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Rob at www.fastlineturbo.co.uk is local to me at Northampton, and Google reviews seemed good, so I had him supply his recommendation of a strengthened IS38(not sure of the technicalities of exactly how its strengthened but he says it should be a lot more reliable and far better equipped to handle the stage 1 map than the factory turbo, of which apparantly the earlier (around 2016?) versions are worse and more prone to failure. Rob at fastline also offered whether I wanted a baffld delete for around £100, which apparantly let's things flow a little easier at the cost of a fraction more noise so I said sure. Apparantly my turbo shat its compressor wheel down into the downpipe, and he said its hard to say just how much damage done to the cat, hard to see down there, and best to replace that downpipe really, so I went for a scorpion downpipe with 100cell8 free flowing cat. Time will tell how long such a cat holds up, apparantly one of the main differences in aftermarket downpipes with cats is how much of the expensive precious metals they coat onto the cat, so cheaper ones might not get through the mot for as many years. Scorpion one is best 'bang for buck' according to vrs Northampton so I went for that (my first option the more expensive bcs had a 5 week lead time also whereas scorpion was in stock). So new stronger turbo and baffle delete (£875), scorpion downpipe (£650), while I was at it found a used ramair turbo inlet elbow which gives a little better airflow on ebay (£56) . I also bought a forge silicone intake pipe off ebay for another £55, but the garage didn't fit it, saying it was crap - too soft and squeezy so likely to collapse under boost. They said the forge one with the hose and turbo elbow all in one is fine if you can get that, but the shorter hose without elbow section is crap. So return that, and maybe I'll get the Apr carbon pipe. Garage labour was £580 + VAT, so I'm around £2300 down. With the improved airflow, the engine light hasn't come on so far, so the stage 1 map is fuelling enough for the moment, although it may well come on and push me to remap again, at which point I may as well throw caution to the wind and do r600 Intake, Wagner intercooler, and the rest of the exhaust system

Would have been within skoda Official used car warranty I'm sure if I hadn't remapped it, but I've triggered the TD1 flag of course, so they'll know. 60k miles or so on it.

Clean the car. especially the front.

wife drains key batteries, and I swear it's because she stuffs car keys into a big handbag full of rubbish which is probably pressing continuously against the buttons...

Cracking Job, a real PITA retrofit that one... Do you understand exactly what's needed on the coding front to code this properly? I can help you there.

It should, if you don't want the big clouds of white smoke behind you that I had this morning..

Started hearing a little whistle from the turbo today, shortly followed by some very big clouds of white smoke behind me...

no, your first aerial locations are correct, not this

Oh, and for clarity, the base functions provided over obdii are mostly around emissions and major fault codes, for long coding, adaptations, you'd need obdeleven, vcds, odis or similar

You could install m. I. B. Toolkit on the headunit if you have mib2 high (columbus) and do it for free direct from there, if you were the type https://github.com/jilleb/mib2-toolbox

I'll message you..

Well I upgraded my radar, replacing it with a used 3qf version that supports pacc, did the component protection myself, and calibrated it myself. Total cost less than 100, plus a lot of my own time learning, thousands if I was paying for my own time 😂. So that's.. possible, if you're determined and a massively interested hobbyist. However in your situation, someone overly keen to avoid insurance can be a bit of a red flag. I fear you sound overly keen to help someone who's causing you grief you don't need or deserve, and that you may be leaving yourself open to being taken advantage of in this situation.

I'm away til 26th but after then am good.

No need for money, if you're local (I'm inbetween Milton keynes/bedford/Northampton) I can try and do yours

The bracket part number I got from etka doesn't look like yours. Have you got a part number for yours by any chance? Yours looks correct, I don't think mine is good..