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LC5F's Graphite Blue GTI - Pilgrimage to Caffeine & Machine
LC5F:
--- Quote from: LC5F on July 13, 2021, 10:30:44 pm ---@pandaman - Thanks, I will keep an eye out for this issue
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Yes - now experienced this twice - hopefully it's just the hot weather
Golf seems to do a few odd things in the heat, currently have no cooling AC has been low for a while waiting for condenser and intercooler to be replaced.
Could the LED numberplate lights be coded in or out in VCDS?
Update - Brown Santa came earlier this week with this from DPM... actually they were more traditional Red as they were parcelforce:
Got to play today, nice having good weather to work on the Golf.
I was dreading doing the downpipe, night before with the engine warm I whipped off the intake emptied half a can of penetration fluid onto the studs, thought it was going to ignite it was smoking so much.
All 4 nuts came off - I had new studs, but looking at the space available and the tools I have I couldn't find any decent way to remove them - so undecided not to push my luck and struck with the old studs.
Pipeworx sport cat downpipe being prepared:
And installed:
Ended up getting a slip extension pipe that I cut to size:
Strangely all the nuts on the 2 cross braces under the exhaust came off without any problems - unusual for this car!
Old clamps - think they are the ones supplied by Cobra - were a PITA to remove and look like something Victorian compared to the Miklor W4s:
got the rear ARB installed and also added the last bit of Aero - panel after the tank blocking off the sub frame:
Tomorrow is swapping out the intercooler, filled it with water 4 times and emptied it out - then filled it a 5th time to test for leaks and left it overnight - still full in the morning.
pandaman:
--- Quote from: LC5F on July 17, 2021, 06:29:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: LC5F on July 13, 2021, 10:30:44 pm ---@pandaman - Thanks, I will keep an eye out for this issue
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Yes - now experienced this twice - hopefully it's just the hot weather
Golf seems to do a few odd things in the heat, currently have no cooling AC has been low for a while waiting for condenser and intercooler to be replaced.
Could the LED numberplate lights be coded in or out in VCDS?
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Well that's a bummer but also rules out something else my end. Dunno if its got anything to do with heat, im pretty sure it was doing it though winter as well.
VCDS seems our best bet, I'll do some googling.
LC5F:
Well I changed my mind about what to do next, rather than take on the relatively clean intercooler swap, I decided to get the messy front ARB out the way and then the intercooler.
Dropping the subframe, removing the old ARB, drilling out the captive nuts on the OEM bushes were straight forward -thought I would be done in 1.5 to 2 hours...but didn't budget for:
* Half an hour trying to fit the ARB the wrong way up.
* Finding out the new ARB blocks inserting the front bolts - undoing the drivers side provided enough room, but passenger side then needed the just re-installed drivers side removed.
* I forgot the grief my Chinese subframe aligners make for how to re-bolt the subframe in place - took 3 goes with different orders - Note to future self: couple of turns on rear 2 bolts, then passenger side console, Left front and then the drivers side.
* Unable to torque the front bolts - not enough room for a socket - so they are as FT as I could get them with a spanner
That little lot took me 5 hours! - but by then I was completely wrecked, decided to stop there and after a bath took the Golf for a drive.
My test route was 16 miles, with motorway/dual carriageway/B road, impressions of the Sportcat were much more eagerness to rev, with quicker throttle response.
ARB - they are behaving as I wished, the rubbing on hard sudden turn-ins has been removed and body roll minimised.
On the drive I found the rear end to be a lot livelier, suspect I need to take care with rear end stepping out in the wet.
--- Quote from: pandaman on July 17, 2021, 10:09:40 pm ---VCDS seems our best bet, I'll do some googling.
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Thanks fella - I am trying coding out cold diagnosis of the license plate lights discussed here: https://forums.ross-tech.com/index.php?threads/1073/
Unsure if that works with standard Mk5 Canbus, that thread is for a Mk6 chassis, but mine are newer canbus.
colesey:
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, however the original ARB brackets modified to fit my front H&R arb cracked and came loose after a couple of years so I recommend you keep an eye on them. You can’t buy them separately otherwise, only as a full ARB assembly. That aside, the stiffer ARBs make a nice improvement in handling.
LC5F:
--- Quote from: colesey on July 19, 2021, 04:37:50 pm ---Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, however the original ARB brackets modified to fit my front H&R arb cracked and came loose after a couple of years so I recommend you keep an eye on them. You can’t buy them separately otherwise, only as a full ARB assembly. That aside, the stiffer ARBs make a nice improvement in handling.
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Thanks for the heads up - how much mileage/abuse did you put on them?
Have to say I chuckled at the H&R instructions saying "Avoid unusual or aggressive driving maneuvers that place excessive demands on the vehicle (racing events, etc.)"!
Maybe its lost in the translation, but what were the Germans thinking we were to to do with them?
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