My Poorly GTI

[mwad gti]

Well it's been a while but sadly it's back! The engine management light that is, accompanied by loss of power! Limped the car home, turned the ignition off, turned the engine over again and no light?

Back to the dealers again tomorrow, I'm guessing it's going to be another inlet manifold for me then (that'll be the 3rd one, possibly 4th) 

OMG, hope it gets sorted properly

[Tone2have]

Apparently it's an intermittent fault and they suggest replacing the high pressure pump with reg valve! As the lights gone off now, I thought I'd see how it goes. Still feels very lumpy around 3k rpm, under or over and it's fine 

[Raffe]

I would have taken a match to it by now, you seem to have been very unfortunate.

[Tone2have]

I would have taken a match to it by now, you seem to have been very unfortunate.

Have thought about it once or twice! 

Took her to the local tyre company this week as she's also suffering from a whirring noise from the wheels. Two new back tyres later and were are all sorted (tyres were apparently "out of shape").

Asked them to look at the running issue and rather than changing the high pressure pump, they changed the fuel filter! All now good on this front as well and a snip at £30! Up yours Vindis!

[Snoopy]

The tyres are probably due to whats called sawtooth and makes the tyre look like a 50p coin. It often happens on modern hothatches with large tyres. Happened to mine. Its also known theres a huge tolerance on the rear suspension settings fromthe factory. A full setup at a motorsport place coats about £110 and should reduce the risk of it happening again. I will get mine done once these tyres ware out.

[Tone2have]

The tyres are probably due to whats called sawtooth and makes the tyre look like a 50p coin. It often happens on modern hothatches with large tyres. Happened to mine. Its also known theres a huge tolerance on the rear suspension settings fromthe factory. A full setup at a motorsport place coats about £110 and should reduce the risk of it happening again. I will get mine done once these tyres ware out.

Mmmm, very interesting snoops. Wish I'd reported this earlier, the rears still had plenty of tread left on them!

[Snoopy]

http://community.evo.co.uk/forums/thread.cfm?threadID=82714
Have a read of that threads attachment.
I plan on a full geometry check when I replace the tyres as Iirc Ken (Mkviken) GTI was not very well setup from the factory and he recommended I got mine checked when I comented mine was far noisier than his was.

[Booth11]

This website may also be useful for locating places that use Hunter 4 wheel alignment system  I had full geometry check last year after a winter on potholed roads and though it wasn't massively out, you could feel the difference.  Tyres are wearing evenly.

http://www.alignmycar.co.uk

[andykram]

The wife's BMW 123d convertible suffered from uneven tyre wear and a sort of catching noise from the rear wheels. They recommended one of these Hunter wheel alignment thingys. That runs on 245/35 run flats at £200 a pop so proper wear is important. The stealer reckoned the alignment would also cure the catching noise so will probably get it done when the spanner finally flashes at me to take it for a service.
Never come across it on any of my GTis though.