Golf 118 TSI Engine Failures and Service Campaign 24S4

[DracZ]

Good Point, although you'd think they would only contact that batch of owners if that was the casel.. But might as well add it.

Covered this point earlier in the thread, but after speaking with the essendon VW service dept, it seems that not all 118TSI's are affected. I was asked to provide my VIN number to see if the update was specifically applicable to my vehicle. With this being said, perhaps its simply a case of the later 118TSI's already having this ECU update applied via factory and not simply a bad "batch" of engines so to speak.

[hooba]

2. AFAIK Sydney only has one oil refinery – Caltex at Kurnell. I’ve been told that a number of fuel companies in Sydney use fuel from this refinery. The difference between: Shell, BP and Caltex is the additives blended in with the fuel – not the fuel itself.

Shell has its refinery at Clyde (opposite Rosehill Racecourse), but your point is valid nonetheless, BP fuel in Sydney is coming from one of those two refineries.

I prefer BP simply because it doesn't have the queues of people holding shopping dockets on TA Tuesday.

[anthony]

After 4 VWs,I am actually more relaxed with my decision to buy a Honda Accord Euro in preferance over a Jetta 118 TSI.

[OilBurna]

BP comes from Shell refinery except Ultimate.

[logger]

... it seems that not all 118TSI's are affected. I was asked to provide my VIN number to see if the update was specifically applicable to my vehicle. With this being said, perhaps its simply a case of the later 118TSI's already having this ECU update applied via factory and not simply a bad "batch" of engines so to speak.

Yes that would make sense. More a case of a bad batch of ECU software causing unintended consequences. Alter this part of the ECU program and hopefully problem fixed.

[ozgti]

Mine's a Jan 10 build and apparently needs the update as well.

[logger]

Getting my ECU reflash done in the next couple of days.
Anyone got any good suggestions as to to what I should record beforehand with VCDS, so as I can ascertain what has changed afterwards.

[parso_rex]

Getting my ECU reflash done in the next couple of days.
Anyone got any good suggestions as to to what I should record beforehand with VCDS, so as I can ascertain what has changed afterwards.

You can just log the usual load,rpm,throttle position, AFR,manifold pressure and timing parameters. The thing is you really need to log these things at differing loads as they may have only applied a fix to say a part throttle area and left the full throttle area alone. Where you have the transition between the two chargers happening is one place to look look as are the places where boost comes on and of course peak boost
Ideally you would keep a copy of your original file and then compare it with the recall version, you'd need to have some way of getting yourself a copy of that though. I can do the map comparisons but thats of little use to you down there.

[logger]

Should be able to grab mist of those and easy enough to save them to a file. I can record from 1 to 12 parameters simulataneously. Only issue is the more I grab the slower the sample rate. So might only be once very 2 secs with all 12 being logged.

I was thinking of grabbing:-

002,1,Engine Speed,(G28 ),Specification (Idle): 680...730 RPM
002,2,Engine Load
002,3,Injection Timing
002,4,Intake Manifold,Pressure (G71)
003,3,Throttle Valve Angle
003,4,Ignition,Timing Angle
112,1,Exhaust Gas,Temperature Bank 1
241,2,Boost Pressure,(actual)

Can you take a quick peek at tsi.txt and tell me what group will give Air Fuel Ratio?

Keep in mind I can only grab 12 at a time max.

[team_v]

So what happens to pepople who have got an aftermarket ecu tune?

Would the aftermarket tune prevent the engine failures as it has already been remapped for different variables?
Or would you have to get the dealer remap and then re-flash the ecu with the aftermarket tune again?