brickboy

There's a number of cases on the Golf forums of PD diesels (especially the PD150) blowing intercooler hoses off the intercooler, or at best getting boost leakage which causes loss of performance, etc.

On my own Passat 130, the hoses are "secured" by a flimsy spring-wire clip (not even a decent jubilee clip) and it's possible to waggle the hose a little where it joins to the intercooler.

This is due to poor design, rather than a problem with the joint. Does anyone know a way of sealing the joint? PTFE tape or similar? Any ideas? Ta ...

mik

why not get a nice big jubilee as you stated?

imprezaless

sorry to butt in but the missus is looking for a golf at the mo.
Any chance of the forum address please

Cheers

brickboy

Here you go

imprezaless

Thanks mate!

J

TopBanana

I should probably secure my hoses too - I'm having mine chipped next Thursday evening

brickboy

jlangg -- nice one, are you going the Upsolute route? Let me know your impressions ...

TopBanana

Yep it's getting Upsoluted in the Donington circuit car park, as Simon Coe - the Upsolute guy, hails from up there, and I had a track day booked anyway. The only problem is that after driving a Caterham Superlight round Donny it'll feel sluggish as hell anyway, so I won't get the before and after wow-effect. Will let you know how it goes

TopBanana

Oh my god, I've just remembered I had a dream about boost leakage! How sad

brickboy

JLangg, is the Upsolute method a chip-swap? The German / English site isn't very informative on exactly *how* the upgrade is done.

TopBanana

Yes it is. They remove the original chip and put a socket in its place, into which they place their chip. This means you can go back to standard fairly easily when you come to sell.

Revo offer programming via the diagnostic port, but they charge big money for it. I'd love to be able to alter the map myself from VAG-COM but it doesn't do it as yet