A Tour Down South: Any Requests?

Pinkythelabrat said:
Wow! Three weeks! What was the biggest or most exciting job undertaken on your tour?
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Ooo, tricky question with no one answer...

This was the first tour during which I offered Depronman Remaps, so adding a few extra horses to various TDIs was good fun. My thanks go to Paul (Depronman) for writing a very good universal map.

I arrived on a London street expecting to do a routine CCCU replacement and found that the gremlins in the central locking ran much deeper. It was very satisfying to finally open a door that had seemingly been permanently locked closed and then get the car working properly again.

One A2 had a suspected broken heat exchanger in the climate control. I have never known an A2 heat exchanger leak before and, as things turned out, this one was also just fine, but accessing it for assessment was real fun and games! The loss of coolant was eventually discovered elsewhere, but this was probably the single biggest job of the tour.

One lucky A2 now has a custom, unique retrofit that I'm not yet ready to publish, but those going to the Welsh social will get a sneak preview. I had been working sporadically on this one-off for about two years, so finally fitting it into an A2 and seeing it work perfectly was the single most satisfying moment.

Cheers,

Tom
 
Cheers Tom. I'm planning a Depronman TM remap too but I'm an AMF and so need to read my map and send it for 'fiddling'

Now all I need is a day off when my laptop is working and when it's not raining... I'm thinking December...


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Pinkythelabrat said:
Cheers Tom. I'm planning a Depronman TM remap too but I'm an AMF and so need to read my map and send it for 'fiddling'

Now all I need is a day off when my laptop is working and when it's not raining... I'm thinking December...
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Curious. I suspect some wires have got crossed here. Depronman has already written remap files for all the variants of the AMF engine management unit. All that's needed is to known which variant you've got, and that can be read with your eyes as it's printed on the top of the engine management unit. :)

Cheers,

Tom
 
timmus said:
Curious. I suspect some wires have got crossed here. Depronman has already written remap files for all the variants of the AMF engine management unit. All that's needed is to known which variant you've got, and that can be read with your eyes as it's printed on the top of the engine management unit. :)

Cheers,

Tom
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I'm maybe out of touch - I think he only had the AFM remap sorted when I started this process.

If an AMF is available then BOOM! I'll PM him to send the file!


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Pinkythelabrat said:
I'm maybe out of touch - I think he only had the AFM remap sorted when I started this process.
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Ah, yes, that's an unfortunate typo. If I had mod rights, I'd change the title of Depronman's thread about remapping. The AFM engine doesn't exist; he meant AMF. :)
 
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timmus said:
Ah, yes, that's an unfortunate typo. If I had mod rights, I'd change the title of Depronman's thread about remapped. The AFM engine doesn't exist; he meant AMF. :)
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I totally asked him if he meant AMF and he said AFM!!!




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timmus said:
Ah, yes, that's an unfortunate typo. If I had mod rights, I'd change the title of Depronman's thread about remapping. The AFM engine doesn't exist; he meant AMF. :)
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That is correct I did mean to type AMF :eek: Many thanks to 'special edition' for correcting my bad typing
Cheers,
 
timmus said:
Ooo, tricky question with no one answer...

This was the first tour during which I offered Depronman Remaps, so adding a few extra horses to various TDIs was good fun. My thanks go to Paul (Depronman) for writing a very good universal map.

I arrived on a London street expecting to do a routine CCCU replacement and found that the gremlins in the central locking ran much deeper. It was very satisfying to finally open a door that had seemingly been permanently locked closed and then get the car working properly again.

One A2 had a suspected broken heat exchanger in the climate control. I have never known an A2 heat exchanger leak before and, as things turned out, this one was also just fine, but accessing it for assessment was real fun and games! The loss of coolant was eventually discovered elsewhere, but this was probably the single biggest job of the tour.

One lucky A2 now has a custom, unique retrofit that I'm not yet ready to publish, but those going to the Welsh social will get a sneak preview. I had been working sporadically on this one-off for about two years, so finally fitting it into an A2 and seeing it work perfectly was the single most satisfying moment.

Cheers,

Tom
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I'm still looking forward to finding out what the 'custom mod' was! Shall we have a sweepstake?


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