Found......Cause of my problem

[northeast_gti-t]

Had a couple of fault codes recently one being 17705 and 17963 having read through a post rhys linked up to the 17705 one i had a word with topher to see if he had any info to which he did  so decided that today i would remove the side mount intercooler and give it a good clean out as well as clean the throttle body to ordered the parts the other day in readiness but still awaiting one of my hoses as its on back order from vw
1J01145834A Hose £7.03
N0245033 Clip (2) £4.91
N10518901 (1) Clip £4.57
028129748 Gasket £1.81
 The throttle body was quite dirty was a little suprised as i did clean it up i would say about 10,000 miles ago replaced the gasket an got it nice and clean and the throttle re-adapted
then after removing everything to gain acess to the pancake pipe and smic i then found the cause of my problems 
well the hose from the rear of the p/c pipe to turbo outlet was nice and oily and dirty on closer looking i had a look at the jubilee clip and it just moved around by hand  not tight second problem the front hose to the smic connector the clips were solid in rust and one was not even aligned in the hose groove and....not tight so both of these things were causing a slight boost leak got everything removed and cleaned out the p/c pipe and upper boost hose flushed out the smic with carb cleaner and then flushed through with water and left to dry out to help dry quicker used a hairdryer in the top connector pipe speeded things up
time to re-assemble and check everything the hose from the smic to p/c was real tight going on so that wont leak at least and the clip from the p/c to the turbo outlet was replaced (vw must have superseded the original clip as the replacement is far better) all done and onto the next job 
old clips and hose

heres what came out of the smic

all clean

new parts

all fitted




couldn't believe how much crap came out of the smic the p/c was oily as was the upper intake hose
had the car out for a run earlier tonight  much better!! idles smoothly and defo pulls as it should now and holds peak boost better hardly suprising as i must of been pi$$ing boost just feels so much better now had it on vag com to and no fault codes  good job i decided to clean the smic as it highlighted my problem just curious why they should have been like that as i defo have never touched them before 
well worth the effort imo 

[Wazzzer]

Nice effort mate

I cleaned out my Forge SMIC when it arrived to me with some acetone at work, had about the same come out of it. That's why I fitted my separate catch can system on it 

[northeast_gti-t]

Nice effort mate

I cleaned out my Forge SMIC when it arrived to me with some acetone at work, had about the same come out of it. That's why I fitted my separate catch can system on it 

cheers wazzer
funnily enough i mentioned your catch can set up to jonny when he came round earlier  i'm thinking could be worthwhile to think this should be next thing to do really i like the set up/look of yours wazzzer as it looks oem 

[Wazzzer]

It's worthwhile as it cuts out the hoses that fail all the time on the AUM/AUQ engines (I've just tracked down a split hose under the inlet manifold on my mates Leon Cupra funnily enough)

I've got a pic to upload of the oily water I pulled out of the can the other day, I'll stick it up in a mo

[northeast_gti-t]

nice one 
its just gone on my 'to do list'