Fingers Crossed

What Dallan said

Good grief what a saga, hope it is sorted soon for your sanity

Day 24

(Sounds like Big Brother!)

Car is back in my posession and driving better than ever. The new clutch feels much better, and the fault with a fractured boost pipe may very well have been there since day 1. It's picking up much quicker, response is great, and there is now next to no boost lag as there was before.

Credit to SUK for puching the job through quicker in tyhe latter stages of things, but 3 1/2 weeks to sort that has been a bit beyond reason. Lets hope there's another 13,000 trouble free miles ahead for me and my baby!!!!

Thanks for all the responses and ideas guys, you've been great!

Was that all it was then a boost pipe? Probably feels better to drive cos you've been driving a golf plus!

Well done, glad it been sorted; but what a faff

Bit surprised the garage even contemplated trying to repair a fractured boost pipe on such a new motor - not something we ever did because you could never really repair them properly (well, not for less labour cost than the price of a new one). Very lengthy fix for a fairly common problem I think. We used to see a lot of leaky boost pipe faults (usually on older motors of course).

Hope you've asked for a free service as compo!

Hope you've asked for a free service as compo!

AND a SUK motorsport jacket. They didn't seem too obliging on that one tho! LOL!

Yeah, all the fannying about with the ECU/Air mass meter was a waste of time, it was all down to the boost hose triggering a fault code.

Seriously tho, the clutch was never right from day one looking back, and it does pick up better now. The Golf wasn't too bad, but it's no VRS!!!!

Leaking boost pipe has to be most common fault on any turbo car. Really poor that they couldn't diagnose it quickly.

Leaking boost pipe has to be most common fault on any turbo car. Really poor that they couldn't diagnose it quickly.

It seems to be a common issue at a lot of main dealers though. if the computer doesn't tell them somethings wrong they can't be bothered looking. my mate had this on his A3 a few years ago, when you floored it, the car just lost power. The diasgnostics said there was nothing wrong so they tried to send him on his way. He eventually persuaded someone from the garage to test drive it and they soon realised that yes, there was a problem even though the computer said there wasn't... This was also a pipe problem, if I remember correctly, the air intake pipe was collapsing and starving the car of air....

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It seems to be a common issue at a lot of main dealers though. if the computer doesn't tell them somethings wrong they can't be bothered looking. my mate had this on his A3 a few years ago, when you floored it, the car just lost power. The diasgnostics said there was nothing wrong so they tried to send him on his way. He eventually persuaded someone from the garage to test drive it and they soon realised that yes, there was a problem even though the computer said there wasn't... This was also a pipe problem, if I remember correctly, the air intake pipe was collapsing and starving the car of air....

That sounds similar to the problem I had. When they diagnostic tested the car, the air mass meter was supposedly at fault. 2 new ones later it was checking out ok, but they couldn't work out why there was still such a loss in power. It took 2 weeks for them to find the boost pipe fault. Out of all the things they did to the car, and ECU swap wasn't one of them. I know it might have been barking up the wrong tree, but to at least have a donor unit to try isn't asking too much is it?