Recent content by brucey1

just after some advice. i have noticed recently that my tail pipe is very black and sooty and the car seems to get sluggish from time to time, unless i get it on vagcom and clear fault codes which i have heard resets fuel trims, then its all good for a while. i have had a new turbo and cat...

well i think it must have been on the way out when i bought it, as its alot better now than when i first had it.all good now though!!

well very glad i had audi look into my poor performance, as i had to have a new turbo and cat fited. so understandably its like a new car and i love it,not sure wat caused them to fail though. i would imagine that either one would cause the other to fail?? so thanks to those who said i...

i used vag-com on my car and checked the boost pressures the specified and actual readings were both very different? tick over specified= 0.3bar actual=0.9bar then when accelerating around 3500 ish revs specified=2.1 ish bar actual=1.3-1.4bar is this anywhere near where it should be? its...

not to sure wat the codes were,as they told me they thought the car was ok. but driving it today definetly made my mind up there is something wrong, i think it may be misfireing slightly. if i sit on the spot and rev ,it sort of splutters a little. cant really feel it when driving apart from the...

yes think i may do that,they said i could have them investigate the areas they found the codes in for dodgy components but i would be charged for this. so they said go away and wait for the light to come back on again basically. i take it when all is working well these cars are very noticably...

i have had my s3 now for about a month and it still isnt what i was expecting. my emission control light came on the other day so i took it to audi, they put it on their computer and said there were 3 faults,but when they cleared the faults they couldnt get them to show up again so couldnt do...

hello new to site, recently brought S3, isn't what i expected seems very sluggish and not willing to rev, seems more like 60 bhp than 260 it has been sitting around for a fair time, just wondered if these coilpacks could be my problem as well. When you say engine management light is this the...