EPC & ESP Lights on Golf R

[orkers]

hmmmm, I think I'd prefer to have a bit more time of trouble free motoring before I tinker with it - The car was only functioning for 24 hours!

[orkers]

The R is back on the road!!

Fantastic.

[hooba]

New engine in less than a week from diagnosis, impressive.

Best of luck mate, enjoy your car.

[RiceRacer]

Halalooya. My R came up with the same message intermittently. Frustrating as all hell. Off to APR to play it safe, have it reflashed and then to VW. Can't understand why this is such a big issue on the warranty side? thanks to all the blogs on this, I will steer the techo's in the direction of the throttle assembly

[grtuned]

Flashing is a big issue regarding wty due to it not being certified by VW. if your changing anything from factory it will not be covered,
If you chose to flash ECU you should be prepared to pay for anything that may go wrong with the driveline thats the risk you take. No need to re flash either as the ECU will record attempted or successful Flash's in memory. Not having a go at you but you shouldn't presume your vehicle has the same issue as orkers and expect to fool a VW tech into following your presumed diagnosis.

[RiceRacer]

Tks for the heads up. Hope my terminology is correct, APR seem to know what they are doing, fingers crossed. Will leave the debate over wry to another time.

[buzuki]

Yes, with VAS we can see how many attempts at flash, successful attempts, the name/part number of the the tool that did it. It should always be 0 apart from campaigns etc.

[Candyman]

Do you mean the checksum ?

That can be reset

[RiceRacer]

Well the EPC light came on yet again, followed by the Catalytic Converter light and then the exclamation mark...go straight to the dealer, do not pass GO. The guys at VW O'Connor did a good job to diagnose there is a problem with the wiring loom and some connectivity problem hae evolved on the R golf. Problem is, there is an alert out from VAG, warning the techo's if they see this series of lights. Wouldn't it he nice if we received the same alerts as owners?
So now I'm waiting for a new section of harness to replace and all is good. Back to APR and reinstall their goods. Happy now, but better when the new bits are fitted.

[buzuki]

Do you mean the checksum ?

That can be reset

Ah no?

Flash status cant be reset.

Ive had a customer with a bench flashed R and who did it was rough as guts, lets just say its costing them an ECU and a few other things, due to customer not being honest with us bout the tune. I wont name the company that did it though.