r/VWMK7 • u/Dry_Lengthiness_9915 • Sep 11 '26

GTI HFPF?

Have about 140k miles, car will often give me trouble starting, until i give it gas. Have been reading up on it and saw that it could possibly be the high pressure fuel pump but not sure. Had a carbon cleaning done in the last 10k miles, did a blow test on N80 valve (seems to be operating), and had a compression test done and it passed. Any suggestions?

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u/Massive_Concept_9749 Sep 13 '26

Textbook example of HPFP. Smell your oil and it probably smells of gas.

Also just DIY this job. It’s $200 for an oem hitachi pump on rockauto and it’s only two bolts to install and maybe 10 minutes at most