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My Black 3 Door Manual ED30 No2297
pudding:
Good work fella, and super clean car :happy2: How did you get your tailpipes to tuck up so neatly to the bumper? Mine's got quite a big gap! I need to address that.
That is a common thing with cheapy polydrive bits I'm afraid. I bought mine from the dealer. You can pretty much guarantee VW tools are man enough for the job :happy2: That bolt is an absolute swine. It's tightening torque isn't much, but the breakaway torque is huge because of the friction of the stupid bolt shoulder they used.
I recommend you have a pal push hard onto the breaker bar whilst you crack it off. The tool bit recess is also very shallow, so you can quickly find yourself on a one way flight to stripped out island if you're not careful.
The tool you need is VW T40080. I think I paid about £12 for it. Not all dealers will sell tools to the public though, but they will if you have a good relationship with them :happy2:
csrigo:
--- Quote from: Pudding on November 09, 2018, 05:34:34 pm ---Good work fella, and super clean car :happy2: How did you get your tailpipes to tuck up so neatly to the bumper? Mine's got quite a big gap! I need to address that.
That is a common thing with cheapy polydrive bits I'm afraid. I bought mine from the dealer. You can pretty much guarantee VW tools are man enough for the job :happy2: That bolt is an absolute swine. It's tightening torque isn't much, but the breakaway torque is huge because of the friction of the stupid bolt shoulder they used.
I recommend you have a pal push hard onto the breaker bar whilst you crack it off. The tool bit recess is also very shallow, so you can quickly find yourself on a one way flight to stripped out island if you're not careful.
The tool you need is VW T40080. I think I paid about £12 for it. Not all dealers will sell tools to the public though, but they will if you have a good relationship with them :happy2:
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Cheers mate much appreciated :happy2:. I'm OCD with how the car sits and looks prob much like yourself and like you it used to do my head in with it being too "saggy" for my liking...long story short when I fitted the BCS DP etc I had my mates ramp all night so messed about with it for hours till it sat right...the BCS let me angle the back box slightly up keeping the good angle....new rubbers help as well obv. You also on standard BB?
Yeah I had someone push and centre the bit when I tried to remove it as the laser bit is too long and a shoddy fit I knew to keep pressure on it...just utter garbage like you said. My long time friend from school works in VW so I get cheap parts and access to tools usually but he's in OZ and the guy that runs the parts department is a bit of a loser sometimes. Got the part coming from another VW :happy2:...I will be doing this another time now got all the parts there and my phase difference is about -1Kw so I'm ok with it for now. Tensioner and guides look/feel ok but still want it done. Funnily enough I'm doing it on a S3 tomorrow night who's phase diff is -5Kw :confused: sounds a bit like a diesel. Interested to see/hear the difference after it's done.
pudding:
You did a good job! Yeah my exhaust is stock. Maybe my hangers are 'saggy' :grin:
I had no trouble at all doing the chain job, but I put that down to using VW tools, including the cam lock plate. The latter is expensive for one time use, but worth it for the peace of mind! Oh, I forgot to say when checking the cam phase angle, disconnect the VVT solenoid first, otherwise it will adjust and not give a true reading. -5KW does sound like he needs a new chain though!
csrigo:
--- Quote from: Pudding on November 23, 2018, 02:06:15 pm ---You did a good job! Yeah my exhaust is stock. Maybe my hangers are 'saggy' :grin:
I had no trouble at all doing the chain job, but I put that down to using VW tools, including the cam lock plate. The latter is expensive for one time use, but worth it for the peace of mind! Oh, I forgot to say when checking the cam phase angle, disconnect the VVT solenoid first, otherwise it will adjust and not give a true reading. -5KW does sound like he needs a new chain though!
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Lol cheers mate aye I stuck on new rubbers at the same time and made sure all the hangers were in the original position and not corroded or bent. I managed to get the oem locking tool from another mate and I got the oem bit from VW Germany for 12 euros so happy days...and yup we also took the reading with the valve disconnected :happy2:... My mates S3 we done sounds much better after we changed the chain and tensioner. His S3 chain was "saggy" lol. Mine was spot on and the old tensioner and chain were pretty decent. I changed both I wldnt bother just changing a tensioner without the chain tbh makes sense to do both at the same time for anyone going to do this.
For anybody going to do this with a wide reading like my mates S3 (his was -5Kw) it sounded a bit like a diesel then once changed it dropped it down to -1Kw and sounds much much better not diesel like....just normal TFSI which aren't the quietest anyway tbh. Cldnt get it to zero but phase pulley could cause that.......thats a little expensive for anybody wanting to change it btw approx £300.
I need a new pic sharing app apart from photobucket as I can't get it to work now...any suggestions?
Shoduchi:
I've done my readings with the N205 solenoid connected. I guess I need to recheck the readings... :thinking:
Great job csrigo! :congrats:
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