Hey guys,
OK I had to put this in the forums just because it has irritated me greatly the last couple weeks and I've been without my B5 now for over a week.
Heres the story...
I was down at the in-laws visiting when the car refused to start as we were leaving the grocery store. All guages and lights inside the car were going crazy and relays were firing like mad. I immediately assumed the battery had just miraculously gone completely dead in a 15 minute period... OK fine the battery is almost 6 years old. So, Advance Auto shows up and puts a new battery in, car starts up fine and idles fine. But when I go to give it gas, RPM's rise to about 1200 and then it falls right back to idle like someone yanked my foot off the throttle. I'm driving a 5-speed to I can't even get the car moving with 1200 RPMs.
So AAA ends up towing the car to a local stealership where I am told they are an "authorized" VW repair facility. The proceed to play with the car for a week and eventually shrug their shoulders saying they can't fix it. The CEL points to a throttle body error but everything they try doesn't change anything.
I called my regular stealership back home and Jim (the man) says "Oh yeah if you had a dead battery, most likely you need a throttle body adaptation... you mean they didn't perform one???" So now my car is being towed back home so my dealer can do this 30 sec. TB adapt. So 250 bucks, 2 tows, and 12 days later, I think I finally get to drive my car again.
My question is, has anyone else experiences similar problems after replacing a dead battery? Is it worth my money to go get the Vag-Com so I can do the TB adapt myself (assuming that is really the problem here)?
As always, thanks for the insight!
-Chris
OK I had to put this in the forums just because it has irritated me greatly the last couple weeks and I've been without my B5 now for over a week.
Heres the story...
I was down at the in-laws visiting when the car refused to start as we were leaving the grocery store. All guages and lights inside the car were going crazy and relays were firing like mad. I immediately assumed the battery had just miraculously gone completely dead in a 15 minute period... OK fine the battery is almost 6 years old. So, Advance Auto shows up and puts a new battery in, car starts up fine and idles fine. But when I go to give it gas, RPM's rise to about 1200 and then it falls right back to idle like someone yanked my foot off the throttle. I'm driving a 5-speed to I can't even get the car moving with 1200 RPMs.
So AAA ends up towing the car to a local stealership where I am told they are an "authorized" VW repair facility. The proceed to play with the car for a week and eventually shrug their shoulders saying they can't fix it. The CEL points to a throttle body error but everything they try doesn't change anything.
I called my regular stealership back home and Jim (the man) says "Oh yeah if you had a dead battery, most likely you need a throttle body adaptation... you mean they didn't perform one???" So now my car is being towed back home so my dealer can do this 30 sec. TB adapt. So 250 bucks, 2 tows, and 12 days later, I think I finally get to drive my car again.
My question is, has anyone else experiences similar problems after replacing a dead battery? Is it worth my money to go get the Vag-Com so I can do the TB adapt myself (assuming that is really the problem here)?
As always, thanks for the insight!
-Chris