Hi all, I'm new to this forum so thanks for any help you can offer up...
I bought my 2002 S3 2 years ago and left it unmodded until January. It's now had a jabbasport remap with peak boost at 1.5 bar, and gives about 280 bhp and I think 290 lb ft. 0-60 has been done in 5.8 (measured using mobile phone stopclock against speedo, a bit iffy...), causing my mate to sell his boxter, and I was f***ing loving it. But I've always been concerned about screwing the engine.
Two things aren't right. First, I'd got used to quite long intervals between oil checks (it wasn't using much) but in the last three months the level dropped well below the dipstick low mark. Very nearly empty. No warning lights, and the oil filler cap seemed to be on all right, but the area around the cap is stained with oil as if it's been spat out and dried off. Any ideas what's going on, and could it be related to upping the power output? I filled up the oil a couple of weeks ago and haven't driven hard since, I'll check the level again today.
Also, the morning after the remap, the car wouldn't start - flat battery. The RAC knew pretty well what it was - the auxiliarly water pump had come on after the drive home, probably for the first time ever (it's almost redundant apparently), but the timer hadn't kicked in to switch it back off, so it whirred around until the battery died. Faulty timers were common on early S3s according to the RAC. The pump is currently unplugged because it still won't switch off. Jabba say the ECU doesn't store that setting so it's nothing to do with them - my garage reckon the timer IS set by the ECU in recent models, so my suspicion is that the thing is staying on because the bit of the ECU that should tell it to turn off has been wiped.
It's all a bit complicated, this. I'm not having a go at jabbasport btw, they came highly recommended and knew their stuff, but I do believe it's possible Audi could change the workings of the ECU without any tuner really knowing. Any ideas???
Thanks v much,
ZZ
I bought my 2002 S3 2 years ago and left it unmodded until January. It's now had a jabbasport remap with peak boost at 1.5 bar, and gives about 280 bhp and I think 290 lb ft. 0-60 has been done in 5.8 (measured using mobile phone stopclock against speedo, a bit iffy...), causing my mate to sell his boxter, and I was f***ing loving it. But I've always been concerned about screwing the engine.
Two things aren't right. First, I'd got used to quite long intervals between oil checks (it wasn't using much) but in the last three months the level dropped well below the dipstick low mark. Very nearly empty. No warning lights, and the oil filler cap seemed to be on all right, but the area around the cap is stained with oil as if it's been spat out and dried off. Any ideas what's going on, and could it be related to upping the power output? I filled up the oil a couple of weeks ago and haven't driven hard since, I'll check the level again today.
Also, the morning after the remap, the car wouldn't start - flat battery. The RAC knew pretty well what it was - the auxiliarly water pump had come on after the drive home, probably for the first time ever (it's almost redundant apparently), but the timer hadn't kicked in to switch it back off, so it whirred around until the battery died. Faulty timers were common on early S3s according to the RAC. The pump is currently unplugged because it still won't switch off. Jabba say the ECU doesn't store that setting so it's nothing to do with them - my garage reckon the timer IS set by the ECU in recent models, so my suspicion is that the thing is staying on because the bit of the ECU that should tell it to turn off has been wiped.
It's all a bit complicated, this. I'm not having a go at jabbasport btw, they came highly recommended and knew their stuff, but I do believe it's possible Audi could change the workings of the ECU without any tuner really knowing. Any ideas???
Thanks v much,
ZZ
