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Mk5 General Area / Re: What did you and your MKV do today?

« Last post by skkane on Today at 06:15:11 pm »

Fitted a TTE420 as my K04 that I reconditioned 6 months ago crapped out. It has the APR spring on it which requires 0.75bar crack pressure so I'm running full wastegate closed till I go update the tune tomorrow. Nearly crapped my pants when I saw the boost needle jump off the scale, I saw it around where 2.5 bar would've been, tops out at 2, LMAO.

Also got a MIB2 unit installed, which was a total bitch to code properly, had to get a new can gateway also for vcds be able to access it. Car play and all, too bad my Huawei doesn't support Android auto  The bluetooth is way nicer then the chinese dongle crap I had in my RNS510.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: What shall I do? New turbo, 2nd hand turbo or reconditioned turbo?

« Last post by skkane on Today at 06:11:33 pm »

Buy new. I reconditioned my K04 after I torched the engine and noticed there was alot of play in the shaft when taking it all apart. It cost ~300 euros total for new core and balancing, nice china core I bet as original BW K04 core is around 750-850EUR. Lasted a good 6 months before it seized completely a few weeks ago. You could only spin the shaft in the opposite direction to what it was supposed to... nice 3 weeks with NA 50HP.

I wanted to get a new one from turbozentrum but decided to spend some extra for a tte420. Either way, not reconditioning turbos again. Might work for diesels or stock cars I guess, those china cores they use.

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How to Guides / Troubleshooting / Re: Drive shaft advice please.

« Last post by terrier on Today at 04:16:54 pm »

Have a look at shaftec No experience of them but reviews are good

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How to Guides / Troubleshooting / Re: Drive shaft advice please.

« Last post by TheBALDpuma on Today at 04:07:19 pm »

I would steer well clear from autodoc.  I bought some febi drop links from there last year and without telling me, or asking me, sent out there one brand ones as an "upgrade". They're really cheap Chinese stuff, and when it happened I googled it and it is their standard practice. Can't believe they get away with it, but it seems it's because they price their own brand stuff as quite expensive so they can make it out to be an upgrade.

I did get a refund but had to jump through a ton of hoops and it took ages and had to fight very hard to get them to pay for the postage. Total ball ache and I won't ever buy from there again

Edit to add try partsinmotion.co.uk they are great.

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How to Guides / Troubleshooting / Drive shaft advice please.

« Last post by sandomenico on Today at 11:12:49 am »

Hi all,
My 2007 Gti needs a need driveshaft. (front left)
Where's the best to get a decent quality one at good price? A GKN-LOBRO one from Halfords is £191 But Autodoc do some good brands for a lot less, but I'm dubious.
Anyone got some advice please?
Many thanks.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: Tailgate won't lock - actuator issue?

« Last post by mjmallia on Yesterday at 09:39:16 pm »

As mentioned, it will be broken wires on the left boot hinge

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Mk5 General Area / Re: Boot not opening

« Last post by mjmallia on Yesterday at 09:38:12 pm »

It will be broken wires on the left boot hinge

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Mk5 General Area / Re: MK5GolfGTI sudden influx of post views? Bot views?

« Last post by pudding on Yesterday at 06:17:05 pm »

Your oil pump investigations is all great info, and a common issue, so don't sell yourself short 

That's one for the forum admin/owner unfortunately mate, but bots are a plague on all forums unfortunately.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: MK5GolfGTI sudden influx of post views? Bot views?

« Last post by OllieVRS on Yesterday at 04:01:54 pm »

Maybe it's your contributions generating a lot of interest, or the warmth and charm of your personality 

I delete the bot posts if I spot them though, and there are many!

Always the same tactics.  Exhuming ancient posts with inane nonsense and a link to some tiger penis medication or some sht like that.

That's a good one pudding. I'm flattered 

The nothing like the warmth and charm of my doom and gloom oil pressure-related posts. Must be oil pump hysteria  driving this extra forum traffic

Would it be difficult or expensive to implement some sort of bot-check thing like cloud flare or recaptcha when logging in? I'm not too knowledgeable on the subject.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: What shall I do? New turbo, 2nd hand turbo or reconditioned turbo?

« Last post by pudding on Yesterday at 03:58:12 pm »

For my Edition 30, I got a new Borg Weiner K04 from TurboZentrum for £950.  It was the exact same unit VW used, just less the VW branding.

I wouldn't trust a cheap aftermarket one personally if you want it to last.