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Old 02-27-2002, 02:30 PM
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Default Chip/boost question.

I have a APR chip with race/chipped and while driving back home in chipped mode, the boost dropped and would not go any higher than 5psi, drove for about 1 hour like this. I then stopped the car at a gas station and did a throttle adaptation and the car worked ok from then on. Anybody else have this problem because this is freaking me out, thought I blew a turbo or something.
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Default Maybe a BOV or wastegate got stuck open?

Happened to me on my DSM, I thought for sure my turbo was broken...
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Default Sounds like your car went into limp mode. Get a check engine light?

Hookup the Vag and see if there are any DTCs present which could help diagnose what happened.
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Default No check engine light. Don't have a VAG but it's at the dealer getting serviced today.

Gonna ask the tech what he thinks.
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Default Re: Chip/boost question.

I have the same set up as you, and I had the same exact problem.I was beating my s4 in the snow and taching it out.The next day when I drove it, my boost gauge was only reading 7 pounds of boost.I checked all of my samco hoses and vacum lines thinking one may have come off.I also put it up on a lift to check the bottom of the turbos and plastic intercooler caps, thinking maybe one had cracked.When I put my stock non-chipped computer back in it only made 4 pounds of boost.So I thought that I ate a turbo.I didn't have any Check engine lights and when I put it on the vag no codes came up.This drove me crazy for about three weeks.Then one day I started it up and it went back to normal.I know now that the pass wastegate was stuck open.
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ask him if he thinks it's the chip ; )
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