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Heeellllooo all you tech heads ? I have a weird engine fault on my 2001 Lupo GTI I'm hoping someone can shed light on. So....driving along it feels like my foot has slipped off the clutch as the car kinda 'hiccups' momentarily. There's no rise or fall in engine revs, the car doesn't stall or bring any warning lights up so it's a bit of a mystery. It's really random too as some drives it doesn't do this and others several times in one go. I thought perhaps a mass air flow or lambda sensor fault?? Also thought maybe mucky fuel (although always use super unleaded)...but fault still there. Cheers peeps ?

Hey, well after a lot of trial and error it turned out the actual fan unit itself was faulty. A replacement OEM unit costs £350 (gulp!) and can take up to 10 days to arrive from Germany and to be honest they're probably on back order, so I went for a GSF Car Parts version instead at half the price. Not as good quality of course, but does the trick. At least my car's now back on the road for the show season

So... we've checked the fuses and all are fine and we've replaced the fan switch, thinking that might be faulty. But no, still haven't got to the bottom of this as the fans still don't move, hence overheating. We're at a blank - anyone have any other ideas? Cheers

Hey peeps, Quick Q for the tech heads amongst you. My coolant level is normal when cold, yet my temp gauge starts to slowly go up now when I'm stuck in traffic. Checked when I got home on tickover and the fan isn't cutting in when the car's up to temperature. Had a look online and someone's said it's probably a faulty relay fan switch. Where are these located for the 1.6 engine - are they in the rad itself? Does this mean a replacement rad is needed? P.S - My Loop is without air-con. Cheers Sezza

Thanks for the help guys - pretty much what I thought. Welding it is then.

Helllloooo.... My passenger side door sill is rusting underneath, there's also a few bubbles of rust visible on the outside (basically from previous accident damage repair before I owned the car). Welding new metal in is the only solution, however, before this I wanted to find out if anyone here knows of any companies selling pattern part sills as this may be a quicker solution? Also, are the GTI door sills the same as a standard Lupo - I'm only thinking of the bodykit... Thanks

Thanks for the pointers chaps. Will take a lookie tomorrow

Can anyone advise? I've got through countless batteries in the time I've had the Loop (8 years) and never had the time until now to try and investigate what's causing the battery drain and it's definitely not the sub as this can be switched on/off manually. I charged up the battery at the weekend and already the car's labouring to turn over and central locking going up/down before starting when I went to use it today. Anyone else had similar issue? How's about alternator, does that cause a drain? Cheers

Cheers guys for the advice

Agghhh! I'm having exactly the same problem with my Lupo GTI! Replaced brake light switch and high level brakelight, reset the error code and EPC light has come back on again. Sounds too familiar! Has anyone got to the bottom of this?

Help! My 2001 Lupo GTI has developed this weird intermittent fault. The EPC orange light lit up on my dash a few weeks back, plugged it into diagnostics which showed only one fault code for the brake switch. So I bought a new switch and the light went out - for about 5 miles. Plugged it back in again and it showed the same fault code again. Weird. Cleared this fault code and the light stayed out for about another week. Now it's come back on again...grrrrrr.... Has anyone any idea what the actual problem is? Cheers

Spotted you yesterday afternoon (Sunday) on the sliproad for J5/J6 possibly about to join M20 coastbound or coming off for Blue Bell Hill towards Chatham? Young guy driving... I was playing 'snap' in mine on the other side of the carriageway...

Cool - sounds like a good idea! Whereabouts do you all meet at Bluewater? I've been doing lots of maintenance work on the Loop at the mo, but yes I have plans for some cams, just waiting while they're being tested out at the mo...

@Pippard: Yep you've defo spotted me and my Loop - it's got stickers on back window and body-coloured dash interior

Hmmm... one of my haunts so it may have been me! but then again I can't remember what I did yesterday let alone last week!

Cheers guys! This'll be my first job of the morning. A girl knows how to party!

(Not literally unless you want to pop by....!) I just need to know if the wiring loom for the tailgate pulls straight up the C-pillar on the nearside as it feels tight. Is it clipped in? Do I need to wrap a bit of string around the connections and pull the whole lot up through the body? Really need some answers asap! Cheers!

Cat Cams for the Lupo GTI. Anyone gone for these? Any good? Pros and cons? *Discuss*!

Ahhh yes it looks like they did take the doors off because they didn't bother refitting one of the hinges The noise is worse from the driver's side, so if this door is misaligned how easy is it to 'fix'? Weirdly no you can't feel a draft coming into the car from around the windows/doors because I did think about the door seal/s...

Hello...! I had my car resprayed in March by what turned out to be a bunch of monkeys and ever since I've been putting it back together - bolts/brackets/clips missing, loads of bodged areas where they've pulled bits off the car and not replaced properly... Biggest annoyance at the mo is driving over 40mph there's a REALLY loud wind noise inside the cabin, a bit like I'm driving a convertible with the roof up, and I can pinpoint the noise from the wing mirror areas. We had a look and realised the garage had thrown away the sound insulation foam inside the front wheelarches, so ordered these from VW and refitted yesterday - but hasn't solved the problem. There is no sound insulation inside the wing mirrors themselves, should there be? - could this be in the issue?? We even masking taped up the bodywork and took the car for a drive to see if in doing so the wind noise stopped, but it didn't. Can anyone who knows their Lupo GTI like the back of their hand tell me whether there's anywhere else that should have sound insulation that is likely to be missing off mine? Or is it another issue? Cheers!

Have you still the VW radio and CD player - are these in full working condition and do you have the radio code?

Hi there, I'm after a Lupo GTI driver's door as the inner edge of mine from the inside has gone rusty - assumed replaced at some stage and not resealed because the zigzag pressing around the door is missing. So.... if anyone has a door going (don't need the door cards etc...) that has been sealed, preferably in silver (Moon Silver) but not a necessity, get in touch. Thanks

Aha! Think I got to the bottom of it yesterday; all HT leads were fine, so I took the plugs off the ends of the coilpack and found each one inside had corrosion. So cleaned these up properly and used a bit of WD40 and so far so good... fingers crossed. Hilarious that the VW dealer I bought the car from changed the pedalbox then under warranty years ago when I first bought the car if its not a known fault for a GTI. To be honest, that about sums up the monkeys that worked there...they went bust soon after...

I'm going to check all plugs/leads this weekend and I've already tried some Redex in a full tank of 99 Octane, so hopefully doing all this will solve the annoying problem! Well, that's the cheapest option anyhow... !

Was told it was a known fault by the VW garage I bought the car from so they did the replacement automatically... it wasn't needed though as the fault at the time turned out to be a split HT lead Thanks for the advice to this current problem!