Hi,
I'm in the market for a used Gti for my son that'll still have some powertrain warranty left. So want to make sure i can use the warranty if anything catastrophic happens. Being I'm going to be buying privately, i'm going to bring my vagcom along and hopefully the user has never cleared anything down.. Is there a way to check how many times the ECU has been flashed? I believe some flashes allow you to flash back to stock and apparently reset the flash counter. There's a few contradicting stories out there. Some say that this still creates a TD1 flag. Some say they flashed back to stock and still got a new engine. So I guess there's a lot of mis-information out there. I just want to know what to be looking for while running a scan or other areas i'm not aware of. Also being that he wants a manual. I'd like to know if there's been a previous over rev condition ? I know you can clear that DTC, but I've also read that a flag is also permanently written to the ECU for this. Again, could just be mis-information out there. If the permanent flag is true then is there a way to check for it - DTC reads something along the lines of......Maximum Engine Speed Exceeded (Engine Warranty VOID)
Thanks in advance.
I'm in the market for a used Gti for my son that'll still have some powertrain warranty left. So want to make sure i can use the warranty if anything catastrophic happens. Being I'm going to be buying privately, i'm going to bring my vagcom along and hopefully the user has never cleared anything down.. Is there a way to check how many times the ECU has been flashed? I believe some flashes allow you to flash back to stock and apparently reset the flash counter. There's a few contradicting stories out there. Some say that this still creates a TD1 flag. Some say they flashed back to stock and still got a new engine. So I guess there's a lot of mis-information out there. I just want to know what to be looking for while running a scan or other areas i'm not aware of. Also being that he wants a manual. I'd like to know if there's been a previous over rev condition ? I know you can clear that DTC, but I've also read that a flag is also permanently written to the ECU for this. Again, could just be mis-information out there. If the permanent flag is true then is there a way to check for it - DTC reads something along the lines of......Maximum Engine Speed Exceeded (Engine Warranty VOID)
Thanks in advance.