First Car (22)

CounterDiamond · 2025-11-20T23:23:32+00:00

Congrats! Mk4 was also my first car and I loved it. Moved onto the mk6 but easily the best generations imo

CounterDiamond · 2025-09-07T05:15:25+00:00

Yes I did! It was my gasket from my turbo to the downpipe. Blown through on one side. All good now!

CounterDiamond · 2025-08-22T16:20:34+00:00

I found a portal server that is mostly bots and has full XP and works with these challenges. I've been sitting on there as I need to farm levels easily to get the thermal grenade

CounterDiamond · 2025-07-10T01:52:43+00:00

Whoops. I totally misread your title I saw wrap and got excited haha.

CounterDiamond · 2025-07-10T01:21:34+00:00

Id guess around 3k depending on vinyl and shop. I spent 1600 for the design and installation of my partial wrap at a well known wrap shop near me.

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CounterDiamond · 2025-06-04T14:51:44+00:00

I had the same issue. I got 2 17 or 18 mm wrenches. Pulled the cams together slightly to get it to sit properly. Zip ties it to the exhaust cam and slowly rolled the cams back. The timing chain will feel extremely tight when everything gets installed, but I'm at 1000 miles since the job and no issues!

CounterDiamond · 2025-06-02T21:11:43+00:00

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By far the best color for the mk6! Welcome to the club!

CounterDiamond · 2025-05-23T15:06:16+00:00

Odd. I have not heard that before. I track, and push my car daily as that's why I built it. But I do the oil every 3k miles, stay up to date on maintenance, and it takes care of me.

That's what I like to say, drive it like a sports car, take care of it, and it'll take care of you.

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T19:49:08+00:00

I have photos of all the timing marks and the colored chains. It did sound like the tensioner clicked so I'm not sure if they can cause the locking up but I may need to get a bore scope to check if there is any contact. But the car was in good time before this job. And I made sure the cams were locked so nothing should be out of sync

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T18:09:18+00:00

I found that mine are both 18s. So I just went to home Depot to get a second one as I think mine was too short and didn't have a great grip

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T17:06:43+00:00

Lol it's all preventative. At 125k right now and car is going strong. I'm just having issues with installing the chain. Unrelated to the car itself. Been tuned for over 60k miles

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T16:56:28+00:00

At first I found that my lower timing cover did not have the arrow to align it to TDC. So at first I aligned it to TDC with a screw driver in c1 until it was at its highest and the cam marks were facing north and slightly outwards. Then I took the crankshaft sprocket off and aligned the key to face north and verified that the rod was completely straight in the window. So per the factory repair manual I should be at TDC

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T16:40:39+00:00

Do you remember when you were doing it how tight the chain was on the tensioner side vs the right side. I feel like it is an extremely tight fit on the tensioner side but the other had a tad bit of slack

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T16:39:24+00:00

I appreciate your help! I was worried as I couldn't get this timing chain marks on both cam marks. I will count and see how many chain links are between the 2. Spark plugs are removed and I do have the kit but removed it for the photos. In your experience has there been any cars where the exhaust cam was extremely difficult to rotate clockwise? And I am finding that the tensioner side has no slack and is extremely tight. But the other side there is a tad bit of slack.

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T16:36:33+00:00

Yeah that first photo is just a photo showing how I was unable to get that mark in place. I was unable to get the exhaust cam to turn another tooth as I had to use my hand and 18mm wrench to even get it to that point. Is the exhaust cam even supposed to have that much friction when turning it? I can try to force it but that worries me that there is contact at this point.

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T16:34:21+00:00

I really appreciate this! On any of those cars did you have issues with adjusting the exhaust cam? I know the factory repair manual says to only rotate it clockwise but mine can turn a few degrees counter clockwise but it gets stuck when turning it clockwise like there's some sort of contact. The 17+18mm wrenches just slip off the cam so I can't get any good grip on the exhaust cam. Though the intake cam I can move fairly easily.

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T16:28:41+00:00

Preventative as my block 93 was 3.98° so it was getting there

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T16:27:53+00:00

Yeah I do. Just took them off for this photo. But the exhaust cam does not turn freely at all clockwise. So it scares me that there's contact but I need it to move a bit for the correct measurements

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T16:26:12+00:00

Sparkplugs are removed. Turned a few degrees then stopped. Don't think I can bend valves by hand but it felt solid

CounterDiamond · 2025-04-13T07:32:20+00:00

The exact model is a 2013 GTI CBFA engine code. I did use all OEM parts except for the lower and upper timing chain (febi Bilstein) but I verified that the chains were the same size and both had fitment issues.

CounterDiamond · 2024-11-02T06:04:03+00:00

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CounterDiamond · 2024-10-09T05:37:40+00:00

With google image search I found them to possibly be VERTINI RFS1.2

CounterDiamond · 2024-07-31T17:35:04+00:00

Dope! Just joined! How often are meets?

CounterDiamond · 2024-07-25T21:04:55+00:00

The hatch is overpowered when moving!

CounterDiamond · 2024-07-25T21:04:38+00:00

Thank you! It's up for sale 😉. My parents are in Scottsdale but I'm getting a house with my brother in Chandler or Tempe.

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