The next update is regarding the BAT (Big Ass Turbocharger).
The car had its original turbocharger removed and upgraded to a Garret gtc1549vz (03L253010F); the turbocharger from the 2.0 TDI CR 170hp 'GTD' engine from the Golf 6.
This is a popular plug-and-play upgrade for 1.6 and 2.0 TDI common rail engines, combined with an intercooler upgrade.
Replacing the turbocharger was easy and already done when the engine was still in the donor car.
Now however it started complaining about P2563 - Turbocharger positioning sensor.
http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.ph ... 563/009571
The turbocharger is operated via a vacuum line, to change the nozzle geometry and regulate boost pressure.
The positioning sensor (blue) will give feedback about the position, this needs to correlate to the vacuum pressure.
The position sensor is a hall sensor and its signal varies between 0.500V and 3.500V, if calibrated properly. You can read this with VCDS in measurement value IDE04268-ENG102598
In my case, the signal was implausible and the car went into limp mode. The signal at rest was in fact too high; 3.75V.
So it needed to be adjusted. And since VW is German, there are PROCEDURES.
There is no procedure for the turbocharger in question, but there is one for the standard turbo. So let's use that one.
It's described in full here (from ELSAWIN):
https://imgur.com/a/cNIUMI1
VW want you to remove the vacuum line and attach a hand vacuum pump like in the picture above and give it -0.65 bar of pressure, absolute.
And then adjust the turbocharger to show a certain voltage, 0.760V in IDE04268-ENG102598.
There is no adjustable arm on the new turbocharger, but you can loosen the bolts and slide it axially:
So I went ahead and applied the procedure with success. But this is very difficult when you don't have such a hand pump.
What I did is switch on the ignition, engine off, and set the turbocharger to 3.40V in rest. This does the trick just fine as well.
The only issue I had left, is that the new turbocharger is very boost-happy, it will give over 3000mbar of pressure and shoot off the hoses from/to the intercooler. For fun.
But for now the car is very driveable, torque is not too high (95hp/250nm according to measurement values)