Factory max speed limiter?
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I’d anticipated the ‘you’ve bought the wrong vehicle’. I haven’t. I get that if you’re chugging around with your tools in the back, you’re not aspiring to go quickly. Good for you.
Have confirmed via another source - It IS limited - To 116mph. That’s about 180kmh so a pretty random number (1.4 x 130? 1.5 x 120?) Agree that it seems daft for a 120 ish mph plumbers bus. Farcical too that if it had more people carrying capacity it wouldn’t have it
. Thats where we are I guess. Same with the 60/70mph dual carriageway thing.
Happy to join in with a ‘what else do you drive’ or ‘what exciting plans have you got for your almost 4WD van’ thread, but in the meantime some playing, including with the awful DSG mapping should hopefully get rid of some worrying mis fire esque vibration, that feels like it’s either limited, or about to throw a DSG ‘box and bits of casing thru the bulkhead into my plums. I’ve seen all of the ‘the DSG is fine’ threads also when searching. (It’s definitely not!)
In terms of the RS3 brake ref (if it wasn’t just ‘buy an RS3 if you want to go quicker than an average dull family car’ thing). The 204 6.1 uses (early) S3 pads with the same caliper pistons and the same size rotors - 340mm (vs 370 on the RS and 420/380 on my ‘big brake’ car) If we’re being judgey, there’s no way I’d have a car with £1k brake servicing and not use it properly. That’s a point I do not see, but I appreciate that it’s most of the bell curve.
Have confirmed via another source - It IS limited - To 116mph. That’s about 180kmh so a pretty random number (1.4 x 130? 1.5 x 120?) Agree that it seems daft for a 120 ish mph plumbers bus. Farcical too that if it had more people carrying capacity it wouldn’t have it
. Thats where we are I guess. Same with the 60/70mph dual carriageway thing.Happy to join in with a ‘what else do you drive’ or ‘what exciting plans have you got for your almost 4WD van’ thread, but in the meantime some playing, including with the awful DSG mapping should hopefully get rid of some worrying mis fire esque vibration, that feels like it’s either limited, or about to throw a DSG ‘box and bits of casing thru the bulkhead into my plums. I’ve seen all of the ‘the DSG is fine’ threads also when searching. (It’s definitely not!)
In terms of the RS3 brake ref (if it wasn’t just ‘buy an RS3 if you want to go quicker than an average dull family car’ thing). The 204 6.1 uses (early) S3 pads with the same caliper pistons and the same size rotors - 340mm (vs 370 on the RS and 420/380 on my ‘big brake’ car) If we’re being judgey, there’s no way I’d have a car with £1k brake servicing and not use it properly. That’s a point I do not see, but I appreciate that it’s most of the bell curve.
Haha. They’d catch a van without the heli I’d guess!
No one’s going to ask what else you have. Just share if you want to.
I’m sure we’ve all got other stuff, some of us even want to be able to support the really fast stuff with a van full of spares and a warm coat
Wow. Steady on there. I'm hoping to get at about 69 maybe 70.
Share the reference documents?
Just remember I got caught speeding in Bournemouth recently and that extra 5 mph is costing me £100 and 3 points.Maniac!
I know (now
) I could have taken the online speed awareness course (didn't know then 
) but you won't catch me bowing to the man, I'm a rebel, I do whatever I want including 35 in a 30 zone in my 2 1/2 ton camper 
they'll never crush my spirit (possibly my camper) or catch me... well unless they use a camera, stinger, pelican crossing/traffic lights or chase me in anything that has more than 102hp, I'm a Roadman innit!
I just scratch my head thet anyone would want to even try and go fast in one of these.
It's like mowing the lawn with a vacuum cleaner, or performing lazer eye surgery with a sledgehammer - completely the wrong tool for the job.
It's like mowing the lawn with a vacuum cleaner, or performing lazer eye surgery with a sledgehammer - completely the wrong tool for the job.
For your job maybe.
Sometimes vans carry bits for, or want to chase, film, support, dare we say scrape up stuff that’s going even faster for folk that leave the village/comfort of their arm chair - but it’s fine for you to not want push yours, being as we’re sharing opinions. (I did state in the OP that I wasn’t too fussy about hearing it….)
The transporter platform isn’t as shit at speed as some of you want to believe, spicy if it’s tightened up a bit, but it’s maybe that you’re accepting your own intentions/capabilities ahead of the vans. That’s OK too.
My camper - which is not this van - wobbles around a lot like a mower and despite getting flashed at 130 thru most of France / Europe doesn’t tend to get pushed beyond the social or legislative speed limits. That is indeed a barge, and I’m not mad keen on the crockery getting out of shape. Or my bikes moving about.
The 6.1 is a panel van with a purpose, and is a much more capable bit of kit than some want to accept - in my search on here I found the 350bhp TSI chap getting similar ‘wrong van’ villagers wading in.
I’ve found plenty similar mentality in the adventure bike messages too. Wrong bike. Why would you. Let’s let my limitations stop others having their fun. That kind of deal - You might argue against having a van at all. Why bother when a rubbish old estate would probably suffice, and fit the grumpy old man approach much better than the ‘one life, live it’ camp site wagon?
I’m on here as I’ve found it all super helpful in the tech sections and the guys that want to do so, so yep, I’ll post em up, once I’ve got a bit deeper. Likely I’ll start a new thread…
I can’t find what the driver is or whether it’s just a VW thing. I’ve a very slightly older (just a few months) sprinter that 100% wasn’t limited, as pre camper I gave it some autobahn and it was TERRIFYING
(it’s the V6 190 which still come with tiny brakes)As it happens I got a PM on another site from a trade account that asked not to be quoted as they didn’t want the ire of the bucket crabs, but sent me a link to a ‘how to get rid of it’ article, just for the wrong ecu at this point. It’s eluding me in VCDS currently (but was there for the older ecu’s according to the detailed how to)
Cheers.
So what purpose are you using the van for that requires higher speeds than the van is limited to?
And sometimes Walts drive them too.
So are you or aren't you using it for those purposes? This all seems a bit vague and mysterious.
As Alster rightly points out, if you couched the issue in positive and constructive terms you might get some positive and constructive responses, but when the opening post is defensive bordering on downright rudeness its difficult to see what the plan is.
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It’s obviously used for getaways after robbing the bank der!!
Damn it. It was bank jobs, but now you’re on to me, I’m just going to plod around being a stand up, compliant citizen instead. Pesky kids.
Walter indeed. No speed cameras here. (Altho in fairness, a bank job could be very helpful indeed)
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And the van...?
Get it revo'd
I often driven in Europe and my Revo'd (150 original) 6 speed kombi sits at 125 no bother, if you plan on doing that often you'll need a bigger oil cooler as it does get a tad warm.
- the Kombi it seems isn’t limited to the daft 116mph (which is 107) tho. Revo seemingly haven’t come across it* suggesting the limit was set by ‘an owner’.
This is a hard / behind a firewall limiter
. *according to local agent.
A LOT of ‘us’ that are playing with the transporter seemingly start with a kombi - not a lot of plain panel vans getting lots of attention it appears. Most of the higher spec run out T6.1’s were Kombi’s, making a high spec plain panel van a bit of a unicorn if you’re trying to buy used.
Top tip on the cooler tho. It does get hot in my normal use (which isn’t typically lugging work stuff in town) and will run the fan a bit afterwards (ignition off). It’ll likely get a bigger charge/intercooler and obvs the oil cooler will be easy at that point. Looks like my preferred intercooler guys do an oil cooler too.
There isn’t a breather for the oil, it vents into the sort of sealed up rocker, hence in winter there’s good amount of mayo at the filler. The breathers are often overlooked in terms of oil temps so might have a look at that too. (I.e if there’s a route for it / option to have an old fashioned vent, it’ll let a fair bit of heat out)
Cheers
Goodness me. I’m not towing a trailer there am I.
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