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What Gen of EA888 is this suitable for? I have a set of Racingline versions but found the intake hose doesn’t have a connection to spur in an oil breather - which means it’s for the Gen3 and my engine is the Gen4. If your stuff is for Gen4 then I’d be interested! Otherwise, it’s the same issue as what I already have. Cheers!

@vRSRutty are you still looking for something? I bought some Racingline intake bits and turbo muffler delete on here that should make a bit better intake sound. Panel filter, intake hose and intake elbow are all simple and smooth the airflow, the turbo muffler delete is designed to do that also. Bought them in prep for warranty expiring…and completely overlooked that I bought bits for a Gen3 engine and I have a Gen4 so some different infrastructure design and these bits won’t fit 🤦🏻‍♂️. Send me a message if you want to know more.

Hey all, Hope this doesn’t contravene any regs but please give me a yellow card if so! Hey just in case anyone was feeling flush and was looking to purchase - Racechip have a 25% discount code that I’ve seen ends today. It is hH1ahpHS I have no affiliation, just had this in an email as a previous customer and thought I’d pass it on as I don’t think it’s individual to me so shouldn’t need my login or be a 1 shot (but as I haven’t tried, I can’t guarantee anything!). Website is https://www.racechip.co.uk/

Can also spray it on the body around the wheels to decontaminate any iron fallout, stated to be safe for lacquered wheels so no issue on lacquered paint. Same thing, let it dwell without drying, see if there any little red dots appear and jet wash off. @Colin170CR Surfex is probably the best APC on the market by the looks of some isolated testing so def a wise choice.

Atom Detailing is Sheffield based. Both approved by International Detailing Association and Professional Valeters and Detailers which are the two industry bodies which means you’re getting quality. They’ve also been around long enough to add a plethora of additional services so should have a menu for pretty much everything you want. https://www.atomdetailing.co.uk/

Hey Nick - let me look at contacts I’ve got and let you know.

Yeah that looks like it AS. None of the suppliers I can see mention the gen4 until I spotted reference to the Mk8 golfs. Cheers for confirming.

Hi all, bought a silicone intake hose a little while back but waiting for warranty to expire. Now that has, I was looking to swap but have noticed the following pipe spur into the bottom of it that isn’t on the replacement. Is it a sump breather? I can’t see facility to plug it into any replacements so what do people do with it?

Thank you for coming back to post the resolution. Always good for the bank of potential answers in future 👍

Some detailers will use compound with a 1” head and rotary polisher but you need to know what you’re doing. Worth trying some polishing compound with microfibre cloths for on and off. Needs to be proper compound not just a hand polish product which is more likely fillers and a wax coating.

Personally I’d leave the battery in place and charge so that any permanent live systems stay on. May be other considerations that others will state though

Welcome and yes it does sound a bit of a situation. Luckily you’re in the best place for info and answers. Check the logs as suggested and unpick what you did. Alternatively does the video tell you what values to change from? Maybe go through it again reverting all values back to what they were. And finally luckily there is a pinned post at the top of this section with all the tried and tested VCDS changes you can make 👍

I think had I not spent years watching rally drivers do it their way I would have seen the logic in the way it is done at consumer level (albeit at least with BMW as the exception).

Def at the top of the list following your build thread Esseesse

Feeling the love. Def a good active forum. I think the only thing seems like meets have fallen away but I’m betting that’s widespread

I’ve got my eye on ECU2/DSG2+ combo when the warranty runs out later this year

In answer to your initial question though, I wouldn't worry about the behaviour of the dealers - could be a whole host of reasons; like wanting to get sales figures etc. The car is wholly under-rated compared to its VW and Audi counterparts. May not have some of the same stuff but its got the same look and feel and is a whole lot rarer. Sportline replaces wiht chrome with black trim so that's better and you don't miss out on much. Can see 4 Sportline or L&K 2023 so a few options around...

Only what's left of her

Not for me to decide whether anything should or should not be removed. I didn't know it could - but I have plenty of equipment that is sensitive to it; Heart Rate Monitors, bike speed and cadence sensors, a few kids toys. Have moved over to Energiser just to avoid having to deal with it.

Water pump is new car, it’s a slightly grubby oil filler cap which needs new engine.

That and the bitter coating on some (certainly duracell, maybe others) seems to make a difference too.

Yep find the same in D, have to put throttle down quite a bit at which point it changes down and acts like you’ve floored it. Even worse in E. Generally when coming to a junction/roundabout I knock it into S so that little bit better rev range. The same when looking to need a bit of a kickdown effect, like an overtake or released on a dual carriageway from slower traffic. Not sure there is a quick fix, I have XLR on the strongest setting, I prefer the sensitivity and you dial it into your behaviour after a bit, but it still doesn’t solve the gear choice issue. In time I’d look at a remap for ECU and TCU. Not for this reason but it might solve it as an aside.

Sounds an immense project. So using a bike engine and gearbox would that mean knocking forward for first then back for all the upchanges? (Thinking bikers tap down for first and then up for all upchanges?). In which case glad the topic has been discussed at least but even it’s a no-way then it is what it is. Mate did show me his M2 Competition gearstick and as @Rootedsaid BMW followed the motorsport way so there are options out there for an auto that you can shift intuitively. i’m not saying my way is right of course - horses for courses, it’s just always been the way my brain has worked.

More than happy to stand corrected on it all. I thought that TCU mappers might have the ability to change that level of coding seeing as they off per a variety of additional options. But I have no working knowledge of the software other than high-level layman theory.

Hmmmmm…tippex? Tbh I’d happily live with that until selling on then have it put back to normal so the new owner doesn’t wonder what on earth. I didn’t think it would need a physical change to be honest. Probably would be too much hassle if that was the only way but I’m still not convinced it can’t be done by coding on the TCU