to help with this, but I believe he's out of the country at the mo, back soon I think. Welcome to TSN by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverline Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 thank you. i ll keep an eye out for tobes then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowgli Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 Give this place a try: http://www.forum.golfgti.co.uk/index.php?board=8.0 Lots of info on there about the cutting out problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 silverline, if u havent already found it try www.vr6oc.co.uk its very helpful with lots of info on all vr problems!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverline Posted March 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2005 yeah i ve seen it. every time i tried to go to it it just said "this page cannot be displayed" managed to get to it eventually and there is already a post on there with the same problem. by the way nice mk3 seadogvr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Could be the coil Pack. Whats the year of the car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverline Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 its a '94. i thought the coil pack as well but i checked that twice using the water spray method and its definately not arcing. dont think i mentioned when it stutters the lights dim to. i ve been told to check battery connections etc but it just doesn't seem to be that sort of fault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seadog Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 [ QUOTE ] yeah i ve seen it. every time i tried to go to it it just said "this page cannot be displayed" managed to get to it eventually and there is already a post on there with the same problem. by the way nice mk3 seadogvr. [/ QUOTE ] cheers mate hav u tried checkin it usin the vag com and seein if it throws up any fault codes?? that mite help u to solving the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverline Posted March 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 my local garage has a diagnostic computer which i ll get them to plug into the golf, that should give me the same fault codes as a vag-com but it will cost me a lot less than VW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverline Posted March 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 the golf had a diagnostic test today which revealed 4 faults!! the main 1 which i think is the cause of my problems is 00532-supply voltage too high, its charging at 17.5 volts!!!!!! so i went out and bought an alternator regulator hoping thats the problem? is the alternator difficult to remove? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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