bigdave982

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Interesting write up I didnt think the Mk1had vnt ,always thought it had a wastegate

Might be obvoius but try turning the dimmer right up, seen this before on my mums car!

I had a funny rattling noise on my mk1 once,increased with revs till engine noise drowned it out. Seemed to be coming fron drive belt areas. Turned out to be one of the alternator mounting bolts had come loose and the bolt head was rattling against one of the belt pulleys,cant recall which one tho,it was a long bolt that I can remember

Bigjeez,agreed not too bad pricewise,if i knew it was a working system, but I dont. Its a lot of money to just find out if the system works or not. After all I could spend that only to find the condensors got a big hole in it as soon as a vacuum pump is attached But thanks anyway

Cheers Chris ,maybe not then

Hi all My 2001 MK2 has the usual broken pipe coming off the compressor,the "U" bend one i have been quoted around

Cost me around

Damn hoped it mightve been 130:-)

Hi all since mirez is back and sharing his immense knowledge with us(very much appreciated here mirez!!) I just checked my V5 and have varient Auy1 is this a 115 cheers dave

Well that was fun!!!!! got all four discs changed and fluid changed in around 4 hrs ,big thanks to a good mate for use of his drive and lots of tea no problems to speak of and all seems well with them If anyone is interested I got them form here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360089682670?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 (I have no connection with these guys ,just found them great sellers) about

Hi all tommorow is the big day,weather permitting !!!planning on getting at least the front discs and pads done ,also change the fluid while Im at it Having a peruse on here for bleeding tips (no pun intended) and have found a couple of references to using vagcom to bleed the abs block. Id have thought that so long as I dont empty the resevoir and let air in this shouldnt be nessesary,after all its just flushing out the old fluid with new,should be using an esibleed to do the job Can i just bleed calipers as I re-assemble the discs or is it best to go (i assume )nsr,osr,nsf,osf)working on the furthest away from resevior to nearest principle Thanks for your help Dave

you can either try rmovers available from the likes of machine mart or your local freindly garage may be able to weld a nut (carefully!!!!) onto the bolt to remove them

cheers all prety much what I thought ,change like for like

Hi all,implanning to change my discs and pads all round I have 16" wheels on a 2001 tdi 115bhp,and have measured the fronts (thru the wheel with a large engineers caliper )at 288mm found an ebay seller offer a complete set of mintex for

You need to source mounting brackets form breakers ,ebay etc,fitting isnt hard just time consuming as you have to remove the inner panels form luggage area and cut out the holes to mount brackets as they screw directly in the body I just happen to have a luggae cover surplus to requirements with no brackets not sure of colour lol,cant decide if its grey or dark biege ! dartford area if your interested

you also have to make sure that the tyres on a gal are XL rated or reinforced, a wealth of info on this site about tyres

messed mine up today! the only thig i had touched was the aux heater temp sensor on the wiper linkage took scutle panel off agian ,gave the plug a wiggle and display was back on

thanks guys ,i have access to a flaring tool so thik ill giveit a go

hi all anyone know what size copper pipe and unions I would need to make my own pipes on a 2001 mk2 had a look on ebay and a variety of sizes there !! thanks dave

still on ie8,work around works so its not the end of the world

i found that if i open the faqs on my mobile ,forward the page to my email on the pc they open no probs!!but seem to have a different web address

Anyone else having trouble opening the links from the FAQ page they used to work ok for me before the recent site outage The only one i can open is Mirez's most excellent inlet manifold cleaning epic cheers Dave

Is the forum back and running ?how long for ?

Hi all thought id update on my saga! i had previously cleared the codes with no joy ,but now remember seeing a measuring block reading of about 1500c ,which seemd a bit high to me ! When i strippped it and found i had he plug with wires on there was a bare bit where the insulation was missing (earthing out?),so taped it up and stuck it all back together ,cleared codes agian and its been working since at outside temps of 13c and below. Im prepared to accept that maybe a temp sensor is wrong so will live with that Its only been getting short runs but today went further ,running ariund for about 45 mins .Coming back over the dartford bridge heard a "pop" from the rear n/s, thought it was a coke bottle expanding to be honest ! ,next thing i know cars full of smoke ,its coming up thru the seatbelt in the n/s door pillar .Time to panic ! Checked and no fire got home plugged it in agian and forget to write down the codes ,one was flameout and the other i think was something about a blower, cleared them sat there with the car idling watching the meas blocks go up then down as temp of around 74c was reached do you gurus think I should be ok the leave it connected or just unplug it and freeze,obviously dont want a burnt out car ps wheres Miraz lately??