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      10-25-2013, 12:27 PM   #1
EpistemicConfusion
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Drives: X1 xDrive28i
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ScanGauge question. Real boost or requested boost?

So there is someone who is a particularly satisfied customer (I won't name names) of ScanGauge and it has gotten me thinking.

In my GTI people tried similar products in hope of having an electronic boost gauge, but they never worked, or rather they only worked when requested boost was the same as actual boost. If you had a boost leak in your DV, or PVC or some set of various letters that was causing you to lose 3-4 psi you'd never know from the electronic gauges. The only way to tell was from a mechanical boost gauge, butt dyno, real dyno etc.

Does the X1 actually have the sensors such that it can determine actual boost levels? Or are boost leaks perhaps less likely since turbo technology is 6 years older?
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