Hi!
I have a Gasoline 1.4 WV Touran from 2007, 120,000km. I bought it two years ago from a particular and I wish I had never bought it. A few months ago I spent some money changing part of the cooling circuit and changing the timing chain. Now the car (specially when is cold and with the short gears) doesn't respond when stepping the accelerator. It just doesn't respond, rpms just start to increase after 20 seconds stepping the accelerator (fully pressed) and then all the sudden the car works. This happens specially with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear, and when the car is still cold. In the garage they think its the turbo and are estimating a repair cost near 1000€.
The problem doesn't seem to be in the injectors, although I and the garage could be wrong.
Any ideas of what could it be?
Thank you a lot for your help!
AMCP
Just in case is reading this threat, there was a short, and the turbo and electromagnetic clutch were affected. I had to replace them both, a pretty expensive repair.
Thanks for reporting back with the fix.
I wish I had never bought it
Yea those cars are horrible and even if you fix what's wrong with it now it's just going to get worse from here on out. Scotty hates VW's and you've found out first hand why. They're okay when they're new and just get worse the longer you own them. You're best off selling this thing for whatever it's worth and buying a better car like a Honda or Toyota.
Did this problem start right after the timing chain was done? Is the shop that says it is the turbo the same one that did your timing chain? IF both are true, I would get a second opinion from another shop before I spent that much.
I just saw what the solution will probably be. I got an OBD scanner and two codes showed up:
1. P10AD
2. P2262
Could it just be a fuse blown? Or a loose electrical connection?
Surfin on youtube I've seen people with similar problems, they solved it changing the water pump clutch ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfjGLkSTXvw&ab_channel=FourRingsAuto), I just wonder if that's something that could have been caused/advised during the replacement of the timing chain 2 months before the problems started...
What do you think about the diagnosis? Other people I see that fixed the problem greasing the actuator and replacing N75 & N24 valve