Gti went into safe mode

[gazmondo35]

Earlier today I was giving the car the full beans up the slip road to join the motorway, when all of a sudden the power dropped off & the car when into safe mode , then I had acc warning light followed by epc light which stay on for 5mins then went off , after which the gti was normal again, at first I thought the divertor valve had blown after having the car revoed recently or maybe because I didn't let the car get to temperature first., has anybody else had this.

[Mr Savage]

Nope not had that ever happen even with full beans on my Revo'd GTI. Always let it get up to atleast 90 degrees oil temp first though.

I did however get pulled over by Police for doing 75 in a 70 zone.

[gazmondo35]

It's strange one, but car running fine now , I hope you didn't get a ticket what happened to the 70+ 10% rule.

[Mr Savage]

I've noticed that second gear feels a little weird after the map and the car doesn't seem to like pulling hard in that gear. I even get a strange engine sound high revs in that gear but I'm not sure if it's the sound actuator playing up, quite possibly. I don't know why the car would struggle with the torque increase if APR GTI's are doing fine though. What gear were you in when it went into limp mode?

No, I just got a warning thankfully. Yeah I thought the same thing...

[gazmondo35]

I know what you mean about 2nd gear, but I think it's more down all the aids kicking in & throttling the power, because when I have tc turn off the car goes like a scorched cat.

[gazmondo35]

Sorry forgot to mention, when the car went into limp mode , I was red line 1st-2nd 3rd as soon as i went into 4th the power dropped off,by the time I had come off the next junction the etc light went off & the  power resumed , I then headed for a well known b-road just to make sure all was well with the car , I must  say all of this has got me thinking to maybe getting an R if I had blown something serious it's at my own cost, because without doubt it will be TD1 flagged.

[wigit]

personally i'd speak to Revo HQ technical guys about this and see what they say

is your car manual or dsg

[Mr Savage]

It's a strange one as the GTI should be more than capable to handle the power & torque. APR were thrashing their GTI around the track so much that the paint on the calipers practically melted! They had the intake too.

[gazmondo35]

personally i'd speak to Revo HQ technical guys about this and see what they say

is your car manual or dsg

I think if it happens again I probably will speak to them, I'm hoping it's just a one off, possibly because the car wasn't up to temp , also the car is dsg.