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Offline northeast_gti-t

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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #10 on: 14 January 2010, 21:58 »
ouch!! sorry to hear and see about your chocolate cam probs there steve thats some pretty severe damage there i haven't seen cams and followers that bad for a long while but im glad your sorted out now and its repaired :afro: i would recommend changing your oil and filter after 2/3k even if its only recently done just to make sure cant do any harm anyway  :wink:
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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #11 on: 14 January 2010, 22:02 »
will be doing it again soon.
it got changed 2 weeks ago then again today
just hope nothing else goes wrong any time soon........... :lipsrsealed: :angry:
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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #12 on: 14 January 2010, 22:03 »
These cams are an epic fail from VW :sad:

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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #13 on: 14 January 2010, 22:06 »
will be doing it again soon.
it got changed 2 weeks ago then again today
just hope nothing else goes wrong any time soon........... :lipsrsealed: :angry:
good stuff :afro:
erm......its a mk4  :grin: :cry: :lipsrsealed:
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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #14 on: 14 January 2010, 22:12 »
These cams are an epic fail from VW :sad:

Shocking thing is they wont emit theres a problem :sad:
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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #15 on: 14 January 2010, 22:17 »
These cams are an epic fail from VW :sad:

Shocking thing is they wont emit theres a problem :sad:
thats like most car manufacturers steve i'm afraid and its not widely issued that there is/could be a potential problem with certain components etc looks bad for the company if there is to much of a concern although i would of thought vw would use well known suppliers etc for their parts  :huh:
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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #16 on: 15 January 2010, 07:36 »
glad ya sorted steve, and the dent in the wallet aint as bad as eearlier feared.  :lipsrsealed:

is now the time to tell them you thought about selling it  :grin:

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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #17 on: 15 January 2010, 10:16 »
MPI Minis form 96 to 2000 suffered the same problem. Pulled the cam out of the wifes mini when doing a rebuild and found the last 3 lobes had worn flat on the top. I rang round Piper etc to see if they had any standard cams floating about to re profile that I could buy and they said they chuck em as they're that bad. Got a billet one in the end.

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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #18 on: 15 January 2010, 10:27 »
sorry if this has been brought up before but iam thinking of buying a pd150, is the "chocolate cam" a problem due to remapping or does it happen in standard form?

is there a uprated cam you can buy? (stronger)

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Re: Anyone fancy a chocolate cam
« Reply #19 on: 15 January 2010, 10:29 »
Happens in standard form as well :(