WTF?! no turbo?

[clyde]

Originally Posted by JST

Well, it's actually not so weird--I don't know what they did before they called the Techline, but if I'm the tech and I have the choice of a) calling the company and potentially getting the answer over the phone or b) pulling shit off the car and poking around trying to diagnose it myself, I'm choosing a every time.

"Pulling shit off the car" in this case is removing about 9 screws for the undertrays that are almost certainly going to have to be removed to make any repair. "Poking around to diagnose" would mean a quick visual inspection for anything that's blatantly wrong (like an unattached hose on a turbo car making no boost) and maybe actually touching the main parts and where they fit together.

But you're right, not weird. Depressing or something.

[Nick M3]

So do they have a solution for this problem, or do you just have to live with hoses periodically popping off?

[bren]

Originally Posted by Nick M3

So do they have a solution for this problem, or do you just have to live with hoses periodically popping off?

[blee]

[kognito]

[clyde]

Originally Posted by Nick M3

So do they have a solution for this problem, or do you just have to live with hoses periodically popping off?

We'll see.

There were more than a few reports of this happening on the forums up until about a year ago, fewer and fewer reports for a while and nearly nothing since then. Almost all seemed to be 2013 Job 1 cars like mine. Very few, if any, '13 Job 2 or '14 cars, but you know, anecdotal. There doesn't seem to have been a part number change, but perhaps the torque spec changed or something?

I've read a lot of comments about the fasteners being cheap and lousy and that the flange from the IC doesn't leave a lot of space for clamping force to be applied, so...