dale89

Have rang the dealership but need to ring again when open as they need the chassis number because the car is too old to search on their system by REG apparently. Tbh I've only had the car 3 months and have ran out of patience with it. Seriously considering putting it for sale 500 sold as seen. Getting to the point now where I'm holding the accelerator right to the floor on occasions and it's taking about 5-10 seconds to actually show any signs of power/boost. Starting the car is becoming a very increasing worry as well. Taking 3-4 long cranks before she ticks over.

Will do a code reading soon on my laptop. Have had a look at the coil packs and taken pictures of the information on them. Hopefully somebody on here will be able to let me know if they are eligible for the recall. It appears there are two different matching pairs of coil packs. I've uploaded a photo showing each one. Must say that there are quite a few black cable ties holding on hoses. Surely this isn't normal, I would have thought jubilee clips....

Been monitoring the VRS closely. Have not took it to a garage yet, but atm it is behaving strangely. Sometimes it takes a 2nd or 3rd crank with the keys to get going very occasionally. Main problem is that when I am driving, it is lurching quite badly at times now. Like when I accelerate, it jolts/jerks when accelerating. Hard to describe, as if you accelerate and quickly remove foot, then repeat and repeat. Goes away after a while, usually when warmed up to correct temp. I'm not sure if its the turbo as its doing it before the turbo kicks in. I think the turbo was set to kick in at 3500 or 4000 rpm, will have to check on that one. Any ideas on this?

Any ideas on rough idling for the MK1 VRS? Seems to go up and down, sometimes to the point where you feel like it is going to stall. But when the engine is fully warm it does improve. I have no idea if the coil packs have ever been changed as I got the car as a bit of a project, and the guy before me had treated it not so good. I did do the spark plugs myself, but am wondering if I over-tightened them or not. I didn't use a torque wrench just hand. Sometimes when accelerating as well, it can seem very laggy, slow to boot, almost as if the turbo sticks sometimes. It has had a stage one remap, running at 220BHP. I did manage to track the guy down who done this some years ago, and he said just keep your eye on it as the car was in a bit of a state when it was brought in. I thought £80/£90 for a stage one was very cheap, thats why I rang him, but he seemed genuine and said any problems bring her back. As far as I know, it had a completely different car map on when the previous owner took her in, so he had to put the original MK1 VRS map on. I believe they put a popcorn limiter on as well.