Recent content by derek5120

I bought a second vehicle and only use my truck to tow my trailer, no more daily driving. The savings in fuel has paid for my $2k toyota corolla x3 over.

Kind of sounds like a hydraulic issue, like you've still have air in your clutch master or slave. Double clutching or pumping the clutch might build enough pressure to allow you to shift. I'd be bleeding the system again or check to make sure the external slave has full travel.

I use this product at work and I don't use it on dpf's that are so close to the engine for this reason. If the dpf is packed then the fluid can back up in front of the filter face and enter the engine. Between the flush and the purge there is allot of fluid being injected. Also I've never...

When I did my motor, every allen key bolt I took out got replaced with grade 10.9 normal bolt. Very un-vag of me, but my life is better for it. Also a impact driver works well to get them out, then bin them.

what oilhammer said^ go to the back of your car, stick your hand in the tailpipe, if there is black soot on your hand then the dpf is cracked.

I made the mistake of deleting my cooler on my alh and I don't recommend it if you live in a cold climate. My car struggled to warm up and basically wouldn't unless I started driving it. On really cold days I'd see my temp actually drop while driving at highway speed and I ended up blocking the...

I would just use the same torque as the original bolts 18 ft/lbs, maybe with a dab of blue on them. All the usual suspects have them: kerma, whitbeard etc.

I should trade it in and find another mk4, this thing is a pile.

Ya I changed that water pump housing already. Car wouldn’t get above 1/4 on the temp gauge on the hwy. The temp control unit was melted, fun job. Are the specs the same as the other tsi motors in terms of group 93 to check timing stretch? Like I said, no cold start noise at all, only in that...

I’m a tech in my day to day life but I’m not familiar with these engines. We’ve owned the car for 4 years. I only started hearing it a couple weeks ago and it’s not a noise I would deem normal, I know these are loud crappy motors. Sounds like a metallic rapping noise like loose timing chains or...

I know the wastegates were a problem in the previous generation but I’m not sure about the cxbb.

Hey gents, Any vw gas specialist here? My girlfriend has a 2016 golf with a 1.8 tsi. Oil changes were done every 7k and it has no chain noise on start and I checked the timing with vag. Car has no codes and it drive perfect, no lack no power etc. Under load from 1000-1500 rpm I hear a metallic...

check group 13 and that will give you a "general" idea on your engines health. Should be +/- 2, closer to 0 the better. That should help narrow down what cylinder(s) have problems. I'd also be on the look for air in the fuel system.

My main take away is that there may be some accountability finally. Depends on how strict they will be. In the past 5 years we've had numerous customers purchase vehicles with a valid mvis only to find out that they failed horribly. One 05 ram 3500 needed $13k worth of work, it was deplorable...

CMV based, updated, I misunderstood. I think it's more aimed at emissions and shady inspection shops. although the price will be going up