Last month, a Golf GTI came in from Shinnston after its owner had noticed slow cranking on cold mornings since January but kept dismissing it as normal winter behavior. He assumed once the temperatures warmed up the problem would resolve on its own. By March, the battery failed completely in the parking lot off Emily…
Last month, a Jetta GLI came in from Fairmont after its owner noticed a shudder on light acceleration that had been developing for about three months. He had assumed it was a fueling issue and had run two bottles of fuel injector cleaner through the tank trying to resolve it on his own. After 47,000…
Last month, a 2022 Tiguan came in from a Bridgeport owner who had been ignoring a persistent hesitation on acceleration since buying the vehicle used. He assumed it was normal break-in behavior and kept driving it through the hills off US-50 and onto I-79 for his daily commute. After 14,000 miles of neglect, the high-pressure…
Last week, a 2021 VW Tiguan arrived at our Lodgeville Road service center with an illuminated check engine light. The owner had been driving with the light on for three weeks, assuming it was “probably just the gas cap” and nothing urgent. Diagnostic scanning revealed multiple stored codes: misfires on two cylinders from failed ignition…
