Strange discription of my car.....

[182_blue]

^ do you live near anyone with Vagcom?

[duncan]

^ do you live near anyone with Vagcom?

where abouts is VAGcom? i live in surrey just round the corner from kingston

[WhiteGTI]

^ do you live near anyone with Vagcom?

where abouts is VAGcom? i live in surrey just round the corner from kingston

VAGCOM isnt a place/tuner, its a piece of computer software used on VAG cars. Also known as VCDS.

[duncan]

sorry, misread the msg, not that i know of - is there anyone near surrey with VAGCOM at a loose end tomorrow?

am booked into the tuners on tuesday so would be great to give them as much info as possible before racking up loads of labour costs

Cheers

Duncan

[WhiteGTI]

Reuben would do a VAGCOM check I would imagine anyway. In the past I've provided him with VAGCOM read-outs and he did another check on the day anyway. Takes only five minutes to do, so wouldn't worry about costs!

[duncan]

ah ok cool

wasnt sure if it was quite involved or not. 

not having driven a stock GTI or any other GTI for that matter - do they usually race up the rev range then the power dips as you get close to 6k?

mine seems to pull alot less as soon as i get near 5k rpm

[WhiteGTI]

ah ok cool

wasnt sure if it was quite involved or not. 

not having driven a stock GTI or any other GTI for that matter - do they usually race up the rev range then the power dips as you get close to 6k?

mine seems to pull alot less as soon as i get near 5k rpm

Lol, yeah they die just after about 5K! Pitfalls of a small turbo....great low end spool-up...shyte top end! 

[Max Q]

Duncan,

Just reading this thread now and I'd definitely look into the history of this car as there are a lot of things that don't quite add up:

1) You've mentioned it feels low on power and dies after 5k rpm, yes K03 GTI's do start to run out of pep above 5k but it should still be pulling quite hard at those revs.
2) The fact that there is a discrepancy on your V5.
3) The golf badge on the boot really set my alarm bells off as GTI's categorically don't come with a golf badge whereas the GT 170 which your car is mistaken for on your V5 does. I don't know why anybody would source one and apply it to a GTI.
4) GTI's come with dark tinted headlight lenses. From some of your pics, your's look like those found on a regular golf, i.e not much tint visible, although it could just be the lighting on the photo.
5) Are you certain your Monza II wheels are genuine VW OEM Monzas. It's hard to tell without getting a good closeup pic, but in one of your pics there looks to be a lip only found on some replica Monzas.

I don't want to worry you unnecessarily but I would definitely look into this car in more detail.

[WhiteGTI]

If he had one of those silly GT TSI 170 thingies, then he would have one of those cr@ppy boost gauges in his dash next to the fuel guage..... I assume that you don't have this Duncan!

[duncan]

no, dont have any boost gauges

am not too worried about the car,

only reason the V5 is a bit strange im sure is down to the fact that my car is a WALD edition inport.

the monza's are real and the bagde.... well who knows but is probably down to the fact its an inport to be honest

the car is 100% a GTI, just one with a sh*t remap and a possilbe boost leak lol

[duncan]

just phoned my local VW garage - who were very helpful

i gave them the chasis number which they used to bring up details on the german database which would show exactly what car and what spec left the factory

everything they found pointed to a GTI, included data saying 147kw and GTI and the engine code AXX.

what was strange though is the country code (my car is an import) was ARE anyone know what the code is referring to?

eitherway looks like a DVLA cock-up which is good news as far as im concerned - now just need to find why its down on power

was reading a post from redrobin who had a crack in his turbo - really hope thats not the case although my car is still under warranty...

[Top Cat]

Good news on the cars history. 

Duncan you really should just chill and let a reputable tuner solve your problems, instead of reading on here all sorts of nasty things.
If you read out the symptoms to a serious illness half the people in the world would think they have it. you need to stick to a fault finding process. or your just going to get yourself in a right twiz. 
This place is great to share experience's but you should not use it for diagnosis. 

[duncan]

Good news on the cars history. 

Duncan you really should just chill and let a reputable tuner solve your problems, instead of reading on here all sorts of nasty things.
If you read out the symptoms to a serious illness half the people in the world would think they have it. you need to stick to a fault finding process. or your just going to get yourself in a right twiz. 
This place is great to share experience's but you should not use it for diagnosis. 

Very true.

problem is im off work and have been for the last 2 weeks and have another 2 weeks to go, and after being out of the country for ages was very very eager to get the golf, now that ive got it and is not working quite right it is driving me into a frenzy.

and having nothing but time and waiting for slots to come up at tuners leads me to constantly speculate

am going to chill about it and report back here once ive been to the tuners tomorrow

Cheers

Duncan

[joesgti]

trust me, once its back to full power you WILL love your car!!   

[duncan]

trust me, once its back to full power you WILL love your car!!   

cant wait!!! fingers crossed for tomorrow - just hope they are able to find / sort the problem!!!!

Cheers

Duncan