Ratz

Member - Ratz Engine - 1.6 TDi DSG Model - Outdoor Easy (2015) Colour - Candy White Location - Italy From 2010 to 2015: Engine - 1.2 TSI manual Model - Ambition Colour - Aqua Blue

Had a replacement today: they installed the kit "03f 198 158 a" and I just paid the 30% of the material cost and the labour was free. My car is out of warranty, it has 4 years and 44000 km (I had 2 year warranty), but since I made the services they made the discount. The engine seems to run well, but indeed apart some occasional metallic starts it was good even before the fix...

It seems like the 1.2 and 1.8 have the same gearbox.

I confirm that my car is "gentler", now. The effect of the turbo was not progressive before putting the shim: often I saw the ASR light on when accelerating hard in 2nd or 3rd gear on slippery road. Now the engine is a bit more similar to an aspirated one and I have to manage it at higher revs; below 2000 rpm it is very weak, but in my opinion it is however a petrol unit which can arrive to 6400 rpm, so I am not concerned about it.

I had this adjustment almost a year ago. The turbo effect is more gradual, and enters at 2000 rpm instead 1500-1600 rpm. In a word, the motor is less diesel-like than before the intervention...

At 130 km/h = 3000 rpm in 6th. My average is 15 km/l (total km: 27000).

A strange thing is that every time I switch from summer to winter tires (or the opposite) the TPM activates (and I have to make a reset holding the button for a while), although it should not as all the wheels have -contemporary- the same diameter variation...

Mine, also, has a sort of "hiccup" just after a cold start. I note this behaviour vanishes when I use 100 octane fuel (now I use it regularly as I see less indicated consumption and more -my sensation, anyway- push at low revs). Bye

I strongly underline what jeep said. This is why I have no doubt in choosing the kind of service: extended, even with low miles/year. The less you visit garages the less probability of induced failures you have (I do not want to say that maintenance personnel is not capable: my idea is that each action -when not strictly needed- may have a drawback, as the Murphy's Law states...)

In italian I say "La yeti" (female).

Mine has variable service. I had to add half a litre after 13000 km. I buyed Castrol Edge 5/30 (as it is stamped on the oil cap). I guess that VW504 specification applies only to 5/30 fully synthetic oil. Bye, Ratz

Thank you. Nice to hear it was not a "catastrophic" failure... Bye. Ratz

Just to know, as I have a similar model and I touch iron (not wood being Italian...). What did it happen after the wastegate and turbo issue: only a power loss or the engine stop? Thank you. Bye, Ratz

Let consider that for a precise evaluation of the mpg in addition to the brim-to-brim refuelling also the distance should be measured not through the car's odometer but using a navigator (I see my odometer shows +3% distance than real with summer tires and +5% distance with winter tires than real). Bye, Ratz

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