Will any ole fuel line work, or should I get it from VW with the bends already in it?
Anyone actually tried the heat shrink method to bend hoses? Using electrical heat shrink tubes.
I currently suffer from a "barely runs when hot" condition. I have a new Crank Sensor on the way, but could this be contributing to that?
I don't want MORE ethanol in my fuel. (All regular is now 15% instead of 10, as of like today where I live)
I can understand Israel owns the Americans and makes them fight all thier enemies for them, I understand why Hormuz would get shut as retaliation, and that decreased supply will make oil worth more. That's fine. Give me $2.50/ litre I don't care... BUT don't make this newly overpriced commodity worse at the same time!!
Seems to me like ethonal does not burn (at the tops and pressures in average engines) it just doesn't interfere with the burning and so they can add some in without making the car act like you added water. I don't want worse mileage as the stuff get more expensive. Just a rant, have a nice day.
Any ideas? My drive to work is 5 minutes, this only happens after a 20 minute or longer drive. Once it cools down it starts and runs just fine, until a stop sign 20 minutes later. When it starts wierd like this Cruise Control is disabled as well. Fuel pump sounds normal, clean oil added last week, coolant looks fine, rad fans turn on like they should.
I can't help but think it's related to all the moisture that builds up in the oil from a winter full of just getting it hot then turning it off for 8 hours, repeatedly.
A German-specific shop told me the Crank Position sensor gets crud built up near it, and when it expands in the heat it can throw the sensor off. Is that anything any of you have delt with? Is this how it would behave if that's what happening? It looks like a big job to replace just on hope that's it. I don't have a scanner, could a Canadian Tire scanner help me out? Or do I need some german version?
My car is an '08, I've had it for about 9 years now, and just about to put on the third new exhaust in that time. I was just under there measuring and checking what could fit. I've replaced the down pipe/flex pipe once. I don't think it rotted so much as got pulled apart by failing hangers further back causing it to stretch. Anyway, all pipes further back than the cat are yet again trash. My question is how come the 16 year old cat doesn't rust, but everything else has like a 3 year life behind it. I always laugh at the laws saying you cannot modify to be louder than stock. Well if I never modified it it would have been stupid loud for about 6 years.
As a life long race fan, loud is the natural state of any engine, therefore if I put a straight pipe on, my modifications still made it quieter than if I hadn't changed anything. I'm not putting a straight pipe, resonator is deleted, I'm just looking now for a fart-can-priced something that is quieter. Ideally from a junk yard even. If they don't want loud cars on the roads, it's funny that fartcans are $100 while anything that actually quiets it is like $400.
Suggestions on small quiet mufflers? That will fit a hatchback, for around $100. Even FB Marketplace where I buy most parts, only fart cans are for sale. It's a $500 car, $100 is my limit, muffler is not for me it's for everyone around me. I could live just fine with it cut off at the cat. I hate spending money on strangers.