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Rich.T said:
How did you figure out the timing is out?
Doesn't the ecu learn and account for discrepancies in timing?
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When I was doing the timing belt I undid the 3 13mm bolts on the cam pulley and got called away for a brake down and when I got back my boss had finished it off and I asked if he nipped the bolts back up on the pulley and he said yes as he noticed the pulley move when he was nipping up the tensioner and I have just forgot to check where the pulley was
It turned out to be 4 marks down from where it was I noticed when I replaced the cam sensor as the engine was spinning over for a long time before it started and when I putt the oem cam sensor in it started on the first flick off the key it’s taken me almost a year to find someone with Vag com I know with been in the trade


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Maybe you can adjust it back without removing the belt.

Depends on mileage,time,money i guess you could do the job again for peace of mind.
 
Rich.T said:
Maybe you can adjust it back without removing the belt.

Depends on mileage,time,money i guess you could do the job again for peace of mind.
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It won’t cost me a penny it’s just time and finding time to have a free ramp at friends garage to put the car on to get the side off the engine stripped down to time it all up take the tension off the belt and adjust it build it all back up get it up to temp plug it in and check if adjusted enough and then fine tune it


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Well, got it scanned and this 17931 P1523 error is stuck on!
I've read the forum and it looks like the airbag module under the seat/carpet needs a change.
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Rich.T said:
Getting my downpipe fitted tomorrow and then the car will be ready to be booked in for its stage 2 toon up.
Just hope they get it done by end of play as i need to get home again.
Fingers crossed
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Sat in style dynamics reception watching hells kitchen whilst i wait for my car.
Got here half an hour before they opened to give the car a chance to cool down.
Went for a hour n half walk to kill some time. There are some steep hills in high wycombe!
When i got back they sead the old downpipe was removed without any dramas ( no snapped bolts at the turbo).
And they're making up the new downpipe as i sit here.
All good so far.....
 
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Well im home and a very happy boy.
Feels a lot smoother and more induction noise so i assume more exiting.
Couldn't have any fun as it was mostly M25 and M1. Speed cameras every 30yds!

Thats it now. Time to save up for a trip to badger5.
 
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Rich.T said:
Well im home and a very happy boy.
Feels a lot smoother and more induction noise so i assume more exiting.
Couldn't have any fun as it was mostly M25 and M1. Speed cameras every 30yds!

Thats it now. Time to save up for a trip to badger5.
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xcellent. Should be a deeper note when wound up too.
Bill and Alex are great guys. You’ll be a very happy chappy


Badger5 Custom Map + TIP,
3”Custom exhaust, FMIC, Bosh 550’s, BC Coilovers, ARB’s +loads more.
 
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Threw the car about a little bit and the suspension feels a lot looser at the back end before which makes me happy, especially as the tracking is crap and I’ve zero front camber dialled in at the moment. Few little tweaks to make and I think it’ll be there
 
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Thai-wronghorse said:
Fronts are a doddle, rears are a ballache though.

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Offside rear is the only one that needs doing right now. It locks and unlocks fine, but the microswitch has failed so the car doesn't know the door's been opened.

I had the other side done about five years ago and they didn't put the peg and dowel in the bottom of the window, so hilarity ensued.

I'll have to do it one day, but just don't want to have to mess with the glass...


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On those with the buggered lock switch, the door doesn't know whether it's shut or open,

I found a brilliant bodge years ago on one of the mk4 golf forums.
This uses a magnetic switch wired to the brown wire on the door light.
The hardest part is getting a switch that opens with a magnet (door closed, light off) and closes with a magnet (door open, light on).
The brown wire activates the light and the INconvenience module, so lights, alarm etc all work.
Brilliant, still not done it yet. but should be much easier than battling the door locks.

Here it is, https://forums.tdiclub.com/index.php?threads/magnetic-door-switch-mod.464513/
and stupid door switch says it all, eloquently.
Page 19 onwards.
https://forums.tdiclub.com/index.php?threads/stupid-door-switch-3-fix.77648/
 
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smutts said:
Yup, front passenger door was locked shut.

The rears are worse?
How is that possible?
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Front: Take everything off, look at lock, smash lock, open door.

Rear: Take everything off (including faffing about with the pin holding the glass in place, take out the rest of the small glass piece that’s a bitch to refit, ease the glass out with much swearing). Then get a dremel with a cutting disc on an extension to the mechanism that you can’t see because it’s buried, take out piece after piece until door opens
 
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