Hi, my Jetta is doing really crappy all of the sudden and I as a terrible undeserving car owner am trying to diagnose it before bringing it in because I don't want to break my wallet here....
From furthest back issue, a couple months (maybe two or three now?) I believe my axle has been giving me some issues and pulling right...nothing terrible though so I figured I would just have it all fixed up during my next service/tire rotation (which IS btw past due as well...I am far too busy and put way too many miles on this car to go 7 months without a servicing. Shame on me, but such is life...).
Couple days ago, I noticed a very concerning sound coming from under the hood while driving...sort of a cylindrical type of noise that sped up as my car did. I had a friend who was with me at the time take a look but he couldn't figure it out as he is less familiar with VW's, but he said perhaps sounded like a belt? While my car is on but not moving, I rev the engine a couple times and the sound does not intensify and as I said, it gets worse the faster I drive, so this friend and I concluded that at least it seemed to be a non-engine issue. Now I am not so sure. But anyway, at that point I knew I had to bring the sucker in asap but maybe not in an EMERGENCY...well, as of today, I was driving, the noise still present. But now I can feel my engine sputtering and not shifting gears correctly...my RPMs are reading the same, it is sticking between 2 and 3k even when I let off the gas completely..not downshifting correctly.
So any ideas at all? Is my **** about to like explode and destroy itself? I am taking my car in for diagnosis tomorrow but frankly I am going to do my best to have this fixed by friends if possible because I can't afford some $1k+ work done at the moment...
From furthest back issue, a couple months (maybe two or three now?) I believe my axle has been giving me some issues and pulling right...nothing terrible though so I figured I would just have it all fixed up during my next service/tire rotation (which IS btw past due as well...I am far too busy and put way too many miles on this car to go 7 months without a servicing. Shame on me, but such is life...).
Couple days ago, I noticed a very concerning sound coming from under the hood while driving...sort of a cylindrical type of noise that sped up as my car did. I had a friend who was with me at the time take a look but he couldn't figure it out as he is less familiar with VW's, but he said perhaps sounded like a belt? While my car is on but not moving, I rev the engine a couple times and the sound does not intensify and as I said, it gets worse the faster I drive, so this friend and I concluded that at least it seemed to be a non-engine issue. Now I am not so sure. But anyway, at that point I knew I had to bring the sucker in asap but maybe not in an EMERGENCY...well, as of today, I was driving, the noise still present. But now I can feel my engine sputtering and not shifting gears correctly...my RPMs are reading the same, it is sticking between 2 and 3k even when I let off the gas completely..not downshifting correctly.
So any ideas at all? Is my **** about to like explode and destroy itself? I am taking my car in for diagnosis tomorrow but frankly I am going to do my best to have this fixed by friends if possible because I can't afford some $1k+ work done at the moment...