Secondary Air Pump on the way out

[Chino_UK]

Hi, have been getting a fault light up on the dash. Andy at Awesome checked it on the VAGCOM for me the other day, and it appears my Secondary Air Pump is on its way out.

Got a few questions:

1) Does anyone know where I could get a new one at a good price?

2) Is this a part I could change on my driveway easily enough?

Thanks in advance for help

 

[GlanzaV]

Are you remapped?

I used to get a secondary air injection fault all the time with my Remapped Mk3 - It doesn't cause any problems, it's to do with emissions IIRC - Some people remove it altogether and put a fuse in it's place to stop the EML.

Have a search in the Mk3 section.
SAI Removal Guide

 

[Chino_UK]

As far as I'm aware the car is standard mapping. It was remapped fo a short period of time before I bought it but was revertd to standard as it was running rich.

I'll scout the Mk3 section, thanks

 

[Scott-o]

maybe to do with your milltek downpipe and sports cat chino? Sportscat always brought a fault up when i had one on the old corsa

 

[Chino_UK]

I thought this too Scott, after my old foray into Sports cats/uprated manis on the C...but according to Awesome they generally don't trigger anything on these..going to get under it and check the hoses out..awaiting a call back form a VAG specialist garage on a price for this just to see...might be cheaper to buy a £40 fault reader/eraser and just live it with it.

 

[GlanzaV]

I'm suprised Awesome didn't actually recognise the fault as being a common one??

I know that noone really understands why it starts... I did see a thread that mentioned it could be a small valve in the system that breaks (an old VW Vortex forum thread) It does tend to happen when re-mapping or bypassing certain valves... I'd need to read up on it again though to say for sure... it's been a while!)

 

[Damoegan]

Or just rip the whole lot out http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=200030

 

[Chino_UK]

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