[Vwdiesel] [VW-TDI] *CEL light on middle of road trip*

[Tad]

I had a similar experience on a long road trip in my 01 Golf TDI.  I spent
half a day and rearranged my schedule getting it looked at... turned out to
be a glow plug code (in the middle of summer).

If it were something serious, you'd know without the CEL.

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Rolf Pechukas <rbp at 4u2bu.org> wrote:

> hi all
> 2001 Golf TDi
> middle of a several hr drive, CEL just came on
> checked the oil and coolant, bout all I can do on the road, both OK
> how worried should I be? how immediately should I have someone pull codes?
>
> this car still recovering from alternator job where shop left off the hard
> pipe from the turbo to the intake
> smelly exhaust since pipe replaced, and I saw yesterday in the rear view
> mirror smoke of some kind under load (moderate acceleration)
> never noticed smelly exhaust or smoke of any kind before the alt mishap
>
> 2¢ please? thanks,
>
> - Rolf in MA
>
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