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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #45 on: December 04, 2012, 10:05:41 pm »
Quote from: stealthwolf on December 04, 2012, 09:21:43 pm
Another bump for Alex at AKS. Sorted out my oil/gearbox oil/brake fluid, and helped sort out my door (which had been shut for six months and refused to open), as well as putting up with my muppetry. :pomppomp:

Have you been trapped in your car for six months.  :confused:  I hope some one was feeding you Mars bars.  :star:
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #46 on: December 04, 2012, 11:04:00 pm »
Caramac and milky bars were they only thing they could slide in.  :popcornsoda:
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #47 on: December 04, 2012, 11:06:01 pm »
Quote from: Tfsi_Mike on December 04, 2012, 09:46:20 pm

Such a random result on the door mate!  :happy2:
Defo. I told Alex his mate had magic hands!
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #48 on: December 04, 2012, 11:09:04 pm »
Quote from: stealthwolf on December 04, 2012, 11:06:01 pm

Defo. I told Alex his mate had magic hands!


....Eek!! That's far too much information, Jaz!
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #49 on: December 15, 2012, 04:01:37 pm »
Big thanks from me for various bits of work this morning! Thought I'd only be there for an hour or so but turned into 4 hours due to unexpected problems!

At least the cam follower looks like new after 33k miles  :smiley:

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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #50 on: December 18, 2012, 10:59:33 pm »
Another thumbs up for alex... he fitted a Bluetooth kit to my friends Octavia VRS and also put REVO stage 1 on it... which was no mean feat! Those locked ECUs cause about 2-3 hours of work.


Photo by Alex Kerr.

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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #51 on: December 18, 2012, 11:37:24 pm »
thinking of getting Alex to poly bush my bottom arms on my car next year,which means a 6hr round trip :grin:
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #52 on: December 18, 2012, 11:42:37 pm »

If its not till March stop off for a brew just off Jct 25 M1  :happy2:
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #53 on: December 18, 2012, 11:44:59 pm »
Quote from: Tfsi_Mike on December 18, 2012, 11:42:37 pm

If its not till March stop off for a brew just off Jct 25 M1  :happy2:
It will be round june or july Mike--Yeah def drop by yours :happy2:
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #54 on: December 19, 2012, 09:29:30 am »
Quote from: richwig83 on December 18, 2012, 10:59:33 pm

Another thumbs up for alex... he fitted a Bluetooth kit to my friends Octavia VRS and also put REVO stage 1 on it... which was no mean feat! Those locked ECUs cause about 2-3 hours of work.


Photo by Alex Kerr.

 :happy2:

....I'm curious why the ECU had to be removed for a Revo remap.

Alex takes a cool photo doesn't he  :congrats: :congrats:
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #55 on: December 19, 2012, 09:34:18 am »
On certain models...like the 2010+ 170CR diesel the ECU is locked, it cannot be flashed via the OBD port. So, you have to remove the ECU, use the REVO SPX unit to probe the ECU to remove the lock, and then either flash it on the bench or reinstall the ECU and use the OBD port like normal.

Absolute ball ache for Alex, something that should take 20-30mins max. ends up taking about 2-3 hours.
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #56 on: December 19, 2012, 09:06:14 pm »
its the sameon pretty much all the VAG stuff thats released nowadays. the encryptions pretty much render the OBDII port useless for the tuners apart from VCDS logging.
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #57 on: December 22, 2012, 07:36:50 pm »
Another big thanks to Alex from me, he managed to squeeze me in this week at shortish notice for quite a bit of work.

As always very impressed with the standard and quality of his work and the car feels great now. I even got a ride in the Octavia which is a serious bit of kit, I've ever been in any diesel that goes or handles like that. Any work that needs doing on my car now will be done by Alex definitely worth the 160mile round trip to know the job will get done right  :happy2:
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #58 on: December 23, 2012, 09:00:49 am »

Deisel?  :laugh:  2.0tfsi  :wink:

The Octavias handling defies physics with the amount of grip it has haha.
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Re: AKS Tuning (vRSAlex)
« Reply #59 on: December 23, 2012, 09:38:27 am »
Epic face palm moment there, for some reason I thought all early vrs's were diesels but it was only the fabia's weren't it but I was actually meant to type estate so it's a double face palm moment lol

Your car was looking good Mike :happy2:
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