MoP2012
New member
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2020
- Location
- Alberta, Canada
- TDI
- 1998 jetta(broke), 2001 jetta(broke), 2002 jetta (reliable....ish)
My 2001 Jetta has decided to be needy again. Here's what I've faced in the last week or so.
1: Pulled the original turbo and replaced it with a $700 ebay turbo, because there was in and out play and lots of it, I also shortly after discovered that the housings were cut up pretty bad..
2: motor ran fine for two days, as the new turbo was breaking in.
3: day 3 I was experiencing a misfire, that would be my best description, at about 2000-2400 RPM. Massive amounts of white smoke until i left that RPM range.
4: suddenly the misfire goes away, and runs fine.
5: now the turbo won't actuate.
It's not going into the limp mode RPM wise, but i will be plugging VCDS in. where should I start looking within VCDS?
1: Pulled the original turbo and replaced it with a $700 ebay turbo, because there was in and out play and lots of it, I also shortly after discovered that the housings were cut up pretty bad..
2: motor ran fine for two days, as the new turbo was breaking in.
3: day 3 I was experiencing a misfire, that would be my best description, at about 2000-2400 RPM. Massive amounts of white smoke until i left that RPM range.
4: suddenly the misfire goes away, and runs fine.
5: now the turbo won't actuate.
It's not going into the limp mode RPM wise, but i will be plugging VCDS in. where should I start looking within VCDS?
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