2011 Volkswagen Golf Engine Problems

“Check engine and glow plug light came on, the car eventually would only run at around 50% power. After driving for another 20 miles it eventually shut down. Vw conducted a diagnostic and told me the hpfp was damaged and that debris made its way into the engine. Also the particulate filter and catalytic converter needed replacement. The car has 130k and has never had a gasoline incident. I expected the tdi to make it a lot longer than this.”

“I was entering an intersection at 10mph and halfway into the intersection, my car stalled and stopped. It slowly bumped the car in my rear. No injury or damage noted. I put the car in park, turned off the car and restarted it and drop it to the nearest parking lot. This is a vw GOLF tdi 2011!”

“While exiting the off ramp of the highway at 1100 at night the car died and I was lucky enough to make it to the side of the road as traffic behind me was locking up their brakes and swerving to avoid a collision. After an expensive tow and finally getting the vehicle to the dealer I was told the high pressure fuel pump had exploded in the tank sending metal into the whole fuel system. I am told the repair bill will cost around $6500 to fix. …”

“After driving my 2011 GOLF tdi for a couple of minutes in the morning, I was traveling around 25 MPH and my engine suddenly stuttered and then died. I immediately pulled as far over as I could to let traffic go by. I tried to restart the engine several times, but to no avail. After about 5 minutes of sitting in traffic, I decided to just hold the key in the starter position until, after about 20 seconds, the engine was starting to catch and then it started again. …”

“My GOLF tdi suffered a catastrophic failure of the high pressure fuel pump (hpfp) causing my vehicle to stall in the middle of traffic. Luckily every warning light on my dash lit up about 30 seconds prior to complete failure allowing me to begin to merge from the left hand lane and coast with my hazards on to the right lane. From initial symptom to complete vehicle failure was less than 1 minute. Searching online this is a common failure, one that results in upwards of an $8000 repair.”