# Service bulletin TT201301a

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- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10238960
- Published by NHTSA: 2023\-07\-10
- Manufacturer's number: TT201301a
- Manufacturer's date: 2013\-04\-08
- NHTSA component: UNKNOWN OR OTHER; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\); FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER

## NHTSA's summary

To clear static ECM fault P1250 ?Fuel Level Too Low?, add fuel to vehicle and complete a road test of at least 10 miles. Simply adding fuel without completing a road test may not allow fault to clear.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10238960-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10238960-9999.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Engine, Fuel system, Engine control module

## Trouble codes named

P1250

## Vehicles listed

- 2000 to 2010 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE
- 2011 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE
- 2012 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE
- 2000 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE CONVERTIBLE
- 2003 to 2010 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE CONVERTIBLE
- 2011 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE CONVERTIBLE
- 2012 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE CONVERTIBLE
- 2000 to 2002 VOLKSWAGEN CABRIO
- 2005 to 2011 VOLKSWAGEN CC
- 2012 VOLKSWAGEN CC
- 2013 VOLKSWAGEN CC
- 2005 to 2006 VOLKSWAGEN EOS
- 2007 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN EOS
- 2000 to 2004 VOLKSWAGEN EUROVAN
- 2000 to 2006 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF
- 2007 to 2009 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF
- 2010 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF
- 2012 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R
- 2013 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF R
- 2013 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF SPORTWAGEN
- 2010 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF WAGON
- 2000 to 2003 VOLKSWAGEN GTI
- 2004 VOLKSWAGEN GTI
- 2005 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN GTI
- 2000 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA
- 2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA HYBRID
- 2005 to 2008 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA SPORTWAGEN
- 2009 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA SPORTWAGEN
- 2002 to 2005 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA WAGON
- 2000 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT
- 2000 to 2010 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT WAGON
- 2004 to 2006 VOLKSWAGEN PHAETON
- 2011 VOLKSWAGEN POLO 1.6 COMFORTLINE
- 2004 VOLKSWAGEN R32
- 2008 VOLKSWAGEN R32
- 2005 VOLKSWAGEN RABBIT
- 2006 to 2009 VOLKSWAGEN RABBIT
- 2010 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN RABBIT
- 2005 to 2008 VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN
- 2009 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN TIGUAN
- 2003 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG
- 2004 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG
- 2011 to 2013 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG HYBRID

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [24Z5UPDATE](/bulletins/10252244.md), 2024-04-01, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; UNKNOWN OR OTHER; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE. Software
- [UPDATE24Y4](/bulletins/10252243.md), 2024-04-01, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE; UNKNOWN OR OTHER; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE:SOFTWARE. MPI Software
- [UPDATE24X7](/bulletins/10252242.md), 2024-04-01, Service bulletin: UNKNOWN OR OTHER; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE:SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE. 2.0L MPI Software
- [UPDATE24BG](/bulletins/10252236.md), 2024-04-01, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\). ECM Software
- [UPDATE23L3](/bulletins/10252231.md), 2024-04-01, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\); ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE. TDI ECM/EDC Software
- [UPDATE23i1](/bulletins/10252230.md), 2024-04-01, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\). TDI ECM Software Update \(FED\_EMS\)
- [Dealer 23EP](/bulletins/10244521.md), 2023-11-06, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE. Vehicles included in this action have been identified as having received the Diesel Approved Emissions Modification \(AEM\). Volkswagen dealers will inspect the software level on the vehicle's Engine Control Module \(ECM\) to ensure that the AEM software level is current. If a software discrepancy is found, the ECM software will be updated free of charge. Please note that the ECM software check will automatically result in a check of the Transmission Control Module \(TCM\) software level, which would also be updated to the AEM level, if a software discrepancy is found. Only in the event that current software is not found on a vehicle, there could be an impact on vehicle tailpipe emissions.
- [Circular 23EP](/bulletins/10244519.md), 2023-11-06, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\). Vehicles included in this action have been identified as having received the Diesel Approved Emissions Modification \(AEM\). Volkswagen dealers will inspect the software level on the vehicle's Engine Control Module \(ECM\) to ensure that the AEM software level is current. If a software discrepancy is found, the ECM software will be updated free of charge. Please note that the ECM software check will automatically result in a check of the Transmission Control Module \(TCM\) software level, which would also be updated to the AEM level, if a software discrepancy is found. Only in the event that current software is not found on a vehicle, there could be an impact on vehicle tailpipe emissions.
- [Edition32](/bulletins/10242387.md), 2023-09-18, Service bulletin: PARKING BRAKE; SEATS; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE. VW Elsa Newsletter
- [Edition59](/bulletins/10242379.md), 2023-09-18, Service bulletin: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\). VW Elsa Newsletter

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