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Been awhile, but car is still for sale, just pulled it out of storage a month ago.

Annd we're back after about 8 months... I stored the car in our heated shop over the winter, and when I went to pull the car out of storage it started.. And continued to do so for quite some time, but after longer and longer of it being back out on the road the starting issues came back. The...

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I haven't had to list photos on the forums for awhile so bear with me: Here's some links to Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/2iKSfXL https://flic.kr/p/2iKWC7v https://flic.kr/p/2iKUZR5 https://flic.kr/p/2iKWCcF https://flic.kr/p/2iKSg2t https://flic.kr/p/2iKV15G https://flic.kr/p/2iKWCf6

The car is also listed on the TDI Owners page on Facebook with pictures.

Very minimal on the bottom of the fenders (near the rockers, like all of them), and the rockers are peeling minimally, otherwise no clear coat damage or other missing paint.

Exterior color is Matchstick Red, interior is black leather. I have photos, but currently not a hosting service to post them. I’m willing to email or text photos to anyone interested.

2004 VW Jetta TDI I've owned the car for about 4.5 years and have pretty much rebuilt every aspect of this car. It's been a fantastic car, and gets about 38 mixed MPG, it wasn't built as an econo-crusher, it was built for a fun DD. The only con of the car is it has dirty/rough cold starts in...

Still has hard starts, still starts "fine" if I apply ~50% accel while cranking. Who wants a well built 04 with only minor starting issues? -_-

I used Molykote by Dow Corning on the brand new Tee I just installed. Mark at Malone just sent me a new file that we added 10% at crank and started injection at 0 RPM instead of 50-150 RPM, so we'll see what tomorrow morning brings.

And after two days of sitting we’re back to square one...

Update: I reset the injector lash and increased my torsion value from 1.1 to 3.3 and the car starts every time now, but still seems reluctant to do so, I don't have to assist it which is a huge step forward. I'm waiting to hear back from Malone with an updated map, but as of right now just...

Fuel temp and ECT read normal, both are just about ambient when cold starting in the morning. I had seen a thread that said if you unplug both temp sensors and the car starts happier that there is an update available that is supposed to fix it, but I'm not about to have the dealer update my...

No ASV. I found a thread that covers the ground under the cowl panel by the ECU possibly being corroded, but I find it hard to be my problem, but at this point of chasing the problem front to back and upside down I just need to follow every silly option I have. I'm not sure how many people...

That’s the weird part. I did a comp test last year and was just south of 400 across the board. The car doesn’t stumble and fight for life when it finally starts, once it lights it is fine. MPG is about 38 (city driver), power is great, almost zero dance to the oil cap while running, doesn’t...

Okay, so since the last time I posted I have replaced all of the rubber lines from the plastic lines at the bulkhead to the engine, replaced the Thermo T, and tried running an "IV drip" to the engine, and no luck. I am still getting ridiculously long cranks, lumpy starts, blue smoke, random...

No codes, cam timing is fine, torsion value is +1kw, injector deviations are almost perfect once the air works it’s way through.

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EGR/ASV is deleted, fault happens on multiple maps from both Malone and TDTuning.

Cam sensor is also new, thermo-t was replaced with the filter last fall. Alphabet hardware??