Hi folks. In need of some advice plz. I was driving my car earlier ( it’s a 60 plate octy vrs tdi) I put the car in 3rd gear when it lost power and then died and wouldn’t start back up. I tried starting it up immediately but just kept turning over until on the 3rd/4th attempt it fired up but didn’t feel rite or tho it was running ok. So I took it to my local garage who said so far they have only found a throttle pedal sensor that is intermittent so until they look Friday properly no accurate diagnosis. But in sept last year my turbo blew with the same thing that happened to me today expect that there was a lot of blue smoke which was clearly the turbo letting go. So my question is does this sound like the start of another turbo on its way or something else? The injectors are all ok as these were checked in January. The turbo was a recon.

If turbo fails, car usually goes into limp mode, but should still start.

 

Did you try to jumpstart it and/or another battery? I've seem many issues which ended beeing caused by a bad battery (Altough at first you wouldn't guess that). 

Nowadays, in case of 'strange' issues, I always try battery first (jumpstart it or replace it, whatever is available). Wouldn't just by a battery to do so, but its usually not an issue to get a replacement for testing.

 

I didn’t no I just started it eventually anyway! I hadn’t heard about the battery thing would that cause it to cut out whilst it was up and running fine to begin with?

Just an update. I heard from the garage earlier and it turns out it’s the throttle body sensor, so should have my car back Wednesday minus £360 all in!