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Offline adgti

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Coilpack Recall
« on: April 09, 2013, 11:28:34 pm »
My car's booked in friday for the recall will my car have to be un-modified to have the recall done? All I have is a CAI

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Re: Coilpack Recall
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2013, 11:50:08 pm »
How do we check if the car is affected by the recall?
Any particulr batch?

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Re: Coilpack Recall
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2013, 11:55:43 pm »
My car's booked in friday for the recall will my car have to be un-modified to have the recall done? All I have is a CAI

My car was heavily modified and it was fine.

They are replacing them because some of the older coil packs caused a fire in one or 2 cars so being modified has nothing to do with it.

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Re: Coilpack Recall
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2013, 11:56:16 pm »
How do we check if the car is affected by the recall?
Any particulr batch?

Do a forum search there are loads of threads on this.

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Re: Coilpack Recall
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2013, 11:58:49 pm »
I think most are affected just ring VW.  Cheers guys the bad news is one of my coilpacks died today so I have no car until friday :( I am going to ring tomorrow to see if they can fit it in sooner as it's only a 10 minute job  :driver:

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Re: Coilpack Recall
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2013, 11:27:38 am »
Mine melted the coilpack and the harness plug! VW replaced both and the other 3 coilpacks FOC under the recall!!

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Re: Coilpack Recall
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2013, 10:42:15 am »
my cupra was modifed when i took mine in for coil pack recall no problems athough it made no noticable difference so must of been alright anyway!