hi guys
ive just recenltly had a whole heap of trouble with my a bad set of points in my 1800 kombie (which ive posted here). however when i picked up my car from the mechanics with the new points it was pinging really badly. so i took i back and its been retarted from 10 to 0 (or TDC i guess?) now ive had the same tank of petrol in the car so im trying to rule out fuel....

basically im wondering even though my car is running sluggish at 0 (10 degrees retarded from the machenics standard set-up). is there any problems with doing this??
im concerned about the heat from this, and also because i have to really plant my foot down to get up hill. also it seems to be missing a bit when i give alot of gas (some small amount of flooding??)

whithout the petrol factor, what else could cause a car to start pinging so badly after changing the points???
also when i picked up my car, one of the chokes was stuck on....
jeez im starting to hate machenics!!!

for my retarted bus

Changing points will change the timing of course going from a badly worn set to a new set will advance it quite a bit...

The problem seems to be you have a non-VW mechanic, in which case he probably doesn't know how to set the timing correctly and is just guessing. I don't know the correct setting for a type 4, I'm a type 1 guy myself, but I'm sure you'll find someone here who can help.

Many people on this forum use Premium unleaded in their type 4 engines.. stops the pinging and the engine runs better.. maybe 50/50 would also stop the pinging.. and overheating etc...

I don't know much about type 4s either...

Lee