New ride: '02 MK4 GTI

[leighaus]

n75 is easy as to install. i didnt notice any power as i believe my car is in some kind of limp mode. ill report back once i have the car running right.

ohsnap! : do you know which ebay sellers sell a decenty vagcom cable for a good price. i bought a bluetooth obd2 adaptor, but it was junk. would rather not waste my time on something thats borderline broken again.

thanks guys

[Andy]

I've just bought one of these. Turned up today. Will let you now how it goes.

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Seems others who needed to make a new key have done so as well with success

[leighaus]

ordered the same cable as andy so i can hopefully have my power back soon.

also my tuner dome LEDs finally arrived from america. Damn they are bright. They would want to be, bloody expensive for LEDs. At least they dont throw error codes i guess. Really hard to get a pic of how they actually look. Ill try again tonight with my better camera.

Due for a bath too.

[hart]

snap! another '02 Mk4 / leigh here too

[leighaus]

Even though i had bought lowered springs, and have only put the rears in, i was already unhappy with the height. So i have a set of FK street coilovers coming from the UK as of now.

[sheehan69]

lovin it......

[leighaus]

had no internet for over a week. what a pain in the proverbial.

heres the extendable CF antenna i ordered from ECS.

its pretty cool and gives slightly better reception than the sharam stubby i had before. I think ill still buy an FM booster though.

heres a pretty average shot of the tunerdome LEDs i installed, its like impossible to show how much they brighten the car, so i made it black and white just to be artistic.

I guess youll just have to trust me that they are worth 100$.

My forge wastegate actuator with higher spring rating arrived also.

i got under the car to see if i could do this without taking the turbo off, theres one bolt that looks impossible to get to without dropping it. Unless someone can tell me otherwise, this project will have to wait a bit.

And friday night i chucked the rear FK coilovers in. Wanted to get the fronts in as well, but the girlfriend chewed up my weekend. All good.
Going to re-adjust them today though, sitting too high currently. Pics of the car once the fronts are done.

[Manaz]

n75 is easy as to install. i didnt notice any power as i believe my car is in some kind of limp mode. ill report back once i have the car running right.

ohsnap! : do you know which ebay sellers sell a decenty vagcom cable for a good price. i bought a bluetooth obd2 adaptor, but it was junk. would rather not waste my time on something thats borderline broken again.

thanks guys

Just get a real VAG-COM cable and be done with it, seriously.

[noone]

It was stock when you bought it? Is it driving differently to when you bought it? It seemed you were happy with it at the end of Oct, then in Nov you thought it wasn't driving properly? Is this just as the boost gauge isn't giving you the numbers you want?

Could be as simple as a split vac pipe, but the mk4's seem to have issues with specific vac and recirc pipes degrading, and they are around a decade old now. If you are expecting to hit 5-7PSI, you need to be using 3rd gear or higher.

a basic scan with any OBD-II cable and some basic knowledge of VAGCOM will point you in the right direction, what you do with that information to resolve the issue comes down to how much time you spend searching...

[leighaus]

It drives well, just doesn't have a lot of power. I think the boost gauge just confirmed my suspicions. Will do a scan and get a leak test done soon. The gauge hits 5 psi and goes no higher, irregardless of gear or load. Which makes me think its in limp mode rather than a leak as vacuum is strong and boost doesn't waiver, it just hits 5 and stops.


Car was dead stock, have since replaced dv, n75, s/s cat back, cranked wastegate