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Re: Car has no power?????
« Reply #75 on: January 05, 2012, 02:14:41 am »
Yours is out by a silmilar amount, maybe a bit less. It is the opposite to Doms though, i.e turned too far the other way.

So should the inlet camshaft lobes be pointing in the same direction as the exhaust  lobe in my picture ? my exhaust lobe is low and the inlet is pointing high
The cam lobes behind the black setting block are the setting lobes. exhaust lobe(left ) should be at 2 oclock, and the inlet lobe(right) should be at 10 oclock.
So yours is pointing at 12 oclock, mine was pointing at 8 oclock.

Thanks Dave, hopefully I might have a car that works tomorrow :pomppomp: :xmaspresent: :laugh:
It''ll be interesting to see the garages views on your findings, I bet my wallet will be taking yet another hit :sad1:
That is a pretty shocking list of ailments.


I suppose the $64,000 question is which map?  :wink:
Stock map  :fighting:
Stage 1 shark and PDT stage 2 was overboosting to 2 bar so looks like I'm out of that game, hopefully one day I might be able to run the PDT stage 2 map I have, shark performance wont do me a stage 2 map, so the most I can go from them is the stage 1 I have, as no more stage 2+ from me, hard lesson learned this time :sad1:

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Re: Car has no power?????
« Reply #76 on: January 05, 2012, 01:13:30 pm »
Dave ,

Can you post a picture (if you have 1?) of the position of the camshafts when they are set correctly for future reference , for anyone else who seems to be having this problem , its strange that me and Dom have both had similar issues.
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Re: Car has no power?????
« Reply #77 on: January 05, 2012, 01:20:45 pm »
from vw workshop manual

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #78 on: January 05, 2012, 02:49:37 pm »
Got car back, its suprising how fast a stock Edition 30 is when you havent driven one for a while :driver:
Thanks to Dave at PDtuning for sorting it out in the end :congrats:
Now lets see if I can recoup some of this 7hr labour bill back from the so far un-named Vw specialist.....................

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #79 on: January 05, 2012, 02:57:31 pm »
glad you are back to where you should have been weeks ago, shame someone elses mistakes have cost you more money. :happy2:

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #80 on: January 05, 2012, 03:03:53 pm »
 :congrats:

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #81 on: January 05, 2012, 03:41:07 pm »
brilliant news Dom--now are you going to leave it standard :signLOL:

Excellent work by Dave :notworthy:

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #82 on: January 05, 2012, 04:33:07 pm »
Glad its all sorted, Dom  :smiley:

Good work, Dave  :happy2:

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #83 on: January 05, 2012, 04:37:06 pm »
 :congrats: :congrats:
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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #84 on: January 05, 2012, 05:08:54 pm »
And now.........id sell it

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #85 on: January 05, 2012, 05:11:13 pm »
Glad it's all sorted now.

Now name and shame  :evilgrin:

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #86 on: January 05, 2012, 05:27:54 pm »
Glad its all sorted, seems like its gone on forever. But you had a fun drive home   :driver:

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #87 on: January 05, 2012, 06:11:33 pm »
its a good feeling when you finally get the car fixed

enjoy driving it mate , well done Dave , shame you were not local to me i would have used you as well !

Thanks for the post of the head Dom , where can i acceses that mate?
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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #88 on: January 05, 2012, 06:44:49 pm »
Dom, just thinking out loud.

YOu havent tried APR so get yourself the stage4 APR big turbo upgrade, we all want to see how it compares  :driver:

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Re: Car has no power?????- FIXED AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #89 on: January 05, 2012, 07:05:28 pm »
Dom, just thinking out loud.

YOu havent tried APR so get yourself the stage4 APR big turbo upgrade, we all want to see how it compares  :driver:
think Dom will be enjoying his car again before or if he starts modding it again :signLOL: