Won't go over 20mph and engine juddering

[oldsoldier232]

I have a 2016 T6 with 57000 miles and I broke down in the middle of the Scottish Highlands at the begining of March.

The problem started after parking and restarting to move on in the Highlands. The van seemed to be suffering the following:

- wouldn't go over 20mph
- max 1500rpm
- engine juddering
- revs up/down even when idle
- no warning lights on dash

I was eventually recovered home and booked it into my local garage. When I drove it to the garage a couple of weeks later, there appeared nothing wrong with it, it drove perfectly fine. There was no black smoke as has been reported on previous threads.

The garage could not find anything wrong. No diagnostic faults. Injectors ok, turbo ok, fuel not contaminated. All ok and no dashboard warning lights or diagnostic faults.

It was dropped off at my home and I booked it into a VW specialist a month later.

The van drove fine to the second garage (VW specialist), about 10miles away. They diagnosed an EGR fault, said the EGR needed replacing. There was no diagnostic fault prior to this by the original garage and the EGR valve was replaced in September last year. It has done 2800 miles since replacement.

I am now scratching my head and not an expert so don't want to be ripped off. The original garage has agreed to replace the EGR as a faulty part under warranty, no cost to me. But I am not convinced this is the reason, surely it would have been picked up by the original garage and surely the engine management light would have come on? Also, if it isn't the EGR, what can it be?

Makes me wanna drive my van into a field and torch it lol.

Would be grateful for any advice Thanks in advance

Craig

 

[Gavinda]

My advice would be to remove anything which could be sold before you torch it - get a friend or relative who lives some distance from you to sell them.

 

[rod_vw]

Obviously dropped into limp mode from your description of the symptoms, are you saying those symptoms have recurred and are still there?

If you can get a full VCDS scan and post it on here then we will have a better chance of helping you.

 

[Nige_g]

My advice would be to remove anything which could be sold before you torch it - get a friend or relative who lives some distance from you to sell them.

Or give stuff away free on here to buy the forums silence. You'd be getting your insurance money anyway.

 

[DaveD]

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a fault code stored in the ECU but the important part is;

The original garage has agreed to replace the EGR as a faulty part under warranty, no cost to me. But I am not convinced this is the reason, surely it would have been picked up by the original garage and surely the engine management light would have come on? Also, if it isn't the EGR, what can it be?

It's under a warranty.
If they believe that it's an EGR fault, let them replace the EGR valve, at least if it happens again you can eliminate that as a cause.

 

[rod_vw]

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a fault code stored in the ECU but the important part is;

It's under a warranty.
If they believe that it's an EGR fault, let them replace the EGR valve, at least if it happens again you can eliminate that as a cause.

It won't hurt to get a scan before they prat about with it any more then @oldsoldier232 may have one up on the garage come the time they mess it up completely!