Supercharger Asleep?

[POLARBEAR666]

C'mon guys, what's stopping you attacking from the top and removing the sound deadening foam around the inlet and outlet pipe?

Manicure?

Geezuz, I'd be in there in a flash!

If you remove the under bonnet stuff it gets a lot noisier.

[POLARBEAR666]

Another explanation for car feeling asleep.... is that all Golf's have 2 throttle maps, one for cruise and one for power/sport.

If you drive slowly for a little while in D it flicks over to cruise map and now 50% throttle only gives you 30% actual throttle. So you press down... nothing happens...so u press harder and finally it kicks down.

Whereas, in sport mode on teh sport throttle map 50% pedal probably = 40% throttle. and 70% pedal = 80% throttle.

If you look up SPRINTBOOSTER the product, u will see the graphs of input vs actual.

It pisses me off bigtime that we have such a soft cruise throttle map and I am hoping that an ecu flash might fix it.

[GTom]

Well.... it just so turns out I now have a similar problem.... no supercharger wants to kick in, in first gear...... however to compensate the turbo seems to want to chip in earlier in 1st... all other gears appear to be OK

Had the A/C on and from a standing start it is kind of hard to pull a 1.5 t car with a 1.4L up an incline.... with the AirCon on lol.... going to the dealer in a couple of weeks.....

[Fanaki]

Meant to reply earlier, had 7500km service in December and asked about the 24M3 update. Vehicle was purchased in June 2008 and manufactured in April 2008 and was told it didn't apply. Called back later in the day (just to doublecheck), asked someone else and was again told it didn't apply after giving the VIN. Boost gauge is still quite sensitive and that's fine with me.

Paul

Paul, i had a similar thing told to me. the VIN was checked and i was told the update didn't apply (mine purchased in Nov 08, and built Sept 0. it wasn't until the car was put on the diagnostics that they found the update was required. i guess at the end of the day, if the s/c is working off idle or near idle and the car is performing well that's all that matters.

[tdi guy]

work around

Another explanation for car feeling asleep.... is that all Golf's have 2 throttle maps, one for cruise and one for power/sport.

If you drive slowly for a little while in D it flicks over to cruise map and now 50% throttle only gives you 30% actual throttle. So you press down... nothing happens...so u press harder and finally it kicks down.

Whereas, in sport mode on teh sport throttle map 50% pedal probably = 40% throttle. and 70% pedal = 80% throttle.

+1. I generally drive with a light throttle, so I now routinely do the 'reset' procedure (engine off, ignition on ACC, wait until MFD goes off, then hold throttle down for 10 secs). Seems to works every time to re-establish power at light throttle. Shouldn't need to do it, of course, but worthwhile...

TG

[Fanaki]

+1. I generally drive with a light throttle, so I now routinely do the 'reset' procedure (engine off, ignition on ACC, wait until MFD goes off, then hold throttle down for 10 secs). Seems to works every time to re-establish power at light throttle. Shouldn't need to do it, of course, but worthwhile...

TG

TG, does routinely doing this have any impact on the longevity of the car and it's control systems? maybe a noob question but i wouldn't be comfortable constantly resetting the system??

[tdi guy]

long term implications

TG, does routinely doing this have any impact on the longevity of the car and it's control systems? maybe a noob question but i wouldn't be comfortable constantly resetting the system??

That is a good question. Currently have reset 3-4 times over a couple of months (when I notice a particularly sluggish response). I'll see if I can find out some more about the reset and whether it is just accessing a 'normal' reset feature (which may be relatively harmless) or is an 'unintended' consequence (which may be more of a problem).

TG