Problems found after trip to MRC

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Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by PJC » Tue May 03, 2011 4:15 pm

Two leaking front shocks, only 371 bhp on the dyno, tyre pressure ECU faulty but sensors are all ok.

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by MB2 » Tue May 03, 2011 5:36 pm

Did they say what caused the low bhp - hopefully a vacuum fault ? At least the other 2 should be easy to resolve assuming the DRC is still covered by Audi.

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by PJC » Tue May 03, 2011 6:01 pm

Carbon build up was Doug's answer......

He recommended a full clean which is ten hours labour.

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by lengster1 » Tue May 03, 2011 6:26 pm

371 isnt bad to be honest,my car made that with a milltek and sports cats on before i had all the tuning work done to get it up to 460 :biggrin3:

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by HYFR » Tue May 03, 2011 7:05 pm

wheres Aurthur !!

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by HYFR » Tue May 03, 2011 7:06 pm

370-380 is pretty standard for what these pull on a dyno ... so i'd say its healthy

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by PJC » Tue May 03, 2011 7:19 pm

Doug said it was a bit on the low side, the torque is good just the peak power is down, the range mentioned to me was 390 - 370.

Rather than a Milly and remap he recommended the cleaning route, I was going to buy Steve 70 100 cell down pipes but was told not to bother until the engine was cleaned.

As MRC are held in high regard and it is all still rather new to me I took their advice.

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by wrekka » Tue May 03, 2011 8:24 pm

PaulRS4 wrote:Doug said it was a bit on the low side, the torque is good just the peak power is down, the range mentioned to me was 390 - 370.

Rather than a Milly and remap he recommended the cleaning route, I was going to buy Steve 70 100 cell down pipes but was told not to bother until the engine was cleaned.

As MRC are held in high regard and it is all still rather new to me I took their advice.
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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by PJC » Tue May 03, 2011 8:33 pm

I don't think there is much choice, I am speaking to Audi re the other items and will see what they are prepared to do first.

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by HYFR » Tue May 03, 2011 8:34 pm

whats your mileage ?

10hrs at c.£70 an hour is expensive for 40hp esp when the carbon will only come back

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by PJC » Tue May 03, 2011 8:50 pm

21,000

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by HYFR » Tue May 03, 2011 8:53 pm

im at 25k

perhaps we need to meet up and have a drag race ...

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by PJC » Tue May 03, 2011 8:55 pm

Kent meet it is then.

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by Revo » Tue May 03, 2011 9:15 pm

aka_dk wrote:whats your mileage ?

10hrs at c.£70 an hour is expensive for 40hp esp when the carbon will only come back
After how many miles will this problem happen again ?

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Re: Problems found after trip to MRC

Post by edge » Wed May 04, 2011 12:51 am

Revo wrote:
aka_dk wrote:whats your mileage ?

10hrs at c.£70 an hour is expensive for 40hp esp when the carbon will only come back
After how many miles will this problem happen again ?
Im curious to see what the estimates are here for the return on the Carbon RS4 killer!

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