jay745
What Would Glenn Danzig Do
Unfortunately no, haven't had any time lately. Been too busy with house stuff
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Jay's 13' Wolfsburg Track Car Build
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jay745
What Would Glenn Danzig Do
It lives! Finally got some time to work on it yesterday. Replaced the faulty n80 valve...was misfiring like crazy when I first tried starting it. Thought maybe I didn't connect one of the injectors, for giggles I took the apr coil packs out and swapped the oem r8 coils in...low and behold started running fine. The apr coil packs had less than 100 miles on them. Guess my car doesn't like the apr coil packs. Weird. @Arin@APR heard of this before??
Anyways it's running amazing, took it out and gave it the business. So happy
Anyways it's running amazing, took it out and gave it the business. So happy
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riceburner
Autocross Champion
Excellent news dude! So glad you sorted it out.
jay745
What Would Glenn Danzig Do
Yeah I'm disappointed for sure. I ordered from urotuning so I don't think they'll do anything. $130 in the trash.
jay745
What Would Glenn Danzig Do
Me too, the r8 oems used to be around 20 each, now they're 65. Thought I'd give apr a try and that was a mistake. Glad I saved my old r8 packs though
Thumper
Autocross Champion
Might at least fire off an email and see. You never get a "yes" to a question you never ask. Heck, might be worth asking APR direct, regardless of where you bought them they are obviously their coils.
I see you got the blue ones too, so there goes my theory that the blue ones are not prone to failure lol
jay745
What Would Glenn Danzig Do
Eh I doubt it. I purchased them about a year ago now, my car was down for several months, pretty tough to prove to them they have less than 100 miles.
Thumper
Autocross Champion
Just saying, I didn't prove anything. Sent an email with a picture of the rust and damage on the tube and they overnighted me a new one, took a week cause they were out of stock but that was it.
jay745
What Would Glenn Danzig Do
Woops forgot to update, so a few weeks ago it wouldn't start again, felt almost like a battery but I swapped the battery from the wife's Jetta in and no dice. The starter feels like it's not fully engaging. Yesterday I pulled the starter, didn't see any damage to the flywheel thankfully. The starter is full of crud so I think it may have been binding on the flywheel when trying to engage it. Sigh this past year has just been one thing after another
zrickety
The Fixer
I rolled the dice on an amazon starter 3 years ago, it was $55 and has actually been great. Similar ones are $75 now.
Thumper
Autocross Champion
That's pretty lucky.
Personally my rule is how much of a PITA would it be to do a job twice. And how bad is the disruption if the part fails. Starter isn't bad of a job but if it fails I am stranded somewhere, and no idea where that may be, maybe in a field after midnight being chased by an ax murderer.
No thanks.
zrickety
The Fixer
Nice thing about manuals, you can always push start it.That's pretty lucky.
Personally my rule is how much of a PITA would it be to do a job twice. And how bad is the disruption if the part fails. Starter isn't bad of a job but if it fails I am stranded somewhere, and no idea where that may be, maybe in a field after midnight being chased by an ax murderer.
No thanks.
I can't believe Valeo starters are $300 and they go up from there, holy crap.
dustbunny227
Autocross Champion
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