Piggysniffer

^.... Rick ! Is that you ?

Just replaced my front pads couple of weeks ago, squeeling like a beggar now when I brake lightly 😡

Good luck, I pm'd him weeks ago

From what I've read he's a good bloke, just very busy, some people have had some small issues after mapping but it seems he always sorts it out, will see how it all pans out scoobs

If it's mapped wrong it'll surely be redone for free, I can only be the shepherd up until the point I feel I'm being mugged off, then it'll all get a bit pulp fiction, marcelus wallaces briefcase, chill yolanda, Tim Rothish hahaha

I worked for a guy years ago when I was a nipper doing pcv Windows, conservatories etc, we had to build up the corner of a broken wall to do a little outhouse thing, built it up on the Friday, went back on the monday (isle of wight) to put the Windows etc on, wall hadn't set, we sorta got sacked from that job and I was put off sand and cement for life lol

Will keep an eye on things tidgy, as its not pulling any timing yet, but need to see if the fuel trims start going negative again, now I'm not one for blowing smoke up orifices if it's not warranted and we have chatted on pm about it, so if it goes south again it will be going back to mapper, but..... On the day it was mapped, I changed the oil to 10w60 and quite honestly (even said to the wife on the way up) the car drove faultlessly, so I can only imagine that for whatever reason on that day for that journey and mapping all worked well ? Im about as good with mapping as I am with bricklaying so I could really be piddling up the wrong tree thinking that, I suppose time will tell mate

🙂 and therein lies my weakness.... computers, along with bricklaying, roofing etc etc 😛

I wonder if you have a blockage from the overflow tank so that when it cools and tries to draw water back into the system it can't so the hose collapses (if that's how it works)

Thanks mate, ya can only help with the stuff you know I spose 🙂

Lols, sounds like me explaining summat to the wife haha

Ok lads n ladies, hopefully final update, recieved one of the new ocv/solenoids today, fitted it in place of the one that was lagging during my romraider logging sessions, and it seems that the car is finally fixed after all these months, avcs and vvt are all working as they should, car is back to full power across the entire range and more so as it had just been mapped, now I have had some issues with timing randomly being pulled since i got the car and this got considerably worse a few hours after the mapping, I presume because my mapper used more avcs in the tune and this put more strain on an already failing solenoid, so as it stands at this moment the car is running properly, I will continue to log and put some miles on it and hopefully all will stay as is fingers crossed

331946529426 ave a look at this on eBay

Ah ok mate, sandals answer is probs easiest way to go, i was hoping the grey bit was melted on aluminium, (viewing on old iPhone) but if that's actually 1mm of missing metal things ain't looking too rosy

I have never owned a car that I've had problems dipping the oil until I owned a wrx, they are honestly an absolute pain in the arris to read the oil level, I've done it hot,cold,warm and am never confident of where it's actually up to as both sides of the dipstick are always a good half inch difference from each other !

What is that grey bit ? How deep are those scores in the bore, what problems were you having

Took a punt fellas, the ones I've seen are £165 new, I also managed to buy a new still in wrapping one from this country for £54 delivered

Ok update time to help anyone else that may have the same problem, changed the oil control valves/solenoids for the avcs over from side to side and the problem of it searching up and down moved to the right side but not as bad as it was in the left, the left now held steady, so looks like oil control valve issue as well as cam gear or instead of, have had them both out and cleaned the bejeezus out of them and refitted , the big searching numbers and the searching up and down have mostly stopped, but the suspect left side (put the solenoids back to their original places) is laggy compared to the good side, so tomorrow I will change the solenoids over again to see if the lag follows the solenoid or if it stays put and then looks like a cam gear problem still

If it has avcs it really could be that depending on miles and service intervals etc, I've had running issues with mine hawk wrx since I've had it maybe 8ish months and I've only now just traced it to the avcs with a handy tip from savs b'dog, if you lift out the coolant over flow bottle (if it's in same place as wrx) and take out the 4 bolts holding the cam belt cover on on the passenger side, you will see your pulleys behind it, if it is an avcs pulley at the top then you have it

Glad to hear mate, I was gonna put money on it being the cleaned maf :)

Tis in the tank mate, if it's the same as a hawkeye wrx its about 70 quid !, and does your car have avcs on it ?

Had this exact problem on same car in mates garage, turned out to be o2 sensor in this case

Ok guys thanks, will have a little look into it savs, problem I'm having is with the actual cam gear I think, if I hold a steady throttle, eg:- 1600 rpm, the right bank will hold steady at 10 degrees of advance where as the left side will just search from 0 degrees up to about 22 then just keeps repeating that cycle all the way up and back down, gonna change the solenoids over to see if it changes sides, I've checked them for operation and they are fine outta the car but will try it anyway, the filters have been removed from the ocv banjo bolts too, so I think it's pointing at avcs cam wheel, this is where all my logged knock events have come from since I've had the car, cos with the avcs solenoids disconnected I have as close to no knock registered as you could hope to get

Found it... Sitting in the seat, left is left, so passenger side for us in Blighty