Masked Marauder

As a work-around, open the drivers door first (you can then close it again)

Does it only happen when you unlock the doors with the remote fob?

You people should be shot for disclosing such valuable information for free!

There is a cut-out indent in the door pocket at the front end, by the ashtray in the rears. When you look from the rear of the card there should be a hole in the backing material. You cut it out and pop in a clip-in light. They are part number 1J0 947 411 E at your Volkswagon/SEAT dealers EDIT: Correction! They are towards the rear of the door card!

Yes, Red & White is the feed to the lamps, Brown & Yellow the earth.

Just push on on mine. It won't hurt to put a jubilee clip on, just don't over tighten it.

It is saying you need your car serviced for a date/mileage-based service and an Oil Change. Are they due?

The pad warning light works on a "closed loop" system. When the pad wears down, the loop contacts the disk, and the disk wears through the wire, breaking the loop. So the loop has failed somewhere. It could be a corroded connector or wire, or a wire broken at the pad (most common failure) Unplug the pads one at a time and check for corrosion in the connector, if it is clean then put a wire loop in and switch on the ignition and see if the lamp goes out.

And I bet they don't even have air con. Jealousy is a terrible thing!

Or someone with VAG-COM. If you say where you are located someone may offer their help.

The disks on my Alhambra that weighs 1.6 tonnes are the same size as those on my Astra GTE that weighs a little under 0.5 tonnes. Little wonder they warp and wear so quickly.

It is a manual system, there is nothing to reset.

"heat-soak" is a good sign of not enough gas in your air con. They symptoms are the vent blowing very hot when set to full air con on a hot day. The gas gets heated by the radiator because there is not enough gas to pressurise into the condenser correctly to cause it to become liquid and force the heat back out.

Don't be a tart! Spend a few quid on a nut splitter! http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc.9/cat...it.A/id.5681/.f

Yes easy. You simply unclip the round sensor from the bracket, and swap for the new one, no disassembly of anything else is required.

No need to write like a text message chap, feel free to use all the characters as there is not a shortage of space to display them.

More like they did a service 2. Thats a two year service.

The airbag light will light and stay on if the battery voltage is too low. Once the battery voltage is up it will go off, the fault will be loggged in the software. There has been people with sudden charging faults before and they turned out to be a faulty connector in the main junction box near the battery. But if I were you I would be looking at earthing points.

That socket is an OBD2 Socket, BUT uses other pins for the VAG outputs. I think that if you are serious about getting a lead then the way forwards is to get a approved VAG-COM compatible lead and then if you want to licence the software for the advanced features then you have the option to do so. Also bear in mind that the lead will work on almost every VAG produced car, so the potential is there to diagnose faults for family, friends, colleagues and neighbours and perhaps recoup some of the costs, if not actually profit from the purchase.

It is clipped into a black plastic arm that is fitted to the wiper mechanism on the passenger side. It is a round switch with two wires from it. Paradoxically many people wire the switch out so the heater will always come on.

My other half has a rabbit that runs on Duracell batteries, but it looks nothing like that!

I thought the V6 was a VAG engine? And would all the other modules not need VAG-Com as it is all VAG stuff on the car?

I had guessed that all that was left was the top of the filter. If that is the case he will need to carefully use a chisle on the edge, I can see no other way.

Chisle? I know this sounds daft, but are you really really sure you were turning it the right way?

The cup holders on my Alhambra had the flip down bits missing, but have been replaced after some forraging yesterday at scrap yards. One of the holders had the little pins missing that they clip into, but a couple of pan-headed self tappers sorted that......