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Originally Posted by Architex_mA8tey
This sounds like a fault that I and others have had - crankshaft position sensor needs replacing with a new one - cost about £140 for the part and 4-6 hours labour. The CPS works fine when cold and when hot can make it seem like the starter motor is failing on the car but it is actually stopping the car from starting because it is affected by the heat of the warm engine as it fails / breaks down and so when you wait for it to cool down, all becomes ok again.
Have you scanned the car with VCDS? You will get a code come up which helps to confirm it, but I can't remember what code it was. If you ignore it then it will slowly get worse until one day it totally fails like mine did and the car needs to be trailered to the garage to have the CP sensor swapped
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Thanks for the steer. Never happens on a long run only 2 or 3 short stops and starts around town. Ray is going to sort me out with a scan this week. Thank you to everybody for their interest I'll let you know how I get on.