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You should check the plastic engine cover. The earlier ones had a bad design and came off.

I think it looks allot better with a glossy black rather than with a matt one.

The PD VRS needs 4.2 liters of oil. If it didn't had a DPF (as the BKD engine for example) it would need 3.8 l.

Try geting the engine code. The PD unit is BMN and the CR unit is CEGA.

It may be the tyres if they are 195/65/15 "no name" that maybe can't get all the power down so the ASR intrudes.

Does this happen on dry roads or only in the wet when trying to launch the car?

Sorry for confusing the two . You're right BKP is the piezo engine in the Passat.

I have a race blue VRS but i voted white.

How would a catch can work on a diesel? Does the turbo need the oil vapors coming from the air intake to work properly?

All the injectors from the the 2.0 TDI PD engines that use piezoelectric Siemens injectors and Siemens ECU's are afected by this problem. The 2.0 TDI PD engines that use Bosch solenoid injectors and the newer commonrail engines are not afected by the problem. As far as i know Skoda used the piezoelectric system only on Octavia VRS 2.0 TDI (BMN) form the year 2006 to the introduction of the commonrail 2.0 TDI engine (CEGA) in 2009 The most problems were on the Passat BKD 2.0 TDI 140HP engines. There are allot of cases where the owners changed all of them before the cars reached 100.000 miles.

Here is a list of failed injectors from a Romanian VW forum (page 53): http://vwforum.vwforum.ro/topic/52745-injectoare-pd-20tdi-distruse/page__view__findpost__p__1542418 As you can imagine there are lists like this on all the VAG forums concerning the 2.0 TDI Siemens injectors.

I think that's a very good idea. After reading all the bad experiences that people are having with the Siemens injectors i'm a bit scared of taking long drives with my car.

All of the PD TDI VRS cars have Siemens piezoelectric injectors beginig from the year 2005 to 2009. The most failed ones come from the cars produced from 2005 to the end of 2007. However there have been cases on the newer cars too. Begining with 2008 they seem to have changed something in the ECU information in order not to shut down the engine when an inhector goes out. This way you could drive in 3 injectors until you can get to a service. Before they did this if an injector went bad the engine died completly. Imagine this happening while overtaking...

If you baught the car before 2009 be very happy that you didn't get the VRS. There are quite a few diferences between the two engines. The most important ones are: -Turbo -ECU (Siemens in the VRS and BOSCH in the L&K) -Injectors (Siemens in the VRS and Bosch in the L&K) There have been allot of problems with the piezoelectric injectors in the BMN engine that also comes in the VRS. I don't know if you have a DPF but that too was a major problem with the VRS. As for the remap... your engine should not have any problems with a stage 1.

The lasy week i searched the web for injector problems on the BMN engine. It seems that there are quite a few cases they failed. The ones that are most exposed to the problem are the ones that equip the pre 08 cars. However the problem ocured to newer cars in some isolated cases. At the moment i'm trying to gather information concerning the swap of the Damn Siemens Piezoelectric injectors for Bosch or other manufacturer Piezoelectric injectors. So far i couldn;t find enything about it. The engines that have the problematic injectors seem to be BMN 170 HP, BKP 140 HP and BMR 170 HP.

I have the problem and i change them front to back every spring after i take out the winter tyres.

Mine is running on Bridgestone Potenza's and the noise is so loud i have to turn the radio volume to minimum 15 in order to cover it.

You can find it at your local dealer. It costs 1 £ or less I find it very usefull. I put one on the passenger side also and i'm keeping there the road tax sticker (rather than glueing it on the windshield)

What bhp and torque you have now? I was told by a local tuner in Romania that our injectors could only manage about 215 bhp safe.

The festoon bulbs are 42mm both in the front and the back.

@kenc543 Did you only take the dpf out phisicaly or did you remove it from the software as well? How does the car drive now compared to the standard setup? What power and torque values do you have after the remap? Sorry for all the questions... I will be taking the DPF off route soon myself and i'm trying to gather all the info i can about the process.

We all know what the DPF does and we wish we didn't had it on our cars. I want to take it off because i'm tierd of worrying about it. For me there are 2 options available: -cutting the downpipe and removing the ceramic filterin element and leaving the sensors in place -replacing the downpipe with a stainless steal straight pipe and taking out the sensors If i won't get a DPF software removal right away what are the risks of the operation? I imagine that if i use the first method the sensors won't have anything to read and therefore the regeneration cycle won't begin. As far as i know one sensor reads the exhaust presure before the ceramic element and one reads the presure after the ceramic element. The difference between the 2 reads is how much the filter is clogged. Am i right? What would happen with the fuel consumption after the the DPF will be deleted? Will the noise level go up by much in comparison with the factory setup? How would the operation afect the turbo? Thanks in advance for your answers.

Wouldn't it be cheapper and more efective if you used can bus led bulbs?