g60ff

I dremel'd mine then soldered bits of wire round the edge to relink the bits that i'd cut, worked ok but haven't yet found a reliable way of making the buttons work. Used the original clifford ones on a new pcb that I made, needs refining, my pcb skills aren't that good! It's definitely possible to get it to work though and looks very good when it does!

Might be worth trying one of these before you start looking at a new alternator. Sorted out the low voltage issues on my G60. To make sure it's the right one whip your current regulator out and check the part number, it should be in the listing.

Went a saw a friendly mechanic today for any further ideas and he kindly lent me a fuel pressure gauge, plumbed it in and with the engine running at the rail there was 8 bar!! :shock: :shock: Replaced the pressure regulator and got a solid 3 bar again!! Just been for a drive and its all fine with all sensors plugged, i love my car again!! Thanks again for all the advice.

The new probe i've got has the correct plug on it and i've added an earth from the engine mount by the plug up to the body on the strut. Didn't get a chance to check the wiring to the ecu this evening but can't see just this one wire failing when it is a loom with loads of others but will check anyway. Where did you get your bosch one from?

Checked a few earths and BTS to the ecu earlier but forgot to do the lambda, will whip it out tomorrow and test it, will also check the plug. Cheers again for the help.

I have tested the new probe and it does seem to cycle but i'm only doing this with a multimeter so not 100% how accurate it is, could i be that unlucky that a new probe is also faulty?!? I've been at a mates this evening checking things again, checked the timing, set to 6 degress, cleaned up the plugs as they were black and checked spark, also checked compression and have 10 3/4 or 11 bar across all 4. Also checked for resistance on the wiring to the ecu and ecu to earth and all is ok. Also changed BTS again. Still the same, will idle fine for a few minutes then drive it up the road and it starts blowing black smoke out the back sounds like its going to stall and is a pig to drive. Have to unplug the BTS, unplug lambda then plug BTS back in and will run fine again other than using loads of fuel. Any more ideas?

Lambda was from vwspares.com Problem does seem to occur much quicker with the new lambda but i assumed this was because the probe was warming up quicker, the one i had on there before was a universal jobby.

If G60_91 doesn't take you up on that i'll have it off you

Checked the throttle switches and they're both working fine, have also tested new lambda and earths to the side of the head and to the body/battery all seem fine. It will run fine for a few minutes then start running rough, black smoke out the back and i have to unplug the lambda then unplug/plug back in the BTS before it will stop doing it. Runs fine like this but is dumping fuel in, any other ideas anything i've missed. cheers again for the help

Should there be any change to how it runs at idle if i press the wot switch, i tried this the other day (with lambda disconnected) after reading this is how you (flusted) have/had yours running and nothing seemed to change. I've got a spare TB in the shed, something else to try, cheers guys!!

Last week on my way to work i was stopped in traffic and my c started billowing black smoke out the back and was really struggling to idle and almost impossible to drive, luckily was only round the corner from work so parked up left it. Came back to it at the end of the day and it started fine, no smoke or anything. Got a few miles from home and the same thing happened, i noticed that if i floored it it would run fine, no misfire, no smoke. Pulled over and popped the bonnet, noticed straight away the ISV was sucking like mad, unplugged it, no difference, then tried HT's one at a time but this made no difference to rough running, even if i unplugged two! Then unplugged the BTS and all settled down so thought i found the problem, drove home, slight mis-fire but nothing major. Next day swapped the blue and black temp sensors and all seemed fine for a while but after a day or two it started doing it again, got a new BTS from vw, still same thing, then on the weekend unplugged the lambda and it settled down has been fine since (just slightly over-fuelling, about 200 miles to a full tank!), time for a new lambda. Fitted new lambda this evening and it has made no difference. On the weekend i replaced the ecu, coil and co pot have already checked and replaced ecu vac hose. I've used the search and tried things that others with the same/similar problems have reported to cure it but no luck. Possible dead new lambda? going to check over earths again and try and to test lambda tomorrow. Any ideas? Supposed to be going to the nurburgring this summer, there are other things i would like to be spending money on!! (sorry for the long post)

The 2nd ones are TSW Big Deeps aren't they? Love dished wheels but i agree they don't suit the rado!

Had this recently with my G, turned out to be the blue temp sensor on the front of head, swap the blue and black plugs over and see if it runs any better

After you have taken the earths off, the whole thing should turn and the stud comes out of the head.

I love my weitec kit, for the money i doubt you can get better, bit rough on some roads but then the roads round here resemble the surface of the moon! The handling is excellent. Crappy phone pic but gives an idea of ride height... [align=center][/align]

Mine came with a milltek - manifold back - i get told it's very loud outside the car, i love the sound of it at full chat, only had to replace a rubber hanger other than that it's been great.

you can see a usb hub dangling in the second pic, I use an extension up to the glove box for plugging in my memory stick if i want to update anything. Other than that the main pc is in the boot, don't have any pics of that will take some tomorrow.

Apparently the mk3 golf gti 2.0l 16v is good for the G60, found it in the search a while ago, can't remember who it was who did it. My brother sent me the following file, came from a pug 205 forum (hence all the mi-16 references), quite interesting for experimenting with gear ratios.

My carputer was one of my first projects on the rado, got sat nav, all my music, wifi, getting a new radio for it soon. My specs not quite as impressive as yours, its an epia mini itx 900mhz (17cm x 17cm) 512mb ram 30gb hdd dvd drive, seems to do alright performance wise. I'm using an m1-atx 90w "intelligent" power supply, it has delayed startup and shutdown options and an amp remote to avoid amp pop when the computer switches on and off. 7" touchscreen fits quite nicely in the dash [align=center] [/align]

Offered my mk5 intercooler up today whilst the car's in pieces, there's no way its going to fit not without some serious cutting, much to high, going to have another look tomorrow with the slam panel in place but think i'll be going another route... Anyone want a mk5 intercooler, got one for sale....

Must be the season for it, been doing my head gasket this week. Took the head apart yesterday and all seemed ok couldn't see any problems with the head gasket but the car let out big puffs of steam when starting after it had been run for a while, anywho, heard from the garage pressure testing, skimming and removing studs from the head today and turns out the head is cracked between inlet and exhaust ports on number 1, head scrap. Great! Luckily I'd found a G60 in a local scrappy on the weekend, first rado i've ever seen in a scrap yard and there were two! so been up there getting that out today hoping it's not the same, looks as though it's only recently been rebuilt so should be ok. If you've had exhaust studs missing definitely get it pressure tested to make sure you're not wasting your time as i'm pretty sure that's whats ruined mine.

I've just managed to get my crank bolt out, took a big breaker bar and bit of scaffold tube for leverage but it's finally out! Question is, there's no washer on the original, should there be and should i put the new one in that i've got as the bolts are the same length?

@coolrado - Recently my car's been doing exactly the same thing as yours started to do, I spoke to a couple of people and they all said it sounded like the head gasket. Got a couple of studs mising from my exhaust manifold which is blowing so thought it was a good excuse to get it all done at the same time. Just ordered all my bits from AVS, went for a new oil pump as apparently its usually a good idea to change it. Going to get my injectors serviced as well as i doubt they're in the best shape after 180k miles!

I bought one of these a while ago after I saw a guy selling one on ebay he said he had one the same fitted to his c, I asked him to send me some pictures of it fitted but he never got back to me. Apparently the car needs slight modification to get it in. Going to have a go fitting mine next week so will let you know if it goes in!

180k very very soon Odd noises at speed.. You're not kidding! Still goes well though :D