Strange discription of my car.....

[joesgti]

i thought you were booked in for today? 

[duncan]

i thought you were booked in for today? 

I was but the New DV and PCV arnt going to arrive till tomorrow, will be going in first thing and parts should arrive around 10am (fingers crossed)

had a chat to rubeun at tuningwerkes who was very helpful and said that although my car is supposed to have had this wald conversion, a recent software update might have wiped the map back to standard so is looking more likley to be a Faulty pcv or DV

[QD MBE]

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...

ARE is the ISO 3166 code for the United Arab Emirates.

Right at the bottom of the linked page.


http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html

[joesgti]

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...

ARE is the ISO 3166 code for the United Arab Emirates.

Right at the bottom of the linked page.


http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html

does that mean its an import from the middle east?

[duncan]

am not sure,

is an interesting one, VW said that the car looked completely standard when it left the factory, not sure if it went somewhere else and then was inported into the uk, i think they drive on the other side of the road though in the UAE

is a strange one thats for sure - will feel loads better once its been looked at!!

[WhiteGTI]

Yep, drive on the other side of the road in the UAE!