IOLAIREQ

Hello everyone. Just joined the site due to having exactly the same problem as djgilson. I am a motor engineer who has given up trying to retire because the buggers keep on finding me. I specialise in classics and drive a 30 year old Audi 80 V6 as my daily. Last year the wife finally decided to give up her great old Beetle for something modern. She fancied an SUV of some sort, but I warned her that I would not tolerate a Range Rover or any of the other appallingly huge petrol guzzlers. I suggested a Yeti as I've always admired the cleverness of the design. We found a 2012 one owner 1.4 TFSI with only 32K on the clock and absolutely pristine. To my surprise I love driving it and it's been great up until recently when it developed the above fault. I gave it to a colleague who does my MOTs and has massive amounts of diagnostic equipment. He charged 240 quid for diagnostics and a new battery, thank you very much. It was still the same. I then used the good old method of common sense and replaced the fuel pressure regulator on top of the pump. That actually improved the problem but didn't cure it. I found this site tonight and when I read about the relay I realised this was almost certainly the problem. Although mine is a petrol it has two "100" relays on the board. I swapped them to check and the fault has gone! Sadly, although these relays are marked Hella, they are also made in bloody China!! I have ordered 2 from Amazon for 9 quid each, made in Germany. This is an exercise in modern diagnostics and teaches us that experience is far more practical than a code reader.