Passat (B5) :: 1999 VW Not Starting After Turned It Off
Jun 9, 2011
My 1999 VW Passat is having some starting problems. I drove it home, and turned it off myself, and then it never started again. I replaced the starter, and it works, because i can hear it. The Engine just wont turn over.
So i looked inside the car, and when i turn the key to the battery spot, PRNDetc. doesn't show up on the dash. I also noticed that i can push it backwards in drive.
I have had the transmission replaced recently, and i took it to a couple places and they tried to tell me that my engine was seized. I tend not to think so, because it there was something wrong with the transmission, the engine wouldn't turn over since it is connected to the transmission.
It is a tiptronic transmission. By any chance do you think it could be the transmission circuit board under the shifter? or a fuse, or some kind of linkage in the transmission that is messed up? Possibly the flywheel?
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Was having some issues with my 2000 Passat not starting after only being turned off for a short period of time (long periods of time no problem). My check engine light came was on along with the Emissions Workshop message in the display. I took it in and had it serviced at my local repair shop. They said it was something with a temperature gauge or something to that effect that was causing it to lose a temp reading. Anyways, after the repair the car starts fine, runs great, the check engine light went off and so did the Emissions Workshop display. Then a few days later it came back on...still not having any issues with it starting but what's going on??
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A couple of times since the weather has warmed up, a strange situation occurred with this car.
Turn on the a/c...interior cools off normally. After a while being on though...presumably when the motor is nice and hot...the engine starts acting weird. The temp gauge is right where its supposed to be, but here's the symptoms.
Press the throttle to speed up..and the motor slows down stumbles real bad. let up and it returns to pretty normal idle. if you floor it to get past the 'stumble zone' mostly it works right, but it feels like power is kicking in and out, to the point where you want to pull over because you're not sure if the car is safe to drive.
I'm talking stumble like the motor is about to kill. like its ignoring the input to open the throttle. This car has the hard wired throttle cable, so it can't be anything with an electronic throttle. If we drive around and never turn on the a/c....the symptoms do not occur.
What to check for this? No check engine lights on other than the typical abs lights.
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Went outside to start my '99 V6 and nothing! No interior lights, no door chime, no annoying ding ding with the key in the ignition. The car ran great yesterday but I noticed it sounded like the cooling fan was running long after the car was turned off in my garage.
I tried using a car starter/charger and charged it up for 3 hours - was reading a positive charge on the gauge- but it won't start. When I get ready to crank the car with the charger attached to it, the fan noise kicks in again but it isn't coming from the radiator fan- it sounds like it is coming from under the air intake for the air filter.
When I attempt to start the car,I can best describe the sound as a machine gun like cranking noise that lasts as long as I turn the key. I am hoping it isn't the starter. The battery is less than 2 years old with about 10k miles on it.
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Drove Friday, it was fine. Car sat all weekend. Monday morning, dead as could be again. No dash lights when I put the key in, nothing when I turned it. Maybe a single click, but nothing more (can't remember for sure).
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Took the battery out and ran to the store, assuming a bad or weak battery. They tested and said it's completely fine. Went back home, hooked it back up, car started right up. So now I'm suspecting something's up with the ELM327... I just got it last week, a few days before this all started. Had it hooked up all week long and didn't unplug it till the first time the car wouldn't start. Didn't plug it back in till Monday afternoon's issues.
Could a flaky OBD reader cause these kinds of issues? Anything else I should be checking, or do you think I'm ok as long as I toss out that reader? When I was using the reader last week, it seemed to be reading everything fine and sending the data over to my phone. When the car was dead each time, it acted like the battery was completely disconnected - radio reset, NO lights, etc. Could something with the OBD reader mess up the computer and make it act like that, and then a little time lets the computer reset or something?
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