h1h0silver
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Hello everyone!
My car has been a pleasure to drive and I have noticed zero issues. I have been doing health checks with VCDS however. It started when I was clearing out the CEL of a glow plug circuit issue, and pulled/ reinstalled the glow plug in question. I reopened VCDS to look at measuring blocks in the engine after I witnessed a few plumes of black smoke upon acceleration from a stop. The engine was up to temp. On block 004 in the engine controller, I noticed that the Start of Injection- Specified value was 0.4* BTDC, while Start of Injection- Actual was 2.6* BTDC. So, I went to block 000- basic settings and started a TDI Timing graph. Verified this pretty much most of the day and all values stayed the same ( the smoke issue went away, I guess it was some oil or something). The value was hoovering around 73-75, which was out of range on the high end, every time I ran the TDI Timing graph.
My question is this- am I flirting with disaster by running this advanced? I am really on the fence about retarding the timing, but I will do it if it means a happy, healthy long life for my ALH.
My car has been a pleasure to drive and I have noticed zero issues. I have been doing health checks with VCDS however. It started when I was clearing out the CEL of a glow plug circuit issue, and pulled/ reinstalled the glow plug in question. I reopened VCDS to look at measuring blocks in the engine after I witnessed a few plumes of black smoke upon acceleration from a stop. The engine was up to temp. On block 004 in the engine controller, I noticed that the Start of Injection- Specified value was 0.4* BTDC, while Start of Injection- Actual was 2.6* BTDC. So, I went to block 000- basic settings and started a TDI Timing graph. Verified this pretty much most of the day and all values stayed the same ( the smoke issue went away, I guess it was some oil or something). The value was hoovering around 73-75, which was out of range on the high end, every time I ran the TDI Timing graph.
My question is this- am I flirting with disaster by running this advanced? I am really on the fence about retarding the timing, but I will do it if it means a happy, healthy long life for my ALH.
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