This morning around 4 am driving down at around 55 in a backroad turn some animal (looked like a small coyote) bolted from the opposite side of the road, barely had time to slowdown. Hit felt hard, so I knew there was going to be some cosmetic damage, but within second the radiator light came on. Pulled over and turned the car off and this is what I ended up with. The AC radiator looks intact, but whatever it was hit just right and broke the outlet/inlet of the radiator. Waiting on a tow to take me to a second shop, as the Caliber Collision USAA sent me don’t take VWs, and the one across the street don’t take USAA.
Update. PCV corrected the smoke on startup. No more oil pooling in the TIP. Also did leak down after PCV replacement for the hell of it and the motor having just passed 100K miles and and the numbers came back good. 5-7%
Dropped my car off at the dealer and my CEL took the day off. P2004/2006/2015 for the last week or so, and I check/clear the light everytime I start the car. Schedule my appointment and of course it doesn't illuminate and they can't warranty w/o a CEL.
Hoon sent me a new tune for my is38 GTI to correct the DV Hang issue where at low speed/ part throttle the DV would hang open bleeding boost and then suddenly shut and the car would surge forward.
This has been a persistent issue, albeit a small one that I've had forever and the previously responses I've gotten from EQT were basically "small turbo problems." I saw that they recently updated their OTS tunes with this improvement and asked for the same improvements to be added to my custom tune. It's perfect now.
Hoon sent me a new tune for my is38 GTI to correct the DV Hang issue where at low speed/ part throttle the DV would hang open bleeding boost and then suddenly shut and the car would surge forward.
This has been a persistent issue, albeit a small one that I've had forever and the previously responses I've gotten from EQT were basically "small turbo problems." I saw that they recently updated their OTS tunes with this improvement and asked for the same improvements to be added to my custom tune. It's perfect now.
Mine did that when I upgraded to the IS38 and switched Unitronic tunes to the IS38 file. So weird that while that tune was garbage, their Stage 2 tune for the IS20 was really good and I drove it for 90k+ miles. My only thoughts is maybe the IS38 file takes other parameters into account.
Finally, I received my oil sample report from Blackstone. I think it speaks for itself. Keep in mind that I've run with 10,000-mile oil drains for the life of the car, with the exception of just before 2020's coast-to-coast road trip and later when my turbo was swapped to IS38. Otherwise, I've pretty faithful to the 10k drains. Okay, here's the report:
Either I'm lucky or I'm doing something right. Either way, I'll take it!
Replaced the PCV as preventative maintenance. Took a 1klm drive to just make sure I did everything right… so I don’t wake up to go to school in the morning and have the car not work lol and it seems to have a smoother idle! Could be just my imagination we will see..
Strange on the new one there appears to be a different valve on the bottom, I did order it from Amazon but it was stamped VW/audi so I’m assuming it’s just a new revision. Very pleased so far!
Next to a white, wingless, gurgling Evo 8 in traffic earlier. It looked well-kept but not shiny-pristine. I wanted to give a thumbs up but he wasn't looking at my direction. I bet he's emissions compliant like my DTR (internally crying).
