1999 Golf 2 litre High Water Temperature
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I have a 1999 Golf, with a 2 litre engine (APK?), the temperature gauge was going very high and the temp warning light came on with the associated beeping sound.
Checked under the bonnet and it was not hot, did a bit of searching and various forums said to replace the temp sender with a green one (old one was black), could not find any reference to failed waterpumps. So i replaced the sender, very easy job. Drove the car and the same thing happened.
Went to a local VW specialist with the hope of him fixing it. He said he knew what the problem was and he could look at it in 5 weeks! So I asked him if he would tell me what the likely problem was.
He said no, book it in and come back in 5 weeks! As if I'm going to have the car of the road for that period of time.
Went to another shop nearby who has done work on my other cars previously, didn't go there originally as I honestly thought I would be better off taking it to a specialist.
Anyway, they said probable waterpump failure as some of the plastic impeller bits break. So I'll get them to replace the cam belt at the same time.
I have learnt a good lesson, avoid the nob at the VW place, what a surly prat he is.
Checked under the bonnet and it was not hot, did a bit of searching and various forums said to replace the temp sender with a green one (old one was black), could not find any reference to failed waterpumps. So i replaced the sender, very easy job. Drove the car and the same thing happened.
Went to a local VW specialist with the hope of him fixing it. He said he knew what the problem was and he could look at it in 5 weeks! So I asked him if he would tell me what the likely problem was.
He said no, book it in and come back in 5 weeks! As if I'm going to have the car of the road for that period of time.
Went to another shop nearby who has done work on my other cars previously, didn't go there originally as I honestly thought I would be better off taking it to a specialist.
Anyway, they said probable waterpump failure as some of the plastic impeller bits break. So I'll get them to replace the cam belt at the same time.
I have learnt a good lesson, avoid the nob at the VW place, what a surly prat he is.
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