Pete

I’ll be taking home some more kit from work tonight, only had a home made test light with no probes and an old multimeter over the weekend so will take some back probes and croc clips home and have a play. I did attempt to slip in some core to the injector terminal and using something heavy to hold the other end of the test light to the engine lifting eye but it didn’t prove anything, hard doing it on your own without anything to properly keep a guaranteed contact to ground! I’ve not tested any of the other sensors at this stage, but I do seem to remember at the fuel pump getting around 3.7v across main live and earth, also with the ignition on but not being ‘actuated’. It’s always there, just like to the injector terminal. And yes the fuel pump runs during cranking. I have looked online at relay designations but it seems that my car isn’t fitted with the fuel cut off/airbag/crash relay. Not sure if that is correct, but either way with all of the relays removed from under the os dash that constant voltage stays present.

Hello sir, thanks for the response. I’ll tell you the full story, the fuel pump in the tank had burnt out, so I’ve replaced that initially as there was no fuel being sent to the rail, but that is now fine, I’ve had the plugs and leads out and checked for spark already, that’s all good, so I pulled out my injectors on the rail and cranked over and no fuel was being sprayed, so I checked the injector fuse and fuel management fuse, all ok. The wierd thing is I’m getting almost 4v constant to all injectors with the ignition on, which I didn’t think was right. I figured it may be a shorted relay but wasn’t sure which one would be responsible for it, so I removed all of them and I still had the 3-4v supply, so I’m starting to wonder if the ecu is faulty and sending out the voltage. I don’t often work on vw but I do know some manufacturers have strange ways of controlling their injectors and didn’t know if this was normal or not. I didn’t want to start ripping looms out to check for shorts or buying spare ecus if it’s normal to get that 3-4v to the injectors and it’s actually the injectors that are at fault!

Anyone about with a petrol engine lupo, preferably a GTI with the capability to whip off a fuel injector plug and see what voltage is at the pins with the ignition on/engine off? Cant get my injectors to fire and checked all the usual good stuff but I don’t have another GTI to compare some of the readings I’m getting that seem a bit odd. Thanks!

Pete’s mating call😂

Anti-mating call

Way it’s 2024

Probably for the best

The real club lupo secret society is on WhatsApp…and it’s just as quiet😂

What does that mean exactly? Of course it’s about getting the right bits, which is why I posted. My point being that you order the bits for a car which has a registration on a database, so there should be no confusion. If you felt that my comment was aimed at you as the buyer then you are mistaken, you don’t go out of your way to buy the wrong products just so you can make a thread about it on a forum, or at least I’d hope not anyway, it was aimed at the seller and the systems some sellers must use and others do not, as I previously mentioned, I have had no issues from the company that sells parts to me. No offence intended.

I can’t understand why people have issues with these ball joints, I think I must be lucky with my local auto parts place, I just turn up, give them the reg and they just hand over the right bits. 😂

Chuffing bargain that

I’ve only got the v2 management left, but that’s the expensive bit!🙄

Tbf I dunno if it’s that expensive anymore! It’s all old hat tech now, mine has gone back to good old fashioned coilovers!

Also location so people know how far they will have to travel, may sway them for or against it.

Oh, no I mean you should put a price, helps to sell stuff on if you let people know what you’re after for it, even if you’re way off.

Price??

Tbf if it’s not been tested in 2 years it’s probably scrapped or someone is putting some serious work and money into it for their own enjoyment and wouldn’t want to part with it. Good luck with the hunt though.

Try stealing it?

Have you looked at the shafts?

Looks like you could do with some strap pads.

What happens when you put the clutch in? Have you looked underneath to see what your drive shafts look like whilst the noise is occurring?

How much??

We’re all related sir...

Hi mate, welcome along. Any pics?

Tbf more often than not when I’ve coming across an idle rattle like this it’s either been the dmf falling to bits or the release bearing.