Oooooooooh

Well I did fit the old boot spoiler to this new one. But I think the Tiger seal was past it. Came off around 70mph  It's long gone, Wasn't going to stop on the M25, that and it flew off into the trees. Thankfully, it didn't hit any one, was about 6 in the morning to traffic was light.

 

So ordered another one! (And a new tube of Tiger seal...)

For the first time, Booked the Skoda in with a local Skoda dealer for a full service and some work.

Just don't have the time anymore with work, up at 5am, race down the M25 to Gatwick, work till 1730, crawl home until 2000.

 

I miss working on it, but needs must. I wonder how much this is going to be. Including rear disks, pads, binding caliper, timing belt, everything. 

 

Have the front arches to deal with soon, bubbling rust on the lips. Should be easy...

So dropped off the Octi for a service and new brakes.

 

They came back with :

 

- Service (Belt, Filters etc)

- Brake pads, brake disks, rear caliper, front calipers

- Drop links need replacing

- Cross threaded bolt on rear arm

- Two bushings have split

- ABS senors but from having a look, more than likely hubs are worn, so new hubs.

 

How much for it all? Near enough £3000 all in.

 

Told them just do the service and brakes, I'll do the rest so that brought it down to a modest £900

Went looking for new parts for replacements... £500 all in.

 

Something doesn't make much sense here... If they charge that much for doing the work then I'm in the wrong job!

2 hours ago, Volf said:

So dropped off the Octi for a service and new brakes.

 

They came back with :

 

- Service (Belt, Filters etc)

- Brake pads, brake disks, rear caliper, front calipers

- Drop links need replacing

- Cross threaded bolt on rear arm

- Two bushings have split

- ABS senors but from having a look, more than likely hubs are worn, so new hubs.

 

How much for it all? Near enough £3000 all in.

 

Told them just do the service and brakes, I'll do the rest so that brought it down to a modest £900

Went looking for new parts for replacements... £500 all in.

 

Something doesn't make much sense here... If they charge that much for doing the work then I'm in the wrong job!

 

That is ridiculous, i think i need a new job at those rates. I know some garages over charge jobs they can't be ar$ed doing but that is daft. 

Mind you, running around in this Citigo Monte Carlo is a riot.

If it had more power, I'd consider one.

I bet quite a bit of those repairs they recommend don't actually need doing.

 

I have had health care checks from Skoda and they raised various things wrong that would need looking at or keeping a close eye on. Once I had my car at my trusted independant garage they pointed out most of it is how Skoda have pointed out but it is usual and the parts have many, many miles or years left in them yet. Skoda seem to make you think any slight wear and tear is a job needing doing soon where as in reality all parts show signs of use and are good for a long time yet.

 

I had the same with drop links, some bushes showing signs of wear, shock/spring having signs of rust or corrosion etc etc. One look by my mechanic and he said it's all fine.

- Service done to the song of £1700. Told them to just focus on the brakes/ABS as I couldn't drive and it was eating pads (ABS fault turned out to be a crack in the rear hub which was changed, ABS fault gone)
- New rear spoiler installed, has yet to fall off... (Joking, it's not going anywhere. New tiger seal tube)

- Rear coils on, yet to do the fronts, but... it's not low enough for me...  Here we go again!

- Rusty front arches, so will focus on those when summer comes back around.

- So now, we're back to how it was first time around when I brought the Silver one years ago.

 

ooOOooo

 

What an ending. You've served me well.

 

What a sad ending to a great car.  At least you've got another project on the go and can focus on that.

Not much to report on. Dead Skoda taken away the other day by ASM.
Whiteline anti-roll bar ready to be installed.
New set of wheels about to be won on ebay.

Do not have the turbo and other parts installed yet.

Bagged a set of Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2 in 17"s \o/ Woooo

A fine choice!

It's amazing what a difference the simple change of a rear anti roll bar does to handling. Well, I say simple. Garage mentioned that pretty much all the bolts snapped when they removed the old bar. It's pretty rusted underneath. May look into getting another sub frame and getting it powder coated and what not, then replace the rusted one. The rest of the body is okay, just the frame, but never mind that. I'm having too much fun with lift-off over steer at the moment!

 

I have the new wheels in storage currently. Coating and rubber will have to wait until next month because I'm poor, which I also have a week off work to reinstall the turbo and all the other goodies sat in storage. Then it's off to get mapped again.

 

WHAT COULD GO WRONG

 

 

So for the past few days I've been having an EGR issue. Check engine light comes on and VCDS says "EGR Insufficient flow detected" P0401. Okay I've done this before so let's have it.

- Cleaned the EGR valve. Engine light.
- Cleaned the EGR tube. Engine light.
- Checked the connections and vac tubes. Still engine light.
 

Then I ordered another EGR cooler thinking it was blocked (I say another, because I foolishly threw out the spare I had when I scrapped the Silver octi a few months ago!) Poked around on Google for other peoples feedback and found one regarding the vacuum solenoid block. I had kept the spare off the Silver octi! Changed it out the other night and so far... the engine light has not returned. Hazuah!

Okay, maybe it wasn't the vacuum block after all. After driving all day yesterday with no problem, the light returned this morning.
Now have a spare cooler which I plan to strip and clean, also a new EGR valve on order.

Not tempted to EGR bypass?

On 09/08/2018 at 14:44, Wardy said:

Not tempted to EGR bypass?

 

Not in the stage to do so just yet.

 

Well... Not in any stage to do anything currently...

 

So last week, I took the week off work to focus on doing the turbo swap and getting it remapped before the weekend. It went like this :

 

- Ripped all the face off and swapped out the FMIC for the Darkside item.

- Removed all boost pipes and made room for the S212 unit from the old Skoda as before.

- Took out the old turbo unit and reinstalled the S212, which all in all, took about two days.

- Found I was missing a boost clamp. EuroParts, Jayar and AllParts, Did not have this clamp no matter where I went.

- Hit up eBay and Darkside for extra bits and play the waiting game.

- Next day or two. Bits came, fitted them all.

- Test run and blew a boost pipe off. Refitted later on.

All is well.

 

But then. Loud whining noise on boost. Worried it was something like oil starvation, installed new oil line and checked it all over again. Turns out, the noise was the metal gasket between the hot side and the downpipe. God I hate fitting those things and the V clamp. Replaced and the whine went away.

 

Few days later. No reply from Narco about having a new map. (And still nothing to this day. Somewhat disappointed) Friday, on my way to a drift session at DriftLimits, It goes into limp mode. Okay I think, more teething problems. Do the session, go home and check over. Overboost error. Check the VNT arm. Its solid. So out with the good old oven cleaner and do that for a few hours. Still stuck. It's currently Saturday, it's starting to eat into my other plans I had, so its all or nothing now. Made the call to remove the turbo and strip it by hand and clean it out by hand. Undo everything, squeeze it out of that stupid gap (For real. That gap needs just an extra inch and you can slide the turbo out, but nnOOOOooooo)

Get it all out. Put it on my lap. Start undoing bolts and then... it slid off my lap... to the ground... with a dull hollow clonk. It didn't sound good.

I lifted it up and found the compressor side to be... floppy, as it then came off in my hand.

 

 

Not sure unhappy really covers it currently. Undoing most of the work, still nothing back from Narco and TurboTechnics want around £500 part-x for a new unit which I don't really have...

 

Things to do :

 

• Replace hybrid turbo. TurboTechnics said they are happy to wait for me to get funds together first before anything happens with the old unit.
• Waiting for the new wheels to come back from Max Powder with a new lick of anthracite, also have the rubbers to go on when back, a set of Yokohama BluEarth-A AE50 in 215/45 R17
• Going to replace the exhaust system once the new turbo is in. I always struggle with the down pipe metal gasket and V clamps, hate that job. Also I think the system is blowing.
• Redo the boost pipe clamps all over, think there's a leak somewhere.

I say I think there's a leak, Had to reinstall the standard turbo after dropping the other, but left the FMIC and pipe work in. Nothing else has changed, but the current turbo, when you're around the 2 grand mark you can hear the turbo/VNT changing state, so you get a lumpy ride with StuuStuuStuuStuuStuu as a sound track. Not sure what it is. It doesn't go into limp mode or report overboost. Could the massive FMIC/new pipe work having an effect on the standard unit? Nothing else has changed bar that.

Really loved your silver car so keeping my eyes on this thread.

Keep at it, it'll be worth all the problems!

I'm with you as I also like to follow this thread.  I admire Volf's determination and perseverance when faced with an issue and the fact that he keeps us informed with what's going on.

 

3?

 

You're missing one...