Looks like Marz (PES RS5 in Australia) gave everyone an update on what happened
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/508661-the-RS5-from-OZ?p=10288024#post10288024
[QUOTE=marzz;10261948]apology for no replying folks, a lot happened since last time I wrote, still can’t get my head around the events I’ve been put through in last 6 months,
the RS5 project is finished (unfortunately and unplanned), we ran into a massive issue,
I can’t believe that people responsible for this still run their businesses as normal, like nothing ever happened, washed their hands with some bullcrap excuses, never admitted to their fault, not even contributed 1 minute of their time or $1 of their money to fixing of their f*** ups.
the car had been put together and sold in perfect condition almost as stock form,
the beast was never involved in any kind of accident,
it was really painful to see her going, my heart is still with the awesome car - RS5 …
I promise to release all the details very soon, not a worry with great pleasure …
Yes, I moved on to a different project, the RS5 was already 4 years old so decided not to continue, someone or shall I say some people really put me off from Audi’s for now …
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[QUOTE=marzz;10280422]for those who want to know what went down with my RS5 …
the PES tune was never good, problems since the day one
Lets start from the installation - 6 weeks or so, bloody ridiculous and to top it up the installer simply charged by the hour, at this stage I don’t even remember how many stuff ups there were mostly due to PES incompetence, wrong pulley, cracked cover resulting in lose of boost, there was delay after delay, the tune was never right, was experiencing fuel cut offs since day one, PES could not work out what it was until they came with an idea perhaps pressure pumps upgrade. Spoke directly with the company doing those pumps upgrades for PES - HPFPUpgrade and was advised that the car should not even leave he shop in first place let along be driven on track but not accordingly to PES, Tony was so confident about his setup that was encouraging to test it on track. all this time PES did not even try to adjust the tune to take into account the pumps issue. Anyways this was going on for about 6 months then we took it to a track again after advising PES about it.
So the infamous track day in June - session 1 went ok, session 2 only lasts for 2 laps then boom and we got engine blown.
The PES answer to that was, it’s your fault, should have not taken it to a track, now you on your own.
very encouraging wasn’t it
having heard that I took it to my mechanic, then for another month neither the PES installer or PES wanted to have anything to do with my case,
so imported another engine, swapped it, put car together to almost stock form and sadly let her go.
during that process I proposed several resolutions to PES and not one was accepted, even simply buying the kit back was not considered, if anything they were only buying time to sell another couple of kits.
Imagine this, neither PES or installer the CPC came up with even $1 in sharing the cost of repairs,
wish I knew way more about the PES past and never listened to CPC, this would have never happened,
very sad to see her going this way, the car deserved way more …
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I gotta say, I do feel for the guy. Although several people told him to avoid PES, it seems like he is a nice guy who got absolutely screwed by that shit “company.”