Timing Out Issue

[N417H4N]

Hi guys, not long purchased a MK1 Leon FR+ Stage 1 and the timing belt was due, so booked it in at my local vag specialist (been using them for years and well trusted).

Anyway, the garage phoned me yesterday to say there has loads of Tippex and other pen marks in and around the timing gear. He said that whoever had previously done the belt had done it wrong as it was massively out and couldn't get his alignment rods in due to someone using a tool other than the correct tool that should have been used.


He went on to say he managed to clean the alignment hole and get the pins in and has timed the car to manufacturers spec.

Upon picking the car up and test driving it the car feels massively quick top end i.e. 4th, 5th, and 6th, the other gears have power but it's like a train top end.

My question is because the car was remapped with the timing being wrong on the car is the map safe now the car has been timed correctly and could any damage occur by continuing to run the car on the current map?



Any advice is welcome.



Thanks

 

[Rich.T]

I would have thought a decent mapper would have noticed that.
Who did you use?
Did it just get just a standard stage one flashed on (i think thats the term) or was a rolling road used to tune the car properly?

 

[N417H4N]

Apparently it was a generic map that would of gone on a lot of PD150 engines, it wasn't mapped using a rolling road.

I'm guessing that thats safer?

 

[Rich.T]

Its more precise.

Im guessing if it was generic, it should be ok.

Someone wiser than me will be along soon if i have it wrong.

 

[N417H4N]

Its more precise.

Im guessing if it was generic, it should be ok.

Someone wiser than me will be along soon if i have it wrong.

Yes thats my thoughts on it to.

 

[Alexis27]

Timing via the belt is right or wrong surely? Doesn't have anything to do with ECU timing or the map.

 

[MoToJoJo]

If it's a generic map it should be fine as the ECU isn't quite smart enough to know if the timing is right

 

[N417H4N]

I'm hoping so, the car its definitely quicker top end now through the gears. I think the car on idle sounds more smooth and quite also. So hopefully it will be fine.

 

[smutts]

Yeah, engines do idle more quietly without the valves tapping the pistons.
You would be suprised how often vw diesel pistons have valve prints in them.