Right the happy day came on Saturday when my MK4 GT TDi 130 was picked up to an extremely happy buyer on Saturday for a tidy 4k.
As some of you know my car gave me loads of MPG issues, i've had loads of threads where so many of you have helped me and pointed me in the right direction.
I did make some silly mistakes and changed parts I don't think I should've and didn't need to change which cost me quite alot and worst thing didn't make an ounce of difference to my goal which was to sort the MPG out.
To be honest this completly ruined my whole V Dub experience and left a bad taste in my mouth as I felt as though I had a VW which was so common yet I couldn't get anyone to get to the bottom of my problem.
But basically I recently before putting the car up for sale took the car to my local VW specialist which is Lions Garage, they are all old VW technicians and know VW's literally like the back of there hand.
After all the work and hundreds I spent on the car with no joy I left it with them for 2 hours and they advised me that my tracking was so badly out that the car wouldn't free roll as it should meaning that I had to be constanly on the accelerator to keep the car at a steady pace. I also had to have a track rod changed and a CV boot. This is what was causing me MPG problems
the tyres were badly unevenly worn, if me or anyone inspecting the car would've noticed it I would've had some alarm bells ringing but this was missed so the poor MPG went on.
In the last 6 months I was told it could've been my ECU which would definately cost me an arm and a leg probably around £500, I was also very recently told by a specialist off the forum that my turbo needed to be removed and cleaned and re-machined at a whopping cost of £250.
Can you imagine if I got these 2 bits of work done! I would've still had a car with poor MPG and I would've spent well over a grand to be in the same place and not move an inch closer to getting better MPG.
So my advice to anyone on this forum, please please make sure you get a few opinions on your car before you start forking out hundreds of pounds on possible issues.
Fair do's I made some balls ups along the way also as I shouldn;t have forked out so much dough after failed attempts to sort my car out.
I just wished I had taken it to this place right from the start as I would've been so much happier with my VW than I was. I got to a stage where it was making me feel like sh1t knowing how much i'd spent with no progress and it ate up all my modding funds so car was still standard
So a big massive bit of advice to anyone with MPG issues, get your tracking checked and also keep an eye on your tyre pressures and tyre wear to make sure it's even.
My tracking was so far out that I only used to get a mere 400 miles driving like a ponce for a whole tank.
So thanks to eveyone for your help and warm welcome to the club, for now i'm going back jap where the car can be diagnosed without Vagcom