MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: micaerin on December 17, 2010, 08:35:19 pm
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I always felt that my car was'nt as fast as it should be, even mentioned it to VW when i got it serviced, they found nothing and said that i had just got used to the car. So after reading a few posts about the DV, i thought i would change mine to the D version. Wow now the car feels a lot quicker and more responsive. Thanks to this Forum :happy2:. on inspection of my old DV it had holes in the diaphragm. i will post some pics soon..
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when you say more responsive... is that across the full range or ?
ive always felt mine is a bit hesitant at times.esp pulling away but i have a new dv enroute :evilgrin:
fingers crossed this will sort it all out
thanks.
oh - has someone done a diy for this-any links helpful lol
matsu
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mine was like you say a bit hesitant but it seems to pull more across the range.
remove wheel on drivers side, and you can see it with a torch, 3x 5mm allen key bolts to remove. a little awkward but possible.
If you clean side of old DV whilst attached you can read version number mine was a B so i knew i needed to change it.
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(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fqq272%2Fmicaerin%2FIMG_0340.jpg&hash=587ac5fc146048532a93e1c04c5be6ebfbe2261e)
had holes all around
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something im looking at checking/doing on my leon
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Changed mine today for peace of mind, the one we removed was totally fine (but orange in colour where yours is gree?) so I will keep it as a spare. No noticable improvement in performance but I have lost a little of the whooosh/chatter through the intake.
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march back to VW and show them that the DV was split and that they should have checked it.
When i first got my mk5gti about 4 years ago, it had a faulty DV and ended up paying about 150 in diagnostics at VW for them to turn around and say nothing was wrong. then i joined the old forum and swapped my DV, got my money straight back from the local stealer.