Hello,
I've been a long time lurker, thought I would take the opportunity to introduce myself and share my Touareg experience up until this point.
I've been a VW fan ever since I had a 1999 Wolfsburg edition golf with the famous 2.slow gasser engine in it. Loved that car.
Moved onto Mk4 tdi wagons after that, learned how to drive 5spd in the red one i owned, it was 04 bew, had two more after that one gold 02 alh and a 05 blue bew.
loved those vehicles, amazing on fuel alot of fun to drive too, hard to find any in this part of Canada(Nova Scotia) that don't have 300k+ on em, and havn't had the salt eat them to pieces.
Moved onto a mk6 jetta after that, 6spd tdi full highline trim absolute dream to drive, have owned it for 6 years and it's still trucking (220k), have not had many serious maintenance issues with it in the time I've owned it. It's fully deleted from the turbo for emissions + stg2 tune. great little commuter.
But of course, onto the relevant part of this thread, the EGG.
I've been looking a number of years for a good vehicle ,that is diesel and has awd. Originally I had the idea to import an estate car from Germany as a mk4 wagon with 4motion, but quickly realized that the bureaucratic process of importing foreign vehicles is unnecessarily egregious, so I decided to scouring the classified at home for something more obtainable, eventually I landed on a Gen2 Touareg.
I looked far and wide for a 2013+ Q7/Q5/Touareg/Cayenne TDI(Most Specifically a Touareg R-line Execline) that hadn't been thrashed to pieces or demo'd across hell's half acre. It was looking grim for a while, but eventually I found "mostly" what I was looking for:
There was a classified for a 2014 Toureg (Misspelled) which didn't specify the engine type or anything, but with some sleuthing and a snapshot of the instrument cluster, I deduced it was a TDI.
Only downside is that is a comfortline, w/o push button, keyless entry. (looking into 3rd party solutions for both of those shortcomings) the paddle shifters and other addons im less torn on not having.
With only 159k on the dash, and an asking price of 19.5k . The vehicle was located in Hamilton, and I in Halifax. I called the number to discuss the availability and to fly down immediately to drive it back home. I was able to negotiate travel expenses, and time off the asking price, and we negotiated at 17k over the phone to come down and get it tomorrow. I got on a flight that night.
Got my sister to pick me up at the airport and stay there, and we drove to Binbrook the following morning to see the car.
It was in immaculate condition (baring some love taps on the front bumper). Owned by a little old lady, who with her husband was downsizing their car collection.
The car truly had never been winter driven much, purely a grocery getter, and I knew was not abused. Got the bank draft prepped handed it off, got insurance and went on my way with my Nova scotia Plate back home.
As one does, you start looking at any tasteful modifications you can make to vehicles, considering it's age, the date of the re-fix, mileage. I was juxtaposed between doing anything prior to the extending warranty expiring, or just going full ape and deleting everything I could.
as my chimp brain insisted, I started with a full Turbo back exhaust system, including dual cortex mufflers offered by Rawtek (Very expensive, but the craftsmanship really speaks for itself.) I can't sing their praises enough if you don't have a fab shop at your disposal, or have more money then sense. Paired with a stg 2.5 ecu tune from malone the car was really starting to shape up.
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(I always try and get good shots of work being done, but my hands always get too ****ing greasy to hold my phone by the time I get to anything good.)
Needed to do an oil change. No problem, I've done tons of these before, well I guess I didn't realize that the oil drain plug's washer was a crush washer and could not be reused.
Rookie mistake, so if I needed to drop the plug again, and always replace this crush washer, and puke oil all over the crossmember every time I dropped the oil, I figured I would follow fellow CT member advice and install a fumoto f106sx valve, which I did and absolutely love! So grateful for the threads about that.
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So good, we're moving right along, voided my extended emissions warranty with my gutting of the emissions system. and well wouldn't you know i start pooling coolant and oil in the vee of my engine. Of course, impeccable timing, good show VW, good show.
Again with the plethora of information on this forum, I was able to diagnose it as a faulty egr cooler bypass valve line. called my stealership, sad that its still much cheaper to buy the parts in US and pay the shipping+duty+taxes then go thru VW Canada. did a full run of gaskets and any parts along the way including a egr cooler/bypass delete kit from darkside. ( I tried getting the sustdi one, but it was never in stock when I was looking for it)
Had a nice time taking the intake manifold off, all the lines that run across the top including fuel. (good time to mention I had vcds to actuate the lift pump to reprime upon reassembly.)
Something about an exposed intake, just makes me want to feed screws to it, idk why LOL. "are you hungry fella?"
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never to return, you hot piece of garb.
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it was much worse then the picture shows.
the egr delete kit was nice and simple to install, pulling the transfer plate from the oil cooler, made quite a mess and mix of coolant and oil, good thing i bought that fumoto valve, for the subsequent oil change ( i bought a tub of t6 this time, couldn't afford the liquimoly anymore, no need after the emissions delete i gather.)
can't forget the best mod, the dipstick retrofit, absolute cannot imagine the mental anguish of trying to do another oil change with the oil level on the infotainment headunit.
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Headunit, which brings me to the comfort mods, I absolutely appreciate the simplicity of the VW's infotainment systems, but this car I wanted to elevate the lux capacity with wireless carplay functionality.
As such I found a 250$ carplay retrofit kit on aliexpress coded for the 7P touaregs, and installed it.
I honestly gobsmacked at how easily the install was, I didn't need to cut a single wire or tap a single line, everything just connected with the harnesses, the velcro 3m tape to mount was a nice addition for the decoder module.
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I did struggle with getting sound output at first, but thanks to the information on this forum, it was determined that you need to set the headunit source to AUX to get sound output. Of course my Touareg doesn't have an AUX port installed, but with some vcds basic settings you can enable Green Menu and force it on in the auditory diagnostics submenu. Success!
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Did a full LED light conversion kit for the car, makes it look much nicer inside, and was a breeze to install, didn't even blow any fuses putting the glovebox bulb housing back in.
I've had a blast with this car so far, and I'm looking forward to continue to investing in it to make it an absolute pleasure to drive for years to come. This forum and it's members have been an invaluable resource to me along the way, and I am grateful.
BOM:
Rawtek Exhaust Kit:
www.rawtekinc.com
Tunezilla:
tunezilla.com
tunezilla.com
EGR Cooler/Bypass Delete Kit:
www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk
EGR COOLANT BYPASS BILLETED DELETE
Gaskets list(all bought from fcpeuro):
1x 059117070
1x059117070A
1x059117070B
6x059129718A
6x059129717N
1x059145865
1x059145215B
1x059129069A
1x059129069A
theres more option bits and bods here like the temp sensor gasket or anything else i mightve missed, but these are what I replaced while i was in there.
LED Kits:
Carplay Kit:
Lighted Tiguan Shifter:
Dynamic Turn Signals for side mirrors:
To-Do:
Explore turbo options, been reading mixed stuff about turbo upgrades, the lack of hpfp upgrades, lag at the low end, bobby singh this, bobby singh that bla bla bla. I have more research to do before I land on something, I believe Darkside is doing some testing of GTB2566 in a similar engine code across the pond, keeping my options open before I waste money for a lateral move.
Rims, absolutely obssessed with the Cayenne Spyder RS rims, and think they would look right tough on this car, havn't found anything I like near me yet to jump on, and definitely don't want to wind up with an odd ball rim size where tyres are abnormally more expensive, or awkward ride profile.
TCU remap. I convinced Godzilla to offer a discount on their tcu remap for the 8spd on the back of the other chunk of change I've already handed them for the ecu tune. Will ensure I do 1320 test via vcds prior and after the remap is done and the roads are dry enough to get good pulls responsibly.
Vanity plate, I was thinking PzKpFw, or getting a conservation/species at risk plate here in NS, the car is rolling a bit of coal and consider that to be just the right touch of irony.
More updates to come once I think of more fun stuff to do to the car.
If anyone is in the Nova Scotia area, and needs any coding/vcds reads or any other general advice or shop work, let me know I would be happy to help in any way I can.
Finally, I just wanted to shout the following members in no particular order, not only have your posts been immensely helpful, but some down right hilarious and caused me to audibly laugh out loud as I read some of things you've written, so thank you all:
NoobyToogy
New2Tregs
TurboABA
SavageSoot
Volkswagens-for-life
Krischan
and anyone else I might be forgetting.
Thanks,
Robert
I've been a long time lurker, thought I would take the opportunity to introduce myself and share my Touareg experience up until this point.
I've been a VW fan ever since I had a 1999 Wolfsburg edition golf with the famous 2.slow gasser engine in it. Loved that car.
Moved onto Mk4 tdi wagons after that, learned how to drive 5spd in the red one i owned, it was 04 bew, had two more after that one gold 02 alh and a 05 blue bew.
loved those vehicles, amazing on fuel alot of fun to drive too, hard to find any in this part of Canada(Nova Scotia) that don't have 300k+ on em, and havn't had the salt eat them to pieces.
Moved onto a mk6 jetta after that, 6spd tdi full highline trim absolute dream to drive, have owned it for 6 years and it's still trucking (220k), have not had many serious maintenance issues with it in the time I've owned it. It's fully deleted from the turbo for emissions + stg2 tune. great little commuter.
But of course, onto the relevant part of this thread, the EGG.
I've been looking a number of years for a good vehicle ,that is diesel and has awd. Originally I had the idea to import an estate car from Germany as a mk4 wagon with 4motion, but quickly realized that the bureaucratic process of importing foreign vehicles is unnecessarily egregious, so I decided to scouring the classified at home for something more obtainable, eventually I landed on a Gen2 Touareg.
I looked far and wide for a 2013+ Q7/Q5/Touareg/Cayenne TDI(Most Specifically a Touareg R-line Execline) that hadn't been thrashed to pieces or demo'd across hell's half acre. It was looking grim for a while, but eventually I found "mostly" what I was looking for:
There was a classified for a 2014 Toureg (Misspelled) which didn't specify the engine type or anything, but with some sleuthing and a snapshot of the instrument cluster, I deduced it was a TDI.
Only downside is that is a comfortline, w/o push button, keyless entry. (looking into 3rd party solutions for both of those shortcomings) the paddle shifters and other addons im less torn on not having.
With only 159k on the dash, and an asking price of 19.5k . The vehicle was located in Hamilton, and I in Halifax. I called the number to discuss the availability and to fly down immediately to drive it back home. I was able to negotiate travel expenses, and time off the asking price, and we negotiated at 17k over the phone to come down and get it tomorrow. I got on a flight that night.
Got my sister to pick me up at the airport and stay there, and we drove to Binbrook the following morning to see the car.
It was in immaculate condition (baring some love taps on the front bumper). Owned by a little old lady, who with her husband was downsizing their car collection.
The car truly had never been winter driven much, purely a grocery getter, and I knew was not abused. Got the bank draft prepped handed it off, got insurance and went on my way with my Nova scotia Plate back home.
As one does, you start looking at any tasteful modifications you can make to vehicles, considering it's age, the date of the re-fix, mileage. I was juxtaposed between doing anything prior to the extending warranty expiring, or just going full ape and deleting everything I could.
as my chimp brain insisted, I started with a full Turbo back exhaust system, including dual cortex mufflers offered by Rawtek (Very expensive, but the craftsmanship really speaks for itself.) I can't sing their praises enough if you don't have a fab shop at your disposal, or have more money then sense. Paired with a stg 2.5 ecu tune from malone the car was really starting to shape up.
(I always try and get good shots of work being done, but my hands always get too ****ing greasy to hold my phone by the time I get to anything good.)
Needed to do an oil change. No problem, I've done tons of these before, well I guess I didn't realize that the oil drain plug's washer was a crush washer and could not be reused.
Rookie mistake, so if I needed to drop the plug again, and always replace this crush washer, and puke oil all over the crossmember every time I dropped the oil, I figured I would follow fellow CT member advice and install a fumoto f106sx valve, which I did and absolutely love! So grateful for the threads about that.
So good, we're moving right along, voided my extended emissions warranty with my gutting of the emissions system. and well wouldn't you know i start pooling coolant and oil in the vee of my engine. Of course, impeccable timing, good show VW, good show.
Again with the plethora of information on this forum, I was able to diagnose it as a faulty egr cooler bypass valve line. called my stealership, sad that its still much cheaper to buy the parts in US and pay the shipping+duty+taxes then go thru VW Canada. did a full run of gaskets and any parts along the way including a egr cooler/bypass delete kit from darkside. ( I tried getting the sustdi one, but it was never in stock when I was looking for it)
Had a nice time taking the intake manifold off, all the lines that run across the top including fuel. (good time to mention I had vcds to actuate the lift pump to reprime upon reassembly.)
Something about an exposed intake, just makes me want to feed screws to it, idk why LOL. "are you hungry fella?"
never to return, you hot piece of garb.
it was much worse then the picture shows.
the egr delete kit was nice and simple to install, pulling the transfer plate from the oil cooler, made quite a mess and mix of coolant and oil, good thing i bought that fumoto valve, for the subsequent oil change ( i bought a tub of t6 this time, couldn't afford the liquimoly anymore, no need after the emissions delete i gather.)
can't forget the best mod, the dipstick retrofit, absolute cannot imagine the mental anguish of trying to do another oil change with the oil level on the infotainment headunit.
Headunit, which brings me to the comfort mods, I absolutely appreciate the simplicity of the VW's infotainment systems, but this car I wanted to elevate the lux capacity with wireless carplay functionality.
As such I found a 250$ carplay retrofit kit on aliexpress coded for the 7P touaregs, and installed it.
I honestly gobsmacked at how easily the install was, I didn't need to cut a single wire or tap a single line, everything just connected with the harnesses, the velcro 3m tape to mount was a nice addition for the decoder module.
I did struggle with getting sound output at first, but thanks to the information on this forum, it was determined that you need to set the headunit source to AUX to get sound output. Of course my Touareg doesn't have an AUX port installed, but with some vcds basic settings you can enable Green Menu and force it on in the auditory diagnostics submenu. Success!
Did a full LED light conversion kit for the car, makes it look much nicer inside, and was a breeze to install, didn't even blow any fuses putting the glovebox bulb housing back in.
I've had a blast with this car so far, and I'm looking forward to continue to investing in it to make it an absolute pleasure to drive for years to come. This forum and it's members have been an invaluable resource to me along the way, and I am grateful.
BOM:
Rawtek Exhaust Kit:
Touareg & Cayenne (2013+) Adblue & SCR Delete MAX PERFORMANCE Kit - (tuning required, not included)
Increase the performance, reliability and fuel economy of your 2009-2016 VW Touareg and Audi Q7 TDI by eliminating the restrictive Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF), Adblue Injection system and factory catalytic converters, thus allowing the exhaust to flow more freely.
www.rawtekinc.com
Tunezilla:
2014 Volkswagen Touareg 3.0L CR TDI CNRB EDC17CP44 Tunes
Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 2.5, Stage 3 - 2260 Turbo, and Stage 3 - 2566 Turbo tunes for your 2014 Volkswagen Touareg 3.0L CR TDI CNRB EDC17CP44
tunezilla.com
FlashZilla Pro
Horsepower in the palm of your hand. FlashZilla Pro gives you instant access to OBD port flashing
tunezilla.com
EGR Cooler/Bypass Delete Kit:
EGR & Cooler Delete Kit for 3.0 TDI V6 Vehicles
EGR & EGR Cooler Delete Kit for Audi B8 / C7 / Touareg / Q7 / Cayenne 3.0 TDI V6
www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk
EGR COOLANT BYPASS BILLETED DELETE
Gaskets list(all bought from fcpeuro):
1x 059117070
1x059117070A
1x059117070B
6x059129718A
6x059129717N
1x059145865
1x059145215B
1x059129069A
1x059129069A
theres more option bits and bods here like the temp sensor gasket or anything else i mightve missed, but these are what I replaced while i was in there.
LED Kits:
Carplay Kit:
Lighted Tiguan Shifter:
Dynamic Turn Signals for side mirrors:
To-Do:
Explore turbo options, been reading mixed stuff about turbo upgrades, the lack of hpfp upgrades, lag at the low end, bobby singh this, bobby singh that bla bla bla. I have more research to do before I land on something, I believe Darkside is doing some testing of GTB2566 in a similar engine code across the pond, keeping my options open before I waste money for a lateral move.
Rims, absolutely obssessed with the Cayenne Spyder RS rims, and think they would look right tough on this car, havn't found anything I like near me yet to jump on, and definitely don't want to wind up with an odd ball rim size where tyres are abnormally more expensive, or awkward ride profile.
TCU remap. I convinced Godzilla to offer a discount on their tcu remap for the 8spd on the back of the other chunk of change I've already handed them for the ecu tune. Will ensure I do 1320 test via vcds prior and after the remap is done and the roads are dry enough to get good pulls responsibly.
Vanity plate, I was thinking PzKpFw, or getting a conservation/species at risk plate here in NS, the car is rolling a bit of coal and consider that to be just the right touch of irony.
More updates to come once I think of more fun stuff to do to the car.
If anyone is in the Nova Scotia area, and needs any coding/vcds reads or any other general advice or shop work, let me know I would be happy to help in any way I can.
Finally, I just wanted to shout the following members in no particular order, not only have your posts been immensely helpful, but some down right hilarious and caused me to audibly laugh out loud as I read some of things you've written, so thank you all:
NoobyToogy
New2Tregs
TurboABA
SavageSoot
Volkswagens-for-life
Krischan
and anyone else I might be forgetting.
Thanks,
Robert
