2004 passat

[oh1bullitt]

I am up in grand prairie visiting my girlfriend until monday morning when i will fly back to abilene. She drives a 2004 Volkswagen Passat with a 1.8L turbo. She was trying to teach another girl how to drive a standard as her car is a five speed and the girl stalled the engine and when she started it back up it had a hell of a dead miss. I took it down to Vatozone and they pulled the codes. Pulled out:
p0300
p0301
p0302
p0304
p0171

It seems weird to me that there is no p0303. So far I have figured that the p0171 lean fuel system code is the cause of the misfire codes. Has anyone of the gurus on here had this problem? Any suggestions? As I said I am visiting my girlfriend and am 3 hrs away from all of my tools in abilene. Any help would be just dandy.

[Tannerm]

Funny you ask. I just had a similar issue with my wife's 03 passat 1.8t. I sent countless hours and money on this damn misfire. Ended up being a small vacuum plastic vortex housing thing... I replaced this with a hose joiner (plastic tubular housing used to join rubber hoses) and bam! fixed.
**Items replaced before I discovered real issue**
1. Valve Cover gasket
2. All 4 coils (cylinder 4 I replaced twice)
3. All 4 spark plugs (cylinder 4 I replaced twice)
4. unplugged battery for 30 minutes to attempt a code reset.

[Tannerm]

When you look at the back of your engine (between the engine and firewall) youll see the mess of vacuum hoses. They will be joined by a plastic cylinder looking piece. Each side of the housing will have those annoying single use hose clamps. Inspect all of them. Mine had cracked on a seam. If your close to Keller, I could take a gander at it for ya. Im no mechanic, but I had just fixed this escapade on my wifes passat last month.

[oh1bullitt]

thanks man. im over on osler drive off of abrams and 360 in grand prairie. i have changed my flight to fly out tuesday morning now to work on her car. i got a pretty good idea of where you are talking about. thanks for your help. i wish you had somebody with your experience to ask before you had to replace all that. thanks again.

[Captain Crawfish]

do yourself a favor and take the flight. the last vw i worked on i wanted to set it on fire and roll it off a cliff

[Tannerm]

Your welcome, I hope I helped! During this funny little episode, I for sure wanted to "set if on fire and roll it off a cliff WHILE shooting it with my SWAT rifle!"

[Chili]

TheHead is a VW tech.. Maybe he'll wander in later and give you some things to look at.

[oh1bullitt]

Aim....Ready......Fire!!!!!! I can hear the damn leak but can't fuckin find it. Thought I had it for a minute but found out otherwise. Son of a fuckin bitch.

[JimD]

I did a motor job on a pissmop a while back, fuck that pile of shit.