Caymanite Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 Moved to Cayman Islands last year and imported a 2003 Lupo from Japan (cheap) with 44,000 k's. Love this car! It is the only Lupo on the island. 1.4l/16v, automatic. All great until June when EPC lamp illuminated and rev's limited to 2000. Limped to mechanic. He replaced 3 coil packs and back on road. Two weeks later - same thing. Limped back to garage. After a week, he gave in and took to VW dealer. Dealer wanted no part of working on the car, but did favor for mechanic. Replaced throttle-body part and other parts, but nil improvement. (I think it was guess work...the dealer has no diagnostic kit for Lupo.) Now the dealer indicates the computer must be bad and quotes $2500 if he can source it. No sense to spend that much. Hoping a kind soul in the group can advise me. Am I buggered?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sausage Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 Get a KKL 409.1 lead to run VCDS they can be had cheap off ebay for a few bucks and an old laptop, you can read and clear your own fault codes then and save a lot of money. Post the error codes here if / when you have them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeyEunos Posted August 11, 2016 Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 [@media] ^ Couldn't help it Seriously though, as @Sausage said, get a cheap code reader and have a look [/media@] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caymanite Posted August 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2016 Sausage and Joey Many thanks Caymanite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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