Right'o,
I just want to say a massive thank you to my friend Jay, he leant me his N75 this afternoon and stuck with me through some unforseen issues. Absolutely top guy.
So let's outline the day. I arrive at my Jay's house and begin to remove parts from mine and his cars, I disconnect the Negative terminal on my battery, disconnect the N75 and remove it. I then replace my N75 valve with Jay's and I discover that it's a 'J' but it's a working one, that's all that matters
. 30mins later my battery get reconnected, I tighten the bolt and nut that clamps the terminal only a little way and the bolt snapped completely in half! Ok, no biggy, we'll go to a motor spares shop and buy a new bolt...could I? NO! Nowhere sells them so a quick call to TPS & VW reveals that the bolt comes as part of the terminal AND wiring harness assembly = £35 or there about. Head scratching, Jay comes out from his house with a bit of old silicone hose which we wedge between the terminal and battery cover to stop it popping off, we then decided to go to a scrap yard in search of a MK4 Golf.
The journey starts and I pretty much wipe out my splitter on a speed hump, it's ok but needs a rub back lol. Hit the road and I put my foot down, wow, the car is about 90% back to life...big smiles although I can feel that it's still not 100%. On the dual carriageway I look in my rear view mirror and see a white van storming after us, put two and two together and I knew it was a police van that we passed 1min ago but as I am doing the speed limit I don't worry too much. The van closes in quick so he must have been doing 80mph to make up some distance (50mph limit), sits on my bumper and then the blue lights flash...great! Pull in, the policeman comes to my window and tells me I was speeding, I say no I wasn't, he says yes I was blah blah blah but anyway as he can't prove complete fallacy he tells me I am lucky and he has to be somewhere else...waste of time.
We make it to the scrap yard and hunt for a MK4. Half way round we get called over by a pikey who needs tools, like they always do. Fair enough, nice guy actually but we didn't have time yet we find ourselves helping him remove two headlamps from an old battered Transit van. A few sheared bolts later and we're on the hunt again, no Golfs but one Arosa with a smaller bolt which ended up being too small, luckily we looked in an mk5 Escort and it had the exact same termail type as the Leon. Job done, new bolt fitted and away we go.
The car is still running well at this point and I have boost, but something is still up, hopefully the logs on Sunday can help here
. I do wonder maybe if the fact I fitted a 'J' valve would make it run a little off as it's mapped for abn 'F' valve? Either way was better than with my old valve.
I refitted my old valve and gave Jay back his, the car goes back to being flat and boring so I don't think this is limp mode at all, it's just a shagged valve not working and only giving me actuator pressure.
We also had to pick up some parts for Jay and they forgot a pretty major part that he needed...a day in the life of my Leon eh?
So, I think I need to get a new N75 on order.
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