ECU Failure
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 7:55 pm
Here's what's happened...
Driving for about one minute and suddenly most of the lights on the dash came on, a couple of seconds later the engine cut out. I retried restarting the engine but to no avail. Electrics would still work. After a few minutes, if I was lucky the engine would start but would cut out again just seconds later. Car had to be towed to independent VW garage.
After looking at the car for a day, the garage called to let me know they were taking a really good look at it. Their fear was that the ECU was shot and the cost for replacement is 700pounds alone. They spent another day checking all cables and fuses, and confirmed that the ECU is definitely need replacing.
Total cost for replacement ECU and labour is 1254.60. As I'm sure you can understand, I'm pretty upset considering this is a 2011 VW with just 33k miles on the clock - the ECU should not be failing. Unfortunately I'm 6months out of my Arnold Clark warranty. My only slight hope is that perhaps given the high cost maybe Volkwagen will offer some level of goodwill?
Any advice or recommendations would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Sarah Jane
Driving for about one minute and suddenly most of the lights on the dash came on, a couple of seconds later the engine cut out. I retried restarting the engine but to no avail. Electrics would still work. After a few minutes, if I was lucky the engine would start but would cut out again just seconds later. Car had to be towed to independent VW garage.
After looking at the car for a day, the garage called to let me know they were taking a really good look at it. Their fear was that the ECU was shot and the cost for replacement is 700pounds alone. They spent another day checking all cables and fuses, and confirmed that the ECU is definitely need replacing.
Total cost for replacement ECU and labour is 1254.60. As I'm sure you can understand, I'm pretty upset considering this is a 2011 VW with just 33k miles on the clock - the ECU should not be failing. Unfortunately I'm 6months out of my Arnold Clark warranty. My only slight hope is that perhaps given the high cost maybe Volkwagen will offer some level of goodwill?
Any advice or recommendations would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Sarah Jane