1st drive today for 8 week! :D // but wasn't all plain sailing :s
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It's getting the fuel mate, and it's getting a spark, but it will just not ignite mate....
Yeh but the only reason for that is they're not getting it together at the right time, that's my thinking. Petrol and air go in, they get compressed into a gas, the spark ignites it and forces the piston down. If the spark is coming late then there wont be enough of a gas anymore and the mixture will just go out the tail pipe, to early and there aint anything to burn yet with the same result. You should google the timing for that engine and see if you can't find some info then set your man right.
Oh ok pal & Any chance you can google it for me?please?
Now you're just taking the piss lol
Now you're just taking the piss lol
Lol how am I? I'm drinking half pissed so can't concentrate properly lmfao!
In that case chill out and deal with it tomorrow
Lol I've needed a drink all week mate
badly been work all week n been without my car for whole month!! 
Needs new head gasket
Crap, how could that stop it running? I've had a number of knackered heads in my time and never have I not been able to start the car. On one I even had to rock it back and forth to try and get the water out the cylinder first then fire it up lol, still ran though. You mechanic is getting more and more questionable dude. Don't get me wrong, maybe it does need the gasket but your guy wont get it to run after, you need the engine running anyway to make that diagnoses, I don't know, it's up to you but I would take the flippin thing elsewhere. Is there nobody on here close by that could help with it?
Considering every 2 week I was filling it with water and fan going crazy and before the engine cut dead I had it running for ages with the fan going mad and there was no water init after it cut dead.... N I have been listening but everything you've said my mechanic has tried it,
the headgasket isnt the reason its not starting though, yea maybe it has gone but the thread is basically about trying to get it to start... i wasnt having a go or anything, but this mechanic sounds useless! its a very basic engine so shouldnt be too difficult to get started especially if hes had it for so long.
download autodata off a torrent site, and search on there how to test all the engine components.
i have it, and it lets you test all the sensors one by one to make sure theyre working properly. just need a multimeter and an LED usually.
Theres a guy i know in shipley that would get it sorted for you 07594 171330 his names andy... If you can get it to him i guarantee he will get it going for you, knows VWs inside out and doesnt charge the earth. hes about 1hr away
download autodata off a torrent site, and search on there how to test all the engine components.
i have it, and it lets you test all the sensors one by one to make sure theyre working properly. just need a multimeter and an LED usually.
Theres a guy i know in shipley that would get it sorted for you 07594 171330 his names andy... If you can get it to him i guarantee he will get it going for you, knows VWs inside out and doesnt charge the earth. hes about 1hr away
i know you wasn't having a go but hes checked everything!! iv'e told him everything from off here what you've all said and I've told you what hes done and said... and its been to 2 different garages and about 3/4 mechanics have had a look at it mate... and it did use to start and run for 10 mins but then would cut out then wouldn't start till the morning again... another 10 mins and then it would cut out again :/ then just completely stopped from firing up (even before my mechanic got to work onit)... & i wont be able to get it to shipley mate no way of getting it there :/
soooo tis all done great news mate
i wish mate :/
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