{"id":21380,"date":"2025-10-14T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/vw-golf-v-1k1-2004-spia-motore-spenta-ed-auto-che-non-parte\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:17:16","slug":"vw-golf-v-1k1-2004-engine-warning-light-off-and-car-wont-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/vw-golf-v-1k1-2004-engine-warning-light-off-and-car-wont-start\/","title":{"rendered":"2004 VW Golf 2.0 TDI 16V - Engine light off and car won't start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning everyone, we have this Golf V in the workshop that has switched off while on the road.<br \/>\nWe go to do the work outside and notice that the classic engine light that normally comes on at the first turn of the key does not illuminate, we try to do a diagnostic but we do not have the connection to the engine control unit so we cannot trace a possible cause.<br \/>\nTaking the car with the tow truck to the workshop, it magically starts again.<br \/>\nEngine warning light working perfectly (it stays on until the engine starts, then of course goes out), the diagnosis also works, but there is no error in the memory.<br \/>\nDo you think we should proceed with a wiring check? Is there a critical point where we should start?<\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-sm loggedtarga\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Number plate<\/th>\n<td>- cr310zb -<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Brand<\/th>\n<td>- VW -<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Model<\/th>\n<td>- Golf (V 1K1) -<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Year<\/th>\n<td>&#8211; 2004 &#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Displacement<\/th>\n<td>&#8211; 1900 &#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Power supply<\/th>\n<td>&#8211; 103 &#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">kW<\/th>\n<td>&#8211; 103 &#8211;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Engine Code<\/th>\n<td>- BKD -<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning everyone, we have in the workshop this Golf V that has switched off while on the road. We're going to do [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[312],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls":{},"appp_media":null,"views":550,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.checkstar-techblog.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}