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Offline S6GTI

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Whats gone wrong???
« on: 12 October 2008, 23:58 »
Hey!!

Ok so i did my service yesterday and all seemed well! started her up no misfire no oil leaking, only thing was the pipercross filter the guy ordered in for me was the wrong one, so i have to wait till tuesday for it!  :angry:

So then i ventured into installing the cold air feed, again all seemed well had to make a few modifications to some unseen body work to make the 70mm pipe fit to the side front grill but was all good!

UNTIL..... i went to drive home and it started to kangaroo down the road everytime i went to put my foot down!!So i went back and started to investigate no pipes off all sensors were on  :undecided:

Spoke to a mate who works for vee dub and he said to remove the MAF sensor and see if it still does it, so i did and she runs with no kangaroo BUT the boost has dropped to half of what it was, hardly any whistle from the turbs, Is this normal?? He said with out the sensor it will run in a standard mode, but its def running rich, you can smell it and see the petrol gauge dropping down???

He said he's going to order me a new MAF sensor and he's going to vag com it and re set the ECU settings as these will have prob changed!!

So its been an interesting weekend!!  :laugh:

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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #1 on: 13 October 2008, 00:02 »
could be running rich as getting to much cold air, ecu will compensate by throwing in more fuel?

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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #2 on: 13 October 2008, 08:18 »
ditch the silly induction kit

buy this
http://www.vwspeed.co.uk/volkswagen/vw-parts/DSG_Genuine_VW_Intake_Kit-2260-19.html

fit your Pipercross panel filter

jobs a good one


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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #3 on: 13 October 2008, 18:52 »
Not an induction kit mate, just instead of all that plastic sending air to the box its a straight pipe from the front grill!Better throttle response, but think the MAF had broke cos it did get knocked about a bit!!!  :grin:


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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #4 on: 15 October 2008, 09:17 »
any one got any idea on cost for a new MAF?? Cos im getting bored of running half boost!  :cry:

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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #5 on: 15 October 2008, 09:19 »
any one got any idea on cost for a new MAF?? Cos im getting bored of running half boost!  :cry:

approx £75 from VW

if you're not reaching full boost then its not done to the MAF i would have thought - more likely a pipe has popped off or split

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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #6 on: 15 October 2008, 09:23 »
if you're not reaching full boost then its not done to the MAF i would have thought - more likely a pipe has popped off or split

it can be if its failed completely (or i think he's even disconnected it now) and the ecu is feeding it standard air measurements to stop it from blowing up.

your mate at VW should be able to check for other faults while he's at it

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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #7 on: 15 October 2008, 09:31 »
yeah its been disconected as only way i can get the car to run!! So ecu is running basic settings, yeah he's going to look at it, but its trying to get it to him cos of work! Think i need a day off to get her better!!
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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #8 on: 15 October 2008, 10:19 »
yeah its been disconected as only way i can get the car to run!! So ecu is running basic settings, yeah he's going to look at it, but its trying to get it to him cos of work! Think i need a day off to get her better!!
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Re: Whats gone wrong???
« Reply #9 on: 15 October 2008, 10:32 »
ben thats a great idea! lol, and this would not be lieing as it will be sick day for my car!!! lol,  :sick: