Golf III 1997 1.6 GL Stops

26.11.2004
For over one year i have suffered with a car stopping wherer it want's. It allways happends after 5 to 10 minuts and I am not able to start it again befor another 2-3 minutes. The starter runs but the engine would not start. It may happend 1-3 times when the car has a bad day, thus it may be 14 days between the insidents. It never happends on long tours, but if you take 5 minutes breake it can happen.

The mecanics have scanned the car without finding anyting and they have tried a new coil and a distrubuter, but stil....... I have noticed several other with simular problems on this web-site.

01.12.2004:
After been at a specialist dealing with starters/eletric problems. It seems like it is a smal 20£ part in connection with engine controler system. If I had gone to a vw-store they had changed to computer unit, for a cost of 1000£.

Again, I am a happy owner of a Golf 1997 GL

hey can you tell us what was that piece you replaced and what kinfd of golf you have because i have a similar problem but mine dont start anymore at all maybe you can help thanks..

it wasn't the crank position sensor (aka hall probe) was it?

j.

Howdy, see this link your car shouldn't be much different.
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=344290