Just broken down need advise please

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Adam Hilton
May 5, 2009
435
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York/Kingston
Was driving the other day and the car started to run rough and the revs dropping, especially between gear changes, pulled over switched it off and it would turn over but not fire up, push started it and drove it another ten miles.
Left it for 3 days as I was going down the London for Uni, came back tonight and it started but was running rough again revs all over the place, stopped at a cash point and it stalled as I slowed down and now won't start at all, just turning over, had to replace the alternater as it had corroded a couple years ago, could it be this again? Or a temp sensor or something?

Car is a mk4 1.4 16v dab model

Any help appreciated

Adam.
 
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Guinness

Finally got the BMW
Nov 29, 2006
4,422
1
Newcastle
Doubt it will be the alt, you can test this easily enough with a multimeter however and check the red battery light comes on on the dash.

It could be a coilpack although the symptoms sounds slightly different to usually expected or a belt thats slipped.

If you can get access to vagcom thismay be your best bet.
 
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