Well I had a fun afternoon...

Scanned it all up with no errors and I have also confirmed that the Autopolar is just displaying existing measuring blocks. I can read the same values with VCDS. There are about 1,400 to 1,500 misses on each cylinder in total. The other figure is misses per 1000 revs which is why it goes to 1 (I saw 2 this afternoon too) then back to zero (presumably when I have done more than another 1,000 revs since the last miss.

But the fun part.

I tried to turn on the APR tune and it wouldn't let me, thinking it might be the AutoPolar I decided to remove it and somehow managed to completely kill my car. I checked all the fuses and no dice. Roof down, windows down I couldn't start it, I couldn't put the roof up or the windows *eeek* Plugging in VCDS saw no comms at all so here I am thinking I had destroyed the canbus or something.


Called VW Assist and had someone sent out, but while I was waiting I rang and spoke to Mr White who pointed out it was likely just a fuse. So I went over them all again and must have somehow missed the busted one. Dropping a spare in and BAM everything was running again although I had errors across virtually all the modules?? In any case they were cleared and all is well again. ... about 10 minutes before the VW assist guy showed up. On the upside he gave me the needed 5 amp fuse (the smallest I had was 10).

I've now also worked out that the APR must have somehow fallen into lock mode... possibly from accidentally pressing buttons or what I don't know. So now I have to re-install the Autopolar box, switch back to stock and see what happens.

I have also booked the car in for the dealership to look at it... although their next appointment is the 24th of Feb. I don't think they are going to find anything at all and all I really need is someone to tell me what's normal... but then maybe the VW machine auto flags the number and tells the trained monkey... I mean technician what to test and/or replace.



On a side note, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the spark plugs haven't been changed ever... so two years in I suppose that's as good (and cheap) a place as any to start swapping things out to see if things improve.