Got a strange question to ask those who may be in the know.
I used to own a '97 VW Polo 1.9D, which I passed on to my missus. She drove around in it for a while and loved it, but over time it began to show signs of being poorly. It would seem to surge and feel like it was misfiring and then clear again, this would probably happen once a week or so, until one day the car started to do the surging while on a dual carriageway, unfortunately that time, it didn't clear and cut out instead. This was to be the last time it would ever run.
It was towed back home and myself and my dad (a diesel engineer) looked around, tried various things and still couldn't start it. It was put on diagnostics, but no codes came up, it wouldn't bump start, it wouldn't tow start, so it was assumed that the fuel injection pump had indeed given up.
My girlfriends cousin was after a small project and bought the Polo off her, with the intention of either replacing the pump or changing the engine. Fast forward to 9 months later and the cousin's dad was talking to me about it, they'd taken the injection pump off and had it checked and to their surprise, it came back as being fine and nothing wrong with it. He enquired further, and was informed that these cars used a Dual-Mass flywheel (like the Ford TDCi), and that may be the cause, as the flywheel triggered the fuelling via sensors, main problem being, a new flywheel of this sort costs around £1000.
Is this true? If not, what could the problem be, and also for the record, what is the difference between a dual-mass flywheel and a normal one? I have heard that Ford have gone back to normal flywheels after having so many complaints about the price and size of job of replacing one.
Mark
I used to own a '97 VW Polo 1.9D, which I passed on to my missus. She drove around in it for a while and loved it, but over time it began to show signs of being poorly. It would seem to surge and feel like it was misfiring and then clear again, this would probably happen once a week or so, until one day the car started to do the surging while on a dual carriageway, unfortunately that time, it didn't clear and cut out instead. This was to be the last time it would ever run.
It was towed back home and myself and my dad (a diesel engineer) looked around, tried various things and still couldn't start it. It was put on diagnostics, but no codes came up, it wouldn't bump start, it wouldn't tow start, so it was assumed that the fuel injection pump had indeed given up.
My girlfriends cousin was after a small project and bought the Polo off her, with the intention of either replacing the pump or changing the engine. Fast forward to 9 months later and the cousin's dad was talking to me about it, they'd taken the injection pump off and had it checked and to their surprise, it came back as being fine and nothing wrong with it. He enquired further, and was informed that these cars used a Dual-Mass flywheel (like the Ford TDCi), and that may be the cause, as the flywheel triggered the fuelling via sensors, main problem being, a new flywheel of this sort costs around £1000.
Is this true? If not, what could the problem be, and also for the record, what is the difference between a dual-mass flywheel and a normal one? I have heard that Ford have gone back to normal flywheels after having so many complaints about the price and size of job of replacing one.
Mark
This *might* be the Polo's problem.
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