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great news rob, i'l be looking to get the audi a3 done soon so good to know it makes a good noticable difference without doing all the other bits like intercooler/etc.. as esentially its the same engine
Small one's are more juicy

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"100kg out and back in in half an hour"
Stu,
Piss off mate, if I get out, how can I drive it? (I can get out and back in again much quicker than that too)

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Thanks Trev, they can alter the map to deliver the power and character you want, so depending on what you what, they can probably sort it out for you.

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Might be unconnected, but I've done about 150 miles so far since the map, and today has started hesitating when warm and idling in traffic. It feels like its going to stall, and if I keep the revs up manually, if flutters a bit and then clears.
I'm getting no dash lights, and when reading it, shows no fault codes.
The car has long coughed and farted when first starting up from cold due to what I believed to be the SAI issues.
I'm a bit confused, as I thought coil packs normally through a dash light up?
Will look tomorrow for air leaks, loose connections etc.....I know there are a myriad of sensors that could affect timings,mixtures etc, but there are no apparent faults logged on the ECU. (Maybe the fuel in Essex is shite!) If the checks show nothing, I'll ping a message to the mapper and see if he can add anything to look at. (If the map has done this, the wife will kill me!!)

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Remap's usually make the coil packs shit themselves quicker then normal rob, mine went in quick succession on the s3 after it was mapped, mine completely went so the car was undrivable, if it is coil packs on yours it doesn't sound as severe

Have they ever been replaced as there was a recall on all of them due to hi failure rates, once replaced once(with oem replacements) they don't fail again

Ps they generally don't throw up any warning lights

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Post by Rob S »

Thanks Rob.
I'll get the VIN and ask the dealer if they've been done. If not I'll start there I suppose. Silly thing is, I've had it a year, Stu had the car before, it's done a fair few miles and you think it would have thrown a coil before now! Appreciate the reference with the S3, cheers.

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If you get it connected to a scanner whilst the car is miss behaving you'll be able to identify which pack has seen better days...if it is a problem with the coils that is

My brother has a LCR and his failed the other day( his car is stock and unmapped) which resulted in similar problems to yours

They can go whenever but remaps definitely, definitely kill them, one of mine went on the rollers while mapping the others in the months that followed, I kept a spare in the glove box so when the next one went I wasn't stranded lol and replaced the spare until I completed the set

If they aren't on a recall get someone with trade discount at TPS to get them for you, the replacements look slightly different to the old ones so you'll know the difference when you start replacing

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Post by Rob S »

TPS?
Also, I've had it connected to a reader while it's dicking about with no obvious errors and certainly no codes stored.
I wondered if it might be temperature sensor or leak, but was suspicious of the packs due to what I've heard about Maps making them die a death!

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TPS - Trade Parts Specialist

Mine only came up with a miss fire when driving on load whilst connected to the scanner

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Trades parts specialists?
I found it after you updated - DOH!
I'll run the reader all the way in to work and see what it does. Also, my sister in law works at VW in Loughton, I'll see if she gets trade discount (You never know?)
I'm guessing it's a shared VAG part.....

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